Quotes about An Only Child

I'm an only child. Votes: 4

I was an only child. Votes: 4

No. I was an only child. Votes: 4

I grew up as an only child. Votes: 4

Being an only child is a disease in itself. Votes: 4

Being an only child, my mother reared me very carefully. Votes: 4

Because as an only child, you have your own little world. Votes: 4

I was 28 when my father died, and I was an only child. Votes: 4

I was an only child; I didn't have a sister, or sisters. Votes: 4

I'm an only child, so I don't even have nieces or nephews. Votes: 4

I have an only child. She's so independent and good with adults. Votes: 4

Growing up, mostly in Montreal, I was an only child of loving parents. Votes: 4

As an only child, I never felt insecure and always had total love. Votes: 4

Maybe it's because I was an only child, but I've always wanted kids. Votes: 4

I am an only child and home-schooled, so I have no siblings or classmates. Votes: 4

Growing up an only child with a single parent is probably why I'm an actor. Votes: 4

If you're an only child, you spend a lot of time by yourself, and you develop a strong ability to entertain yourself, to conjure up fantasy. Votes: 4

I was an only child, eventually. Votes: 3

I am an only child. I have one sister. Votes: 3

I'm an only child, so I'm pretty much a loner. Votes: 3

I was always busy doing something, being an only child. Votes: 3

I was an only child. I hung out with my parents. Votes: 3

My brothers and sisters hated me because I was an only child. Votes: 3

I am an only child, and I guess was spoiled by my parents. Votes: 3

I was an only child. I did have kind of like a lonely existence. Votes: 3

When you're an only child, you get very used to pleasing the adults around you. Votes: 3

Books are like brothers. I am an only child. Gatsby [is] my imaginary eldest brother. Votes: 3

Growing up, my next door neighbor was my best friend and an only child too. Votes: 3

I was an only child, but I did have a hell of a lot of cousins. Votes: 3

Being an only child makes me the oldest child and the youngest child. And the middle child. Votes: 3

I'm an only child so am happy with my own company and I don't really get lonely. Votes: 3

I really like to please people, and I think it's a symptom of being an only child. Votes: 3

I was an only child. We were so poor, my parents and I had the same room. Votes: 3

I was happy as an only child, but I've always wanted to be part of a bigger family. Votes: 3

I was on significant financial aid, an only child, with parents who didn't have much living in North Carolina. Votes: 3

I would tell people some years later that I was raised an only child and so was my brother. Votes: 3

I love kids. I always have. I was an only child until I was 12, and then my sister arrived. Votes: 3

I wasn't an only child, but I was the youngest, and no one else in my family played music. Votes: 3

I was by far the youngest of the family, and at times it was like being an only child. Votes: 3

I had a very lovely childhood, and, being an only child, I'm very close to my mom and my dad. Votes: 3

I remember that I used to mix with my friends who had brothers and sisters. I was an only child. Votes: 3

I have two younger sisters who are 11 years younger than me. So I was an only child for a while. Votes: 3

Trying to be like my uncle, because I was an only child. He and my cousins were everything to me. Votes: 3

I was an only child, but then my parents resettled with different partners, and I am now one of six. Votes: 3

I was an only child, but then my parents resettled with different partners, and I am now one of six. Votes: 3

I grew up as an only child. My parents weren't great conversationalists. We had a quiet house. I'm not very verbal. Votes: 3

I was an only child, and my mom threw me into some modeling classes to get me out of my shell. Votes: 3

I was an only child. I've known only children. From this experience, I do believe that the children should outnumber the parents. Votes: 3

When I was a little kid we had a sand box. It was a quicksand box. I was an only child... eventually. Votes: 3

As an only child, I may have been alone a lot, but I was never lonely. My invisible friends were my constant companions. Votes: 3

If you have no brothers and sisters it defines you for life; even when you're thirty you refer to yourself as an only child. Votes: 3

I was an only child until I was 11 years old, which is when my sister was born. So for 11 years, it was just me. Votes: 3

I'm an only child, you know, originally. I'm not a child anymore, but I certainly tend to spend a lot of time on my own. Votes: 3

I was born an only child in Vienna, Austria. My father found hours to sit by me by the library fire and tell fairy stories. Votes: 3

My parents got divorced when I was 2, so I have this weird thing where I have 8 brothers and sisters, but I am also an only child. Votes: 3

I'm a single child. I wanted a little brother or a little sister growing up, but when I think about it, I'm happy I'm an only child. Votes: 3

