When you're an only child, you get very used to pleasing the adults around you. Votes: 3
Rachel BloomBooks are like brothers. I am an only child. Gatsby [is] my imaginary eldest brother. Votes: 3
F. Scott FitzgeraldGrowing up, my next door neighbor was my best friend and an only child too. Votes: 3
Miranda CosgroveBeing an only child makes me the oldest child and the youngest child. And the middle child. Votes: 3
Jarod KintzI'm an only child so am happy with my own company and I don't really get lonely. Votes: 3
Iain BanksI really like to please people, and I think it's a symptom of being an only child. Votes: 3
Paloma FaithI was an only child. We were so poor, my parents and I had the same room. Votes: 3
David CopperfieldI was happy as an only child, but I've always wanted to be part of a bigger family. Votes: 3
Benedict CumberbatchI would tell people some years later that I was raised an only child and so was my brother. Votes: 3
Homer HickamI love kids. I always have. I was an only child until I was 12, and then my sister arrived. Votes: 3
Lorenza IzzoI wasn't an only child, but I was the youngest, and no one else in my family played music. Votes: 3
Angel OlsenI was by far the youngest of the family, and at times it was like being an only child. Votes: 3
Paul NurseI had a very lovely childhood, and, being an only child, I'm very close to my mom and my dad. Votes: 3
Luke EvansI remember that I used to mix with my friends who had brothers and sisters. I was an only child. Votes: 3
Keith EmersonI have two younger sisters who are 11 years younger than me. So I was an only child for a while. Votes: 3
Lorelei LinklaterTrying to be like my uncle, because I was an only child. He and my cousins were everything to me. Votes: 3
Deon ColeI was an only child, but then my parents resettled with different partners, and I am now one of six. Votes: 3
Sophie Ellis-BextorI was an only child, but then my parents resettled with different partners, and I am now one of six. Votes: 3
Sophie Ellis BextorI was an only child, and my mom threw me into some modeling classes to get me out of my shell. Votes: 3
Tamara TaylorThe only [child welfare] systems that succeed emphasize family preservation. Votes: 0
Richard WexlerI'm against abstinence programs because I really consider "abstinence only" child abuse. Votes: 0
Joycelyn EldersPity that child who was born near Rouen,His only crime, to arrive deformed. Votes: 0
E.A. BucchianeriThrough adoption, Americans can forever change not only a child's life but also their own. Votes: 0
George W. BushOne's past can't be erased, it can only be learned from, the child taught her. Votes: 0
H. L. BalcombThere is no such thing as a Christian child: only a child of Christian parents. Votes: 0
Richard DawkinsThe most inspirational man I knew only reached his potential by helping a child reach his. Votes: 0
Mitch AlbomThe only difference between a grown-up's mistake and a child's is the size of the consequence. Votes: 0
Teresa R. FunkeThere are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother's age. Votes: 0
Benjamin SpockChild pornography is the only crime that you cannot report to the police as an eyewitness. Votes: 0
Doug StanhopeA child is being properly educated only when he is learning to become independent of his parents. Votes: 0
Hyman RickoverLord Byron is only great as a poet; as soon as he reflects he is a child. Votes: 0
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheOnce you've raised a child to adulthood, you can only be as demanding as your offspring allow. Votes: 0
Mariella FrostrupThe child can find out what the object ..might be only by finding ..obstacles to its access Votes: 0
Adam PhillipsI'm only realizing now that I was a child actress because I always took myself so seriously. Votes: 0
Claire DanesIt is in playing, and perhaps only in playing, that the child is free to be creative. Votes: 0
Donald Woods WinnicottIf only for a half hour a day, a child should do something serviceable to the community Votes: 0
George Bernard ShawIf I could make only one wish for a child, I'd wish him the quality of lovingness. Votes: 0
Benjamin SpockThere is a Mount Sinai for every child of God if he only knows where to find it. Votes: 0
Karl G. MaeserMy dad talked a good game. [I'm as a] child got only the World Series on the radio. Votes: 0
W. P. KinsellaThe welfare of a child is not to be measured by money only, nor by physical comfort only. Votes: 0
Ryan LindleyMy feelings towards it can only be paralleled by that of a doting parent towards an idiot child. Votes: 0
Charlotte BronteThe only thing which separates man from child is all the values he has lost over the years. Votes: 0
Poul HenningsenThe child's progress does not depend only on his age, but also on being free to look around him. Votes: 0
Maria MontessoriI was a fat child and loved cake, perhaps because it was the only sweet thing in my life. Votes: 0
Andre RieuNever set a child afloat on the flat sea of life with only one sail to catch the wind. Votes: 0
D. H. LawrenceI may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time. Votes: 0
Barbara BushThe sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and the heart of the child. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonI want to be spoiled like a child. Cry to my heart's content. But I can only suppress my feelings.. Votes: 0
Ai YazawaHe knew only that his child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke. Votes: 0
Cormac McCarthyThe 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
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