Only child Quotes · Page 4

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

— Annie Lennox

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

— Chris Hughes

I was born an only child in Vienna, Austria. My father found hours to sit by me by the library fire and…

— Hedy Lamarr

I experienced bullying a lot. I was an only child, and I was kind of a small kid with a big mouth,…

— Mark Foster

I have a private theory, Sir, that there are no heroes and no monsters in this world. Only children should be allowed…

— Alfred de Vigny

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

— Steven Wright

Being an only child, I didn't have any other family but my mom and dad really, since the rest of my family…

— Tom Hardy

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

— Paloma Faith

Let me ask you: Should only children of the wealthy have access to quality early education? Should only children of the wealthy…

— Lincoln Chafee

I think the biggest problem working with me would be that I'm an only child, and so I have an internal dialogue…

— Maynard James Keenan

I've known nothing else than my father there to turn to, to advise me, not only as a father but as a…

— Lindsay Hoyle

Being an only child and losing both my parents at an early age, I have found that the friends I have made…

— Fannie Flagg

Most of us like thinking we are God's only children...At least one of the purposes of church is to remind us that…

— Barbara Brown Taylor

Children of course are monstrously conventional, repelled at once by whatever is off-center, out of whack, unmanageable. And being an only child…

— Alice Munro

I grew up an only child, and I always felt as if I didn't fit in. In middle school, in grammar school,…

— Shanice Williams

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

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

My mom had seven kids in seven years, and then she had me 11 years later. So when I was born, my…

— Ryan McGinley

I've always been willing to take challenges, I grew up taking challenges: being an only child, having a mother, no father, I've…

— Teddy Pendergrass

I have learned over a period of time to be almost unconsciously grateful--as a child is--for a sunny day, blue water, flowers…

— Faith Baldwin

I was a 'Duck Hunt' and 'Mario' guy, and stuff like that. I was never technologically driven. I never had all the…

— Garrett Hedlund

Blood doesn't make you family. Hell, an only child can bleed. It's the sharing of pain that makes you family. 'Cause, you…

— Christopher Titus

A father's interest in having a child--perhaps his only child--may be unmatched by any other interest in his life. It is truly…

— William Rehnquist

I can't even begin to describe how I miss him. He always supported me in everything I did. He was a very…

— Dhani Harrison

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

— Rachel Bloom

You spend a lot more time on your own as an only child. And there's space to allow your imagination to take…

— Bill Bailey

I'm an only child. My mother was raising me alone. We couldn't afford child care; child care hours didn't work according to…

— Ayanna Pressley

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

— Richard Wexler

I'm an only child, and I think one of the sweet things about that is that my parents are really interested in…

— Karen Thompson Walker

I am an only child, so not only my father, even my mother is also very supportive of my career.

— Asin

I had Noelle when I was 32 years old, and she is my only child by birth.

— Cynthia Bailey

I am not a villain.I'm an only-child narcissist monster, but I wish no ill, nor do I wish for world domination; what…

— John Hodgman

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

— Deon Cole

I'm an only child, so I don't really have any siblings to drive me nuts.

— Tyler Henry

I loved being an only child. I loved being in my own world, playing with my toys and being in my made-up…

— Joanna Page

I was fortunate that I was an only child. I had two parents who I really cared about, and they cared about…

— Roger Staubach

I'm an only child, and after making the movie [Yours, Mine and Ours], I know it would be awesome to have 17…

— Miranda Cosgrove

I grew up as an only child, so I like being by myself. So I train predominantly - 98 percent of the…

— Phil Heath

God cleanses and sanctifies us, comes to us with grace and love. God makes us happy, as only children can be happy.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

I was an only child. Both my parents came from working-class families in Hackney, east London.

— Tony Robinson

I am an only child, so I relate to the intensity of that single-parent, mother-daughter relationship.

— Gugu Mbatha-Raw