Top 110 Only Child Quotes

My mom and dad worked very hard to give me the best chance in – not just in golf but in life. You know, I was an only child, you know, my dad worked three jobs at one stage. My mom worked night shifts in a factory.

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.

I’m an only child, and I don’t mind being alone.

The movies saved my life. I grew up in the great depression, the only child of a pair of star crossed lovers. My father lost his job. My mother drank. They fought. The movies were my escape.

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

I’m an only child, so I got spoilt a lot. Which was a good thing.

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

I’m an only child, so I never had sisters to tell me what I should like based on my gender. I liked what the boys were doing and thought: ‘Why let them have all the fun?’

No. I was an only child.

Certainly I was a very religious child, a deeply weird and very emotional child, an only child with lots of imaginary friends and a very active imagination. I loved Sunday school and Bible camp and all that. I had my own white Bible with Jesus’ words printed in red in the text; I even spoke at youth revivals.

I was an only child until I was 14, and there were no other kids around the area really. So I spent a lot of time on my own in the fields or by the lake, with just my imagination for company. I suppose I never wanted to let that part of me go.

I was the shiest person you could think of. I didn’t really speak. I was an only child, so most of my life I spent in my bedroom playing with toys by myself, speaking through them.

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

Being an only child, you just have a lot of time on your hands, figuring things out. Just doing music, man – music just came to me.

I grew up as an only child. My parents weren’t great conversationalists. We had a quiet house. I’m not very verbal.

An only child, I always wanted a large hug-house.

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

I was the only child, and I know my father had certain thoughts about me. He was a lawyer and extremely literary, but he would have been much happier if I had wanted to be a lawyer, a scientist, an engineer. But what I wanted to do was read.

We were unfortunate in having lost our only child. Our world had come crashing down. But thanks to the world of medical miracles, we’ve become parents again at an age when parenthood is considered impossible.

I was an only child. I’ve known only children. From this experience, I do believe that the children should outnumber the parents.

I was brought up as an only child, and we were very close. But when I was 14, we got evicted. We came home to a padlock, and I looked up at my mom and she was crying, and there was nothing to do.

My dad was an only child. His father raised him all but alone after his mother abandoned the two of them. He was only three years old.

I’m an only child, and I can take all the attention you manage to pile on me.

I was an only child for 16 years. I didn’t realize it at the time, but that experience definitely turned me into a people pleaser. I always tried to do what was expected of me, and I constantly sought reassurance from the adults around me that I was doing a good job.

My parents were fantastic. I was an only child, so I had a lot of love and too much attention. I don’t think I was spoilt. My mother was quite a disciplinarian, but I did have a lot of attention and quite a lot of pressure to do well at whatever I was doing.

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!

Of course, losing my father was traumatic. I was an only child. But from the time my father died, my general theme in life has been to turn adversity into opportunity.

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.

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.

My parents got divorced when I was 2, so I have this weird thing where I have 8 brothers and sisters, but I am also an only child.

I was an only child with a lot of time to kill. I suspect a lot of writers are only children, or only children become writers because it’s a way of being alone.

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

I was happy as an only child, but I’ve always wanted to be part of a bigger family.

You know, as an only child, you’re kind of in a bubble, and there are all sorts of things about my childhood that I still can’t really place.

I grew up with my dad. I’m an only child. My father was a cowboy, and he really loved me very much, but I think he wanted a son occasionally.

I’m an only child, and we’re a close family.

I think for me, growing up as an only child, I didn’t have a lot of people around me or a lot of foreign influences, so growing up, I really kind of got lost in my imagination – for the better.

My grandmother – my mother’s mother – was a German Jewish refugee, an only child who came here from Berlin in 1936 at the age of 17.

I love kids. I always have. I was an only child until I was 12, and then my sister arrived.

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

I’m an only child, and I think one of the sweet things about that is that my parents are really interested in every aspect of my life.

I was an only child but I never longed for a sibling. It just didn’t occur to me.

I was very shy as a girl. Absurdly shy, even. Maybe because I was an only child. And I think that’s why I’m so happy to have two kids now.

Confidence was the backbone of my upbringing. I was an only child, so I was spoilt, loved, and given an enormous amount of confidence by my parents.

I’m an only child; I’m a very private person.

I’m an only child, and in college, I was given a single, and then I lived with people for, like, two years but were my best friends, and we had a really fun time. And then I lived alone or with a boyfriend. I’ve never really had a bad roommate situation.

I was an only child.

I had a happy, dramafree youth, growing up in an upper-middle-class neighborhood in Dallas, Texas. The only thing that was slightly unusual compared to most of my friends was that I was an only child… I don’t think that’s why my parents gave me a dummy, at least they’ve never copped to it.

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

I am an only child, so not only my father, even my mother is also very supportive of my career.

If you’re an only child, you spend a lot of time by yourself, and you develop a strong ability to entertain yourself, to conjure up fantasy.

I was an only child, and Mother was always right with me all my life. I used to get very angry at her when I was growing up-it’s a natural thing.

I am my father’s only child. The world knows a two-dimensional Cary Grant. As charming a star and as remarkable a gentleman as he was, he was still a more thoughtful and loving father.

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.

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

I was an only child of a father who loved me deeply, but we didn’t play catch, even though I was an athlete. We didn’t go fishing or hunting or any of the things I wanted to do. Why not? He just didn’t do that.

I was born in Boston, Massachusetts on May 16, 1923, the only child of Joel and Sylvia Miller.

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.

I am not like a pebble on the beach – a grain of sand on the seashore or just one of millions of human beings past, present and future. No, I am a unique human being loved by God as if I were an only child – the only fruit of his creative powers.

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

Because I was the only child, I was completely indulged. My father thought I was the best looking boy. And even though I was at 100 kgs., he dismissed it as puppy fat. He thought that the sun came out of my head. If I got five out of ten marks, he thought I was half there and had only half way more to go.