Top 100 Quotes About An Only Child
#1. 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
#2. I'm an only child so am happy with my own company and I don't really get lonely.
Iain Banks
#3. I was brought up as an only child, and we were very close. But when I was 14, we got evicted. We came home to a padlock, and I looked up at my mom and she was crying, and there was nothing to do.
Dwayne Johnson
#4. I am an only child, and I guess was spoiled by my parents.
Mordecai Brown
#5. 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
#6. As an only child, I never felt insecure and always had total love.
Willard Scott
#7. My childhood was great, honestly. I have all these incredible memories of my childhood. I was an only child. I always had all my cousins around. I had my grandparents around. I had my parents around. I had my uncles around - whatever.
Action Bronson
#8. 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
#9. 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.
Penn Badgley
#10. We are like an only child who in growing up realizes that the world does not revolve only around himself, as he thought when little," Rovelli writes. "Mirrored by others, and by other things, we learn who we are.
Rovelli Carlo
#11. Christian is staring at us. He's an only child and could never understand the delicate joys of sibling abuse.
Cynthia Hand
#12. I was 28 when my father died, and I was an only child.
Don Rickles
#13. 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
#14. 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.
Linda Sunshine
#15. I remember that I used to mix with my friends who had brothers and sisters. I was an only child.
Keith Emerson
#16. 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
#17. From the time I was 9 years old, I loved magic. I was an only child, and I think that had a big impact on me. I always had grown-up friends even though I was a little kid. I would take the train from Lido Beach into Manhattan, and I'd hang out in magic shops.
Rick Rubin
#18. As an only child, Cassandra found the well-worn paths of sibling interaction fascinating and horrifying in equal parts.
Kate Morton
#19. She had never been without a book for as long as she could remember. An only child never is.
Kate Atkinson
#21. I'm an only child. Mostly raised by my father outside of Saratoga, doing martial arts and snowmobiling. I wore sweaters, jeans and sneakers. I was more interested in four-wheeling in the Catskills than doing my hair and makeup at 7 A.M. before school.
JWoww
#22. 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.
Mae Whitman
#23. 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
#24. Hey, sister buzz-kill," she said languorously to Jen. "What crawled up your ass and died?"
"I don't know," Jen retorted. "What died and crawled up your ass?"
There were times I regretted being an only child. This wasn't one of them.
Jacqueline Carey
#25. I love kids. I always have. I was an only child until I was 12, and then my sister arrived.
Lorenza Izzo
#26. Stealing things. I should preface this by saying I was an only child - a precocious one at that. I also said I was going to live on the moon, invent glow-in-the-dark hair extensions,
Jodi Picoult
#27. Books are like brothers. I am an only child. Gatsby [is] my imaginary eldest brother.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#28. 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.
Alan Bennett
#29. I have two younger sisters who are 11 years younger than me. So I was an only child for a while.
Lorelei Linklater
#30. God bless you if you have one child, but I don't think anybody should have just one child. Everybody needs a sibling. I have siblings, and I have so many amazing, precious memories with my siblings. I don't know what I would do if I had been an only child.
Sherri Shepherd
#31. The first 13 years of my life, I lived in China. My parents were missionaries there, and I was an only child. Often I felt lonely and out of place. Writing for me became my private place, where no one could come.
Jean Fritz
#32. 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
#33. There was a big age difference between me and my brothers - about 10 years - so I was an only child for a long time. I used to hang out a lot on my own. I played a lot of weird games with a lot of imaginary people. I guess it's kind of roleplaying ...
Noel Fielding
#35. I'm an only child, so I don't even have nieces or nephews.
Charlie Rose
#36. I was on significant financial aid, an only child, with parents who didn't have much living in North Carolina.
Chris Hughes
#37. Love is not a real-world limit: the mother of nine children can love each of them as much as the mother of an only child.
Dossie Easton
#38. 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.
Thomas G. Stemberg
#39. I grew up an only child, which means you can look at my toys - I'll show them off, in fact - but god help you if you lay a finger on them.
Lime Craven
#40. Growing up, mostly in Montreal, I was an only child of loving parents.
Rudolph A. Marcus
#41. I grew up as an only child. I think it might just be that my dad really didn't care that I was a girl. "You're gonna do certain things 'cause I want you to, and that's the way it is."
Mitchell Baker
#42. I was an only child. I did have kind of like a lonely existence.
Robin Williams
#43. 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
#44. 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.
Justin Timberlake
#45. Trying to be like my uncle, because I was an only child. He and my cousins were everything to me.
Deon Cole
#46. I really like to please people, and I think it's a symptom of being an only child.
Paloma Faith
#48. My brothers and sisters hated me because I was an only child.
Al Yankovic
#49. I was an only child, and my mom threw me into some modeling classes to get me out of my shell.
Tamara Taylor
#50. As her mum always says, one of the advantages of being an only child is that you have no trouble amusing yourself.
Liane Moriarty
#51. I was an only child. We were so poor, my parents and I had the same room.
David Copperfield
#52. My mother was the favorite child of her parents. My father was the favorite child of his parents. The result of these two favorite children was me. And I am an only child. So I was convinced that I was the center of the universe.
Marjane Satrapi
#53. I have an only child. She's so independent and good with adults.
Tim Allen
#54. I was an only child, but then my parents resettled with different partners, and I am now one of six.
