Only Child Quotes - Page 2

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.

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

Only children believe they're capable of everything.

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

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.

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.

I don't know much about only children. I was the middle one of three, and if ever I was alone with mum and dad, it was a rare moment.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

Children of course are monstrously conventional, repelled at once by whatever is off-center, out of whack, unmanageable. And being an only child I had been coddled a good deal (also scolded). I was awkward, precocious, timid, full of my private rituals and aversions.