Only Child quotes
39 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"I asked the girl if she could bring a sister for me. She did. Sister Maria Teresa. It was a very slow evening. We discussed the New Testament. We agreed that He was very well adjusted for an only child."
"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."
"If you have no brothers and sisters it defines you for life; even when you're thirty you refer to yourself as an only child."
"Only children tell the whole truth, you know. That's what makes them children."
"I was an only child. I did have kind of like a lonely existence."
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"I was an only child. I hung out with my parents."
"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."
"God comes into the very midst of evil and of death, and judges the evil in us and in the world. And by judging us, he cleanses and sanctifies us, comes to us with his grace and love. He makes us happy as only children can be happy."
"Only children believe they're capable of everything."
"I was always busy doing something, being an only child."
"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."
