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I am an only child. I have one sister. -- Woody Allen
Being an only child is a disease in itself. -- G. Stanley Hall
It's not only children who grow. Parents do too... -- Joyce Maynard
Love the whole world as a mother loves her only child. -- Gautama Buddha
Because as an only child, you have your own little world. -- Maynard James Keenan
I'm against abstinence programs because I really consider "abstinence only" child abuse. -- Joycelyn Elders
When I was a little kid we had a sand box. It was a quicksand box. I was an only child... eventually. -- Steven Wright
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
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. -- Diane Duane
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. -- Karen Thompson Walker
For Jesus, there are no countries to be conquered, no ideologies to be imposed, no people to be dominated. There are only children, women and men to be loved. -- Henri Nouwen
If you don't understand how a woman could both love her sister dearly and want to wring her neck at the same time, then you were probably an only child. -- Linda Sunshine
I asked the girl if she could bring a sister for me. She did. Sister Maria Teresa. It was a very slow evening. We discussed the New Testament. We agreed that He was very well adjusted for an only child. -- Woody Allen
I was an only child. I lost both my parents. By the time I was twenty I was bald. I'm homosexual. In the way of circumstances and background to transcend I had everything an artist could possibly want. It was practically a blueprint. -- Alan Bennett
I don't mind being an only child; never have. I am lucky, though, that I have my friend Emily, who grew-up very close to me and so, there is someone I have shared memories with. I would miss that if I didn't have it, I think. -- Jennifer Ehle
Intuitively, one would assume if you don't grow up with other children you might not learn that easy give and take. What often happens is that there are some only children who act that way, and that stands out more than the only children who seem to get along with others. -- Peter Thomas
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
My heart is hurting so bad no one can make me believe this is real Father God I pray that you send clarity over this cause I just don't understand My heart hurts it's broken no one can convince me that this is real.... Prayer warriors please pray real hard for his only child, his daughter and family, -- Tyrese Gibson
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
You know, my parents have always been incredibly supportive. I'm an only child, so we're very close. There's just the three of us. They're exceptional parents but also great friends. My father was able to take his hobby, photography, and turn it into a beautiful career. So when they saw how much I loved acting, they were 100 percent behind me. -- Sophia Bush
I was a 'Duck Hunt' and 'Mario' guy, and stuff like that. I was never technologically driven. I never had all the cool, new toys. I was the youngest child, I wasn't the only child, so I wasn't spoiled as a kid. And, we were on the farm, so we didn't have a lot. Also, with computers, I'm not very good with them. I just check my email. -- Garrett Hedlund
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
I'm an only child. -- Jenna Morasca
I was an only child. -- Richard Pryor
I was an only child, eventually. -- Steven Wright
No. I was an only child. -- Robert Fulghum
An only child is never twelve. -- Enid Bagnold
I grew up as an only child. -- Mitchell Baker
Before Julia Child there was only onion dip. -- Susan Branch
Your little child is the only true democrat. -- Harriet Beecher Stowe
It takes only one child to raze a village. -- Florence King
You have only one chance to raise your child. -- Jackie Kennedy
You're only as happy as your least happy child. -- Joe Paterno
I was always busy doing something, being an only child. -- Paul Smith
I'm an only child, so I'm pretty much a loner. -- Shia LaBeouf
Only if a child feels right can he think right. -- Haim Ginott
A mother is only as happy as her saddest child. -- Phil McGraw
You can only be as happy as your saddest child." -- Oprah Winfrey
Being an only child, my mother reared me very carefully. -- Heber J. Grant
A child educated only at school is an uneducated child. -- George Santayana
The only [child welfare] systems that succeed emphasize family preservation. -- Richard Wexler
The only international language in the world is a child's cry, -- Eglantyne Jebb
I was an only child. I hung out with my parents. -- Dhani Harrison
The only thing an adult can give a child is time. -- Chuck Jones
Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying. -- Fran Lebowitz
The only thing worth stealing is a kiss from a sleeping child. -- J. H. Oldham
There is never a problem child; there is only a problem parent -- Alexander Sutherland Neill
My brothers and sisters hated me because I was an only child. -- Al Yankovic
I have an only child. She's so independent and good with adults. -- Tim Allen
The wonders of a child can only be understood by the child. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
I'm an only child, so I don't even have nieces or nephews. -- Charlie Rose
My child was not only carried by me, but by the universe. -- Celine Dion
I was an only child; I didn't have a sister, or sisters. -- Beverly Cleary
I was 28 when my father died, and I was an only child. -- Don Rickles
As a mother you are only as happy as your saddest child -- Beth Moore
I am an only child, and I guess was spoiled by my parents. -- Mordecai Brown
If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm. -- Bruce Barton
So many things can drive you mad as a child, not only music. -- Itzhak Perlman
As an only child, I never felt insecure and always had total love. -- Willard Scott
Maybe it's because I was an only child, but I've always wanted kids. -- Benedict Cumberbatch
Growing up, mostly in Montreal, I was an only child of loving parents. -- Rudolph A. Marcus
A father knows his child's heart, as only a child can know his fathers. -- Kazuo Koike
Pity that child who was born near Rouen,His only crime, to arrive deformed. -- E.A. Bucchianeri
