Top 100 One Child Quotes
#1. Vianne knew Rachel wasn't asking how to hide in the barn; she was asking how to live after a loss like this, how to pick up one child and let the other go, how to keep breathing after you whisper "good-bye." "I can't leave her.
Kristin Hannah
#2. Once upon a time there were two parents, two children, and a brick house with lilies in the yard. The parents died, the lilies wilted. One child disappeared. Then the other.
Lauren DeStefano
#3. We have no children Harriet. Or, rather, I have no children. You have one child.
Doris Lessing
#4. I only have one child. But I am learning that there is a lot to being a parent that you did not expect.
Dee Snider
#5. Overall employment pressure is also fading because China's working-age population peaked in 2011 and the fall is expected to accelerate, due largely to the decades-old one-child policy.
Anonymous
#6. From the marriage had come only one child; he had wanted a son and had got a girl, and that was another disappointment he hardly bothered to conceal.
John Edward Williams
#7. Consider a situation where we refuse to pay attention to the less fortunate people in our neighbourhoods. If every single person in the elite of our society will take care of at least one child, most of the street kids would be taken care of. Yet, we act as if it is none of our business.
Sunday Adelaja
#8. Do you think pandas know they're Chinese and they're taking the one child policy a bit too seriously?
Jim Jefferies
#9. Give me my freedom for as long as I be All I ask of livin' is to have no chains on me All I ask of livin' is to have no chains on me And all I ask of dyin' is to go naturally ... And when I die, and when I'm gone There'll be one child born, in our world To carry on, to carry on ...
Laura Nyro
#11. We're too many people; that's why we have global warming ... on a voluntary basis, everybody in the world's got to pledge to themselves that one child is it.
Ted Turner
#12. I had to force myself not to be overly protective because I had lost one child.
Diane Ladd
#13. One child must never be set above another, even in casual conversation, not to mention in speeches that circle the globe.
Alice Walker
#15. Let us pick up our books and our pens," I said. "They are our most powerful weapons. One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world.
Malala Yousafzai
#16. We're in a tough place in this world. There are a lot of kids giving up very early. Scripture says it takes a village to raise one child, and that's what these coaches are going to have to go back and understand.
Ray Lewis
#17. Birth was something that came quite unexpectedly, and afterwards there was one child more in the house.
Georg Brandes
#18. That was the problem with grieving one child in a family with other children. In my despair over losing Riley, I'd lost my daughter too.
Leslie A. Gordon
#19. Even if one child falls in a borewell, the entire country gets worried; we must generate more awareness about hundreds of children who are unable to survive due to lack of primary healthcare facilities.
Narendra Modi
#20. One Child:
I hope it will be said we taught them to stand tall & proud, even in the face of history & the future was made new & whole for us all, one child at a time.
Brian Andreas
#21. If a man has but one child," said the Senator, "and the family is famous for producing unusual, strong-willed individuals, what standards can the man have for deciding whether or not his child is a nut?
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
#22. The figure knew that the coming events would begin with this night. The truth of the prophecy would lay a destiny far greater than any known to Dagmarth. A destiny for one child to embrace. It would bring change to this war and Dagmarth.
Joseph J. Miccolis
#23. If men had to bear babies, there'd never be more than one child in a family.
Clare Boothe Luce
#24. God bless you if you have one child, but I don't think anybody should have just one child. Everybody needs a sibling. I have siblings, and I have so many amazing, precious memories with my siblings. I don't know what I would do if I had been an only child.
Sherri Shepherd
#26. Socrates held up his hands, wiggling his fingers. God gave me these hands to change the world, one child at a time.
Red Phoenix
#27. If the homemakers of this country don't get the idea into their heads pretty soon that they are not going to be able to hold their own with the rest of the world, with no children, or one child in the family, there's a sad day of reckoning coming.
Gene Stratton-Porter
#28. Immunization is total nonsense! More than that is what's hidden from people about vaccines. They are dangerous. One child out of five has overwhelming disabilities from vaccines -- neurological problems, seizures.
Guylaine Lanctot
#29. One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world.' I
Malala Yousafzai
#30. One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world.
Malala Yousafzai
#32. Some Western demographers have posited, due to the female shortage created by the one-child policy, that China will be forced to field a vast force - as in tens of millions strong - of wifeless men who'll gladly wage wars around the planet to burn off all those unrequited hormones.
Thomas P.M. Barnett
#33. Then the crying started. First one child, a little girl called Jen from across the street, then another, then another, until the June afternoon sounded like a vacation in hell.
Kyle M. Scott
#34. China's one-child policy punishes families for having 'out-of-plan' children, resulting in sex-selective abortion and tens of millions of 'missing girls' as well as forced abortion and sterilization campaigns.
Chris Smith
#35. One child out of wedlock is an error. Two suggests carelessness. Three - and six - is simply wrong. Wrong.
