Quotes about Only Child

I am an only child. I have one sister. Votes: 2

Being an only child is a disease in itself. Votes: 2

It's not only children who grow. Parents do too... Votes: 2

Love the whole world as a mother loves her only child. Votes: 2

Because as an only child, you have your own little world. Votes: 2

I'm against abstinence programs because I really consider "abstinence only" child abuse. Votes: 2

When I was a little kid we had a sand box. It was a quicksand box. I was an only child... eventually. Votes: 2

I don't want to write for adults. I want to write for readers who can perform miracles. Only children perform miracles when they read. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

I'm an only child, and I think one of the sweet things about that is that my parents are really interested in every aspect of my life. Votes: 2

For Jesus, there are no countries to be conquered, no ideologies to be imposed, no people to be dominated. There are only children, women and men to be loved. Votes: 2

If you don't understand how a woman could both love her sister dearly and want to wring her neck at the same time, then you were probably an only child. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

I was an only child. I lost both my parents. By the time I was twenty I was bald. I'm homosexual. In the way of circumstances and background to transcend I had everything an artist could possibly want. It was practically a blueprint. Votes: 2

I don't mind being an only child; never have. I am lucky, though, that I have my friend Emily, who grew-up very close to me and so, there is someone I have shared memories with. I would miss that if I didn't have it, I think. Votes: 2

Intuitively, one would assume if you don't grow up with other children you might not learn that easy give and take. What often happens is that there are some only children who act that way, and that stands out more than the only children who seem to get along with others. Votes: 2

It's not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours. I can't tell my children to reach for the sun. All I can do is reach for it, myself. Votes: 2

My heart is hurting so bad no one can make me believe this is real Father God I pray that you send clarity over this cause I just don't understand My heart hurts it's broken no one can convince me that this is real.... Prayer warriors please pray real hard for his only child, his daughter and family, Votes: 2

Part of writing is discovering the rules of the game and then deciding whether to follow the rules or to break them. The great thing about the game of poetry is that it's always your turn - I guess that goes back to my being an only child. So once it's under way, there is a sense of flow. Votes: 2

You know, my parents have always been incredibly supportive. I'm an only child, so we're very close. There's just the three of us. They're exceptional parents but also great friends. My father was able to take his hobby, photography, and turn it into a beautiful career. So when they saw how much I loved acting, they were 100 percent behind me. Votes: 2

I was a 'Duck Hunt' and 'Mario' guy, and stuff like that. I was never technologically driven. I never had all the cool, new toys. I was the youngest child, I wasn't the only child, so I wasn't spoiled as a kid. And, we were on the farm, so we didn't have a lot. Also, with computers, I'm not very good with them. I just check my email. Votes: 2

You know how sometimes you just have a memory of looking up and seeing a face looking over your crib and then remember nothing until tenth grade? - I have one of these early memories where I'm in the back of my parents' car, a place I loved to spend a lot of time as an only child, not having to fight with venomous siblings over the only toy. Votes: 2

I'm an only child. Votes: 0

I was an only child. Votes: 0

I was an only child, eventually. Votes: 0

No. I was an only child. Votes: 0

An only child is never twelve. Votes: 0

I grew up as an only child. Votes: 0

Before Julia Child there was only onion dip. Votes: 0

Your little child is the only true democrat. Votes: 0

It takes only one child to raze a village. Votes: 0

You have only one chance to raise your child. Votes: 0

You're only as happy as your least happy child. Votes: 0

I was always busy doing something, being an only child. Votes: 0

I'm an only child, so I'm pretty much a loner. Votes: 0

Only if a child feels right can he think right. Votes: 0

A mother is only as happy as her saddest child. Votes: 0

You can only be as happy as your saddest child." Votes: 0

Being an only child, my mother reared me very carefully. Votes: 0

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child. Votes: 0

The only [child welfare] systems that succeed emphasize family preservation. Votes: 0

