Only Child Quotes

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

Being an only child is a disease in itself.

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

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.

I'm an only child. Which is kind of bad, because having a brother or sister is like another form of friendship. That's something I've missed out on, except I know that I couldn't be doing what I am doing now if I had brothers and sisters.

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

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

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.

Women, then, are only children of a larger growth

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

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.

Only children tell the whole truth, you know. That's what makes them children.

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

An only child is never twelve.

Prejudice is taught. If the world were full of only children, it would be a much better place.

I was an only child. I hung out with my parents.

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

I'm an only child. My mum and dad are six in each family. They're both twins, and they only wanted one. I always say to them though that they're lucky - it could have all gone wrong.

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

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

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

I was an only child, a very late child, born to parents who were both 39 at the time, which was very late back then. That kind of confirmed my sense of being the center of the universe, which I guess every child feels - children and poets both tend to feel.

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

God comes into the very midst of evil and of death, and judges the evil in us and in the world. And by judging us, he cleanses and sanctifies us, comes to us with his grace and love. He makes us happy as only children can be happy.

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