Top 1200 Only Child Quotes & Sayings - Page 7

I am not like a pebble on the beach - a grain of sand on the seashore or just one of millions of human beings past, present and future. No, I am a unique human being loved by God as if I were an only child - the only fruit of his creative powers.

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

I had Noelle when I was 32 years old, and she is my only child by birth.

An educator's most important task, one might say his holy duty, is to see to it that no child is discouraged at school, and that a child who enters school already discouraged regains his self-confidence through his school and his teacher. This goes hand in hand with the vocation of the educator, for education is possible only with children who look hopefully and joyfully upon the future.

Being an only child, I was alone a lot and I had to make up games.

Michelle and Barack [Obama] epitomize what my father set the stage for - they epitomize global community organizing. I'm a global child, I was raised a global child, and he's a global child.

Nothing in Chomsky's account acknowledges the difference between intending to kill a child, because of the effect you hope to produce on its parents (we call this “terrorism”), and inadvertently killing a child in an attempt to capture or kill an avowed child murderer (we call this “collateral damage”). In both cases a child has died, and in both cases it is a tragedy. But the ethical status of the perpetrators, be they individuals or states, could not be more distinct For Chomsky, intentions do not seem to matter. Body count is all.

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

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

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.

In certain circumstances where he experiments in new types of conduct by cooperating with his equals, the child is already an adult. There is an adult in every child and a child in every adult. ... There exist in the child certain attitudes and beliefs which intellectual development will more and more tend to eliminate: there are others which will acquire more and more importance. The later are not derived from the former but are partly antagonistic to them.

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

Imagine if you had genuine, high-quality early-childhood education for every child, and suddenly every black child in America - but also every poor white child or Latino [child], but just stick with every black child in America - is getting a really good education. And they're graduating from high school at the same rates that whites are, and they are going to college at the same rates that whites are, and they are able to afford college at the same rates because the government has universal programs. So now they're all graduating.

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

I was an only child, a hard-case kid, in a rough neighborhood. But I always fought my battles.

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

I do not believe that just because you're opposed to abortion, that that makes you pro-life. In fact, I think in many cases, your morality is deeply lacking if all you want is a child born but not a child fed, not a child educated, not a child housed. And why would I think that you don't? Because you don't want any tax money to go there. That's not pro-life. That's pro-birth. We need a much broader conversation on what the morality of pro-life is.

Maybe it's because I'm an only child or just an extroverted person, and I'm a kind of a ham, you know?

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

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

There is nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child. ... Time, self-pity, apathy, bitterness, and exhaustion can take the Christmas out of the child, but you cannot take the child out of Christmas.

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

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

I mean, being a child was being a child, was being a creature without power, without pocket money, without escape routes of any kind. So I didn't want to be a child.

Women are only children of a larger growth. A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humours and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters.

All the lessons learned, unlearned; The young, who learned to read, now blind, Their eyes with an archaic film; The peasant relapses to a stumbling tune, Following the donkey's bray; These only remember to forget. But somewhere some word presses, On the high door of a skull and in some corner, Of an irrefrangible eye, Some old man memory jumps to a child - Spark from the days of energy. And the child hoards it like a bitter toy.

Sometimes a mother finds in her midst a handicapped child, one child who is abnormal mentally or physically. Then, a whole new set of baffling difficulties presents themselves, and then fervently she prays and how diligently she searches every avenue to find an answer to that child's problems.

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

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

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

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

I have six siblings but grew up an only child. I was adopted by my aunt and uncle.

If you wish to be like a little child, study what a little child could understand — nature; and do what a little child could do — love.

I used to dislike bookshops immensely as a child and was won over only later in life.

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

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.

It is in playing and only in playing that the individual child or adult is able to be creative and to use the whole personality, and it is only in being creative that the individual discovers the self.

Music education can help spark a child's imagination or ignite a lifetime of passion. When you provide a child with new worlds to explore and challenges to tackle, the possibilities are endless. Music education should not be a privilege for a lucky few, it should be a part of every child's world of possiblity.

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

I think probably you can either write for kids, or you can't. That ability to imaginatively be a child and see the world as a child and feel and think like a child - you either have that ability or you don't.

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

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

I'm an only child raised by a single mom. She's always been supportive of what I wanted to do.

A child in the 4th grade who's just learning algebra is not imperfect. While there may be a child in the 12th grade who's much better, the child who's learning is not imperfect.

It took a child. It took a child with a blood transfusion not only to wake me up, but to wake America up, basically. I mean, I read about his plight in a doctor's office in New York in a magazine. I was so outraged about it that I contacted the family. We became friends. I helped them move to another place in Indiana. And we became constant friends.

I do not believe in a child world. It is a fantasy world. I believe the child should be taught from the very first that the whole world is his world, that adult and child share one world, that all generations are needed.

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

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

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

I'm actually an only child with very supportive parents, so I didn't have the sibling rivalry to draw from.

I am an only child, so I relate to the intensity of that single-parent, mother-daughter relationship.

Parenting involves two separate activities. You have to change your child in that you need to educate your child and instill moral values in them. But you also need to celebrate your child for who he or she is and make them feel really good.

To dissociate the child from love is, for our species, a methodological error: contraception, which is to make love without making a child; artificial (in vitro) fertilization, which is to make a child without making love; abortion, which is to unmake the child; and pornography, which is to unmake love: all these, to varying degrees, are incompatible with natural law.

I was an only child so, at home, I'm turnt up by myself, doing whatever I wanna do.

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

Parenting is not giving your child everything they want. Parenting is not being your child's friend. Parenting is about preparing your child to be a useful and respectful person in society.

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

When people ask what it's like to be an only child, I say it depends on who your parents are. I was lucky.

Bigotry is ever the child of ignorance, and the cultivation of the understanding is the only radical cure for it.

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