Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old only child quotes, only child sayings, and only child proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
There is an unfair responsibility that comes with being an only child - you grow up knowing you arent allowed to disappoint, you're not even allowed to die.Gillian Flynn
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I am the only child of parents who weighed, measured, and priced everything; for whom what could not be weighed, measured, and priced, had no existence.Charles Dickens
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If you ever wonder what being an only child is like, just imagine third wheeling your parents every day.Caroline Bologna
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I'm an only child. Which is kind of bad, because having a brother or sister is like another form of friendship. That's something I've missed out on, except I know that I couldn't be doing what I am doing now if I had brothers and sisters.Natalie Portman
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I think that's important for all ages, to not be afraid of being an individual. I grew up on my own, as an only child, so early on I think I was quite capable of making decisions by myself and being an individual.Noel Clarke
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As an only child, I never felt insecure and always had total love. Willard Scott
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Only children believe they're capable of everything.Paulo Coelho
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I wish I had a siblings to share my parents affections with.. Said no only child ever..unknown
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If you are an only child, feel honored. It means your parents got it right the first time and stopped at you!unknown
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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
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There's a kind of intimacy that happens between a mother and an only child. Which only gets more intimate when it's between a mother and only daughter.Leigh Newman
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Attributing feelings to inanimate things is probably a symptom of only-child-ness. Who else to talk to when the parents fight except walls and banisters and things?Weike Wang
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When you're an only child, you get very used to pleasing the adults around you.Rachel Bloom
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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. Peter Jackson
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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
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I think being an only child created in me a degree of self-reliance, which I'm glad of. It made me perfectly happy with my own company and perhaps was good conditioning for the protracted solitude of writing books as slowly as I do. Alan Hollinghurst
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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
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Being an only child, my mother reared me very carefully.Heber J. Grant
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I grew up as the only child, and we did not have a large family. So for me and my mother, our friends tend to become our family.unknown
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Great compassion penetrates into the marrow of the bone. It is the support of all living beings. Like the love of a parent for an only child, the tenderness of the Compassionate One is all-pervasive. Akkineni Nagarjuna