I'm an only child, and I think one of the sweet things about that is that my parents are really interested in every aspect of my life. Votes: 3

I'm an only child, and after making the movie [Yours, Mine and Ours], I know it would be awesome to have 17 brothers and sisters in real life. Votes: 3

There's a kind of intimacy that happens between a mother and an only child. Which only gets more intimate when it's between a mother and only daughter. Votes: 3

I was an only child and was obviously really bored, so I would entertain my parents by imitating cartoon voices like Scooby Doo, Boo Boo and others. Votes: 3

Being an only child, I didn't have any other family but my mom and dad really, since the rest of my family lived quite far away from London. Votes: 3

You know, as an only child, you're kind of in a bubble, and there are all sorts of things about my childhood that I still can't really place. Votes: 3

If you don't understand how a woman could both love her sister dearly and want to wring her neck at the same time, then you were probably an only child. Votes: 3

As an only child lacking siblings and playmates, I was alone a great deal of the time. Much of this was spent reading virtually anything I could get my hands on. Votes: 3

Of course, losing my father was traumatic. I was an only child. But from the time my father died, my general theme in life has been to turn adversity into opportunity. Votes: 3

I was an only child, and Mother was always right with me all my life. I used to get very angry at her when I was growing up-it's a natural thing. Votes: 3

My mom had me when she was 16, and I was an only child, which is probably why I received a lot of love and didn't miss that my father wasn't around. Votes: 3

Susan, an only child who never had any roots, and I, a lone wolf who got married 20 years to late, were adopted by the kids as much as they were by us. Votes: 3

I think the biggest problem working with me would be that I'm an only child, and so I have an internal dialogue that goes on that I just assume you can hear. Votes: 3

I grew up as an only child with a single mother. Because we were poor and because I knew my father had emigrated from Syria, I imagined he looked like Omar Sharif. Votes: 3

I was also an only child and my father really wanted a son - he's from that generation - it was always about kung-fu theater on Sundays and boxing games on the weekend. Votes: 3

Music was like my first real toy. I was an only child for a while, and I was alone a lot of the time - and I liked it. I still like being alone. Votes: 3

My parents elected me president of the family when I was 4. We actually had an election every year and I always won. I'm an only child, and I could count on my mother's vote. Votes: 3

I was an only child. I needed an alternative to family life - to real life, you could almost say - and cartoons, pictures in a book, the animated movies, seemed to provide it. Votes: 3

Great compassion penetrates into the marrow of the bone. It is the support of all living beings. Like the love of a parent for an only child, the tenderness of the Compassionate One is all-pervasive. Votes: 3

I consider myself lucky to be an only child because if I had other siblings, my mother would not have been able to take me to every audition and be so supportive of my career. Votes: 3

I was an only child. And it's very much my temperament. I remember playing with a piece of string in my room for hours. I had never thought about what it would be like to have siblings. Votes: 3

I was brought up by my mother and my two sisters, although they're older than me and fled the nest very young, so I was technically raised as an only child, but I was very much loved. Votes: 3

I'm an only child, so I never had sisters to tell me what I should like based on my gender. I liked what the boys were doing and thought: 'Why let them have all the fun?' Votes: 3

I'm an only child. My mum and dad are six in each family. They're both twins, and they only wanted one. I always say to them though that they're lucky - it could have all gone wrong. Votes: 3

Being an only child and losing both my parents at an early age, I have found that the friends I have made over the years are the people who help me get through life, good times and bad. Votes: 3

I was born in an elevator, and - as my mother said - naturally it was going down. She said, "All I remember is telling your father, 'That's it! Never again!'" That's why I'm an only child. Votes: 3

I didn't marry to have children. I married to have a relationship, and I was blessed with one child. I was an only child, too - my mother was smarter than most women today; she just had me. Votes: 3

My parents' names were Florian and Mabel Smith. My mother's maiden name was Dersam. They were of German heritage and were part of a family community with my grandparents and uncles and relatives. I was an only child. Votes: 3

He'll die first, we both know it, but I don't know... I really don't know how long I'll stay alive without him. That's the part Shaun doesn't know. I don't intend to be an only child for long. Votes: 3

I grew up as an only child. I think it might just be that my dad really didn't care that I was a girl. "You're gonna do certain things 'cause I want you to, and that's the way it is." Votes: 3