The only international language in the world is a child's cry, Votes: 0

I was an only child. I hung out with my parents. Votes: 0

The only thing an adult can give a child is time. Votes: 0

Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying. Votes: 0

The only thing worth stealing is a kiss from a sleeping child. Votes: 0

There is never a problem child; there is only a problem parent Votes: 0

My brothers and sisters hated me because I was an only child. Votes: 0

I have an only child. She's so independent and good with adults. Votes: 0

The wonders of a child can only be understood by the child. Votes: 0

I'm an only child, so I don't even have nieces or nephews. Votes: 0

My child was not only carried by me, but by the universe. Votes: 0

I was an only child; I didn't have a sister, or sisters. Votes: 0

I was 28 when my father died, and I was an only child. Votes: 0

As a mother you are only as happy as your saddest child Votes: 0

I am an only child, and I guess was spoiled by my parents. Votes: 0

If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm. Votes: 0

So many things can drive you mad as a child, not only music. Votes: 0

As an only child, I never felt insecure and always had total love. Votes: 0

Maybe it's because I was an only child, but I've always wanted kids. Votes: 0

Growing up, mostly in Montreal, I was an only child of loving parents. Votes: 0

A father knows his child's heart, as only a child can know his fathers. Votes: 0

Pity that child who was born near Rouen,His only crime, to arrive deformed. Votes: 0

I am an only child and home-schooled, so I have no siblings or classmates. Votes: 0

Let the purity and innocence of a child be your one and only religion! Votes: 0

I was an only child. I did have kind of like a lonely existence. Votes: 0

There is no such thing as a Christian child: only a child of Christian parents. Votes: 0

I think a child may be the only thing that could give me true happiness. Votes: 0

Through adoption, Americans can forever change not only a child's life but also their own. Votes: 0

Only God can shape a flower, but any foolish child can pull it to pieces. Votes: 0

Growing up an only child with a single parent is probably why I'm an actor. Votes: 0

I am only a little lion, child, and I vow, I shall not savage you. Votes: 0

Growing up, my next door neighbor was my best friend and an only child too. Votes: 0

Books are like brothers. I am an only child. Gatsby [is] my imaginary eldest brother. Votes: 0

One's past can't be erased, it can only be learned from, the child taught her. Votes: 0

When you're an only child, you get very used to pleasing the adults around you. Votes: 0

Child pornography is the only crime that you cannot report to the police as an eyewitness. Votes: 0

The most inspirational man I knew only reached his potential by helping a child reach his. Votes: 0

The only difference between a grown-up's mistake and a child's is the size of the consequence. Votes: 0

There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother's age. Votes: 0

I was an only child, but I did have a hell of a lot of cousins. Votes: 0

There is only one child in the world and the Child’s name is All Children. Votes: 0

Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child. Votes: 0

Not only is the old man twice a child, but also the man who is drunk. Votes: 0

I'm an only child so am happy with my own company and I don't really get lonely. Votes: 0

Once you've raised a child to adulthood, you can only be as demanding as your offspring allow. Votes: 0

The child can find out what the object ..might be only by finding ..obstacles to its access Votes: 0

Being an only child makes me the oldest child and the youngest child. And the middle child. Votes: 0

I was an only child. We were so poor, my parents and I had the same room. Votes: 0

Lord Byron is only great as a poet; as soon as he reflects he is a child. Votes: 0

If only for a half hour a day, a child should do something serviceable to the community Votes: 0

A child is being properly educated only when he is learning to become independent of his parents. Votes: 0

I'm only realizing now that I was a child actress because I always took myself so seriously. Votes: 0

A child can identify with adult characters- but only if they are sympathetically drawn and simple enough. Votes: 0

They were bound for college, husbands, child-rearing, unhappiness only dimly perceived- bound, in other words, for life. Votes: 0

It is in playing, and perhaps only in playing, that the child is free to be creative. Votes: 0

