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In the fifties there were no paedophiles. There were only simple honest-to-goodness child molesters.
— Ian Pattison
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You said, though your own heart condemn you
I do not condemn you. — Franz Wright
Pro-choice is the only way to bebecause 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
He knew only that his child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke.
— Cormac McCarthy
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
The child can only develop fully by means of experience in his environment. We call such experience 'work'.
— Maria Montessori
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
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
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
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
Pity that child who was born near Rouen,His only crime, to arrive deformed. — E.A. Bucchianeri
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
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
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
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
