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In the fifties there were no paedophiles. There were only simple honest-to-goodness child molesters. — Ian Pattison

Furless now, upright, My banished
and experimental
child
You said, though your own heart condemn you
I do not condemn you. — Franz Wright

Pro-choice is the only way to be
because women are human beings, after all, and should be treated as such. — Julia Child

The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you've got to have a what-the-hell attitude. — Julia Child

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

One's past can't be erased, it can only be learned from, the child taught her. — H. L. Balcomb

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

The wonders of a child can only be understood by the child. — Lailah Gifty Akita

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. — Hedy Lamarr

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

Every child has to raise itself.' Parents can only advise their children or point them in the right direction. — Anne Frank

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 kiss that I give my child heals one that I had ached for but was not given - indeed, it has turned out to be the only thing that ever could. — Hope Jahren

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. — Barbara Holland

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

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. — Helen Keller

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

The child begins to perceive the world not only through his [or her] eyes but also through his [or her] speech — Lev S. Vygotsky

I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time. — Barbara Bush

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

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. — John Steinbeck

For as long as I am your mother and you are my only child, i will worry and hope and pray for you. Do not ask the impossible. — Jennifer Beckstrand

The only difference between a grown-up's mistake and a child's is the size of the consequence. — Teresa R. Funke

For a child, everywhere is a playground; for an adult, it is the same, only the plays are different! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

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. — Lin Yutang

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

I was born in Boston, Massachusetts on May 16, 1923, the only child of Joel and Sylvia Miller. — Merton Miller

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

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

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. — Elizabeth Gaskell

I haven't met loads of asshole only children. If you fill a room with all the assholes you know, I bet that most of them have siblings. — Judy Greer

The child can only develop fully by means of experience in his environment. We call such experience 'work'. — Maria Montessori

Why does it always seem that I have only the shadow of my father? I'm like a child constantly grabbing at his coattails and missing. — Libba Bray

Respect exists only on the basis of freedom, for love is the child of freedom, never that of domination. p/s — Haleigh Lovell

She was an only child, and loneliness was one of the earliest conditions of her life. — John Williams

Love the whole world as a mother loves her only child. — Gautama Buddha

When fear rules, obedience is the only survival choice. — Toni Morrison

For the keeping of secrets from adults is oft the only power a child may hope to possess. — Jacqueline Carey

Education demands, then, only this: the utilization of the inner powers of the child for his own instruction. — Maria Montessori

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 — Timothy Keller

He made small talk on the way about how he was abandoned as a child and will only rest easy once he is avenged. His name was Tom. — The Harvard Lampoon

We can't give a child a natural consequence. The only truly natural consequences are the ones found in nature. — Joanna Faber

The welfare of a child is not to be measured by money only, nor by physical comfort only. — Ryan Lindley

Child pornography is the only crime that you cannot report to the police as an eyewitness. — Doug Stanhope

I think a child may be the only thing that could give me true happiness. — Nicki Minaj

I have been using polka dots since I was a very young child. Only after that, it seems, have they been used throughout the rest of the art world. — Yayoi Kusama

There is only one child in the world
and the child's name is all children. — Carl Sandburg

You're only as happy as your least happy child,' is the best description of motherhood I have ever read. — Sarah Payne Stuart

The triangle of truisms, of father, mother and child, cannot be destroyed; it can only destroy those civilizations which disregard it. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

The only opponents Reacher truly feared were small whippy guys with fast hands and sharp blades. — Lee Child

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. — Rachel Carson

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

The only thing worth stealing is a kiss from a sleeping child. — J. H. Oldham

Not only is the old man twice a child, but also the man who is drunk. — Plato

A human being born into a cold, indifferent world will regard his situation as the only possible one. — Alice Miller

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. — Karen Thompson Walker

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

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

The only thing an adult can give a child is time. — Chuck Jones

The only response
to a child's grave is
to lie down before it and play dead. — Bill Knott

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

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

The only parents in the world who don't need sleep, and our child already sleeps through the night. — Stephenie Meyer

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

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

Pity that child who was born near Rouen,
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

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

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

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

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

When I was a child ... Only virtue was prized, virtue at the expense of intellect, health, happiness, and every mundane good. — Bertrand Russell

The child is alone only in the presence of someone. — D.W. Winnicott

The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook. — Julia Child

you know much about head injuries?'
'only the ones I cause — Lee Child

As her mum always says, one of the advantages of being an only child is that you have no trouble amusing yourself. — Liane Moriarty

A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung out into the cosmic brutality without hesitation. — Peter Wessel Zapffe

Love is not a real-world limit: the mother of nine children can love each of them as much as the mother of an only child. — Dossie Easton

Writing a book is like raising a child, the only difference is you don't have the fucking part in writing a book. — M.F. Moonzajer

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

Self-education is the only possible education; the rest is mere veneer laid on the surface of a child's nature. — Charlotte M. Mason

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

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

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

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

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

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