Suzanne Collins Quotes

The younger brother hath the more wit.

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

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 grew up in Atlanta, Georgia, the youngest of five. There's something about being the youngest and wanting to be seen. You're like, 'I want attention, notice me.'

I'm the eldest of four children: a brother next after me and then two sisters.

I am one of four, so I have two sisters and a brother, and I'm the youngest.

I'm the youngest of five boys.

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

Do you know why the big brother is born first? It’s to protect the little brothers and sisters that come after him. A brother telling his sister, "I’ll kill you"... You never, ever say something like that.

People get burned out in big families, you can even see it in the naming of children. Like the first kid, "You were named after Grandma." The seventh kid, "You were named after a sandwich I had. Now get your brother, Reuben."

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

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.

the experience of having brothers and sisters, born of the same parents, sleeping under the same roof, eating at the same table, is an inescapable, delightful and repelling, desired and abhorred part of each child's life.

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.

I grew up in Chicago with a single mother. I'm the youngest of six kids, and my older siblings are much older than me. When your siblings are that much older, you never get to ride in the front seat of the car, you never get the chicken breast.

I have five children. There were four boys. The fifth, I got weak, and a girl came.

Naturally, when you're a younger brother with two older brothers, I mean, they're going to beat on you, and they're going to make you... you're going to grow up differently. You're going to turn into a little animal.

I have four elder sisters, and being the youngest, I was pampered.

The youngest child in any family is always a jokemaker, because a joke is the only way he can enter into an adult conversation.

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.

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

My brother and I were both teenage writers, and he was, I have to say, better than I was, but he went into science, and I went into writing.

I was an only child, eventually.

A child in its greed for love does not enjoy having to share the affection of its parents with its brothers and sisters; and it notices that the whole of their affection is lavished upon it once more whenever it arouses their anxiety by falling ill. It has now discovered a means of enticing out its parents' love and will make use of that means as soon as it has the necessary psychical material at its disposal for producing an illness.