Only children believe they're capable of everything.
- Paulo Coelho
I have an only child. She's so independent and good with adults.
- Tim Allen
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
When I was a little kid we had a sand box. It was a quicksand box. I was an only child... eventually.
- Steven Wright
I had a quicksand box as a kid. I was an only child... eventually.
- Steven Wright
I was an only child. We were so poor, my parents and I had the same room.
- David Copperfield
I have learned over a period of time to be almost unconsciously grateful--as a child is--for a sunny day, blue water, flowers in a vase, a tree turning red. I have learned to be glad at dawn and when the sky is dark. Only children and a few spiritually evolved people are born to feel gratitude as naturally as they breathe, without even thinking. Most of us come to it step by painful step, to discover that gratitude is a form of acceptance.
- Faith Baldwin
There's a reason Mia is currently an only child. Family drama takes on a whole new meaning when they're feuding gods who can't stand the sight of each other and always try to kill one another whenever they're in the same room. Kat
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
There is no knowing how or why dread comes on a parent. Of course, many times apprehension arises when there is no reason for it at all. And it comes most often to the parents of only children, parents who have indulged in black dreams of loss.
- John Steinbeck
I was an only child, but then my parents resettled with different partners, and I am now one of six.
- Sophie Ellis Bextor
Maybe this is what it's like for all only children: To love the family that isn't almost as much as the one that is.
- James Howe
We could see the children's toys here and there, and we saw a game that the children had made themselves out of dirt, deer antlers and abalone shells, but the game was so strange that only children could tell what it was. Perhaps it wasn't a game at all, only the grave of a game.
- Richard Brautigan
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.
- Sophia Bush
I wrapped my arms around my knees and stared through the window's wavy glass. The red velvet curtains were drawn around the tiny alcove, and I was enveloped by an odd sense of peace, knowing that in twenty minutes, the halls were going to be crowded; music was going to be blaring; and I was going to go from being an only child to one of a hundred sisters, so I knew to savor the silence while it lasted.
- Ally Carter
My grandmother spent her whole life working as a maid, a cook and a babysitter, barely scraping by, but still working hard to give my mother, her only child, a chance in life, so that my mother could give my brother and me an even better one.
- Julian Castro
Women are only children of a larger growth. A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humours and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters.
- Philip Stanhope
Only children tell the whole truth, you know. That's what makes them children.
- Stephen King
I was an only child; I didn't have a sister, or sisters.
- Beverly Cleary
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.
- Elvis Presley
Maybe it's because I was an only child, but I've always wanted kids.
- Benedict Cumberbatch
I was an only child. It's a great disadvantage being an only child.
- Graham Greene
Granny sat down on the step and stared off into the trees. That girl right there, she was my only child. I have lost two husbands, one by death, the other by divorce, and I have lost my parents and my brothers and sisters. But nothing ever pierced me to the core like that little girl's dying. I know it wasn't your daddy's fault. I know I messed up by filling a report to Social Services. Is that what you want to here? Is that what it takes for you not to be mad at me?
- Frances O Roark Dowell
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
I had a happy, dramafree youth, growing up in an upper-middle-class neighborhood in Dallas, Texas. The only thing that was slightly unusual compared to most of my friends was that I was an only child... I don't think that's why my parents gave me a dummy, at least they've never copped to it.
- Jeff Dunham
I remember that I used to mix with my friends who had brothers and sisters. I was an only child.
- Keith Emerson
Being an only child and losing both my parents at an early age, I have found that the friends I have made over the years are the people who help me get through life, good times and bad.
- Fannie Flagg
There is an unfair responsibility that comes with being an only child - you grow up knowing you aren't allowed to disappoint, you're not even allowed to die.
- Gillian Flynn
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.
- John Fowles
No. I was an only child.
- Robert Fulghum
Growing up an only child with a single parent is probably why I'm an actor.
- Lauren Graham
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
My dad's filthy rich, and even though we're Irish Catholic I'm an only child. I've got more money than you do so I'll work for free. No charge. A free law clerk for three weeks. I'll do all the research, typing, answering the phone. I'll even carry your briefcase and make the coffee.
I was afraid you'd want to be a a law partner.
No I'm a woman, and I'm in the South. I know my place.