Eloisa James
#36. Maybe not. But maybe that's how the world changes, Isaiah. One father, one child, at a time.
Barbara Samuel
#37. It's simply wrong to always order [kids] to stop that fighting. There are times when one child is simply defending his rights and damned well should be fighting.
Erma Bombeck
#38. Even in the same family, one child will always instinctively know when to ask for things, and another won't.
Mignon McLaughlin
#39. Children are smarter than any of us. Know how I know that? I don't know one child with a full time job and children.
Bill Hicks
#40. I think I can allow myself one child - and from then on, I think I would have to adopt. It makes sense not to add to the population problem.
Evangeline Lilly
#41. I feel like I'm one of the many working mothers. And I only have one child. I know working mums who have three or four. It's definitely a challenge but it's a wonderful challenge to be able to do both.
Rachel Weisz
#42. The effect on the planet of having one child less is an order of magnitude greater than all these other things we might do, such as switching off lights. The greatest thing anyone in Britain could do to help the future of the planet would be to have one less child.
John Guillebaud
#43. We lost one child and we gained ten thousand children.
Kyle Petty
#44. There is only one child in the world
and the child's name is all children.
Carl Sandburg
#45. Every mom is busy, whether you have one child or more than one. You just learn how to manage your time differently as your family grows.
Tamara L. Chilver
#46. If we can prevent just one marriage from disintegrating--or just one child from suffering the loss of a family--our effort will be justified.
James C. Dobson
#47. In my travels all over the world, I have come to realize that what distinguishes one child from another is not ability, but access. Access to education, access to opportunity, access to love.
Lauryn Hill
#49. It remains to be seen which program will cause greater societal damage: China's one-child policy or America's one-parent policy.
P. J. O'Rourke
#50. In the enchanted woodland wild,
The Prince shall wed a Fairy child.
Dragon, Human, and Fairy,
Their union will be bound by three.
And when these lovers intertwine,
Three races in one child combine.
Dragon, Fey, and Humankind,
Bound in one bloodline.
Janet Lee Carey
#51. Through your life, most people peel away the junk that's not useful, that's superfluous. You are determined to peel that away. I do one thing at a time. One man at a time. One car. One house. One child. One job.
Grace Slick
#52. A child's own story is a dream, but a good story is a dream that is true for more than one child.
Margaret Wise Brown
#53. I'm not scared of dyin', and I don't really care if it's peace you find in dyin'. Well then let the time be near. And when I die and when I'm gone there'll be one child born and a world to carry on.
Laura Nyro
#54. My troubles are many They're deep as a well I swear there ain't no Heaven And I pray there ain't no hell But I'll never know by living only my dying will tell. And when I die and when I'm gone There'll be, one child born And a world to carry on, to carry on.
Laura Nyro
#55. Every day we do get closer to a cure. Three out of four children who are diagnosed with cancer will survive the disease, but that is not good enough. The loss of one child to this disease is too much.
Michael McCaul
#56. As a bookish child, I would come to see the one-child policy as one of the most fascinating and bizarre things about the land of my ancestors, equal parts Aldous Huxley and King Herod.
Mei Fong
#57. Isn't it strange how one child can be so lucky, when not a stone's throw away another child's life has taken quite the opposite direction?
Helen Laycock
#58. The joy and smile of even one child is worth more than the prancing intellects of a thousand men, for we are, that we might have joy, and be free.
Bryant McGill
#59. Growing up in the fifties and sixties, I can only remember knowing one child, ever, whose parents got a divorce, and hardly any whose mother 'worked' at anything besides raising her children.
Joyce Maynard
#60. The media tycoon Ted Turner told a newspaper reporter in 2010 that other countries should follow China's lead in instituting a one-child policy to reduce global population over time.
Matt Ridley
#61. 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
#62. child was left out in the cold, bearing the stigma of being different. It is this one child that our Constitution is concerned about - his tranquillity, his health, his safety, his conscience. What a kindly old document it is, and how brightly it shines, through interpretation after interpretation!
E.B. White
#63. They had always dreamed of a large family but have now realized that they would be equally blessed to have even one child.
Jane Green
#64. I know how long it took me to lose my weight, and people have got to understand it?s not always easy. If all this can help one child, we are doing our job.
Jared Fogle
#65. Children learn many principles of natural law at a very early age. For example: they learn that when one child has picked up an apple or a flower, it is his, and that his associates must not take it from him against his will.
Lysander Spooner
#66. For the first time, the nation will have goals, benchmarks, and measureable outcomes that will help us tackle the childhood obesity epidemic one child, one family, and one community at a time,
Michelle Obama
#67. I can't choose the most meaningful song that I've written. That would be like choosing one child over another. But first borns are always special.
Matisyahu
#68. One word, two lips, three four five fingers form a fist.
One corner, two parents, three four five reasons to hide.
One child, two eyes, three four seventeen years of fear.
