Mellody Hobson Quotes

I was the youngest. The yule lamb. The one who always got away without doing the washing up. My sister was four years older, and my brother six years.

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 always wanted a little brother because I felt like the little brother had to do everything.

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

My brother arrived some months after my father left. Um, and he ah, was thus eight years younger than me and it was um, you know, it was such a time that my mother probably had people wondering was it his.

So it - we have one enduring, uh, idea that will always live on with the Smothers Brothers, that 'Mom always liked you best.' We're the universal, uh, feeling that every child, every sibling has had somewhere along the line. Or, 'Who did she like best?' And that became kind of a little mantra.

I was not the pampered baby, no. I'm five years younger, and my parents were actually very strict with me, more strict than with the other ones.

I have no memories of my childhood in Texas. When I was about four, we moved to San Francisco. I was in the middle of seven brothers and sisters: three girls and four boys. Most of my older brothers and sisters got the blame for everything, and the little ones had a free ride. We loved each other but fought like cats and dogs.

The 14th of 15 kids, I was the second youngest - not a coveted spot on the family totem pole.

Because I was the youngest boy, I was always my mom's favorite - and my brothers were always tough on me.

I've actually never played with any of my brothers before. They've always been too old for me.

As the youngest, I don't think there was any doubt I was spoiled.

Mine wasn't a lakes-and-boats kind of childhood. I grew up on a Glasgow council estate with a single mother. For our holidays, we went to Grandma and Grandad's caravan near Aberfoyle.

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

Being the youngest of 12, I always had to wait my turn in line to play my records.

I grew up in a family with five kids.

I'm second, and so my brother is first. Being second, sometimes you get left out and all of that. The anecdotal stories about the firstborn, the baby, the middle - all of that is true.

As a kid, I wore a lot of my older brothers' hand-me-downs.

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

I do feel sorry for my younger brother, he used to field a lot.

I was the youngest of the house that I grew up in, so I feel like, as the youngest, you have it pretty good. At the same time, I guess I required a lot of attention, being afraid of so many different things. So I was never seeking attention; I wanted the opposite.

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.

She was just Ma, and I didn't grow up in some kind of acting dynasty: Orson Welles didn't come round and give me a piggyback; Vivien Leigh never read me a bedtime story. It was just my mum and our housekeeper, whom I adored, and after that, it was boarding school.

My dad left home when I was super young, so it was my mum bringing me and my brother up.

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