If I could make only one wish for a child, I'd wish him the quality of lovingness. Votes: 0

I really like to please people, and I think it's a symptom of being an only child. Votes: 0

The child can only develop fully by means of experience in his environment. We call such experience 'work'. Votes: 0

My feelings towards it can only be paralleled by that of a doting parent towards an idiot child. Votes: 0

Education demands, then, only this: the utilization of the inner powers of the child for his own instruction. Votes: 0

There is a Mount Sinai for every child of God if he only knows where to find it. Votes: 0

The only thing which separates man from child is all the values he has lost over the years. Votes: 0

The welfare of a child is not to be measured by money only, nor by physical comfort only. Votes: 0

Schools are successful only insofar as they reduce the dependence of a child's opportunities upon his social origins. Votes: 0

My dad talked a good game. [I'm as a] child got only the World Series on the radio. Votes: 0

I was happy as an only child, but I've always wanted to be part of a bigger family. Votes: 0

I was on significant financial aid, an only child, with parents who didn't have much living in North Carolina. Votes: 0

Buck Rogers, I believe, is an illegitimate child of Galactica. I only hope Galactica won't turn in its grave. Votes: 0

Self-education is the only possible education; the rest is mere veneer laid on the surface of a child's nature. Votes: 0

The only man, woman, or child who ever wrote a simple declarative sentence with seven grammatical errors is dead. Votes: 0

A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude. Votes: 0

Good children's literature appeals not only to the child in the adult, but to the adult in the child. Votes: 0

There's nothing weak about beauty, child. The only weakness in it is if you think it means anything important. Votes: 0

They say that abandonment is a wound that never heals. I say only that an abandoned child never forgets. Votes: 0

I was a fat child and loved cake, perhaps because it was the only sweet thing in my life. Votes: 0

I wasn't an only child, but I was the youngest, and no one else in my family played music. Votes: 0

I was by far the youngest of the family, and at times it was like being an only child. Votes: 0

I love kids. I always have. I was an only child until I was 12, and then my sister arrived. Votes: 0

I would tell people some years later that I was raised an only child and so was my brother. Votes: 0

Never set a child afloat on the flat sea of life with only one sail to catch the wind. Votes: 0

The child's progress does not depend only on his age, but also on being free to look around him. Votes: 0

I have two younger sisters who are 11 years younger than me. So I was an only child for a while. Votes: 0

It's the only way anything will change. Because we are both mother and child, cause and effect, villain and victim Votes: 0

bigotry is ever the child of ignorance, and the cultivation of the understanding is the only radical cure for it ... Votes: 0

Make me like a little child, Simple, teachable, and mild; Seeing only in Thy light; Walking only in Thy might! Votes: 0

I had a very lovely childhood, and, being an only child, I'm very close to my mom and my dad. Votes: 0

I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time. Votes: 0

Let us take our children seriously! Everything else follows from this...only the best is good enough for a child. Votes: 0

I remember that I used to mix with my friends who had brothers and sisters. I was an only child. Votes: 0

Trying to be like my uncle, because I was an only child. He and my cousins were everything to me. Votes: 0

Raising a child is the only relationship you have where if you do it right, it will end in separation. Votes: 0

The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and the heart of the child. Votes: 0

You know, you're only as happy as your least happy child. So if your kids aren't okay, you're not good. Votes: 0

I was an only child, but then my parents resettled with different partners, and I am now one of six. Votes: 0

I was an only child, but then my parents resettled with different partners, and I am now one of six. Votes: 0

I want to be spoiled like a child. Cry to my heart's content. But I can only suppress my feelings.. Votes: 0

To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me Votes: 0

I am the only living person in the English speaking world who didn't have the Narnia books as a child. Votes: 0

The triangle of truisms, of father, mother and child, cannot be destroyed; it can only destroy those civilizations which disregard it. Votes: 0

