Bertil Ohlin Quotes

My life was filled with family in South Sudan. I am the seventh of nine children, and we grew up in what would be considered a middle-class family. We did not have a lot, but we did have more than a lot of other people.

Even then, our family was extraordinary, with ten kids.

I'm from a big family - I'm the youngest of seven - and my wife is one of four. So we always wanted a lot of kids. It's what we're used to, and for us it's what life is all about.

A large family makes you accept sharing your parents.

I grew up in a family of nine kids.

I come from a very big family, and I grew up in restaurants.

I come from a wonderful family. My mother was a pianist and my father was a salesman. They were very middle-class, very middle-Western.

My father was one of ten children.

I grew up in a house with a lot of kids, brothers and sisters. So I don't mind a lot of talking, yelling, playing. I can tune most of that out.

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

I have eight brothers and sisters, so I'd like to have a few children.

My dad was the 10th of 11 children. My mother has three brothers. My dad was a salesman, my mum was a school nurse.

I lived a block and a half away from four cousins, and I had three siblings. The Jaeger home was a big, messy, happy family.

I was thinking about it: so many of my stories are about my family life, not about being related to a lot of famous people. That's my grandma, that's my mama, my daddy, my aunt, my uncle, my stepdaddy. I'd probably tell them even if they weren't well known.

I'm the youngest of six kids, and I grew up with a lot of noise, a lot of music, and a lot of laughter.

I've got eight children, 10 grandkids. I have friends over all the time, and I like to cook.

I come from a family of 12, so I kind of got a little lost as a child.

When I was 18, I applied to go to BYU like my six brothers ahead of me - I have eight boys and one girl in my family.

I grew up with three kids in the family, and it's definitely a little extra tricky having that third kid.

I grew up in a family with five kids.

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.

I was raised in a sort of village. I have a huge family, and I think there is strength in that. It helped me to deal with some of the complications of living in the South because I always felt like I belonged, no matter what.

I come from a large family, with 16 cousins. My cousins studied well and moved to the U.S. When we all gathered together for special occasions, they would be well groomed and confident. I was the odd, useless one out. All I wanted was to be able to earn without my dad's help and be self-sufficient enough to own a house and a vehicle.

My mum came from an incredibly big family.

I have seven brothers and two sisters, so there was always a little friendly competition in the house. I don't think that's anything unusual with that many siblings.