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I was an only child. I hung out with my parents. — Dhani Harrison

I'm only realizing now that I was a child actress because I always took myself so seriously. — Claire Danes

Furless now, upright, My banished
and experimental
child
You said, though your own heart condemn you
I do not condemn you. — Franz Wright

I really like to please people, and I think it's a symptom of being an only child. — Paloma Faith

The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you've got to have a what-the-hell attitude. — Julia Child

Oh, child, my child, if only you realized who you truly are. — Toni Sorenson

The path of development is a journey of discovery that is clear only in retrospect, and it's rarely a straight line. — Eileen Kennedy-Moore

Only God can shape a flower, but any foolish child can pull it to pieces. — Og Mandino

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

As an only child, I may have been alone a lot, but I was never lonely. My invisible friends were my constant companions. — Teresa Medeiros

One's past can't be erased, it can only be learned from, the child taught her. — H. L. Balcomb

He knew only that his child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke. — Cormac McCarthy

Whenever someone says I'm the next Oprah, I always respond, 'Child, there's only one Mahogany, and only one Oprah.' There are no others. — Tyra Banks

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

Because evil, my dear child, can be done to anyone and by everyone, but good can only be done to those who need it. — Luigi Pirandello

The wonders of a child can only be understood by the child. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Only a child believes his rulers have his best interest at heart," he said. "We would be wise to disabuse ourselves of such illusions. — Julie Wu

Better not to have anything. Not even love. If you got attached to something, it only got taken away. Child or adult. Toys or people. No difference — Barbara Elsborg

I was an only child, but I did have a hell of a lot of cousins. — Desi Arnaz

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. — Tom Hardy

I'm an only child, you know, originally. I'm not a child anymore, but I certainly tend to spend a lot of time on my own. — Annie Lennox

Once you've raised a child to adulthood, you can only be as demanding as your offspring allow. — Mariella Frostrup

No. I was an only child. — Robert Fulghum

If circumcision has any justification AT ALL, it should be medical only. Parents' religion is the worst of all reasons - pure child abuse. — Richard Dawkins

If your child has a weakness, teach them how to turn it into a strength! The only Failure is not trying. — Kevin Heath

Every child needs to have for itself not only its loving parents and siblings and friends of its own age, but a grown-up friend. — P.L. Travers

The child's naive dream of life is the only one worth having. — Marty Rubin

The only thing you must do, flesh-child, is die. The rest is but a trick of light in the foam on the waves. — Rue

I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time. — Barbara Bush

Putting a computer in front of a child and expecting it to teach him is like putting a book under his pillow, only more expensive — Joseph Weizenbaum

You can only have one first born child. You may love all your children deeply and with passion, but there is something unique about the first born. — Raymond E. Feist

Somewhere along the line, many Americans relegated the media to a notch on the morality scale only slightly above that of child molesters. — Gregory Kane

I'm an only child so am happy with my own company and I don't really get lonely. — Iain Banks

They say that abandonment is a wound that never heals. I say only that an abandoned child never forgets. — Mario Balotelli

I believe that it is my job not only to write books but to have them published. A book is like a child. You have to defend the life of a child. — George Konrad

Any child knows that history can only be a reduced representation of reality, but it must be a true one, not distorted by queer lenses. — Samuel E. Morison

The present moment is the still point around which the universe arises and subsides, only to be reborn again, fresh as a new born child. — Deepak Chopra

There is a Mount Sinai for every child of God if he only knows where to find it. — Karl G. Maeser

And the only answer I know is
That no child should give up on life.
Math deals in absolutes.
But life is the most absolute of all. — Terri Fields

The image I'd had of myself as a child was someone I'd never be, and it was only recently that I realized it was okay to be who I was. - Cat — Jeaniene Frost

I'm an only child, so I'm pretty much a loner. — Shia Labeouf

You see," the lord explained, "everyone else has them. You wouldn't want your child to be the only one who had flaws. What would it be like for them? — Anne Ursu

And that's it; that's why I want to teach; that's the one and only compensation: to make a permanent difference in the life of a child. — Bel Kaufman

There's only one person who needs a glass of water oftener than a small child tucked in for the night, and that's a writer sitting down to write. — Mignon McLaughlin

I was always busy doing something, being an only child. — Paul Smith

I was an only child until I was 11 years old, which is when my sister was born. So for 11 years, it was just me. — Vanessa Paradis

I grew up as an only child. My parents weren't great conversationalists. We had a quiet house. I'm not very verbal. — Matthew Morrison

Thinking these things made space and time around her, the way saying 'only June' had when she was a child hoarding summer. — Zibby Oneal

