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The only love that I really believe in is a mother's love for her children. — Karl Lagerfeld

I don't really believe you are married unless you have children. And people who only have one kid don't really have kids. — Andrew Gurland

Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children. — Maxim Gorky

Only a coward would send his children to their deaths in order to save his own life. — Lynn Austin

The lack of access to proper nutrition is not only fueling obesity, it is leading to food insecurity and hunger among our children. — Tom Vilsack

Children, even infants, are capable of sympathy. But only after adolescence are we capable of compassion. — Louise J. Kaplan

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

Only God can shape a flower, but any foolish child can pull it to pieces. — Og Mandino

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

I am almost inclined to set it up as a canon that a children's story which is enjoyed only by children is a bad children's story. — C.S. Lewis

Throughout history, the only way to secure a throne has been with a phalanx of children - nine for Victoria, 13 for George III. — Kate Williams

All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself. — Gore Vidal

They say the only people who tell the truth are drunkards and children. Guess which one I am. — Stephen Colbert

I have a private theory, Sir, that there are no heroes and no monsters in this world. Only children should be allowed to use these words — Alfred De Vigny

Trying to be like my uncle, because I was an only child. He and my cousins were everything to me. — Deon Cole

Oh, to be half as wonderful as my children thought I was when he was small, and only half as stupid as my teenager now thinks I am. — Rebecca Richards

When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching. — Robert Bly

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

I don't buy things now, I buy plane tickets. The only thing I want is to make enough money to be able to travel with my children. — Oona Chaplin

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

I have left all my business and all my husbands; I have taken with me only fair weather and my children, which is as much as I want. — Madame De La Fayette

only until the children are born. Your life is your own only for a short time: — Amos Oz

If parents would only realize how they bore their children. — George Bernard Shaw

Children leave; only husband and wife cleave — Beneth Peters Jones

The child's naive dream of life is the only one worth having. — Marty Rubin

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

If only we could have them back as babies today, now that we have some idea what to do with them. — Nancy Mairs

Sock Monsters Pay-It-Forward to offer hospitalized children a chance to smile, if only for a while! — Dalene Davies

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

Children should have a balanced start in life: a mother and a father. I think that's the only reason to get married. — Cicely Tyson

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

I do know I want to have children. That's the only thing missing in my life. I certainly thought I'd have some by now. — John Stamos

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

While we can remember the past, we cannot write the future. Only our children, the future of our community, can do that. — Jonathan Sacks

...too often it's only children and old people who speak the truth. You just have to slow down and listen. — Eve Chase

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well. — Aristotle.

Books are like our children. They are often conceived by inspiration, but are born only by labor. — R.G. Yoho

My wife never look at me anymore, my children, my wife ... we only die once in our life. I'm dying every day when I get up in the morning. — Bikram Choudhury

Don't talk me about religion! Don't talk me about tales for children! Be serious! Trust science, because only the science can save you! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I can't imagine children coming out of me," she says suddenly, "only stories. — Sharon Dogar

Only thieves and children run. — Tracy Chevalier

Only when Christ comes again will the little white children of Alabama walk hand in hand with little black children. — Billy Graham

You must write for children the same way you write for adults, only better. — Maxim Gorky

I wished she'd been smart enough, or loving enough, to realize everybody has burdens that crush them, only they don't give up their children. — Sue Monk Kidd

When mom and dad went to war the only prisoners they took were the children — Pat Conroy

Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of. — Peter Ustinov

I have no confidence in any religion that can be demonstrated only to children. — Robert Green Ingersoll

You must write for children in the same way as you do for adults, only better. — Maxim Gorky

I am only as good as my children are. — Michelle Obama

I have seen my kid struggle into the kitchen in the morning with outfits that need only one accessory: an empty gin bottle. — Erma Bombeck

I will only make pictures that I won't be ashamed to have my children see. — Louis B. Mayer

Mothers train your children to only Speak Truth — Imran Khan

We're only happy--truly happy--when it's forever after, but only children live in a world where things can last forever. — Jose Eduardo Agualusa

In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection; otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books. — Michel De Montaigne