- John Grisham
Pam," Issy attempted, voice high with fear. "I can tell you, from this side of the fence..you really need to calm down."
"I will shoot you in the face if you say one more word to me," I fumed.
"So noted."
"I am so glad that I am an only child," Coalhouse remarked quietly.
- Lia Habel
Being an only child is a disease in itself.
- Granville Stanley Hall
Christian is staring at us. He's an only child and could never understand the delicate joys of sibling abuse.
- Cynthia Hand
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.
- Tom Hardy
I would tell people some years later that I was raised an only child and so was my brother.
- Homer H Hickam
I was on significant financial aid, an only child, with parents who didn't have much living in North Carolina.
- Chris Hughes
I'm an only child, so logically I gave birth to my parents, because if it weren't for me they wouldn't be parents at all, they'd simply be a married couple. (Or maybe without me they wouldn't even have been married!)
- Jarod Kintz
Jarod Kintz was born in Salt Lake City to a family of five. One father, and four mothers. Jarod moved around a lot as a kid, but eventually ended up in the middle bedroom. Being an only child, Jarod has been known to tell people, "I'm genetically half non-existent, on my brother's side."
Well, enough about me, let me tell you about my work. Actually, I'll let it speak for myself. So read it and find out what it says. Or, rather, what I say it says.
- Jarod Kintz
Being an only child makes me the oldest child and the youngest child. And the middle child.
- Jarod Kintz
Not only am I not my dad's favorite childI'm his only child.
- Jarod Kintz
One of your siblings has got to be the dumbest. And if you're an only childyou're the dumb one.
- Jarod Kintz
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
Because as an only child, you have your own little world.
- Maynard James Keenan
I am an only child and home-schooled, so I have no siblings or classmates.
- Jonathan Krohn
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.
- Hedy Lamarr
Atticus---"...said Jem bleakly. "How could they do it, how could they?"
"I don't know, but they did it. They've done it before & they did it tonight & they'll do it again & when they do it--- seems that only children weep.".
- Harper Lee
I don't know, but they did it. They've done it before and they did it tonight and they'll do it again and when they do it--seems that only children weep.
- Harper Lee
Growing up, mostly in Montreal, I was an only child of loving parents.
- Rudolph A Marcus
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.
- Harpo Marx
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.
- Joyce Maynard
My mom and dad worked very hard to give me the best chance in - not just in golf but in life. You know, I was an only child, you know, my dad worked three jobs at one stage. My mom worked night shifts in a factory.
- Rory Mcilroy
I was born in Boston, Massachusetts on May 16, 1923, the only child of Joel and Sylvia Miller.
- Merton Miller
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.
- Stephanie Mills
I was an only child and I wasn't going to share anything with anybody.
- Roger Moore
I was by far the youngest of the family, and at times it was like being an only child.
- Paul Nurse
I was brought up by my mother and my two sisters, although they're older than me and fled the nest very young, so I was technically raised as an only child, but I was very much loved.
- Gary Oldman
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
I was an only child.
- Richard Pryor
They hired us over the Internet, mailed us half the cash and promised the other half after we nailed the vampire."
I lowered Grief until it pointed straight at Rudy's crotch. "You two wouldn't recognize the Internet if a server fell on your heads. So give it to me straight this time, Rudy, before I lose my temper and make sure Junior grows up an only child.
- Jennifer Rardin
There is no such thing as a child who hates to read; there are only children who have not found the right book.
- Frank Serafini
I identify with Superman. I am adopted, I am an only child, and I love the idea that he comes from another world, that he's the ultimate immigrant. He has all these extraordinary powers, and he has a righteousness about him.
- Bryan Singer
I have a private theory, Sir, that there are no heroes and no monsters in this world. Only children should be allowed to use these words
- Alfred De Vigny
When I was a little kid we had a sandbox. It was a quicksand box. I was an only child...eventually.
- Stephen Wright
A glance would not be enough to tell you this was the daughter of Katherine Raquel Demure. Even a lingering gaze would not suffice. No. Only careful study of the original and a comparative inspection of her only child would even hint at a relation between the two. Viktor could see it and knew, beyond doubt, that Henrietta not only saw it but was also vexed by it on a daily basis.
