Sibling Day Quotes

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

  Charlotte Gray

  Sister, Sibling, Kids

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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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• 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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• 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?

  Jodi Picoult

  Sister, Sibling, Loss

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.138, Simon and Schuster

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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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• 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.

  Erma Bombeck

  Family, Sibling, Character

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• 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.

  Deepak Chopra

  Brother, Team, Sibling

  "Chopra Brothers: Separate Paths But Common Bond". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. May 29, 2013.

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• Comparison is a death knell to sibling harmony.

  Elizabeth Fishel

  Brother, Sibling, Harmony

  "Forget poignancy, Arsenal prefer to deal in title significance" by Sachin Nakrani, www.theguardian.com. February 12, 2008.

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• Siblings that say they never fight are most definitely hiding something

  Daniel Handler

  Sibling, Fighting, Hiding Something

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

  Marc Brown

  Life, Sister, Brother

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

  Antisthenes

  Brother, Strong, Sibling

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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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• 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.

  Dana Carvey

  Brother, Sibling, Mean

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

  Kim Kardashian

  Life, Success, Brother

  "Kim Kardashian: We Can't Keep Up!". Interview With Katie Couric, www.glamour.com. January 2, 2011.

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

  Martin Short

  Brother, Sibling, Thinking

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• 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.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Sister, Brother, Sibling

  "Why we can never escape our siblings". Interview with Mandy Van Deven, www.salon.com. September 11, 2011.

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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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