In our time, when the literature for adults is deteriorating, good books for children are the only hope, the only refuge. — Isaac Bashevis Singer

A father knows his child's heart, as only a child can know his fathers. — Kazuo Koike

An only child is never twelve. — Enid Bagnold

I always told my children when they whined ... Only the boring are bored. — Tommy Lee Jones

Maybe this is what it's like for all only children: To love the family that isn't almost as much as the one that is. — James Howe

I can only hazard. In the back of my mind there are bombs falling, women and children screaming, but I can't describe it now. — Sylvia Plath

Not only have children most certainly a right to their own ambitions, but their own lack of ambitions. — Cornelia Parker

The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations. — David M. Friedman

There are no illegitimate children, only illegitimate parents-if the term is to be used at all. — Bernadette Devlin

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

God's greatest blessing is children. The only problem is that you have to support them. It's a problem, not a disadvantage. — Israel Shenker

I have a fantastic wife, and not only in terms of external beauty. Her priority and mine is our children. That is our choice. — Luis Figo

The only way that a mother would go after her own children is if she's just completely gone and has no humanity. — Katee Sackhoff

A child can identify with adult characters- but only if they are sympathetically drawn and simple enough. — Edmund Wallace Hildick

Kids are life's only guaranteed, bona fide upside surprise. — Jack Nicholson

Adversity is only yet another means to remind us of 'How Truly Awsome We All Are'! — W.O. Wainwright

It is children only who enjoy the present; their elders either live on the memory of the past or the hope of the future. — Nicolas Chamfort

There exists a microscopic breed of brain beetle, commonly known as an 'idea'. An idea desires only one thing: To catch the perfect brain wave. — Leah Broadby

Good children's literature appeals not only to the child in the adult, but to the adult in the child. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

My mother wanted me to be friends only with children she considered socially suitable. — Brigitte Bardot

... she rejoiced as only mothers can in the good fortunes of their children. — Louisa May Alcott

Unless everyone grasps the importance of having only two children per couple, wars won't be over just oil anymore, they will be over water and food. — Alexandra Paul

Only children believe they're capable of everything. — Paulo Coelho

Oh, my love,' she said. 'What do the only children do?'

'We'll never have to know. — Ann Patchett

Children and geniuses know that there is no bridge, only the water that lets itself be crossed. — Rene Char

Our children belong to God. We're only given them on loan from heaven. Sometimes God calls them home sooner tan we expected. — Scarlet Wilson

The child's progress does not depend only on his age, but also on being free to look around him. — Maria Montessori

I'm the only pro-life woman in the Senate. I take this issue very seriously. I'm the mother of two children. — Kelly Ayotte

Children conceived by this woman would only be cannibalized by her womb. — Erika Johansen

You are in a position to create wealth not only for yourself but for your children and your children's children. — Ray Nagin

Children can only grow from something you love to something you lose. — Stephen Sondheim

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Children are the true connoisseurs. What's precious to them has no price, only value. — Bel Kaufman

I would like not only to have a successful band, but I want to have children, a home, and a husband. Two or three. Children, not husbands!!! — Caroline Corr

Buck Rogers, I believe, is an illegitimate child of Galactica. I only hope Galactica won't turn in its grave. — Wilfrid Hyde-White

We all must educate children at the youngest ages that private parts are private, 'no' means no, and there is only one code of honor for everyone. — Christine Pelosi

Only if a child feels right can he think right. — Haim Ginott

People say children are charming because they tell the truth. That's a lie. I've got five of them. They only tell the truth if they're in pain. — Bill Cosby

So I entered parenting with only 3 clear goals: to love, to cherish, and to listen. - Melissa Ridge Carter — Hilary Flower

Fear will do one thing and one thing only: hold you back — Kya Aliana

A father is only capable of giving what he has, and what he knows. A good father gives all of himself that is good. — Vincent Carrella

The glittering baits of titles and honours are only for children and fools. — Jane Welsh Carlyle

It's only adults who read the top layers most of the time. I think children read the internal meanings of everything. — Maurice Sendak

Only after the Last Judgment will Mary get any rest; from now until then, she is much too busy with her children. — John Vianney