I grew up as an only child. My parents weren't great conversationalists. We had a quiet house. I'm not very verbal. Votes: 0

Only when the child is able to identify its own center with the center of the universe does education really begin. Votes: 0

The child begins to perceive the world not only through his [or her] eyes but also through his [or her] speech Votes: 0

I was a very difficult child, and the time I spent reading was about the only peace I gave my mother. Votes: 0

If your child has a weakness, teach them how to turn it into a strength! The only Failure is not trying. Votes: 0

Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends only with life. A child is given to the universe to be educated. Votes: 0

I'm paying the third highest alimony and child support in the world. And the only two ahead of me are sheiks. Votes: 0

The Lord replied, "The years when you have seen only one set of footprints, my child, is when I carried you." Votes: 0

The Catholic Church is the only thing that saves man from the degrading slavery of being a child of his age. Votes: 0

When I was a child . . . Only virtue was prized, virtue at the expense of intellect, health, happiness, and every mundane good. Votes: 0

I was an only child, and my mom threw me into some modeling classes to get me out of my shell. Votes: 0

I was an only child. I've known only children. From this experience, I do believe that the children should outnumber the parents. Votes: 0

Every child has a right to be well-born, well-nurtured and well-taught, and only the freedom of woman can guarantee him this right. Votes: 0

How do you know if your child is a writer? Your obstetrician holds his stethoscope to your abdomen and only hears excuses. Votes: 0

The only moral lesson which is suited for a child--the most important lesson for every time of life--is this: 'Never hurt anybody. Votes: 0

He knew only that his child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke. Votes: 0

I'm not the only Labour MP who sent their child to public school but I'm the only one who's questioned about it. Votes: 0

You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child. Votes: 0

Without the support from religion--remember, we talked about it--no father, using only his own resources, would be able to bring up a child. Votes: 0

It is true that we cannot make a genius. We can only give to teach child the chance to fulfil his potential possibilities. Votes: 0

Somewhere along the line, many Americans relegated the media to a notch on the morality scale only slightly above that of child molesters. Votes: 0

The classics tell us that, in relationships, the one between teacher and student comes second only to the one between parent and child. Votes: 0

Indeed, the only truly serious questions are ones that even a child can formulate. Only the most naive of questions are truly serious. Votes: 0

The only way we can ever teach a child to say "I'm sorry" is for him to hear it from our lips first. Votes: 0

I only have one child. But I am learning that there is a lot to being a parent that you did not expect. Votes: 0

I believe the only people that should be around a child and raising a child are people who absolutely, 100 percent love that child Votes: 0

To a mother, a child is everything; but to a child, a parent is only a link in the chain of her existence. Votes: 0

A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong. Votes: 0

As an only child, I may have been alone a lot, but I was never lonely. My invisible friends were my constant companions. Votes: 0

All our handling of the child will bear fruit, not only at the moment, but in the adult they are destined to become. Votes: 0

If only one little unhappy child is made happy with the love of Jesus,...will it not be worth...giving all for that? Votes: 0

My mama told me in college, 'I love you, and you're God's child, but natural beauty will only take you so far.' Votes: 0

To be honest, the only thing I ever really wanted to be was a writer - since I read 'Charlotte's Web' as a child. Votes: 0

Only when we see that sacred, unadorned child of our devotion-the Babe of Bethlehem-will we know why the giving of gifts is so appropriate Votes: 0

If circumcision has any justification AT ALL, it should be medical only. Parents' religion is the worst of all reasons - pure child abuse. Votes: 0

Laughter not only makes the journey endurable and even enjoyable, it also helps keep us healthy.... Be like a child: learn to laugh more! Votes: 0

Whenever someone says I'm the next Oprah, I always respond, 'Child, there's only one Mahogany, and only one Oprah.' There are no others. Votes: 0

When you're a child you're the center of everything. Everything happens for you. Other people? They're only ghosts furnished for you to talk to. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The pain of losing my child was a cleansing experience. I had to throw overboard all excess baggage and keep only what is essential. Votes: 0

