Top 1200 Only Child Quotes & Sayings - Page 8

You need only do three things in this country to avoid poverty - finish high school, marry before having a child, and marry after the age of 20. Only 8 percent of the families who do this are poor; 79 percent of those who fail to do this are poor.

...those of us who write for children are called, not to do something to a child, but be someone for a child.

Will urban sprawl spread so far that most people lose all touch with nature? Will the day come when the only bird a typical American child ever sees is a canary in a pet shop window? When the only wild animal he knows is a rat-glimpsed on a night drive through some city slum? When the only tree he touches is the cleverly fabricated plastic evergreen that shades his gifts on Christmas morning?

The first essential for the child’s development is concentration. The child who concentrates is immensely happy.

No child is racist. A child is born, and then they go through the educational system.

I want to be spoiled like a child. Cry to my heart's content. But I can only suppress my feelings.

To bring up a child well, all a parent needs to do is be extremely honest with the child.

When I think of anything properly describable as a beautiful idea, it is always in the form of music. I have written and printed probably 10,000,000 words in English but all the same I shall die an inarticulate man, for my best ideas beset me in a language I know only vaguely and speak only as a child.

It is my biggest fear, something happening to a child, your child, is unfathomable.

I think there are other alternatives there than hitting a child, striking the child.

I was an unhappy child, and that puts me off having a child of my own.

Because I was an only child, I don't like many people around, and that's why I don't have any servants.

The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.

Caring for your inner child has a powerful and surprisingly quick result: Do it and the child heals.

The future will be the child of the past and the present, even if a rebellious child.

Having a child who is struggling doesn't make you a bad parent, just as being a child who is struggling doesn't make your child a bad kid.

Your body is the child of the soul. you must nourish and train that child.

Not let the child run the circus, just have that child be the source of the creative voice.

When I was a child, I acted like child, but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

I have a children's theater background, so I grew up performing for child audiences; it's sort of my specialty. I know the child audience pretty well - or felt like I did because I performed for them so much. I studied a lot about the child audience, about theater. So it was naturally a place that I gravitated to.

Every child, everywhere; in the whole world there was not one child who was not gravely, sweetly dancing.

What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

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

I love kids. I always have. I was an only child until I was 12, and then my sister arrived.

Only as a child is one truly innocent. When he grows, he must pull on one veneer after another.

My father was proud that people thought I was a good actress. I'm the only child. And daddy's girl.

I just don't know when, as a society... it sort of only became OK to represent gay people in the traditional sense, where they have a great job and well-adjusted parents and maybe a surrogate or adopted child. When was that the only way you could represent gay people?

Whenever I hear about a child needing something, I ask myself, 'Is it what he needs or what he wants?' It isn't always easy to distinguish between the two. A child has many real needs which can and should be satisfied. His wants are a bottomless pit. He wants, for example, to sleep with his parents. He needs to be in his own bed. At Christmas he wants every toy advertised on television. He needs only one or two.

When people ask me what qualifies me to be a writer for children, I say I was once a child. But I was not only a child, I was, better still, a weird little kid, and though I would never choose to give my own children this particular preparation for life, there are few things, apparently, more helpful to a writer than having once been a weird little kid.

I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived.

If we can reach in wih the art and touch the imagination of the child, no matter who, we have affected that child.

Child, child, do you not see? For each of us comes a time when we must be more than what we are.

Child psychology and child psychiatry cannot be reformed. They must be abolished.

One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.

When you give directives to a child, especially a teenager, you must consider the nature of your child.

The family court is extremely child focussed. Its overriding objective is to do what is in a child's best interests.

If a child goes the wrong way, it is not the child who is to be blamed; it is the parents who are responsible.

I don't miss having a child because Saab is like a child at heart.

A great foster parent can end the cycle of abuse and neglect, and impact not just the foster child's life, but also that child's future children's lives, the lives of people who would otherwise be victims of a lost foster child's crimes, and help end human trafficking and homelessness.

People find it a great blessing if their child left behind a child.

In the Borderlands, sheepherder, if a man has the raising of a child, that child is his, and none can say different.

Closing a public library is child abuse, really, because it hinders child development.

It's harder for me, never having brought up a child, to enter the universe of the child.

I was an only child, but then my parents resettled with different partners, and I am now one of six.

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.

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

Lifetime is a child at play, moving pieces in a game. Kingship belongs to the child.

In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent.

When I was a child, I thought as a child. But now I have put away childish things. ... I must be scientific.

The most beautiful things in the creating of the child are his "mistakes." The more a child's work is full of these individual mistakes the more wonderful it is. And the more a teacher removes them from the child's work the duller, more desolate and impersonal it becomes.

Some girls cannot go to school because of the child labor and child trafficking.

Once I started dancing, I was not the spoiled brat or the rebellious child that I was as a child.

I wouldn't even call myself a former child star. I was a child actor; there's a difference.

I am ready to obey as a child; :;but, not being a child, I think I ought to have a reason.

You don't have the moral right to hold one child back to make another child feel better.

I was on significant financial aid, an only child, with parents who didn't have much living in North Carolina.

There must be a solemn and terrible aloneness that comes over the child as he takes those first independent steps. All this is lost to memory and we can only reconstruct it through analogies in later life....To the child who takes his first steps and finds himself walking alone, this moment must bring the first sharp sense of the uniqueness and separateness of his body and his person, the discovery of the solitary self.

Reasoning with a child is fine, if you can reach the child's reason without destroying your own.

Every time a child, any child, is born, it is new - and different; that is the wonder.

If you're a child, and you're on Broadway, you automatically know every other child in a production.