Only Child Quotes - Page 4

• Women, then, are only children of a larger growth

  Lord Chesterfield

  Children, Growth

  'Letters to his Son' (1774) 5 September 1748.

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• I would tell people some years later that I was raised an only child and so was my brother.

  Homer Hickam

  Brother, Children, Years

  Homer Hickam (1999). “Rocket Boys”, p.35, Dell

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• But that's not how most of the people mentioned in this book became wealthy. Most of them became wealthy by being well connected and crooked. And they are creating a society in which they can commit hugely damaging economic crimes with impunity, and in which only children of the wealthy have the opportunity to become successful.

  Charles Ferguson

  Children, Book, Successful

  Charles Ferguson (2014). “Inside Job: The Financiers Who Pulled Off the Heist of the Century”, p.5, Oneworld Publications

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• I was an only child, eventually.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Children, Humor

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

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• 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.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Children, Grace, And Love

  "A testament to freedom: the essential writings of Dietrich Bonhoeffer".

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• I didn't marry to have children. I married to have a relationship, and I was blessed with one child. I was an only child, too - my mother was smarter than most women today; she just had me.

  Carmen Dell'Orefice

  Mother, Children, Blessed

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• There is such a place as fairyland - but only children can find the way to it...until they have grown so old that they forget the way. Only a few, who remain children at heart, can ever find that fair, lost path again...The world calls them singers and poets and artists and story-tellers; but they are just people who have never forgotten the way to fairyland.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Children, Heart, Artist

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• Get over the idea that only children should spend their time in study. Be a student so long as you still have something to learn, and this will mean all your life.

  Henry Latham Doherty

  Inspirational, Life, Education

  Henry Latham Doherty (1923). “Principles and ideas for Doherty men: papers, addresses and letters”

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• God has no cousins, only children.

  Max Lucado

  God, Christian, Cousin

  Max Lucado (2012). “A Gentle Thunder: Hearing God Through the Storm”, p.192, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• 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

  Brother, Children, Age Difference

  "The Weird World of Noel Fielding". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 2, 2016.

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• I am an only child and home-schooled, so I have no siblings or classmates.

  Jonathan Krohn

  Children, Sibling, Home

  "New wonder kid on the block" by Ed Pilkington, www.theguardian.com. March 18, 2009.

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• Oh, yeah. I grew up in Southern California in the 1960′s. It was very different. I was an only child as opposed to having siblings. My brothers all lived with my step-mom. I am very close to them, but we were not raised in the same house.

  David Cassidy

  Mom, Brother, Children

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• Most of us like thinking we are God's only children...At least one of the purposes of church is to remind us that God has other children, easily as precious as we. Baptism and narcissism cancel each other out.

  Barbara Brown Taylor

  Children, Thinking, Baptism

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• 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

  Children, My Own, Knows

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• I'm an only child and an American and am wholly in favor of uniqueness of voice in everything, especially music and writing.

  Lee Klein

  Children, Writing, Voice

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

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• We could see the children's toys here and there, and we saw a game that the children had made themselves out of dirt, deer antlers and abalone shells, but the game was so strange that only children could tell what it was. Perhaps it wasn't a game at all, only the grave of a game.

  Richard Brautigan

  Children, Games, Shells

  Richard Brautigan (1964). “Richard Brautigan's A Confederate General from Big Sur, Dreaming of Babylon, and The Hawkline Monster: Three Books in the Manner of Their Original Editions”, p.86, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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

  Mother, Children, Home

  "Jill Scott: 'In Botswana I ate wopani worms. They were terrible. They crawl and have legs'". Interview with John Hind, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2011.

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• I have learned over a period of time to be almost unconsciously grateful--as a child is--for a sunny day, blue water, flowers in a vase, a tree turning red. I have learned to be glad at dawn and when the sky is dark. Only children and a few spiritually evolved people are born to feel gratitude as naturally as they breathe, without even thinking. Most of us come to it step by painful step, to discover that gratitude is a form of acceptance.

  Faith Baldwin

  Gratitude, Children, Grateful

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• 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

  Children, Memories, Sibling

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

  Beverly Cleary

  Sister, Children

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• 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

  Brother, Children, Real

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• 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.

  Alice Munro

  Children, Awkward, Aversion

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• My grandmother spent her whole life working as a maid, a cook and a babysitter, barely scraping by, but still working hard to give my mother, her only child, a chance in life, so that my mother could give my brother and me an even better one.

  Julian Castro

  Mother, Brother, Children

  Julian Castro's keynote speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.npr.org. September 4, 2012.

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• 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

  New York, Children, Vogue Magazine

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• They hired us over the Internet, mailed us half the cash and promised the other half after we nailed the vampire." I lowered Grief until it pointed straight at Rudy's crotch. "You two wouldn't recognize the Internet if a server fell on your heads. So give it to me straight this time, Rudy, before I lose my temper and make sure Junior grows up an only child.

  Jennifer Rardin

  Children, Growing Up, Grief

  Jennifer Rardin (2011). “Once Bitten, Twice Shy: Book One of the Jaz Parks Series”, p.100, Hachette UK

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