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I was an only child. I hung out with my parents.
— Dhani Harrison
I'm only realizing now that I was a child actress because I always took myself so seriously.
— Claire Danes
Furless now, upright, My banished
and experimental
child
You said, though your own heart condemn you
I do not condemn you. — Franz Wright
and experimental
child
You said, though your own heart condemn you
I do not condemn you. — Franz Wright
The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you've got to have a what-the-hell attitude.
— Julia Child
Oh, child, my child, if only you realized who you truly are.
— Toni Sorenson
The path of development is a journey of discovery that is clear only in retrospect, and it's rarely a straight line.
— Eileen Kennedy-Moore
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.
— Miranda Cosgrove
As an only child, I may have been alone a lot, but I was never lonely. My invisible friends were my constant companions.
— Teresa Medeiros
He knew only that his child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke.
— Cormac McCarthy
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.
— Tyra Banks
Trying to be like my uncle, because I was an only child. He and my cousins were everything to me.
— Deon Cole
Because evil, my dear child, can be done to anyone and by everyone, but good can only be done to those who need it.
— Luigi Pirandello
The wonders of a child can only be understood by the child.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Only a child believes his rulers have his best interest at heart," he said. "We would be wise to disabuse ourselves of such illusions.
— Julie Wu
Better not to have anything. Not even love. If you got attached to something, it only got taken away. Child or adult. Toys or people. No difference
— Barbara Elsborg
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.
— Tom Hardy
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.
— Annie Lennox
Once you've raised a child to adulthood, you can only be as demanding as your offspring allow.
— Mariella Frostrup
No. I was an only child.
— Robert Fulghum
If circumcision has any justification AT ALL, it should be medical only. Parents' religion is the worst of all reasons - pure child abuse.
— Richard Dawkins
If your child has a weakness, teach them how to turn it into a strength! The only Failure is not trying.
— Kevin Heath
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.
— P.L. Travers
The only thing you must do, flesh-child, is die. The rest is but a trick of light in the foam on the waves.
— Rue
I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time.
— Barbara Bush
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
— Joseph Weizenbaum
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.
— Raymond E. Feist
Somewhere along the line, many Americans relegated the media to a notch on the morality scale only slightly above that of child molesters.
— Gregory Kane
They say that abandonment is a wound that never heals. I say only that an abandoned child never forgets.
— Mario Balotelli
I believe that it is my job not only to write books but to have them published. A book is like a child. You have to defend the life of a child.
— George Konrad
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.
— Samuel E. Morison
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.
— Deepak Chopra
And the only answer I know is
That no child should give up on life.
Math deals in absolutes.
But life is the most absolute of all. — Terri Fields
That no child should give up on life.
Math deals in absolutes.
But life is the most absolute of all. — Terri Fields
The image I'd had of myself as a child was someone I'd never be, and it was only recently that I realized it was okay to be who I was. - Cat
— Jeaniene Frost
I'm an only child, so I'm pretty much a loner.
— Shia Labeouf
You see," the lord explained, "everyone else has them. You wouldn't want your child to be the only one who had flaws. What would it be like for them?
— Anne Ursu
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.
— Bel Kaufman
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.
— Mignon McLaughlin
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.
— Vanessa Paradis
I grew up as an only child. My parents weren't great conversationalists. We had a quiet house. I'm not very verbal.
— Matthew Morrison
Thinking these things made space and time around her, the way saying 'only June' had when she was a child hoarding summer.
— Zibby Oneal
It is in playing, and perhaps only in playing, that the child is free to be creative.
— Donald Woods Winnicott
Ah, my friend, that is the only true church organization, when heads and hearts unite in working for the welfare of the human race!
— Lydia M. Child
Do not scream, when a child breaks a glass, only touch the shoulder, and say gracious words; do not worry!
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The most inspirational man I knew only reached his potential by helping a child reach his.
— Mitch Albom
...there is a particular focus of the problem faced only by men. It arises from our culture providing no room for a man as victim.
— Mike Lew
I have two younger sisters who are 11 years younger than me. So I was an only child for a while.
— Lorelei Linklater
A mother is only as happy as her unhappiest child.
— Nicole Helget
I only have one child. But I am learning that there is a lot to being a parent that you did not expect.
— Dee Snider
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.
— Kinky Friedman
A child can identify with adult characters- but only if they are sympathetically drawn and simple enough.
— Edmund Wallace Hildick
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.
— Mae Whitman
A woman nearby fell to her knees, sobbing. 'They say I can only choose one child for the ship. How can I choose? Please don't make me choose.
— Ruta Sepetys
I'm an only child.
— Jenna Morasca
Growing up, my next door neighbor was my best friend and an only child too.
— Miranda Cosgrove
Pity that child who was born near Rouen,
His only crime, to arrive deformed. — E.A. Bucchianeri
His only crime, to arrive deformed. — E.A. Bucchianeri
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.
— Jeff Buckley
I was an only child.
— Richard Pryor
Sometimes if you want to know for sure whether the stove is hot, the only way to find out is to touch it.
— Lee Child
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
— Severn Cullis-Suzuki
I was on significant financial aid, an only child, with parents who didn't have much living in North Carolina.
— Chris Hughes
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.
— Penn Badgley
Christian is staring at us. He's an only child and could never understand the delicate joys of sibling abuse.
— Cynthia Hand
We need only two persons in our life - just you and me; and I think we can make a good story together.
— Raj Singh
Because as an only child, you have your own little world.
— Maynard James Keenan
An only child is never twelve.
— Enid Bagnold
Let the purity and innocence of a child be your one and only religion!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Good children's literature appeals not only to the child in the adult, but to the adult in the child.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
For a child, everywhere is a playground; for an adult, it is the same, only the plays are different!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Buck Rogers, I believe, is an illegitimate child of Galactica. I only hope Galactica won't turn in its grave.
— Wilfrid Hyde-White
The only thing an adult can give a child is time.
— Chuck Jones
You can only be as happy as your saddest child.
— Oprah Winfrey
You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.
— Dogen
Is he your only child? I asked, "my only son" padma said. "My condolences" I said ... Anita Blake
— Laurell K. Hamilton
Being responsible for someone's childhood is a big deal. We not only create our own memories, but we create our child's memories.
— Rachel Macy Stafford
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.
— Park Geun-hye
I was a very difficult child, and the time I spent reading was about the only peace I gave my mother.
— Kate Beckinsale
I was an only child; I didn't have a sister, or sisters.
— Beverly Cleary
The child's progress does not depend only on his age, but also on being free to look around him.
— Maria Montessori
The only time I ever appeared in the 'Enquirer' was for a piece about people who let their hair grow gray. I guess I'm not much of a wild child.
— Emmylou Harris
There's nothing weak about beauty, child. The only weakness in it is if you think it means anything important.
— Charlie Fletcher
I remember that I used to mix with my friends who had brothers and sisters. I was an only child.
— Keith Emerson
Only if a child feels right can he think right.
— Haim Ginott
The only parents in the world who don't need sleep, and our child already sleeps through the night.
— Stephenie Meyer