Latest Quotes

“Networking is extremely time consuming and can feel like an overwhelming task to complete alone. When a friend easily lands a job through their superstar older bro, you turn a little green with envy and nausea.”

— Genevieve Choate, 8 Struggles Of Being An Only Child In Your Early 20s

“After years of pretty amazing birthdays and Christmases we have got gift-giving down to a damn science. We’re the girlfriends and boyfriends who go above and beyond not only because we don’t have an army of siblings to also shop for, but because we grew up on the receiving end and now practice what…”

— Kendra Syrdal, 14 Things To Know Before Dating An Only Child

“When an only child falls for someone, it’s a big deal. They don’t take these emotions lightly because they don’t happen very often.”

— Kendra Syrdal, Here’s How You Know Your Partner Loves You, Based On Their Birth Order

“Once a girl who is an only child commits to you, she’s FULLY committed. She will be the most attentive, invested girlfriend you’ve ever had. Only children are often a little OCD and get hyper-excited/obsessed with things, and this will absolutely translate into how much they show that they care abou…”

— Kendra Syrdal, http://thoughtcatalog.com/kendra-syrdal/2016/07/heres-what-kind-of-girlfriend-you-are-based-on-your-birth-order/

“You’re kind of a freak and everyone knows it (but you). You didn’t grow up with peers so you’re not always sure what normal is supposed to look like.”

— Chrissy Stockton, The Unedited Truth About Why You Suck, Based On Your Birth Order

“Only children tend to have a lot of the same characteristics as first-born children. As a result of gaining undivided attention from parents, only children are often considered to be self-centered.”

— Nicole Teague, Unlocking Your Personality – What Birth Order Says About You

“The convention is like where someone has put down a lure, and now there's just going to be Pokémon delegates popping up everywhere. We're here trying to catch them all”

— Trevor Noah, Trevor Noah: RNC Is Like Pokémon Go & We're Here To Catch Them All

“Only children tend to be just as happy as children who grew up in a house full of siblings.”

— Samantha Darby, How Being An Only Child Affects Your Kid Later In Life

“As an only child, I never felt insecure and always had total love.”

— Willard Scott, The Older the Fiddle, the Better the Tune: The Joys of Reaching a Certain Age

“I think the biggest problem working with me would be that I'm an only child, and so I have an internal dialogue that goes on that I just assume you can hear.”

— Maynard James Keenan, Unleashed: The Story of Tool

“Being an only child, my mother reared me very carefully.”

— Heber J. Grant, Carefully Greatest Quotes

“The American government is a very volatile, dangerous mechanism, and Hillary has the most experience with it. It’s like if you were on a plane and you wanted to choose a pilot. You have one person, Hillary, who says, ‘Here’s my license. Here’s all the thousands of flights that I’ve flown. Here’s pla…”

— Louis C.K., Louis C.K. on the Right to Be Offensive, Why White Guys Should Stop Whining, and Bored Masturbation

“An only child is never twelve.”

— Enid Bagnold, Blue Angel: The Life of Marlene Dietrich

“And that voting for Trump is a way of saying ‘fuck it. Fuck them all’. I really get it. It’s a version of national Suicide. Or it’s like a big hit off of a crack pipe. Somehow we can’t help it. Or we know that if we vote for Trump our phones will be a reliable source of dopamine for the next four ye…”

— Louis C.K., Louis C.K. Compares Donald Trump to Hitler: ‘He’s an Insane Bigot’

“With no older siblings, you basically walked into high school like a sacrificial lamb, totally unaware that your Biology teacher was legit nuts and that your Spanish teacher took off points if you forgot your binder. It's a hard-knock life.”

— Hayley Glatter, 15 Struggles of the Only Child Life

“Whenever you go over to a friend's house and she starts fighting with a sibling, it's maybe the most uncomfortable thing in the world. You've never had to argue with someone over the remote, so you don't know how to back your friend up or react at all.”

— Hayley Glatter, 15 Struggles of the Only Child Life

“The refrigerator is literally a shrine to your entire life. Honestly, you don't need your friends to see your third grade perfect attendance certificate when they walk into your kitchen. But without other kids to show off, your parentals hoard every little thing you've ever done and proudly display…”

— Hayley Glatter, 15 Struggles of the Only Child Life

“Do you think last night was the first time @realDonaldTrump had heard @MELANIATRUMP speak?”

— Chelsea Handler, twitter.com

“You're really bad at babysitting. You never had to take care of a younger sibling, so you have no idea how to hold a baby or entertain a young child.”

— Pai-Lin Hunnibell, 15 Things Only Children Can Understand

“Knock knock. Who's there? Ivana. Ivana who? Ivana jump off a bridge. #Election2016”

— Bob Kevoian, twitter.com