A broken broomstick, a pair of wile faces, angry whispers, locks on my door.
Tahereh Mafi
#69. Five million people die unnecessarily each year because of illness related to lack of potable water. Half of them are children under the age of five. To bring it home, think about this: one child dies from lack of clean water every twelve seconds.
Thomas M. Kostigen
#70. To lose one child, Mr. DeTamble, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose three looks like carelessness.
Audrey Niffenegger
#71. We know from myths and fairy tales that there are many different kinds of powers in this world. One child is given a light saber, another a wizard's education. The trick is not to amass all the different kinds of power, but to use well the kind you've been granted.
Susan Cain
#72. A treatment method or an educational method that will work for one child may not work for another child. The one common denominator for all of the young children is that early intervention does work, and it seems to improve the prognosis.
Temple Grandin
#73. I do urge you to welcome children. Even one child will make a difference in your life that you cannot fathom. I promise you, my girl.
Maryanne O'Hara
#74. Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.
Malala Yousafzai
#75. We can change the world one thought at a time, one child at a time, one family at a time, one community at a time, one city, one state and one country at a time.
Bryant McGill
#76. But shouldn't there be a least? Shouldn't there be a bare minimum that life should give you? Is it too much to ask for a job you don't hate, or for someone to truly have and hold? Is it too much to ask for one child? Even one some would call flawed? Couldn't I at least have that?
Kiera Cass
#77. At the current $5.15 an hour, the federal minimum wage has become a poverty wage. A full-time worker with one child lives below the official poverty line.
Bernie Sanders
#78. Over the years, so many exceptions and amendments were made to China's one-child policy that it was hard to pinpoint a moment to pronounce it dead.
Barbara Demick
#79. Like the 'little emperors' of one-child China, too many Boomers were taught early that the world was made (or saved) for their comfort and enjoyment. They behaved accordingly, with a self-indulgence that was wholly rational, given their situation.
Eric Liu
#80. When one child says to another, "I can do this, I bet you can't"; "My dad has a bigger car than yours"; or, "My dad is stronger than yours." Children identify with this or that, trying to build up a sense of self - a mentally defined sense of self.
Eckhart Tolle
#81. A mother or father might be too preoccupied with how one child compares with another to be able to fully appreciate the uniqueness of the individual child.
Taylor Mali
#82. As long as one dissident is in prison, our freedom will not be true. As long as one child is hungry, our life will be filled with anguish and shame.
Elie Wiesel
#84. If just one person, one child who is made to feel isolated, looks at me and sees that it is okay to be your own person and walk down your own path, then everything I have ever gone through will be worth it.
Johnny Weir
#85. What if there are children who will suffer somehow because I failed to obey God? What if my cowardice costs even one child somewhere in the world his or her life?
Richard Stearns
#86. Every child, everywhere; in the whole world there was not one child who was not gravely, sweetly dancing.
Nathanael West
#87. I didn't marry to have children. I married to have a relationship, and I was blessed with one child. I was an only child, too - my mother was smarter than most women today; she just had me.
Carmen Dell'Orefice
#88. China's one-child policy was born in 1980, after years of less severe measures to discourage births. The Communist Party promised that the policy would be temporary.
Barbara Demick
#89. Ziploc bag. If you have more than one child, place each
Marie Bailey
#90. If the money we donate helps one child or can ease the pain of one parent, those funds are well spent.
Carl Karcher
#91. I build the future of this nation, one child at a time. I help them shape their dreams and teach them how to fly. From Just a Teacher in the Kindle book Classroom Confessions by The Prophet of Life
The Prophet Of Life
#92. Having one child makes you a parent; having two you are a referee
David Frost
#93. To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead -somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man -somewhere these, too, come together.
Marguerite Duras
#94. You don't have the moral right to hold one child back to make another child feel better.
Stephanie S. Tolan
#95. A changeling is one child substituted for another. I couldn't find anything more apt. We had to kind of fight that supernatural element in the publicity, and I offered to try and find another title, but Clint liked it, and it stayed.
J. Michael Straczynski
#96. In China, you've got six people buying for one child. But the thing is, you've got the largest rising upper-middle class in the world.
Angela Ahrendts
#97. I'd love to help the entire world. Even to change the life of one child is amazing.
Charlyne Yi
#98. I didn't think at all as a young child that music would be my profession. It was just something that one did along with going to Brownies or going to church or going to school or anything else that one did in sort of one's very young life.
Jessye Norman
#99. I believe in the support of the public school as one of the cornerstones of American liberty. I believe in the right of every parent to choose whether his child shall be educated in the public school or in a religious school supported by those of his own faith.
Al Smith
#100. It was almost like being a child again because you felt like you were in your bedroom and it almost felt like no one was really watching you. So, you were just kind of having a bit of fun on your own doing silly voices in the bedroom.
Ashley Jensen
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