Only Child Quotes - Page 5

• 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.

  Mira Grant

  Children, Long, Alive

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• Only children tell the whole truth, you know. That's what makes them children.

  Stephen King

  Children, Whole, Knows

  Stephen King (2014). “Pet Sematary”, p.105, Simon and Schuster

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• There’s a reason Mia is currently an only child. Family drama takes on a whole new meaning when they’re feuding gods who can’t stand the sight of each other and always try to kill one another whenever they’re in the same room.” – Kat

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Children, Drama, Sight

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2011). “Retribution”, p.402, Macmillan

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• 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.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Children, Two, Frightened

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

  Beverly Cleary

  Sister, Children

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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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• 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.

  Gautama Buddha

  Mother, Spiritual, Children

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• A father's interest in having a child--perhaps his only child--may be unmatched by any other interest in his life. It is truly surprising that the state must assign a greater value to a mother's decision to cut off a potential human life by abortion than to a father's decision to let it mature into a live child.

  William Rehnquist

  Mother, Children, Father

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• 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.

  Christopher Titus

  Brother, Growing Up, Pain

  "Titus / Tommy's Crush". www.imdb.com. 2002.

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• You can't have an honest fourth grade school teacher. Mr. and Mrs. Jones, Johnny, your son, your only child, the fruit of your loin, is a moron. I have no idea how this kid finds a door to get out of the house in the morning. If I were you, I would waste him and start over. Now, I say that with all due respect.

  Dom Irrera

  Teacher, Morning, Children

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• I've always been willing to take challenges, I grew up taking challenges: being an only child, having a mother, no father, I've always been one who has always done things the way I thought they should be done and not, and not having to answer to anybody for it and I've always taken my own chances and I've always followed by instincts according, mother would follow, follow wit, instincts, wisdom, whatever, always followed that.

  Teddy Pendergrass

  Mother, Children, Father

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• I was an only child, a very late child, born to parents who were both 39 at the time, which was very late back then. That kind of confirmed my sense of being the center of the universe, which I guess every child feels - children and poets both tend to feel.

  Billy Collins

  Children, Parent, Kind

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• 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

  Children, Growing Up, Giving

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• 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

  Sweet, Children, Thinking

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

  Joycelyn Elders

  Children, Abuse, Abstinence

  "'Penn & Teller: Bullshit!' ('Abstinence')". Comedy, Documentary, June 05, 2006.

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• 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.

  Jennifer Grant

  Stars, Children, Father

  Jennifer Grant (2011). “Good Stuff: A Reminiscence of My Father, Cary Grant”, p.6, Knopf

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• An only child is never twelve.

  Enid Bagnold

  Children, Twelve

  Enid Bagnold (1970). “Four plays”

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• 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.

  Barbara Holland

  Mother, Children, Pampering

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• I must admit that the existence of Disneyland (which I know is real) proves that we are not living in Judaea in 50 AD. . . . Saint Paul would never go near Disneyland. Only children, tourists, and visiting Soviet high officials ever go to Disneyland. Saints do not.

  Philip K. Dick

  Children, Real, Tourists

  Philip K. Dick (1985). “I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon”, Doubleday Books

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• Im an only child. Mostly raised by my father outside of Saratoga, doing martial arts and snowmobiling. I wore sweaters, jeans and sneakers. I was more interested in four-wheeling in the Catskills than doing my hair and makeup at 7 A.M. before school.

  JWoww

  Art, Children, Father

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• I grew up as an only child. I think it might just be that my dad really didn't care that I was a girl. "You're gonna do certain things 'cause I want you to, and that's the way it is."

  Mitchell Baker

  Girl, Dad, Children

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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