Only Child Quotes - Page 3

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

  Al Yankovic

  Brother, Children, Hated

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• Growing up an only child with a single parent is probably why I'm an actor.

  Lauren Graham

  Children, Growing Up, Parent

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• I was on significant financial aid, an only child, with parents who didn't have much living in North Carolina.

  Chris Hughes

  Children, Parent, North Carolina

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• Religion is about God's truth, but none of us can grasp that truth absolutely, because of our own imperfections and limitations. We are only children of God, not God. Therefore, we must not attempt to fit God into little boxes, claiming that He supports this or that political position. This is not only bad theology; it marginalizes God.

  Hillary Clinton

  Children, Support, Imperfection

  Hillary Rodham Clinton (2006). “It Takes a Village”, p.167, Simon and Schuster

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• My mother has a very big family in Shanghai, so I have, like, almost 40 cousins, so we stayed together all the time. So by the time I get to Hong Kong, I become the only child and the only one surrounded by adults, you know.

  Wong Kar-wai

  Mother, Cousin, Children

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• 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

  Children, Father, Son

  "Milla Jovovich Talks RESIDENT EVIL: RETRIBUTION, Where Things Pick Up in the Fifth Movie, and the Possibility of a Sixth at Comic-Con". Interview, collider.com. July 19, 2012.

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• 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

  Mother, Children, Father

  "Never Mind the Mullahs". Interview with Vivienne Walt, www.motherjones.com. January/February 2008.

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• I can't even begin to describe how I miss him. He always supported me in everything I did. He was a very wise man and I realised at an early age I could learn a lot from him. He always gave me the right answer. But above all he was a very easy-going guy and all he wanted was to be my best friend. I'm an only child and so he shared everything with me. Of course he was very young to die and I was very young to lose a father. But there was nothing left unsaid between us.

  Dhani Harrison

  Wise, Children, Father

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

  Richard Wexler

  Children, Adoption, Succeed

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• In 1600 the specialization of games and pastimes did not extend beyond infancy; after the age of three or four it decreased and disappeared. From then on the child played the same games as the adult, either with other children or with adults. . . . Conversely, adults used to play games which today only children play.

  Philippe Aries

  Children, Games, Play

  Philippe Ariès (1962). “Centuries of childhood: a social history of family life”, Vintage

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• Growing up, my next door neighbor was my best friend and an only child too.

  Miranda Cosgrove

  Friendship, Children, Growing Up

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

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

  David Copperfield

  Children, Parent, Rooms

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• I remember that I used to mix with my friends who had brothers and sisters. I was an only child.

  Keith Emerson

  Sister, Brother, Children

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

  Michael Jackson

  Children, Prejudice, Would Be

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• I don't think being the only child of a single parent helped. I was always a little unsteady in my self-belief. Then there was the Jewish thing. I love being Jewish, I have no problem with it at all. But it did become like a scar, with all these people saying you don't look it.

  Lauren Bacall

  Children, Love Is, Thinking

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

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• There's a kind of intimacy that happens between a mother and an only child. Which only gets more intimate when it's between a mother and only daughter.

  Leigh Newman

  Daughter, Mother, Children

  Source: therumpus.net

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• You know how sometimes you just have a memory of looking up and seeing a face looking over your crib and then remember nothing until tenth grade? - I have one of these early memories where I'm in the back of my parents' car, a place I loved to spend a lot of time as an only child, not having to fight with venomous siblings over the only toy.

  Billy Collins

  Children, Memories, Sibling

  "A Brisk Walk". Interview with Joel Whitney, www.guernicamag.com. June 14, 2006.

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• Part of writing is discovering the rules of the game and then deciding whether to follow the rules or to break them. The great thing about the game of poetry is that it's always your turn - I guess that goes back to my being an only child. So once it's under way, there is a sense of flow.

  Billy Collins

  Children, Writing, Games

  "A Brisk Walk". Interview with Joel Whitney, www.guernicamag.com. June 14, 2006.

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• Great compassion penetrates into the marrow of the bone. It is the support of all living beings. Like the love of a parent for an only child, the tenderness of the Compassionate One is all-pervasive.

  Akkineni Nagarjuna

  Children, Yoga, Compassion

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• The child thinks of growing old as an almost obscene calamity, which for some mysterious reason will never happen to itself. All who have passed the age of thirty are joyless grotesques, endlessly fussing about things of no importance and staying alive without, so far as the child can see, having anything to live for. Only child life is real life.

  George Orwell

  Children, Real, Thinking

  George Orwell (2017). “The Collected Non-Fiction”, Penguin UK

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• 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

  Children, Thinking, Would Be

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

  Angel Olsen

  Children, My Family

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I grew up as an only child and my mother was also an only child, so we were both very passionate about reading. I think I passed that on to my daughter, who went plowing through 'Harry Potter' and every other book possible!

  Kate Beckinsale

  Daughter, Mother, Children

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• 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

  Mother, Children, Writing

  Source: urbanmoms.ca

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• My parents elected me president of the family when I was 4. We actually had an election every year and I always won. I'm an only child, and I could count on my mother's vote.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Mom, Mother, Children

  "What These 3 Influential Women Want Girls Everywhere to Know". Interview with Lynn Sherr, communitytable.parade.com. March 8, 2014.

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