I asked the girl if she could bring a sister for me. She did. Sister Maria Teresa. It was a very slow evening. We discussed the New Testament. We agreed that He was very well adjusted for an only child. Votes: 3

I grew up an only child, so I was so much more adult. My eldest daughter is 10, and I was so much more of an adult than she is. She just doesn't care for the real world. She's not interested. Votes: 3

At an early age I discovered the beauty in pictures in 'Vogue' magazine and Ebony magazine, and I would read 'The New York Times.' I had to make my own world within my world because I was an only child. Votes: 3

I think when you are an only child, parents are more protective and fearful because they've only got one of you. I was not allowed to do a lot of things that, if I'd been, say, number three, I would have. Votes: 3

I identify with Superman. I am adopted, I am an only child, and I love the idea that he comes from another world, that he's the ultimate immigrant. He has all these extraordinary powers, and he has a righteousness about him. Votes: 3

I'm fascinated by twins. It's such an interesting thing. I'm an only child, so I don't have a sibling. But, if you think about the bond that siblings have, that intensifies so much when you think about being in the womb together. Votes: 3

I was an only child and I had a mother and father who were just - there wasn't a straight man in the house, and I mean that in a very nice way. They were fun, and we would laugh a lot. Votes: 3

I was very much an only child who was raised by the television and movies, and I grew up in New York. We weren't, like, rich people, but we were middle-class people and my parents supported this love I had for entertainment. Votes: 3

Children of course are monstrously conventional, repelled at once by whatever is off-center, out of whack, unmanageable. And being an only child I had been coddled a good deal (also scolded). I was awkward, precocious, timid, full of my private rituals and aversions. Votes: 3

Im an only child. Mostly raised by my father outside of Saratoga, doing martial arts and snowmobiling. I wore sweaters, jeans and sneakers. I was more interested in four-wheeling in the Catskills than doing my hair and makeup at 7 A.M. before school. Votes: 3

My childhood was great, honestly. I have all these incredible memories of my childhood. I was an only child. I always had all my cousins around. I had my grandparents around. I had my parents around. I had my uncles around - whatever. Votes: 3

I think being an only child created in me a degree of self-reliance, which I'm glad of. It made me perfectly happy with my own company and perhaps was good conditioning for the protracted solitude of writing books as slowly as I do. Votes: 3

I was an only child. I lost both my parents. By the time I was twenty I was bald. I'm homosexual. In the way of circumstances and background to transcend I had everything an artist could possibly want. It was practically a blueprint. Votes: 3

I think that's important for all ages, to not be afraid of being an individual. I grew up on my own, as an only child, so early on I think I was quite capable of making decisions by myself and being an individual. Votes: 3

I grew up as an only child and my mother was also an only child, so we were both very passionate about reading. I think I passed that on to my daughter, who went plowing through 'Harry Potter' and every other book possible! Votes: 3

I was brought up as an only child, and we were very close. But when I was 14, we got evicted. We came home to a padlock, and I looked up at my mom and she was crying, and there was nothing to do. Votes: 3

I grew up as an only child, and my mother was a single mom. It's always been "us." If it weren't for her nurturing and guiding my artistic talents at a young age, I don't think I'd be a professional actress and performer today. Votes: 3

My mother was the favorite child of her parents. My father was the favorite child of his parents. The result of these two favorite children was me. And I am an only child. So I was convinced that I was the center of the universe. Votes: 3

There's a reason Mia is currently an only child. Family drama takes on a whole new meaning when they're feuding gods who can't stand the sight of each other and always try to kill one another whenever they're in the same room." "“ Kat Votes: 3

I don't mind being an only child; never have. I am lucky, though, that I have my friend Emily, who grew-up very close to me and so, there is someone I have shared memories with. I would miss that if I didn't have it, I think. Votes: 3

I'm an only child. Which is kind of bad, because having a brother or sister is like another form of friendship. That's something I've missed out on, except I know that I couldn't be doing what I am doing now if I had brothers and sisters. Votes: 3

I didn't leave home until 27. I was an only child raised in Philadelphia by my mother and grandmother. My grandmother controlled the stove. She made a lot of potato meals - mashed potato, potato souffle, potato pancakes. When we didn't have electricity, we ate romantically by candlelight. Votes: 3

My mum was a dancer when she was a kid. Then my parents met and eventually had an art gallery; my dad taught himself how to frame pictures, and then he was a curator at an art gallery in the city I'm from. I'm an only child. Votes: 3