The only parents in the world who don't need sleep, and our child already sleeps through the night. Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 22, p.429 Votes: 0

It should not be a child's only goal to become the best player in the world. That would be a bad, a harmful attitude. Votes: 0

As a child, I was spoilt by my parents as an only son. They indulged my every whim, and I grew up in luxury. Votes: 0

it is not only unfair but disgustingly cruel that the mother is always held responsible for the illegitimate child, while the father goes scot-free. Votes: 0

The youngest child in any family is always a jokemaker, because a joke is the only way he can enter into an adult conversation. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

My fans kept asking where they could get clothes like Destiny's Child's, so it was only natural for us to do a clothing line. Votes: 0

Every child needs to have for itself not only its loving parents and siblings and friends of its own age, but a grown-up friend. Votes: 0

Although children are only 24 percent of the population, they're 100 percent of our future and we cannot afford to provide any child with a substandard education. Votes: 0

Only as a child's awareness and reverence for the wholeness of life are developed can his humanity to his own kind reach its full development. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Like a caring motherholding and guarding the lifeof her only child,so with a boundless heartof lovingkindness,hold yourself and all beingsas your beloved children. Votes: 0

This system is really broken. No Child Left Behind has really failed and the only way to solve education is to leave one governor behind. Votes: 0

The present moment is the still point around which the universe arises and subsides, only to be reborn again, fresh as a new born child. Votes: 0

I was rather a goody-goody as a child... It was only later on I discovered that you could be naughty and get away with it. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Any child knows that history can only be a reduced representation of reality, but it must be a true one, not distorted by queer lenses. Votes: 0

The only person who dares wake up a king at 3:00 AM for a glass of water is a child. We have that kind of access Votes: 0

...180 million kids are engaged in the worst forms of child labour. Put it all together and it is not only morally unacceptable, but politically dangerous. Votes: 0

Putting a computer in front of a child and expecting it to teach him is like putting a book under his pillow, only more expensive Votes: 0

The only way to write a great book is to write it with the eyes of a child who sees things for the first time. Votes: 0

During the earliest stages the child perceives things like a solipsist who is unaware of himself as subject and is familiar only with his own actions. Votes: 0

Religious education is only valuable intellectually, if the child is educated in a religion versus [just] about a religion. I don't believe you can have both. Votes: 0

Teaching is successful only as it causes people to think for themselves. What the teacher thinks matters little; what he makes the child think matters much. Votes: 0

Childhood only comes around once. Make your child's memories special. Take them on a new adventure each day. It is as simple as opening a book. Votes: 0

Survey 2001: Men who never married, never had a child, worked full time and were college educated earn only 85% of what women with the same criteria earn. Votes: 0

If you're an only child, you spend a lot of time by yourself, and you develop a strong ability to entertain yourself, to conjure up fantasy. Votes: 0

My parents got divorced when I was 2, so I have this weird thing where I have 8 brothers and sisters, but I am also an only child. Votes: 0

All the earth, though it were full of kind hearts, is but a desolation and desert place to a mother when her only child is absent. Votes: 0

I have no child to inherit my properties. You, the people, are my only family, and to make you happy is the reason I do politics. Votes: 0

I need something bigger than myself. And the only thing that can be would be a child. Someone who would help me live even more selflessly. Votes: 0

And that's it; that's why I want to teach; that's the one and only compensation: to make a permanent difference in the life of a child. Votes: 0

I known I'm only a child, yet I know we're all in the this together and should act as one single world towards one single goal Votes: 0

And the only answer I know isThat no child should give up on life.Math deals in absolutes.But life is the most absolute of all. Votes: 0

I'm a single child. I wanted a little brother or a little sister growing up, but when I think about it, I'm happy I'm an only child. Votes: 0

