Five Siblings Quotes

#1. I grew up poor in San Pedro, California, sleeping on the floor of shady motels with my five siblings and not always sure when or where I'd get my next meal.

Misty Copeland

#2. I have five siblings, so my mom was always pregnant, and she would wear these dungarees that looked so cool.

Liberty Ross

#3. They had nothing to say to each other. A five-year age gap between siblings is like a garden that needs constant attention. Even three months apart allows the weeds to grow up between you.

Zadie Smith

#4. I'm from a family with five kids in it, and my father almost became a Catholic priest. And my mother never went to church, but she's the best Christian I know. My siblings have all chosen different paths to or away from their spirituality.

Carrie Coon

#5. I liked having some time to myself. Our family was such a close one, you could get smothered. Of course, we didn't always agree with one another. Sometimes I quarreled with my brother and sisters, but I couldn't remember hating anyone for more than five minutes.

Gloria Whelan

#6. I came to Washington with a pledge to be a fiscally conservative.

Candice S. Miller

#7. Five years behind me, but somehow with his shit together.

David Levithan

#8. I was the middle of five children, and we were five very opinionated siblings. That probably pushed me to learn to speak up for myself.

Helene D. Gayle

#9. I really don't like people that go on about getting followed around, I don't like it - there are people in the industry that don't want to take everything that comes with it. I take it all.

Peter Andre

#10. The unspoken word is capital. We can invest it or we can squander it.

Mark Twain

#11. When you divide the process, you harmonize the product

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#12. WHEN I was five years old my parents all of a sudden produced a baby boy, which my mother said was what I had always wanted. Where she got this idea I did not know. She did quite a bit of elaborating on it, all fictitious but hard to counter.

Alice Munro

#13. When you live in a small house with five younger siblings, it's actually far more sensible - and much quicker - to cry alone.

Caitlin Moran

#14. I would love to have kids one day. In fact, I'm pretty good with them. I grew up with five half-siblings, the youngest of whom is 11 years younger than me, so I think I learned some pretty cool parenting skills quite early on in life.

Matthew Perry

#15. Asking a question is just another way of telling you what to do.

Beth Neff

#16. Nothing is more ridiculous than ridicule.

Anthony Ashley Cooper

#17. I did not even go to kindergarten; I just started first grade when I was five and started reading right away. I don't know how it all worked, but I had a lot of adults and older siblings around me. So, I guess I was probably introduced to what one would be introduced to at that time in kindergarten.

Joan Ganz Cooney

#18. In my experience, the best creative work is never done when one is unhappy.

Albert Einstein