My mom Marina and I were poor and hungry. We could sometimes not afford to eat - seriously. We lived together in a small town, called Berdyansk, in Ukraine. I was an only child. I don't think we would have survived if there had been more kids. Votes: 3

Oh, yeah. I grew up in Southern California in the 1960's. It was very different. I was an only child as opposed to having siblings. My brothers all lived with my step-mom. I am very close to them, but we were not raised in the same house. Votes: 3

My mom and dad worked very hard to give me the best chance in - not just in golf but in life. You know, I was an only child, you know, my dad worked three jobs at one stage. My mom worked night shifts in a factory. Votes: 3

Oh, yeah. I grew up in Southern California in the 1960′s. It was very different. I was an only child as opposed to having siblings. My brothers all lived with my step-mom. I am very close to them, but we were not raised in the same house. Votes: 3

I grew up mostly an only child. My dad remarried when I was a teenager. And then I had two stepbrothers. And then my dad had a second child. So I have a brother from the time I was 15. But I really grew up feeling like an only child. Votes: 3

I'm boggled by the idea of being an only child. I know nothing at all (I'm happy to say) about having had a cold and withholding mother, about being divorced. The more I've been writing novels, each novel I've written has become successively less grounded in anything approaching autobiography. Votes: 3

God bless you if you have one child, but I don't think anybody should have just one child. Everybody needs a sibling. I have siblings, and I have so many amazing, precious memories with my siblings. I don't know what I would do if I had been an only child. Votes: 3

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child. Votes: 2

The only thing an adult can give a child is time. Votes: 2

Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child. Votes: 2

An only child is never twelve. Votes: 0

Before Julia Child there was only onion dip. Votes: 0

Your little child is the only true democrat. Votes: 0

You're only as happy as your least happy child. Votes: 0

It takes only one child to raze a village. Votes: 0

You have only one chance to raise your child. Votes: 0

A mother is only as happy as her saddest child. Votes: 0

You can only be as happy as your saddest child." Votes: 0

The only [child welfare] systems that succeed emphasize family preservation. Votes: 0

Only if a child feels right can he think right. Votes: 0

Love the whole world as a mother loves her only child. Votes: 0

The only international language in the world is a child's cry, Votes: 0

The only thing worth stealing is a kiss from a sleeping child. Votes: 0

I'm against abstinence programs because I really consider "abstinence only" child abuse. Votes: 0

Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying. Votes: 0

There is never a problem child; there is only a problem parent Votes: 0

The wonders of a child can only be understood by the child. Votes: 0

My child was not only carried by me, but by the universe. Votes: 0

As a mother you are only as happy as your saddest child Votes: 0

So many things can drive you mad as a child, not only music. Votes: 0

If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm. Votes: 0

Pity that child who was born near Rouen,His only crime, to arrive deformed. Votes: 0

A father knows his child's heart, as only a child can know his fathers. Votes: 0

Let the purity and innocence of a child be your one and only religion! Votes: 0

I think a child may be the only thing that could give me true happiness. Votes: 0

Through adoption, Americans can forever change not only a child's life but also their own. Votes: 0

Only God can shape a flower, but any foolish child can pull it to pieces. Votes: 0

One's past can't be erased, it can only be learned from, the child taught her. Votes: 0

I am only a little lion, child, and I vow, I shall not savage you. Votes: 0

There is no such thing as a Christian child: only a child of Christian parents. Votes: 0

The most inspirational man I knew only reached his potential by helping a child reach his. Votes: 0

The only difference between a grown-up's mistake and a child's is the size of the consequence. Votes: 0

There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother's age. Votes: 0

Not only is the old man twice a child, but also the man who is drunk. Votes: 0

There is only one child in the world and the Child’s name is All Children. Votes: 0

Child pornography is the only crime that you cannot report to the police as an eyewitness. Votes: 0

A child is being properly educated only when he is learning to become independent of his parents. Votes: 0

Lord Byron is only great as a poet; as soon as he reflects he is a child. Votes: 0

They were bound for college, husbands, child-rearing, unhappiness only dimly perceived- bound, in other words, for life. Votes: 0

Once you've raised a child to adulthood, you can only be as demanding as your offspring allow. Votes: 0

The child can find out what the object ..might be only by finding ..obstacles to its access Votes: 0

I'm only realizing now that I was a child actress because I always took myself so seriously. Votes: 0

A child can identify with adult characters- but only if they are sympathetically drawn and simple enough. Votes: 0