It is in playing, and perhaps only in playing, that the child is free to be creative. — Donald Woods Winnicott

Ah, my friend, that is the only true church organization, when heads and hearts unite in working for the welfare of the human race! — Lydia M. Child

Do not scream, when a child breaks a glass, only touch the shoulder, and say gracious words; do not worry! — Lailah Gifty Akita

The most inspirational man I knew only reached his potential by helping a child reach his. — Mitch Albom

...there is a particular focus of the problem faced only by men. It arises from our culture providing no room for a man as victim. — Mike Lew

I have two younger sisters who are 11 years younger than me. So I was an only child for a while. — Lorelei Linklater

A mother is only as happy as her unhappiest child. — Nicole Helget

You're only ever as happy as your least happy child?' — Anne Tyler

I only have one child. But I am learning that there is a lot to being a parent that you did not expect. — Dee Snider

This system is really broken. No Child Left Behind has really failed and the only way to solve education is to leave one governor behind. — Kinky Friedman

A father knows his child's heart, as only a child can know his fathers. — Kazuo Koike

It's only when you have a child of your own you really understand how hard it is. — Sue Watson

A child can identify with adult characters- but only if they are sympathetically drawn and simple enough. — Edmund Wallace Hildick

I'm a single child. I wanted a little brother or a little sister growing up, but when I think about it, I'm happy I'm an only child. — Mae Whitman

A woman nearby fell to her knees, sobbing. 'They say I can only choose one child for the ship. How can I choose? Please don't make me choose. — Ruta Sepetys

I'm an only child. — Jenna Morasca

Growing up, my next door neighbor was my best friend and an only child too. — Miranda Cosgrove

Pity that child who was born near Rouen,
His only crime, to arrive deformed. — E.A. Bucchianeri

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. — Jeff Buckley

I was an only child. — Richard Pryor

Sometimes if you want to know for sure whether the stove is hot, the only way to find out is to touch it. — Lee Child

I known I'm only a child, yet I know we're all in the this together and should act as one single world towards one single goal — Severn Cullis-Suzuki

I was on significant financial aid, an only child, with parents who didn't have much living in North Carolina. — Chris Hughes

You know, as an only child, you're kind of in a bubble, and there are all sorts of things about my childhood that I still can't really place. — Penn Badgley

Christian is staring at us. He's an only child and could never understand the delicate joys of sibling abuse. — Cynthia Hand

We need only two persons in our life - just you and me; and I think we can make a good story together. — Raj Singh

Because as an only child, you have your own little world. — Maynard James Keenan

An only child is never twelve. — Enid Bagnold

Let the purity and innocence of a child be your one and only religion! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

A child should never go to bed, they only wake up a day older. — J.M. Barrie

Good children's literature appeals not only to the child in the adult, but to the adult in the child. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

For a child, everywhere is a playground; for an adult, it is the same, only the plays are different! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Buck Rogers, I believe, is an illegitimate child of Galactica. I only hope Galactica won't turn in its grave. — Wilfrid Hyde-White

The only thing an adult can give a child is time. — Chuck Jones

The only response
to a child's grave is
to lie down before it and play dead. — Bill Knott

You can only be as happy as your saddest child. — Oprah Winfrey

You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child. — Dogen

Is he your only child? I asked, "my only son" padma said. "My condolences" I said ... Anita Blake — Laurell K. Hamilton

Being responsible for someone's childhood is a big deal. We not only create our own memories, but we create our child's memories. — Rachel Macy Stafford

I have no child to inherit my properties. You, the people, are my only family, and to make you happy is the reason I do politics. — Park Geun-hye

I used to dislike bookshops immensely as a child and was won over only later in life. — Sarah Hall

I was a very difficult child, and the time I spent reading was about the only peace I gave my mother. — Kate Beckinsale

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

The child's progress does not depend only on his age, but also on being free to look around him. — Maria Montessori

I thought justice ground real slow in Texas." "Only if you plead not guilty. — Lee Child

The only time I ever appeared in the 'Enquirer' was for a piece about people who let their hair grow gray. I guess I'm not much of a wild child. — Emmylou Harris

There's nothing weak about beauty, child. The only weakness in it is if you think it means anything important. — Charlie Fletcher

I remember that I used to mix with my friends who had brothers and sisters. I was an only child. — Keith Emerson

Only if a child feels right can he think right. — Haim Ginott

The only parents in the world who don't need sleep, and our child already sleeps through the night. — Stephenie Meyer

I would tell people some years later that I was raised an only child and so was my brother. — Homer Hickam

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