Only Child Quotes - Page 6

• 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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• I was an only child, but I did have a hell of a lot of cousins.

  Desi Arnaz

  Cousin, Children, Hell

  Desi Arnaz (1994). “A Book”

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• I was an only child. And it's very much my temperament. I remember playing with a piece of string in my room for hours. I had never thought about what it would be like to have siblings.

  Leigh Newman

  Children, Sibling, Would Be

  Source: therumpus.net

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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.

  Jack Lemmon

  Mother, Children, Father

  Source: www.abilitymagazine.com

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• My parents' names were Florian and Mabel Smith. My mother's maiden name was Dersam. They were of German heritage and were part of a family community with my grandparents and uncles and relatives. I was an only child.

  Paul Smith

  Mother, Uncles, Children

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• I was always busy doing something, being an only child.

  Paul Smith

  Children, Busy

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• Often, one discovery leads to interest in another. After the Dauphin's heart had undergone DNA testing and was placed in the crypt at St. Denis, I think people wanted some closure to the story about the fate of the royal couple's only child who survived the gruesome Temple Prison. I know I did.

  Susan Nagel

  Couple, Children, Heart

  Source: teaattrianon.blogspot.com

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• Trying to be like my uncle, because I was an only child. He and my cousins were everything to me.

  Deon Cole

  Cousin, Uncles, Children

  Source: newsblaze.com

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• I was an only child growing up, and my father passed away when I was twelve, so for most of my life, it was just me and my momma. We were really, really close. Learning to live in the world without her has been incredibly hard. At first, it didn't make any sense - how to do it, to live without her - but you slowly get somewhat used to it.

  Annie Wersching

  Growing Up, Children, Father

  "Actor Annie Wersching: Losing her mom and the curative powers of a good night's sleep". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• My background is full of pain. My mother was in a Nazi concentration camp and our whole family was killed off. Then early on your father leaves and all you've got is your mother, and I was an only child. Then you come to a new country and I can't speak English.

  Gene Simmons

  Country, Mother, Children

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• I grew up an only child, so I was so much more adult. My eldest daughter is 10, and I was so much more of an adult than she is. She just doesn't care for the real world. She's not interested.

  Samantha Bee

  Daughter, Children, Real

  Interview with Catherine O’Hara, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 4, 2016.

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• 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.

  Luke Evans

  Children, Dad, Lucky

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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

  Children, Kids, Ducks

  "Garrett Hedlund Exclusive Interview TRON: LEGACY; Plus an ON THE ROAD Update". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 27, 2010.

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• 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.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Mom, Children, Home

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• Growing up, mostly in Montreal, I was an only child of loving parents.

  Rudolph A. Marcus

  Children, Growing Up, Parent

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• I was by far the youngest of the family, and at times it was like being an only child.

  Paul Nurse

  Children, Youngest Child

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• 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.

  Thomas G. Stemberg

  Children, Father, Adversity

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• Books are like brothers. I am an only child. Gatsby [is] my imaginary eldest brother.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Brother, Children, Book

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2009). “The Crack-Up”, p.176, New Directions Publishing

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

  Jane Smiley

  Children, Believe, Parent

  "Divorce! It’s Good for the Children!" by Jane Smiley, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 12, 2010.

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• The traditional paradigm of parenting has been very hierarchical, the parent knows best and very top down. Conscious parenting topples [this paradigm] on its head and creates this mutuality, this circularity where both parent and child serve each other and where in fact, perhaps, the child could be even more of a guru for the parent .... teaching the parent how the parent needs to grow, teaching the parent how to enter the present moment like only children know how to do.

  Shefali Tsabary

  Children, Teaching, Top Down

  Source: www.chicagonow.com

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• 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.

  Edwina Findley

  Mom, Mother, Children

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• I figured out I wanted to tell stories in college. I'm an only child who moved around a lot growing up, and I really feel like it prepared me to be a storyteller - to make up stories and pretend to be every hero from every movie and TV show as a kid. So it was a natural progression.

  Joe Robert Cole

  Growing Up, Children, Hero

  "Oscars So White? Black Panther to the Rescue". Interview with Brandon E. Patterson, www.motherjones.com. February 6, 2016.

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