Charlie Rose Quotes

I was an only child and grew up in York where my parents ran a surgical supplies shop. When I say I wish I had brothers and sisters, friends say it's not what it's cracked up to be, but I think it must be good to have someone who knew you from the beginning.

Being an only child is a disease in itself.

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

I was an only child, but I did have a hell of a lot of cousins.

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 grew up as the only child, and we did not have a large family. So for me and my mother, our friends tend to become our family.

I'm one of three brothers.

Because as an only child, you have your own little world.

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

I don't have a brother in real life.

I was an only child. I've known only children. From this experience, I do believe that the children should outnumber the parents.

Being an only child, I didn't have any other family but my mom and dad really, since the rest of my family lived quite far away from London.

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

I'm a single child. I wanted a little brother or a little sister growing up, but when I think about it, I'm happy I'm an only child.

Only children are weird. The only children I know, including myself, are either superweird or very talented and special or a mix of the two. I think there was always a certain independence and loneliness - I had a lot of imaginary friends as a kid.

I didn't grow up with a lot of babies in my life because I only grew up with my parents - I didn't have any brothers or sisters - and I didn't have my family close by.

My older brothers and sisters have kids and families.

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.

I'm the eldest of three siblings.

The one thing that was nice about being an only child is that my friends' parents would always ask me whether I would want any other brothers and sisters? My mom wasn't able to have any more children, and they didn't know that, but I would always say that I can have friends over, and whenever I get sick of them, I can just send them home.

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.

If parents are the fixed stars in the child's universe, the vaguely understood, distant but constant celestial spheres, siblings are the dazzling, sometimes scorching comets whizzing nearby.

I think we are defined as human beings through our families, no matter what kind of family - through our relationships with parents, brothers and sisters.

I grew up in a pretty large family. We were really close-knit, so I definitely want to have lots and lots of children.