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  • I was born in an elevator, and - as my mother said - naturally it was going down. She said, "All I remember is telling your father, 'That's it! Never again!'" That's why I'm an only child.

    Source: www.abilitymagazine.com
  • Growing up, mostly in Montreal, I was an only child of loving parents.

  • I'm against abstinence programs because I really consider "abstinence only" child abuse.

    "'Penn & Teller: Bullshit!' ('Abstinence')". Comedy, Documentary, June 05, 2006.
  • Gratitude and fear can't stand the sight of each other.

    Gratitude   Fear   Sight  
    FaceBook post by Robin Sharma from Feb 13, 2015
  • I was brought up by my mother and my two sisters, although they're older than me and fled the nest very young, so I was technically raised as an only child, but I was very much loved.

  • We need to imagine a world in which every woman is the presiding genius of her own body. In such a world women will truly create new life, bringing forth not only children if and as we choose but the visions, and the thinking, necessary to sustain, console and alter human existence-a new relationship to the universe. Sexuality, politics, intelligence, power, motherhood, work, community, intimacy will develop new meanings; thinking itself will be transformed. This is where we have to begin.

    Adrienne Rich (1976). “Of woman born motherhood as experience and institution”
  • When you're an only child, you get very used to pleasing the adults around you.

    "Rachel Bloom Upends Romantic Comedy Tropes On 'Crazy Ex-Girlfriend'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. January 17, 2017.
  • Being an only child, I didn't have any other family but my mom and dad really, since the rest of my family lived quite far away from London.

    Mom   Children   Dad  
  • 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.

  • He'll die first, we both know it, but I don't know... I really don't know how long I'll stay alive without him. That's the part Shaun doesn't know. I don't intend to be an only child for long.

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

  • 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.

    Brother   Children   Real  
  • 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.

  • I grew up as an only child, and my mother was a single mom. It's always been "us." If it weren't for her nurturing and guiding my artistic talents at a young age, I don't think I'd be a professional actress and performer today.

    Mom   Mother   Children  
  • I was a precocious only child, and then I went through a fat, awkward stage for several years, so I learned to fall back on my humor and personality when I was growing up. It's how you survive, so I think it was more of a natural progression for me, developing into comedy.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • I was born an only child in Vienna, Austria. My father found hours to sit by me by the library fire and tell fairy stories.

    Children   Father   Fire  
  • Music was like my first real toy. I was an only child for a while, and I was alone a lot of the time - and I liked it. I still like being alone.

    "New Again: Jeff Buckley". Interview with Ray Rogers, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 28, 2013.
  • I'm an only child. My mum and dad are six in each family. They're both twins, and they only wanted one. I always say to them though that they're lucky - it could have all gone wrong.

    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • I grew up as an only child of two parents who had dropped out of high school. They had enormous respect for education and encouraged me as a child when I had strong interests in both math and science, but we really didn't have much by way of educational role modeling in our family.

    Source: www.3ammagazine.com
  • 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 (2010). “At Home in the World: A Memoir”, p.300, Macmillan
  • Like a caring mother holding and guarding the life of her only child, so with a boundless heart of loving kindness, hold yourself and all beings as your beloved children.

  • Blood doesn't make you family. Hell, an only child can bleed. It's the sharing of pain that makes you family. 'Cause, you can't really love a brother or sister until you know that they're as scarred and broken as you are. And, hey, if you grow up with a father like mine and you aren't at least a little scarred and broken, well then, that's not your father. You were spawned by an entirely different guy.

    "Titus / Tommy's Crush". www.imdb.com. 2002.
  • They looked like two children," she told me. And that thought frightened her, because she'd always felt that only children are capable of everything.

  • We don't get enough pampering. If we were once the only child of an adoring mother, we developed a taste for it; if not, we developed a thirst for it.

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

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

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

  • Only children believe they're capable of everything.

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

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