- Gwenn Wright
- Paulo Coelho
I have an only child. She's so independent and good with adults.
- Tim Allen
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
When I was a little kid we had a sand box. It was a quicksand box. I was an only child... eventually.
- Steven Wright
I had a quicksand box as a kid. I was an only child... eventually.
- Steven Wright
I was an only child. We were so poor, my parents and I had the same room.
- David Copperfield
I have learned over a period of time to be almost unconsciously grateful--as a child is--for a sunny day, blue water, flowers in a vase, a tree turning red. I have learned to be glad at dawn and when the sky is dark. Only children and a few spiritually evolved people are born to feel gratitude as naturally as they breathe, without even thinking. Most of us come to it step by painful step, to discover that gratitude is a form of acceptance.
- Faith Baldwin
There's a reason Mia is currently an only child. Family drama takes on a whole new meaning when they're feuding gods who can't stand the sight of each other and always try to kill one another whenever they're in the same room. Kat
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
There is no knowing how or why dread comes on a parent. Of course, many times apprehension arises when there is no reason for it at all. And it comes most often to the parents of only children, parents who have indulged in black dreams of loss.
- John Steinbeck
I was an only child, but then my parents resettled with different partners, and I am now one of six.
- Sophie Ellis Bextor
Maybe this is what it's like for all only children: To love the family that isn't almost as much as the one that is.
- James Howe
We could see the children's toys here and there, and we saw a game that the children had made themselves out of dirt, deer antlers and abalone shells, but the game was so strange that only children could tell what it was. Perhaps it wasn't a game at all, only the grave of a game.
- Richard Brautigan
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.
- Sophia Bush
I wrapped my arms around my knees and stared through the window's wavy glass. The red velvet curtains were drawn around the tiny alcove, and I was enveloped by an odd sense of peace, knowing that in twenty minutes, the halls were going to be crowded; music was going to be blaring; and I was going to go from being an only child to one of a hundred sisters, so I knew to savor the silence while it lasted.
- Ally Carter
My grandmother spent her whole life working as a maid, a cook and a babysitter, barely scraping by, but still working hard to give my mother, her only child, a chance in life, so that my mother could give my brother and me an even better one.
- Julian Castro
Women are only children of a larger growth. A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humours and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters.
- Philip Stanhope
Only children tell the whole truth, you know. That's what makes them children.
- Stephen King
I was an only child; I didn't have a sister, or sisters.
- Beverly Cleary
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.
- Elvis Presley
Maybe it's because I was an only child, but I've always wanted kids.
- Benedict Cumberbatch
I was an only child. It's a great disadvantage being an only child.
- Graham Greene
Granny sat down on the step and stared off into the trees. That girl right there, she was my only child. I have lost two husbands, one by death, the other by divorce, and I have lost my parents and my brothers and sisters. But nothing ever pierced me to the core like that little girl's dying. I know it wasn't your daddy's fault. I know I messed up by filling a report to Social Services. Is that what you want to here? Is that what it takes for you not to be mad at me?
- Frances O Roark Dowell
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
I had a happy, dramafree youth, growing up in an upper-middle-class neighborhood in Dallas, Texas. The only thing that was slightly unusual compared to most of my friends was that I was an only child... I don't think that's why my parents gave me a dummy, at least they've never copped to it.
- Jeff Dunham
I remember that I used to mix with my friends who had brothers and sisters. I was an only child.
- Keith Emerson
Being an only child and losing both my parents at an early age, I have found that the friends I have made over the years are the people who help me get through life, good times and bad.
- Fannie Flagg
There is an unfair responsibility that comes with being an only child - you grow up knowing you aren't allowed to disappoint, you're not even allowed to die.
- Gillian Flynn
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.
- John Fowles
No. I was an only child.
- Robert Fulghum
Growing up an only child with a single parent is probably why I'm an actor.
- Lauren Graham
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
My dad's filthy rich, and even though we're Irish Catholic I'm an only child. I've got more money than you do so I'll work for free. No charge. A free law clerk for three weeks. I'll do all the research, typing, answering the phone. I'll even carry your briefcase and make the coffee.
I was afraid you'd want to be a a law partner.
No I'm a woman, and I'm in the South. I know my place.