Sophie Ellis-Bextor
#55. I was an only child who had every advantage, every blessing, absolutely.
Christopher Buckley
#56. I'm yet again increasingly glad I am an only child.
K.M. Shea
#57. 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.
Milla Jovovich
#58. 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
#59. They can't beat when I'm unhappy. They try and fix it; they'd fix the whole world if they could, just to make me feel better-even when it's none of their business. It's one of the many hazards of being an only child.
E. Lockhart
#60. I'm boggled by the idea of being an only child. I know nothing at all (I'm happy to say) about having had a cold and withholding mother, about being divorced. The more I've been writing novels, each novel I've written has become successively less grounded in anything approaching autobiography.
Anna Quindlen
#61. 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.
Karen Thompson Walker
#63. I was very shy as a girl. Absurdly shy, even. Maybe because I was an only child. And I think that's why I'm so happy to have two kids now.
Monica Bellucci
#64. I was always busy doing something, being an only child.
Paul Smith
#65. I was an only child who was never really good at anything else. I had no other option. I could write; I wanted to write; I wrote. Otherwise, I was unemployable.
Susan Hill
#66. Because I was an only child, I don't like many people around, and that's why I don't have any servants.
Charles Nelson Reilly
#67. 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
#68. 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.
Miranda Cosgrove
#69. As an only child, I embrace loneliness. Hollywood loneliness helped to understand Marilyn Monroe in a real way. I was able to portray her very well.
Catherine Hicks
#70. My parents' names were Florian and Mabel Smith. My mother's maiden name was Dersam. They were of German heritage and were part of a family community with my grandparents and uncles and relatives. I was an only child.
Paul Smith
#71. 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.
Jennifer Ehle
#72. 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.
Jeff Buckley
#73. 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!
John Hodgman
#74. I am a super social person. I'm an only child, so I thrive on social settings and being around my friends because I make them my siblings. When I'm not acting or singing or working on anything, I am making new relationships with people because, to me, my friendships are very important.
Hayley Orrantia
#75. 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.
Mona Simpson
#76. Are you an only child?"
"Yep.The sole beneficiary of all their love and affection."
I put the frame away and look around."So what's it like?To have it all?"
"Like flying.Soaring.Until you come across the one thing you'd give it all up for,and can never have.
Leylah Attar
#77. 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.
John Updike
#78. I was by far the youngest of the family, and at times it was like being an only child.
Paul Nurse
#79. 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
#80. I was born in an elevator, and - as my mother said - naturally it was going down. She said, "All I remember is telling your father, 'That's it! Never again!'" That's why I'm an only child.
Jack Lemmon
#81. I was an only child and I wasn't going to share anything with anybody.
Roger Moore
#82. I am an only child and home-schooled, so I have no siblings or classmates.
Jonathan Krohn
#83. I wasn't an only child, but I was the youngest, and no one else in my family played music.
Angel Olsen
#84. Then I will pour out a spirit A, g of grace and prayer on the house of David and the residents of Jerusalem, and they will look at B Me whom they pierced. They will mourn for Him as one mourns for an only child and weep bitterly for Him as one weeps for a firstborn. h 11
Anonymous
#85. 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.
Robert Lefkowitz
#86. 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
#88. I was an only child and grew up in York where my parents ran a surgical supplies shop. When I say I wish I had brothers and sisters, friends say it's not what it's cracked up to be, but I think it must be good to have someone who knew you from the beginning.
Kate Atkinson
#89. At an early age I discovered the beauty in pictures in 'Vogue' magazine and Ebony magazine, and I would read 'The New York Times.' I had to make my own world within my world because I was an only child.
Andre Leon Talley
#90. I was an only child for 16 years. I didn't realize it at the time, but that experience definitely turned me into a people pleaser. I always tried to do what was expected of me, and I constantly sought reassurance from the adults around me that I was doing a good job.
Chandra Wilson
#91. I didn't leave home until 27. I was an only child raised in Philadelphia by my mother and grandmother. My grandmother controlled the stove. She made a lot of potato meals - mashed potato, potato souffle, potato pancakes. When we didn't have electricity, we ate romantically by candlelight.
Jill Scott
#92. I was a confident, outgoing little boy. If you're an only child, you're living in a very linguistically adult world, and you've got to keep up. So I did. Maybe I was slightly annoying.
Jack Davenport
#93. I had a very lovely childhood, and, being an only child, I'm very close to my mom and my dad.
Luke Evans
#94. My mum was a dancer when she was a kid. Then my parents met and eventually had an art gallery; my dad taught himself how to frame pictures, and then he was a curator at an art gallery in the city I'm from. I'm an only child.
Ari Millen
#95. I was very much an only child who was raised by the television and movies, and I grew up in New York. We weren't, like, rich people, but we were middle-class people and my parents supported this love I had for entertainment.
Billy Eichner
#96. I've loved musical theater ever since I was a kid. My mother's a pianist, and my grandfather was an amateur theater director and stand-up comic. And I was an only child. And I loved attention. So from an early age, my family was teaching old musical songs.
Rachel Bloom
#97. I was also domineering, impatient, relentlessly verbal, and, as an only child, often baffled by the mores of other kids. I was not a popular little girl.
Ariel Levy
#98. 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
#99. Being an only child, my mother reared me very carefully.
Heber J. Grant
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