Only Child Quotes

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

Being an only child is a disease in itself.

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

I asked the girl if she could bring a sister for me. She did. Sister Maria Teresa. It was a very slow evening. We discussed the New Testament. We agreed that He was very well adjusted for an only child.

I'm an only child. Which is kind of bad, because having a brother or sister is like another form of friendship. That's something I've missed out on, except I know that I couldn't be doing what I am doing now if I had brothers and sisters.

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.

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

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

Women, then, are only children of a larger growth

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.

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

An only child is never twelve.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

I was an only child, a very late child, born to parents who were both 39 at the time, which was very late back then. That kind of confirmed my sense of being the center of the universe, which I guess every child feels - children and poets both tend to feel.

God comes into the very midst of evil and of death, and judges the evil in us and in the world. And by judging us, he cleanses and sanctifies us, comes to us with his grace and love. He makes us happy as only children can be happy.

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

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

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

I was an only child until I was 11 years old, which is when my sister was born. So for 11 years, it was just me.

He'll die first, we both know it, but I don't know... I really don't know how long I'll stay alive without him. That's the part Shaun doesn't know. I don't intend to be an only child for long.

I wasn't an only child, but I was the youngest, and no one else in my family played music.

I was an only child. And it's very much my temperament. I remember playing with a piece of string in my room for hours. I had never thought about what it would be like to have siblings.

I was an only child. We were so poor, my parents and I had the same room.

I'm an only child, you know, originally. I'm not a child anymore, but I certainly tend to spend a lot of time on my own.

I was an only child, but I did have a hell of a lot of cousins.

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

Only children believe they're capable of everything.

I was an only child; I didn't have a sister, or sisters.

I was always busy doing something, being an only child.

My first generation of young readers now have not only children, but some of them have grandchildren to whom they're introducing their old passion.

I don't know much about only children. I was the middle one of three, and if ever I was alone with mum and dad, it was a rare moment.

Children of course are monstrously conventional, repelled at once by whatever is off-center, out of whack, unmanageable. And being an only child I had been coddled a good deal (also scolded). I was awkward, precocious, timid, full of my private rituals and aversions.