Only Child Quotes

• 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

  Family, Mother, Children

  Joyce Maynard (2010). “At Home in the World: A Memoir”, p.300, Macmillan

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• 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.

  Natalie Portman

  Brother, Children, Kind

  "New Again: Natalie Portman". Interview with Ingrid Sischy, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 24, 2016.

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• I think that's important for all ages, to not be afraid of being an individual. I grew up on my own, as an only child, so early on I think I was quite capable of making decisions by myself and being an individual.

  Noel Clarke

  Children, Thinking, Decision

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Iain Banks

  Lonely, Children, Company

  Interview With Sarah Kinson, www.theguardian.com. February 7, 2008.

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

  Maynard James Keenan

  Children, World, Littles

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• I really like to please people, and I think it's a symptom of being an only child.

  Paloma Faith

  Children, Thinking, People

  "Paloma Faith: 'I woo people with food, so I'm always cooking" by John Hind, www.theguardian.com. February 16, 2013.

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

  Robin Williams

  Lonely, Children, One Line

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• 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.

  Russell Brand

  Brother, Children, Thirty

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• I think being an only child created in me a degree of self-reliance, which I'm glad of. It made me perfectly happy with my own company and perhaps was good conditioning for the protracted solitude of writing books as slowly as I do.

  Alan Hollinghurst

  Children, Book, Writing

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• Being an only child is a disease in itself.

  G. Stanley Hall

  Children, Disease

  "Yes, I'm an only child and, no, I'm not depressed - or beastly" by Audrey Gillan, www.theguardian.com. August 22, 2013.

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

  Willard Scott

  Children, Insecure, Felt

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• Only children believe they're capable of everything. They're trusting and fearless; they believe in their own power and get exactly what they want. When children grow up, they start to realize that they're not as powerful as they thought and that they need other people in order survive. Then the child begins to love and to hope his love will be requited; and as life goes on, he develops an ever-greater need to be loved in return, even if that means having to give up his power. We all end up where we are now: Grown-ups doing everything we can to be accepted and loved.

  Paulo Coelho

  Children, Giving Up, Growing Up

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• It's not only children who grow. Parents do too.

  Joyce Maynard

  Children, Parenting, Single Child

  Joyce Maynard (2010). “At Home in the World: A Memoir”, p.300, Macmillan

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• I consider myself lucky to be an only child because if I had other siblings, my mother would not have been able to take me to every audition and be so supportive of my career.

  Lea Michele

  Mother, Children, Sibling

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I used to think that what scared me was the idea of being abandoned until someone said to me, "Only children can be abandoned. Adults can't be abandoned because we have a choice. Children don't have a choice."

  Demi Moore

  Children, Thinking, Ideas

  "Demi Moore & Amanda De Cadenet: In Conversation". Interview with Amanda De Cadenet, www.harpersbazaar.com. January 4, 2012.

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

  Dhani Harrison

  Children, Parent, Hung

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Children, Good Life, Years

  Fannie Flagg (2013). “Fried Green Tomatoes, Can't Wait to Get to Heaven, and I Still Dream About You: Three Bestselling Novels”, p.456, Random House

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• I don't want to write for adults. I want to write for readers who can perform miracles. Only children perform miracles when they read.

  Astrid Lindgren

  Children, Writing, Miracle

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• Love the whole world as a mother loves her only child.

  Gautama Buddha

  Mother, Buddhist, Children

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• 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

  Children, Wish, Monsters

  "Bewildered Maine resident John Hodgman takes another crack at our 11 Questions". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. September 3, 2015.

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• Gratitude and fear can't stand the sight of each other.

  Robin Sharma

  Gratitude, Fear, Sight

  FaceBook post by Robin Sharma from Feb 13, 2015

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• I am an only child. I have one sister.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Family, Children

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• I have an only child. She's so independent and good with adults.

  Tim Allen

  Children, Independent, Adults

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When I was a little kid we had a sand box. It was a quicksand box. I was an only child... eventually.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Children, Humor

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

  Rachel Bloom

  Children, Adults, Used

  "Rachel Bloom Upends Romantic Comedy Tropes On 'Crazy Ex-Girlfriend'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. January 17, 2017.

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