My parents separated when I was very small. I grew up with my mother, and I was a single child then. She was very independent, doing her things and having fun alone and working.
Being an only child, my mother reared me very carefully.
It must be weird having one child.
I'm an only child, so I'm pretty much a loner.
I was born in Boston, Massachusetts on May 16, 1923, the only child of Joel and Sylvia Miller.
I grew up a single kid and so my whole childhood was spent in my backyard dealing with imaginary circumstances and role playing and stuff.
It's so hard to find the time. I only have one kid and it's hard with one kid. I can't imagine people who have more than that.
I am an only child, so not only my father, even my mother is also very supportive of my career.
I like to be by myself, probably because I have been a single child.
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.
My parents were fantastic. I was an only child, so I had a lot of love and too much attention. I don't think I was spoilt. My mother was quite a disciplinarian, but I did have a lot of attention and quite a lot of pressure to do well at whatever I was doing.
I was an only child, so I was alone a lot.
I was an only child until I was 15, so I was able to reap the benefit of that.
I was an only child; I didn't have a sister, or sisters.
Even if all the world were to combine forces, they could not bring about the conception of a single child in any woman's womb nor cause it to be born; that is wholly the work of God.
I only have one child. But I am learning that there is a lot to being a parent that you did not expect.
It was tough for my family. My father was working; my mother was working. Sometimes I was alone at home after leaving school.
When you're your parents' one shot at a genetic legacy, you may get to attend all the best schools, wear all the best clothes and eat all the best foods - at least relative to children in multiple-sibling households. But you also wind up with an overweening sense of your own importance.
It was only when I started handling Treasury Operations that I realised all of a sudden just how much wealth we have. That is a huge responsibility, so I decided to get on with it and learn how to manage it, because I am a single child and have no siblings to share the responsibility with.
Brodsky was born in May, 1940, a year before the German invasion. His mother worked as an accountant; his father was a photographer and worked for the Navy Museum in Leningrad when Brodsky was young. They were doting parents and much beloved by Iosif Brodsky, who was their only child.
I was the only child, and I know my father had certain thoughts about me. He was a lawyer and extremely literary, but he would have been much happier if I had wanted to be a lawyer, a scientist, an engineer. But what I wanted to do was read.
I think when you are an only child, parents are more protective and fearful because they've only got one of you. I was not allowed to do a lot of things that, if I'd been, say, number three, I would have.
I belong to a tradition that believes that the death of a single child is a blemish on creation.
I grew up as an only child.
I'm an only child, and I can take all the attention you manage to pile on me.
