1.
I'm against abstinence programs because I really consider "abstinence only" child abuse.
Joycelyn Elders
3.
I was by far the youngest of the family, and at times it was like being an only child.
Paul Nurse
4.
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.
Woody Allen
5.
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.
Natalie Portman
6.
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.
Maynard James Keenan
8.
I'm an only child so am happy with my own company and I don't really get lonely.
Iain Banks
10.
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.
Russell Brand
11.
As an only child, I never felt insecure and always had total love.
Willard Scott
12.
I was an only child. I did have kind of like a lonely existence.
Robin Williams
14.
Only children tell the whole truth, you know. That's what makes them children.
Stephen King
15.
Prejudice is taught. If the world were full of only children, it would be a much better place.
Michael Jackson
17.
Being an only child, my mother reared me very carefully.
Heber J. Grant
18.
My brothers and sisters hated me because I was an only child.
Al Yankovic
19.
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.
Luke Evans
20.
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.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
21.
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.
Billy Collins
22.
When you're an only child, you get very used to pleasing the adults around you.
Rachel Bloom
23.
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.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
25.
The only [child welfare] systems that succeed emphasize family preservation.
Richard Wexler
26.
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.
Diane Duane
27.
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.
Elizabeth Hurley
28.
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.
Alice Munro
29.
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.
Vanessa Paradis
30.
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.
Mira Grant
31.
I wasn't an only child, but I was the youngest, and no one else in my family played music.
Angel Olsen
32.
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.
Leigh Newman
33.
I was an only child. We were so poor, my parents and I had the same room.
David Copperfield
34.
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.
Annie Lennox
35.
I was an only child, but I did have a hell of a lot of cousins.
Desi Arnaz
36.
I was an only child, but then my parents resettled with different partners, and I am now one of six.
Sophie Ellis Bextor
37.
Only children believe they're capable of everything.
Paulo Coelho
38.
I was an only child; I didn't have a sister, or sisters.
Beverly Cleary
39.
I was always busy doing something, being an only child.
Paul Smith