It is in playing, and perhaps only in playing, that the child is free to be creative. Votes: 0

If only for a half hour a day, a child should do something serviceable to the community Votes: 0

If I could make only one wish for a child, I'd wish him the quality of lovingness. Votes: 0

The child can only develop fully by means of experience in his environment. We call such experience 'work'. Votes: 0

Education demands, then, only this: the utilization of the inner powers of the child for his own instruction. Votes: 0

There is a Mount Sinai for every child of God if he only knows where to find it. Votes: 0

My dad talked a good game. [I'm as a] child got only the World Series on the radio. Votes: 0

The welfare of a child is not to be measured by money only, nor by physical comfort only. Votes: 0

My feelings towards it can only be paralleled by that of a doting parent towards an idiot child. Votes: 0

The only thing which separates man from child is all the values he has lost over the years. Votes: 0

Schools are successful only insofar as they reduce the dependence of a child's opportunities upon his social origins. Votes: 0

The child's progress does not depend only on his age, but also on being free to look around him. Votes: 0

Buck Rogers, I believe, is an illegitimate child of Galactica. I only hope Galactica won't turn in its grave. Votes: 0

They say that abandonment is a wound that never heals. I say only that an abandoned child never forgets. Votes: 0

A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude. Votes: 0

There's nothing weak about beauty, child. The only weakness in it is if you think it means anything important. Votes: 0

Self-education is the only possible education; the rest is mere veneer laid on the surface of a child's nature. Votes: 0

Good children's literature appeals not only to the child in the adult, but to the adult in the child. Votes: 0

The only man, woman, or child who ever wrote a simple declarative sentence with seven grammatical errors is dead. Votes: 0

I was a fat child and loved cake, perhaps because it was the only sweet thing in my life. Votes: 0

Never set a child afloat on the flat sea of life with only one sail to catch the wind. Votes: 0

Make me like a little child, Simple, teachable, and mild; Seeing only in Thy light; Walking only in Thy might! Votes: 0

Let us take our children seriously! Everything else follows from this...only the best is good enough for a child. Votes: 0

bigotry is ever the child of ignorance, and the cultivation of the understanding is the only radical cure for it ... Votes: 0

It's the only way anything will change. Because we are both mother and child, cause and effect, villain and victim Votes: 0

I am the only living person in the English speaking world who didn't have the Narnia books as a child. Votes: 0

Raising a child is the only relationship you have where if you do it right, it will end in separation. Votes: 0

To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me Votes: 0

I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time. Votes: 0

The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and the heart of the child. Votes: 0

I want to be spoiled like a child. Cry to my heart's content. But I can only suppress my feelings.. Votes: 0

You know, you're only as happy as your least happy child. So if your kids aren't okay, you're not good. Votes: 0

Only when the child is able to identify its own center with the center of the universe does education really begin. Votes: 0

I was a very difficult child, and the time I spent reading was about the only peace I gave my mother. Votes: 0

When I was a child . . . Only virtue was prized, virtue at the expense of intellect, health, happiness, and every mundane good. Votes: 0

If your child has a weakness, teach them how to turn it into a strength! The only Failure is not trying. Votes: 0

The child begins to perceive the world not only through his [or her] eyes but also through his [or her] speech Votes: 0

Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends only with life. A child is given to the universe to be educated. Votes: 0

I'm paying the third highest alimony and child support in the world. And the only two ahead of me are sheiks. Votes: 0

The Lord replied, "The years when you have seen only one set of footprints, my child, is when I carried you." Votes: 0

The Catholic Church is the only thing that saves man from the degrading slavery of being a child of his age. Votes: 0

The triangle of truisms, of father, mother and child, cannot be destroyed; it can only destroy those civilizations which disregard it. Votes: 0

The only moral lesson which is suited for a child--the most important lesson for every time of life--is this: 'Never hurt anybody. Votes: 0

Every child has a right to be well-born, well-nurtured and well-taught, and only the freedom of woman can guarantee him this right. Votes: 0

I'm not the only Labour MP who sent their child to public school but I'm the only one who's questioned about it. Votes: 0

You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child. Votes: 0

He knew only that his child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke. Votes: 0

How do you know if your child is a writer? Your obstetrician holds his stethoscope to your abdomen and only hears excuses. Votes: 0

Somewhere along the line, many Americans relegated the media to a notch on the morality scale only slightly above that of child molesters. Votes: 0

