Enid Bagnold Quotes

My mom had seven kids in seven years, and then she had me 11 years later. So when I was born, my oldest brother was 18. And my youngest brother was 11. By the time I was 7 or 8, everyone had moved out. I went from being with ten people all the time to being an only child. It really freaked me out.

My siblings were pretty far apart in age, so I sort of grew up as an only child.

I was an only child, eventually.

I wasn't an only child, but I was the youngest, and no one else in my family played music.

I'm an only child. My mum and dad are six in each family. They're both twins, and they only wanted one. I always say to them though that they're lucky - it could have all gone wrong.

It must be weird having one 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.

My mother has a very big family in Shanghai, so I have, like, almost 40 cousins, so we stayed together all the time. So by the time I get to Hong Kong, I become the only child and the only one surrounded by adults, you know.

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

My parents got divorced when I was 2, so I have this weird thing where I have 8 brothers and sisters, but I am also an only child.

I was by far the youngest of the family, and at times it was like being an only child.

Without siblings you get quite a skewed vision of yourself and of the world. I always felt I didn't understand how it worked. I remember feeling quite lonely.

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

I was working on 'Harry Potter' while I was growing up, and the attention it brought me made me feel quite isolated.

I was the youngest of six, with four older sisters.

I've been the oldest child since before you were born

Well, being the youngest child and frail, I was left alone a great deal of the time.

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.

I was an only child, a very late child, born to parents who were both 39 at the time, which was very late back then. That kind of confirmed my sense of being the center of the universe, which I guess every child feels - children and poets both tend to feel.

It was the sibling thing, I suppose. I was fascinated by the intricate tangle of love and duty and resentment that tied them together. The glances they exchanged; the complicated balance of power established over decades; the games I would never play with rules I would never fully understand. And perhaps that was key: they were such a natural group that they made me feel remarkably singular by comparison. To watch them together was to know strongly, painfully, all that I'd been missing.

I was an only child. I did have kind of like a lonely existence.

I'm a middle child, which is probably why I chose to be an actress. I needed the attention. I've got one older sister and a younger brother.

I'm an only child, so I don't even have nieces or nephews.

Growing up, mostly in Montreal, I was an only child of loving parents.

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