Sibling Day Quotes

Older siblings get more total-immersion mentoring with their parents before younger siblings come along. As a result, they get an IQ and linguistic advantage because they are the exclusive focus of their parents' attention.

We can't understand when we're pregnant, or when our siblings are expecting, how profound it is to have a shared history with a younger generation: blood, genes, humor. It means we were actually here, on Earth, for a time - like the Egyptians with their pyramids, only with children.

If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone?

Siblings that say they never fight are most definitely hiding something

…she'll go and fall in love, and there's an end of peace and fun, and cozy times together.

I have siblings. And there are certain things I know that I can push their buttons. And they know they have certain things where they can push mine.

I don't remember any sibling rivalry growing up, because by the time I was really conscious, Tom was going away to college. My relationship with him, which is a very close one, really developed in more recent years.

Having lots of siblings is like having built-in best friends.

Comparison is a death knell to sibling harmony.

Your siblings are the only people in the world who know what it's like to have been brought up the way you were.

Siblings: children of the same parents, each of whom is perfectly normal until they get together.

Lord Help the Mister that comes between Me and My Sister.

Your parents leave you too soon and your kids and spouse come along late, but your siblings know you when you are in your most inchoate form.

There is a little boy inside the man who is my brother... Oh, how I hated that little boy. And how I love him too.

The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out of his nose.

It takes two men to make one brother.

I sought my soul, but my soul I could not see. I sought my God, but my God eluded me. I sought my brother and I found all three.

I know it's a cliche, but the whole family is just whacked. I mean, we're all out of our minds. They're the funniest, most eccentric bizarre people I've ever met, my siblings.

If you want to do really important things in life and big things in life, you can't do anything by yourself. And your best teams are your friends and your siblings.

Brothers don't necessarily have to say anything to each other - they can sit in a room and be together and just be completely comfortable with each other.

Sometimes being a brother is even better than being a superhero.

It snowed last year too: I made a snowman and my brother knocked it down and I knocked my brother down and then we had tea.

We know one another's faults, virtues, catastrophes, mortifications, triumphs, rivalries, desires, and how long we can each hang by our hands to a bar. We have been banded together under pack codes and tribal laws.

I think I'm funny because my family, my siblings were funny.

Help one another is part of the religion of our sisterhood.

I, who have no sisters or brothers, look with some degree of innocent envy on those who may be said to be born to friends.

You can kid the world, but not your sister.

Sweet is the voice of a sister in the season of sorrow.

When brothers agree, no fortress is so strong as their common life.

I don't believe an accident of birth makes people sisters or brothers. It makes them siblings, gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood is a condition people have to work at.

Friends are the siblings God never gave us.

The family is one of nature's masterpieces.

The family. We are a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms. . . and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together.

You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.