I believe the only people that should be around a child and raising a child are people who absolutely, 100 percent love that child Votes: 0

The classics tell us that, in relationships, the one between teacher and student comes second only to the one between parent and child. Votes: 0

Without the support from religion--remember, we talked about it--no father, using only his own resources, would be able to bring up a child. Votes: 0

It is true that we cannot make a genius. We can only give to teach child the chance to fulfil his potential possibilities. Votes: 0

Indeed, the only truly serious questions are ones that even a child can formulate. Only the most naive of questions are truly serious. Votes: 0

If only one little unhappy child is made happy with the love of Jesus,...will it not be worth...giving all for that? Votes: 0

The only way we can ever teach a child to say "I'm sorry" is for him to hear it from our lips first. Votes: 0

My mama told me in college, 'I love you, and you're God's child, but natural beauty will only take you so far.' Votes: 0

All our handling of the child will bear fruit, not only at the moment, but in the adult they are destined to become. Votes: 0

I only have one child. But I am learning that there is a lot to being a parent that you did not expect. Votes: 0

A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong. Votes: 0

To a mother, a child is everything; but to a child, a parent is only a link in the chain of her existence. Votes: 0

it is not only unfair but disgustingly cruel that the mother is always held responsible for the illegitimate child, while the father goes scot-free. Votes: 0

The only parents in the world who don't need sleep, and our child already sleeps through the night. Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 22, p.429 Votes: 0

When you're a child you're the center of everything. Everything happens for you. Other people? They're only ghosts furnished for you to talk to. Votes: 0

Only when we see that sacred, unadorned child of our devotion-the Babe of Bethlehem-will we know why the giving of gifts is so appropriate Votes: 0

If circumcision has any justification AT ALL, it should be medical only. Parents' religion is the worst of all reasons - pure child abuse. Votes: 0

Laughter not only makes the journey endurable and even enjoyable, it also helps keep us healthy.... Be like a child: learn to laugh more! Votes: 0

Whenever someone says I'm the next Oprah, I always respond, 'Child, there's only one Mahogany, and only one Oprah.' There are no others. Votes: 0

As a child, I was spoilt by my parents as an only son. They indulged my every whim, and I grew up in luxury. Votes: 0

The pain of losing my child was a cleansing experience. I had to throw overboard all excess baggage and keep only what is essential. Votes: 0

It should not be a child's only goal to become the best player in the world. That would be a bad, a harmful attitude. Votes: 0

My fans kept asking where they could get clothes like Destiny's Child's, so it was only natural for us to do a clothing line. Votes: 0

The youngest child in any family is always a jokemaker, because a joke is the only way he can enter into an adult conversation. Votes: 0

To be honest, the only thing I ever really wanted to be was a writer - since I read 'Charlotte's Web' as a child. Votes: 0

Every child needs to have for itself not only its loving parents and siblings and friends of its own age, but a grown-up friend. Votes: 0

Only as a child's awareness and reverence for the wholeness of life are developed can his humanity to his own kind reach its full development. Votes: 0

The present moment is the still point around which the universe arises and subsides, only to be reborn again, fresh as a new born child. Votes: 0

I was rather a goody-goody as a child... It was only later on I discovered that you could be naughty and get away with it. Votes: 0

This system is really broken. No Child Left Behind has really failed and the only way to solve education is to leave one governor behind. Votes: 0

...180 million kids are engaged in the worst forms of child labour. Put it all together and it is not only morally unacceptable, but politically dangerous. Votes: 0

Like a caring motherholding and guarding the lifeof her only child,so with a boundless heartof lovingkindness,hold yourself and all beingsas your beloved children. Votes: 0

Any child knows that history can only be a reduced representation of reality, but it must be a true one, not distorted by queer lenses. Votes: 0

Putting a computer in front of a child and expecting it to teach him is like putting a book under his pillow, only more expensive Votes: 0

The only person who dares wake up a king at 3:00 AM for a glass of water is a child. We have that kind of access Votes: 0

Although children are only 24 percent of the population, they're 100 percent of our future and we cannot afford to provide any child with a substandard education. Votes: 0

The only way to write a great book is to write it with the eyes of a child who sees things for the first time. Votes: 0

And the only answer I know isThat no child should give up on life.Math deals in absolutes.But life is the most absolute of all. Votes: 0

Survey 2001: Men who never married, never had a child, worked full time and were college educated earn only 85% of what women with the same criteria earn. Votes: 0

