Rudolph A. Marcus Quotes

I grew up in a small house with just my mam and felt quite lonely at times.

I had a very lovely childhood, and, being an only child, I'm very close to my mom and my dad.

I was an only child. I hung out with my parents.

I was brought up by my mother and my two sisters, although they're older than me and fled the nest very young, so I was technically raised as an only child, but I was very much loved.

I grew up as one of six kids.

A lot of people think I grew up with just my brother and me, but mom was there even when she wasn't. We had a good household.

I grew up in a family with five kids.

I like a full house because it's how I grew up. I'm one of six children.

I was an only child, and I spent a lot of time alone. My dad was an only child, too, so we didn't have a big family, and I was really close with both of my parents. Like any kid, I thought I knew more than they did.

I was an only child until I was six.

I'm the youngest of four. I have two older sisters and an older brother and was raised by a single mother. Basically, my household was just full of life. Everything was lit all the time.

I grew up as an only child, so inherently, most of my life was centered around me. My parents taught me to play well with others and to share my toys, but I was still an only child who didn't have to share my parent's attention with siblings. As great as my childhood was, I always wanted brothers and sisters.

I have 10 brothers and sisters. My mother raised us because my father died when I was 8.

When people ask what it's like to be an only child, I say it depends on who your parents are. I was lucky.

I'm an only child raised by a single mom. She's always been supportive of what I wanted to do.

When my dad was still playing, he was away for five years on and off, so it just used to be me and my mum at home until my little brother came along when I was five.

Growing up, my brother and I were begging for attention.

And I come here as a daughter, raised on the South Side of Chicago - by a father who was a blue-collar city worker and a mother who stayed at home with my brother and me.

There comes a moment as a parent when you realize you will no longer be the center of your child's universe.

I had a really normal childhood except I acted. It was like, my brother played soccer, and I was on television sometimes.

I didn't leave home until 27. I was an only child raised in Philadelphia by my mother and grandmother. My grandmother controlled the stove. She made a lot of potato meals - mashed potato, potato souffle, potato pancakes. When we didn't have electricity, we ate romantically by candlelight.

I was born in Chicago in 1927, the only child of Morris and Mildred Markowitz, who owned a small grocery store. We lived in a nice apartment, always had enough to eat, and I had my own room. I never was aware of the Great Depression.

I regret not having had more time with my kids when they were growing up.

I never shared a room growing up because I was the only girl.

The most important influence in my childhood was my father.