- John Grisham
Pam," Issy attempted, voice high with fear. "I can tell you, from this side of the fence..you really need to calm down."
"I will shoot you in the face if you say one more word to me," I fumed.
"So noted."
"I am so glad that I am an only child," Coalhouse remarked quietly.
- Lia Habel
Being an only child is a disease in itself.
- Granville Stanley Hall
Christian is staring at us. He's an only child and could never understand the delicate joys of sibling abuse.
- Cynthia Hand
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.
- Tom Hardy
I would tell people some years later that I was raised an only child and so was my brother.
- Homer H Hickam
I was on significant financial aid, an only child, with parents who didn't have much living in North Carolina.
- Chris Hughes
I'm an only child, so logically I gave birth to my parents, because if it weren't for me they wouldn't be parents at all, they'd simply be a married couple. (Or maybe without me they wouldn't even have been married!)
- Jarod Kintz
Jarod Kintz was born in Salt Lake City to a family of five. One father, and four mothers. Jarod moved around a lot as a kid, but eventually ended up in the middle bedroom. Being an only child, Jarod has been known to tell people, "I'm genetically half non-existent, on my brother's side."
Well, enough about me, let me tell you about my work. Actually, I'll let it speak for myself. So read it and find out what it says. Or, rather, what I say it says.
- Jarod Kintz
Being an only child makes me the oldest child and the youngest child. And the middle child.
- Jarod Kintz
Not only am I not my dad's favorite childI'm his only child.
- Jarod Kintz
One of your siblings has got to be the dumbest. And if you're an only childyou're the dumb one.
- Jarod Kintz
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
Because as an only child, you have your own little world.
- Maynard James Keenan
I am an only child and home-schooled, so I have no siblings or classmates.
- Jonathan Krohn
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.
- Hedy Lamarr
Atticus---"...said Jem bleakly. "How could they do it, how could they?"
"I don't know, but they did it. They've done it before & they did it tonight & they'll do it again & when they do it--- seems that only children weep.".
- Harper Lee
I don't know, but they did it. They've done it before and they did it tonight and they'll do it again and when they do it--seems that only children weep.
- Harper Lee
Growing up, mostly in Montreal, I was an only child of loving parents.
- Rudolph A Marcus
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.
- Harpo Marx
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.
- Joyce Maynard
My mom and dad worked very hard to give me the best chance in - not just in golf but in life. You know, I was an only child, you know, my dad worked three jobs at one stage. My mom worked night shifts in a factory.
- Rory Mcilroy
I was born in Boston, Massachusetts on May 16, 1923, the only child of Joel and Sylvia Miller.
- Merton Miller
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.
- Stephanie Mills
I was an only child and I wasn't going to share anything with anybody.
- Roger Moore
I was by far the youngest of the family, and at times it was like being an only child.
- Paul Nurse
I was brought up by my mother and my two sisters, although they're older than me and fled the nest very young, so I was technically raised as an only child, but I was very much loved.
- Gary Oldman
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
I was an only child.
- Richard Pryor
They hired us over the Internet, mailed us half the cash and promised the other half after we nailed the vampire."
I lowered Grief until it pointed straight at Rudy's crotch. "You two wouldn't recognize the Internet if a server fell on your heads. So give it to me straight this time, Rudy, before I lose my temper and make sure Junior grows up an only child.
- Jennifer Rardin
There is no such thing as a child who hates to read; there are only children who have not found the right book.
- Frank Serafini
I identify with Superman. I am adopted, I am an only child, and I love the idea that he comes from another world, that he's the ultimate immigrant. He has all these extraordinary powers, and he has a righteousness about him.
- Bryan Singer
I have a private theory, Sir, that there are no heroes and no monsters in this world. Only children should be allowed to use these words
- Alfred De Vigny
When I was a little kid we had a sandbox. It was a quicksand box. I was an only child...eventually.
- Stephen Wright
A glance would not be enough to tell you this was the daughter of Katherine Raquel Demure. Even a lingering gaze would not suffice. No. Only careful study of the original and a comparative inspection of her only child would even hint at a relation between the two. Viktor could see it and knew, beyond doubt, that Henrietta not only saw it but was also vexed by it on a daily basis.
- Gwenn Wright
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