Only Child Quotes

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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.

Growing up, mostly in Montreal, I was an only child of loving parents.

When I was a little kid we had a sand box. It was a quicksand box. I was an only child... eventually.

I'm against abstinence programs because I really consider "abstinence only" child abuse.

Being an only child is a disease in itself.

I consider myself lucky to be an only child because if I had other siblings, my mother would not have been able to take me to every audition and be so supportive of my career.

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

I was by far the youngest of the family, and at times it was like being an only child.

I am an only child and home-schooled, so I have no siblings or classmates.

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.

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.

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

I was born in an elevator, and - as my mother said - naturally it was going down. She said, "All I remember is telling your father, 'That's it! Never again!'" That's why I'm an only child.

I have an only child. She's so independent and good with adults.

I think the biggest problem working with me would be that I'm an only child, and so I have an internal dialogue that goes on that I just assume you can hear.

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.

Women, then, are only children of a larger growth

Because as an only child, you have your own little world.

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

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

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

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.

An only child is never twelve.

I was an only child. I did have kind of like a lonely existence.

I grew up an only child, so I was so much more adult. My eldest daughter is 10, and I was so much more of an adult than she is. She just doesn't care for the real world. She's not interested.

Like a mother who protects her child, her only child, with her own life, one should cultivate a heart of unlimited love and compassion towards all living beings.

Only children tell the whole truth, you know. That's what makes them children.

Great compassion penetrates into the marrow of the bone. It is the support of all living beings. Like the love of a parent for an only child, the tenderness of the Compassionate One is all-pervasive.

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

Prejudice is taught. If the world were full of only children, it would be a much better place.

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

I am my father's only child. The world knows a two-dimensional Cary Grant. As charming a star and as remarkable a gentleman as he was, he was still a more thoughtful and loving father.

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.

Like a caring mother holding and guarding the life of her only child, so with a boundless heart of loving kindness, hold yourself and all beings as your beloved children.

I was brought up by my mother and my two sisters, although they're older than me and fled the nest very young, so I was technically raised as an only child, but I was very much loved.

My parents elected me president of the family when I was 4. We actually had an election every year and I always won. I'm an only child, and I could count on my mother's vote.

I was an only child. I hung out with my parents.

My brothers and sisters hated me because I was an only child.

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

It's the best thing ever - I love being a mom. This is my only child. My career was a priority earlier in my life, but now my son is definitely the priority.

I'm an only child. My mum and dad are six in each family. They're both twins, and they only wanted one. I always say to them though that they're lucky - it could have all gone wrong.

Growing up an only child with a single parent is probably why I'm an actor.

I was an only child, and Mother was always right with me all my life. I used to get very angry at her when I was growing up-it's a natural thing.

Being an only child, my mother reared me very carefully.

They looked like two children," she told me. And that thought frightened her, because she'd always felt that only children are capable of everything.

My mom had me when she was 16, and I was an only child, which is probably why I received a lot of love and didn't miss that my father wasn't around.

Maybe it's because I was an only child, but I've always wanted kids.

When you're an only child, you get very used to pleasing the adults around you.

The only [child welfare] systems that succeed emphasize family preservation.

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