Teaching is successful only as it causes people to think for themselves. What the teacher thinks matters little; what he makes the child think matters much. Votes: 0

During the earliest stages the child perceives things like a solipsist who is unaware of himself as subject and is familiar only with his own actions. Votes: 0

I known I'm only a child, yet I know we're all in the this together and should act as one single world towards one single goal Votes: 0

Religious education is only valuable intellectually, if the child is educated in a religion versus [just] about a religion. I don't believe you can have both. Votes: 0

Childhood only comes around once. Make your child's memories special. Take them on a new adventure each day. It is as simple as opening a book. Votes: 0

I have no child to inherit my properties. You, the people, are my only family, and to make you happy is the reason I do politics. Votes: 0

All the earth, though it were full of kind hearts, is but a desolation and desert place to a mother when her only child is absent. Votes: 0

And that's it; that's why I want to teach; that's the one and only compensation: to make a permanent difference in the life of a child. Votes: 0

I need something bigger than myself. And the only thing that can be would be a child. Someone who would help me live even more selflessly. Votes: 0

You can only have one first born child. You may love all your children deeply and with passion, but there is something unique about the first born. Votes: 0

No teacher has the right to cure a child of making noises on a drum. The only curing that should be practiced is the curing of unhappiness. Votes: 0

I abandoned her. It's the one capital crime of fatherhood. Mothers can fail a thousand different ways. A father's only job is: do not abandon this child. Votes: 0

Childhood is only the beautiful and happy time in contemplation and retrospect: to the child it is full of deep sorrows, the meaning of which is unknown. Votes: 0

No cradle for an emperor's child was ever prepared with so much magnificence as this world has been made for man. But it is only his cradle. Votes: 0

My father was this big, tough guy, almost heroic in proportion to me as a child. It was only later that I saw how fearful he was. Votes: 0

Infants have around 30,000 tastebuds, only about a third of which survive into adulthood, so a child's sensitivity towards extremes of sweet, sour and bitter flavours is heightened. Votes: 0

I believe that the only true education comes through the stimulation of the child's powers by the demands of the social situations in which he finds himself. Votes: 0

It’s a terrible thing to hate your mother. But I didn’t always hate her. When I was a child, I only kind of disliked her. Votes: 0

I am not a villain.I'm an only-child narcissist monster, but I wish no ill, nor do I wish for world domination; what a hassle that would be! Votes: 0

The happy marriage, which is the only proper nursery, is indissoluble. The unhappy marriage, which perpetually tells the child a bogey-man story about life, ought to be dissolved. Votes: 0

Like a mother who protects her child, her only child, with her own life, one should cultivate a heart of unlimited love and compassion towards all living beings. Votes: 0

I grew up as the only child, and we did not have a large family. So for me and my mother, our friends tend to become our family. Votes: 0

There's only one person who needs a glass of water oftener than a small child tucked in for the night, and that's a writer sitting down to write. Votes: 0

Every child needs nature. Not just the ones with parents who appreciate nature. Not only those of a certain economic class or culture or set of abilities. Every child. Votes: 0

No child is born with a really cold heart, and it is only in proportion as we lose that youthful heart that we lose the inner warmth in ourselves. Votes: 0

No child is born a delinquent. They only became that way if nobody loved them when they were kids. Unloved children grow up to be serial murderers or alcoholics. Votes: 0

I looked down at the little pink face in the bundle. A newborn. The child had been alive only minutes but was already considered a criminal by the Soviets. Votes: 0

As any new parent knows, you're only too happy to show off your new child and, you know, proclaim that he is the best looking or the best everything. Votes: 0

Only do not forget, if I wake up crying it's only because in my dream I'm a lost child hunting through the leaves of the night for your hands.... Votes: 0

We don't get enough pampering. If we were once the only child of an adoring mother, we developed a taste for it; if not, we developed a thirst for it. Votes: 0

It's the best thing ever - I love being a mom. This is my only child. My career was a priority earlier in my life, but now my son is definitely the priority. Votes: 0

I am my father's only child. The world knows a two-dimensional Cary Grant. As charming a star and as remarkable a gentleman as he was, he was still a more thoughtful and loving father. Votes: 0

I was born in 1927, the only child of middle-class parents, both English, and themselves born in the grotesquely elongated shadow, which they never rose sufficiently above history to leave, of that monstrous dwarf Queen Victoria. Votes: 0