Inspirational Brother And Sister Quotes

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

  Desmond Tutu

  Inspirational, Family, God

  Address at his enthronement as Anglican archbishop of Cape Town, September 7, 1986.

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• When sisters stand shoulder to shoulder, who stands a chance against us?

  Pam Brown

  Sister, Sibling, Sorority

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• Blessed is the servant who loves his brother as much when he is sick and useless as when he is well and an be of service to him. And blessed is he who loves his brother as well when he is afar off as when he is by his side, and who would say nothing behind his back he might not, in love, say before his face.

  Francis of Assisi

  Brother, Integrity, Sibling

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• For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather.

  Christina Rossetti

  Family, Sister, Cheer

  1862 Goblin Market and Other Poems,'Goblin Market'.

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

  Garrison Keillor

  Inspirational, Brother, Sibling

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• An older sister is a friend and defender - a listener, conspirator, a counsellor and a sharer of delights. And sorrows too.

  Pam Brown

  Sister, Sibling, Sorrow

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• 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.

  Rose Macaulay

  Sister, Brother, Sibling

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• 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.

  Jane Austen

  Sister, Brother, Children

  Jane Austen (1833). “Mansfield Park”, p.208

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

  Irving Berlin

  Brother, Sibling, Helping

  "Accidental Incest". Title card, www.imdb.com. December 6, 2014.

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• We came into the world like brother and brother, And now let's go hand in hand, not one before another.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Thank You, Brother

  BookCaps, William Shakespeare (2011). “The Comedy of Errors In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide”, p.171, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Let's go hand in hand, not one before another.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Life, Family

  BookCaps, William Shakespeare (2011). “The Comedy of Errors In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide”, p.171, BookCaps Study Guides

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• There is no time like the old time, when you and I were young!

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Sister, Sibling, Young

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• It takes two men to make one brother.

  Israel Zangwill

  Motivational, Brother, Sibling

  Israel Zangwill (1917). “The Principle of Nationalities”

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

  Marc Brown

  Life, Sister, Brother

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

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Sister, Sweet, Brother

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.1219, Delphi Classics

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• 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.

  Maya Angelou

  Sister, Brother, Sibling

  Maya Angelou, Jeffrey M. Elliot (1989). “Conversations with Maya Angelou”

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• 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.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Inspirational, Brother, Sibling

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• If you want to know how your girl will treat you after marriage, just listen to her talking to her little brother.

  Sam Levenson

  Inspirational, Girl, Wedding

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• There is a destiny which makes us brothers; none goes his way alone. All that we send into the lives of others comes back into our own.

  Edwin Markham

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  EDWIN MARKHAM (1901). “LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS”

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• Big sisters are the crab grass in the lawn of life.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Funny, Family, Sister

  Peanuts (comic strip), 17 June 1961

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• 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.

  Dylan Thomas

  Christmas, Brother, Sibling

  Dylan Thomas (1968). “Quite Early One Morning”, p.16, New Directions Publishing

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• 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.

  Anna Quindlen

  Inspirational, Sister, Brother

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• If your sister is in a tearing hurry to go out and cannot catch your eye, she's wearing your best sweater.

  Pam Brown

  Funny, Sister, Sibling

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• Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.

  Margaret Mead

  Relationship, Family, Sister

  Attributed to Margaret Mead in Ellyn Sanna "Sisters by Birth Friends by Choice: All the Things I Love About You", June 2003.

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

  Antisthenes

  Brother, Strong, Sibling

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