There's a kind of intimacy that happens between a mother and an only child. Which only gets more intimate when it's between a mother and only daughter. Votes: 0

My father was this big, tough guy, almost heroic in proportion to me as a child. It was only later that I saw how fearful he was. Votes: 0

It’s a terrible thing to hate your mother. But I didn’t always hate her. When I was a child, I only kind of disliked her. Votes: 0

I was an only child and was obviously really bored, so I would entertain my parents by imitating cartoon voices like Scooby Doo, Boo Boo and others. Votes: 0

I believe that the only true education comes through the stimulation of the child's powers by the demands of the social situations in which he finds himself. Votes: 0

I abandoned her. It's the one capital crime of fatherhood. Mothers can fail a thousand different ways. A father's only job is: do not abandon this child. Votes: 0

You can only have one first born child. You may love all your children deeply and with passion, but there is something unique about the first born. Votes: 0

Childhood is only the beautiful and happy time in contemplation and retrospect: to the child it is full of deep sorrows, the meaning of which is unknown. Votes: 0

No teacher has the right to cure a child of making noises on a drum. The only curing that should be practiced is the curing of unhappiness. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Infants have around 30,000 tastebuds, only about a third of which survive into adulthood, so a child's sensitivity towards extremes of sweet, sour and bitter flavours is heightened. Votes: 0

No cradle for an emperor's child was ever prepared with so much magnificence as this world has been made for man. But it is only his cradle. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The happy marriage, which is the only proper nursery, is indissoluble. The unhappy marriage, which perpetually tells the child a bogey-man story about life, ought to be dissolved. Votes: 0

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 a hassle that would be! Votes: 0

I grew up as the only child, and we did not have a large family. So for me and my mother, our friends tend to become our family. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

There's only one person who needs a glass of water oftener than a small child tucked in for the night, and that's a writer sitting down to write. Votes: 0

You know, as an only child, you're kind of in a bubble, and there are all sorts of things about my childhood that I still can't really place. Votes: 0

I looked down at the little pink face in the bundle. A newborn. The child had been alive only minutes but was already considered a criminal by the Soviets. Votes: 0

As any new parent knows, you're only too happy to show off your new child and, you know, proclaim that he is the best looking or the best everything. Votes: 0

Every child needs nature. Not just the ones with parents who appreciate nature. Not only those of a certain economic class or culture or set of abilities. Every child. Votes: 0

No child is born with a really cold heart, and it is only in proportion as we lose that youthful heart that we lose the inner warmth in ourselves. Votes: 0

No child is born a delinquent. They only became that way if nobody loved them when they were kids. Unloved children grow up to be serial murderers or alcoholics. Votes: 0

Only do not forget, if I wake up crying it's only because in my dream I'm a lost child hunting through the leaves of the night for your hands.... Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Of course, losing my father was traumatic. I was an only child. But from the time my father died, my general theme in life has been to turn adversity into opportunity. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

As an only child lacking siblings and playmates, I was alone a great deal of the time. Much of this was spent reading virtually anything I could get my hands on. Votes: 0

Susan, an only child who never had any roots, and I, a lone wolf who got married 20 years to late, were adopted by the kids as much as they were by us. Votes: 0

I grew up as an only child with a single mother. Because we were poor and because I knew my father had emigrated from Syria, I imagined he looked like Omar Sharif. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I was also an only child and my father really wanted a son - he's from that generation - it was always about kung-fu theater on Sundays and boxing games on the weekend. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I was an only child. I needed an alternative to family life - to real life, you could almost say - and cartoons, pictures in a book, the animated movies, seemed to provide it. Votes: 0

Music was like my first real toy. I was an only child for a while, and I was alone a lot of the time - and I liked it. I still like being alone. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I was born in 1927, the only child of middle-class parents, both English, and themselves born in the grotesquely elongated shadow, which they never rose sufficiently above history to leave, of that monstrous dwarf Queen Victoria. Votes: 0