Comparison is a death knell to sibling harmony.
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.
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.
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.
The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder.
Help one another is part of the religion of our sisterhood.
One can be a brother only in something. Where there is no tie that binds men, men are not united but merely lined up.
I have two lovely parents who support everything I do, two siblings, and three beautiful nieces. My house is always filled with laughter and fun!
It's a blessing not to be alone in your grief but it's also painful to see your parents and siblings in pain.
She could see that to lose a sibling was hard: it could only seem unnatural:out of time, out of order, a vicious re-run of your own departure into nothingness.
If dysfunction means that a family doesn't work, then every family ambles into some arena in which that happens, where relationships get strained or even break down entirely. We fail each other or disappoint each other. That goes for parents, siblings, kids, marriage partners - the whole enchilada.
My older siblings and I all work in 'the industry'. So obviously we have hectic schedules, but we make it work.
Sometimes being a brother is even better than being a superhero.
Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.
My sister taught me everything I really need to know, and she was only in sixth grade at the time.
There is a strong chance that siblings who turn out well were hassled by the same parents.
My siblings are my best friends.
There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.
Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their power, which no subsequent connections can supply.
All of my friends who have younger siblings who are going to college or high school - my number one piece of advice is: You should learn how to program.
My great strength, which I very much believe in, is family. For me, family doesn't simply mean components of DNA. I mean family in the sense of siblings. My mom and my sisters are the energy and inspiration in my life.
We shared. Parents. Home. Pets. Celebrations. Catastrophes. Secrets. And the threads of our experience became so interwoven that we are linked. I can never be utterly lonely, knowing you share the planet.
Siblings tend not to care much about boundaries and borders. Having worn each others' T-shirts, it's unlikely that they'd go to war over a border.
Remember that you own what happened to you. If your childhood was less than ideal, you may have been raised thinking that if you told the truth about what really went on in your family, a long bony white finger would emerge from a cloud and point to you, while a chilling voice thundered, "We *told* you not to tell." But that was then. Just put down on paper everything you can remember now about your parents and siblings and relatives and neighbors, and we will deal with libel later on.
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