My Siblings Quotes

• I loved performing; I was always trying to impress my siblings by being a clown. I think that came from being the runt of the litter.

  Rose Byrne

  Sibling, Thinking, Always Trying

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

  Betsy Z. Cohen

  Brother, Sibling, People

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• Sometimes siblings can get in each other's space.

  Gisele Bundchen

  Sibling, Space, Brothers And Sisters

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

  Louisa May Alcott

  Sister, Sibling, Sorority

  Louisa May Alcott (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Louisa May Alcott (Illustrated)”, p.810, Delphi Classics

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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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• The family is one of nature's masterpieces.

  George Santayana

  Inspirational, Family, Brother

  George Santayana, Marianne S. Wokeck, Martin A. Coleman, James Gouinlock (2013). “The Life of Reason or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Society, Volume VII, Book Two”, p.23, MIT Press

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• Sisters annoy, interfere, criticize. Indulge in monumental sulks, in huffs, in snide remarks. Borrow. Break. Monopolize the bathroom. Are always underfoot. But if catastrophe should strike, sisters are there. Defending you against all comers.

  Pam Brown

  Sister, Sibling, Indulge In

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• 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.

  Catherine Zeta-Jones

  Brother, Sibling, Buttons

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• 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.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Sibling, Parent, Focus

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• Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas - that's what my grandma taught me.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Funny, Brother, Sibling

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• Your True Nature Is Love. There's Nothing You Can Do About It.

  Byron Katie

  Sister, Daughter, Brother

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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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• Sisters never quite forgive each other for what happened when they were five.

  Pam Brown

  Funny, Sister, Sibling

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• 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.

  James Boswell

  Sister, Friends, Brother

  James Boswell, Roger Ingpen (1791). “The Life of Samuel Johnson”, p.74

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• You can kid the world, but not your sister.

  Charlotte Gray

  Sister, Sibling, Kids

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• Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister.

  Alice Walker

  Sister, Inspiring, Sibling

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• When I was growing up, my mother was always a friend to my siblings and me (in addition to being all the other things a mom is), and I was always grateful for that because I knew she was someone I could talk to and joke with, and argue with and that nothing would ever harm that friendship.

  Marlo Thomas

  Mom, Mother, Brother

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• God bless you if you have one child, but I don't think anybody should have just one child. Everybody needs a sibling. I have siblings, and I have so many amazing, precious memories with my siblings. I don't know what I would do if I had been an only child.

  Sherri Shepherd

  Children, Memories, Sibling

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• The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder.

  Jane Austen

  Sister, Brother, Sibling

  Jane Austen (2007). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen”, p.487, Wordsworth Editions

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• 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.

  Unknown

  Friendship, Sister, Brother

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.84, Beacon Press

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• A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves - a special kind of double.

  Toni Morrison

  Sister, Sibling, Special

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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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• 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.

  Anne Lamott

  Children, Sibling, Mean

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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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