Lisa Jewell Quotes

I come from a family of seven, so growing up I always thought I'd like a big family.

I'm from a big family; I have four younger siblings. My parents are still happily married together. I grew up moving around a lot, and my family was certainly not affluent.

I was an only child, and I spent a lot of time alone. My dad was an only child, too, so we didn't have a big family, and I was really close with both of my parents. Like any kid, I thought I knew more than they did.

Every generation is born into, for the most part, a heterosexual family.

Between the two [parents], it was a really unique upbringing, I think, especially for where I was from.

I come from a big family, so I'd like to have a big family.

I grew up in Cazenovia, N.Y. I'm the second of five children, with three sisters and a brother.

I'm influenced a lot by my family. I have a big family.

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

I won the parental lottery. Most of the kids I grew up with either came from really fractured homes, or really violent ones. I went home to a very traditional, good Irish Catholic family.

I came from a big family - two brothers and two sisters. So, there were always a ton of boys around and a ton of girls around. So, I grew up comfortable with both sexes.

I genuinely haven't really had a rebellious phase. I think it's just because of the way I was brought up. I think it's because I left home when I was ten years old.

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

My mum came from an incredibly big family.

I have been brought up in an environment which was quite an exciting childhood.

My father worked in a bank while my mother looked after my four brothers and me, the only girl in our family.

My brother is 18 months older than me, and my sister is three years younger. I'm the middle one. I was born in Cheltenham, and that's where I grew up.

My household runs the same way it was with my parents, who were a mother and father with their kids.

Growing up, I was raised by a single mother.

Ever wonder why people are so determined to reach for white picket fences, supposed normalcy, a nuclear family? Well, try growing up without one.

When I was growing up we didn't have a massive house and there were five women running around, so my dad and I had to stick together!

I'm really the only artist in my family. I have one cousin who is a painter. I think I developed all of that from television and books - from being, essentially, an only child. I'm my mom's only child and my dad's fourth child, but separated by 14 years.

It's funny how two people can grow up in the same town, go to the same school, have the same friends, and end up so totally different. Family, or lack of it, counts for more than you'd think.

The proliferation of support groups suggests to me that too many Americans are growing up in homes that do not contain a grandmoth.

I was an only child, eventually.