I am an only child and home-schooled, so I have no siblings or classmates. -- Jonathan Krohn
Let the purity and innocence of a child be your one and only religion! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
I was an only child. I did have kind of like a lonely existence. -- Robin Williams
There is no such thing as a Christian child: only a child of Christian parents. -- Richard Dawkins
I think a child may be the only thing that could give me true happiness. -- Nicki Minaj
Through adoption, Americans can forever change not only a child's life but also their own. -- George W. Bush
Only God can shape a flower, but any foolish child can pull it to pieces. -- Og Mandino
Growing up an only child with a single parent is probably why I'm an actor. -- Lauren Graham
I am only a little lion, child, and I vow, I shall not savage you. -- George R. R. Martin
Growing up, my next door neighbor was my best friend and an only child too. -- Miranda Cosgrove
Books are like brothers. I am an only child. Gatsby [is] my imaginary eldest brother. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
One's past can't be erased, it can only be learned from, the child taught her. -- H. L. Balcomb
When you're an only child, you get very used to pleasing the adults around you. -- Rachel Bloom
Child pornography is the only crime that you cannot report to the police as an eyewitness. -- Doug Stanhope
The most inspirational man I knew only reached his potential by helping a child reach his. -- Mitch Albom
The only difference between a grown-up's mistake and a child's is the size of the consequence. -- Teresa R. Funke
There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother's age. -- Benjamin Spock
I was an only child, but I did have a hell of a lot of cousins. -- Desi Arnaz
There is only one child in the world and the Childâ??s name is All Children. -- Carl Sandburg
Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child. -- Plato
Not only is the old man twice a child, but also the man who is drunk. -- Plato
I'm an only child so am happy with my own company and I don't really get lonely. -- Iain Banks
Once you've raised a child to adulthood, you can only be as demanding as your offspring allow. -- Mariella Frostrup
The child can find out what the object ..might be only by finding ..obstacles to its access -- Adam Phillips
Being an only child makes me the oldest child and the youngest child. And the middle child. -- Jarod Kintz
I was an only child. We were so poor, my parents and I had the same room. -- David Copperfield
Lord Byron is only great as a poet; as soon as he reflects he is a child. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If only for a half hour a day, a child should do something serviceable to the community -- George Bernard Shaw
A child is being properly educated only when he is learning to become independent of his parents. -- Hyman Rickover
I'm only realizing now that I was a child actress because I always took myself so seriously. -- Claire Danes
A child can identify with adult characters- but only if they are sympathetically drawn and simple enough. -- Edmund Wallace Hildick
They were bound for college, husbands, child-rearing, unhappiness only dimly perceived- bound, in other words, for life. -- Jeffrey Eugenides
It is in playing, and perhaps only in playing, that the child is free to be creative. -- Donald Woods Winnicott
If I could make only one wish for a child, I'd wish him the quality of lovingness. -- Benjamin Spock
I really like to please people, and I think it's a symptom of being an only child. -- Paloma Faith
The child can only develop fully by means of experience in his environment. We call such experience 'work'. -- Maria Montessori
My feelings towards it can only be paralleled by that of a doting parent towards an idiot child. -- Charlotte Bronte
Education demands, then, only this: the utilization of the inner powers of the child for his own instruction. -- Maria Montessori
There is a Mount Sinai for every child of God if he only knows where to find it. -- Karl G. Maeser
The only thing which separates man from child is all the values he has lost over the years. -- Poul Henningsen
The welfare of a child is not to be measured by money only, nor by physical comfort only. -- Ryan Lindley
Schools are successful only insofar as they reduce the dependence of a child's opportunities upon his social origins. -- James S. Coleman
My dad talked a good game. [I'm as a] child got only the World Series on the radio. -- W. P. Kinsella
I was happy as an only child, but I've always wanted to be part of a bigger family. -- Benedict Cumberbatch
I was on significant financial aid, an only child, with parents who didn't have much living in North Carolina. -- Chris Hughes
Buck Rogers, I believe, is an illegitimate child of Galactica. I only hope Galactica won't turn in its grave. -- Wilfrid Hyde-White
Self-education is the only possible education; the rest is mere veneer laid on the surface of a child's nature. -- Charlotte M. Mason
The only man, woman, or child who ever wrote a simple declarative sentence with seven grammatical errors is dead. -- e. e. cummings
A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Good children's literature appeals not only to the child in the adult, but to the adult in the child. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There's nothing weak about beauty, child. The only weakness in it is if you think it means anything important. -- Charlie Fletcher
They say that abandonment is a wound that never heals. I say only that an abandoned child never forgets. -- Mario Balotelli
I was a fat child and loved cake, perhaps because it was the only sweet thing in my life. -- Andre Rieu
I wasn't an only child, but I was the youngest, and no one else in my family played music. -- Angel Olsen
I was by far the youngest of the family, and at times it was like being an only child. -- Paul Nurse
I love kids. I always have. I was an only child until I was 12, and then my sister arrived. -- Lorenza Izzo
I would tell people some years later that I was raised an only child and so was my brother. -- Homer Hickam

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