Sibling Quotes - Page 14

• Throughout history, adultery has had few rivals as a cause of murder and human misery. The reason we tend to resemble our mates is that many of us are looking for someone who reminds us of our parent or sibling of the opposite sex, who in turn resembles us.

  Jared Diamond

  Sex, Opposites, Dating

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• All I can say is, it's a sort of kinship, as though there is a family tree of grief. On this branch, the lost children, on this the suicided parents, here the beloved mentally ill siblings. When something terrible happens, you discover all of the sudden that you have a new set of relatives, people with whom you can speak in the shorthand of cousins.

  Elizabeth McCracken

  Cousin, Children, Grief

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• I grew up with siblings, so if I could just snap my fingers and have four [children], I would have four

  Kim Kardashian

  Children, Four, Ridiculous

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• Novels shouldn’t aspire to answer questions, and I wouldn’t presume to offer advice about love or marriage in any case. What’s fascinating to me about marriage as a subject for fiction—a subject that fiction has taken on with gusto since the 19th century—is how unknowable other people’s relationships are. Even the marriages of your parents, your siblings, your closest friends always remain something of a mystery. Only in fiction can you pretend to know people completely.

  Nell Freudenberger

  Taken, People, Advice

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• All that you see was and is for your sake. The numerous books, uncanny markings, and beautiful thoughts are the ghosts of souls who preceded you. The speech they weave is a link between you and your human siblings. The consequences that cause sorrow and rapture are the seeds that the past has sown in the field of the soul, and by which the future shall profit.

  Khalil

  Beautiful, Book, Past

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• Nicotine and alcohol embraced in my system like long-parted siblings, grateful to me for reuniting them.

  Glen Duncan

  Grateful, Long, Alcohol

  Glen Duncan (2011). “The Last Werewolf (The Last Werewolf 1)”, p.124, Canongate Books

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• There are very serious forms of, and reactions to, sibling victimization.

  David Finkelhor

  Serious, Reactions, Form

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• My sister and I never engaged in sibling rivalry. Our parents weren't that crazy about either one of us.

  Erma Bombeck

  Sister, Crazy, Parent

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• Spouses have each other, and even when one eventually dies, they have memories of a time when they existed before that other person and can more readily imagine a life without them. Likewise, parents may have other children to be concerned with--a future to protect for them. To lose a sibling is to lose the one person with whom one shares a lifelong bond that is meant to continue on into the future.

  John Corey Whaley

  Children, Memories, Parent

  John Corey Whaley (2012). “Where Things Come Back”, p.175, Simon and Schuster

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• Grease is one of the movies that made me want to be an entertainer, and I have literally been waiting my whole life to play Sandy. My siblings and I watched it and played it out over and over when we were kids. This is my dream role and performing it live on television will be one of the most thrilling opportunities I’ve had in my career so far.

  Julianne Hough

  Dream, Kids, Opportunity

  "Fox Taps Julianne Hough, Vanessa Hudgens for 'Grease: Live'" by Lacey Rose, www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 17, 2015.

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• Thus did my siblings and I learn one of the hard lessons of life: the best way to strip the allure and dreaminess from a lifelong dream is, very often, simply to have it come true.

  David James

  Dream, Life Lesson, Lessons

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• I think my siblings sometimes have to defend me within their social circles - they are both barristers.

  Jenny Eclair

  Thinking, Circles, Sometimes

  "My family values" by Jo Mears, www.theguardian.com. August 28, 2009.

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• All my siblings became artists. One's a novelist, my brother is a painter, my sister was a costume designer.

  Caio Fonseca

  Brother, Artist, Novelists

  "Artists in Their Studios: Caio Fonseca". Interview with Michael Hainey, www.gq.com. May 2, 2012.

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• Be nice to your siblings. They are your link to the past and the people most likely to stick with you in the future.

  Mary Schmich

  Family, Nice, Past

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• Many people don't have relationships to their siblings in adulthood, or they have superficial ones. It's sort of unfashionable, particularly in America, to be close to your family.

  Kiki Smith

  America, People, Superficial

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• I think I wish I had never spanked my children, but I have. And they remember every instance like they tattooed it on their palms. I think it's a terrible lesson, to use physical punishment to make a point about not behaving, not being kind to their siblings, to other people. I mean that's just absurd. But I've lost it, I understand it.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Children, Mean, Thinking

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• The only siblings I have are half-siblings. My nuclear family would have been an extra-suffocating threesome. Instead, I have an interesting brother and sister, in-laws, and darling nephews.

  Jane Smiley

  Brother, Sister In Law, Interesting

  "Divorce! It’s Good for the Children!" by Jane Smiley, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 12, 2010.

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• More than Santa Claus, your sister knows when you've been bad and good.

  Linda Sunshine

  Funny, Sister, Rakhi

  Linda Sunshine (2012). “Mom Loves Me Best: (And Other Lies You Told Your Sister)”, p.25, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• One of the best things about being an adult is the realization that you can share with your sister and still have plenty for yourself.

  Betsy Z. Cohen

  Sister, Adults, Rakhi

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• The greatest gift you can give your child is another sibling.

  Pope John Paul II

  Children, Giving, Greatest Gifts

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• I was the youngest of the six kids, and to make my older siblings laugh, that was very important. I did a great impression of our dad that made them all laugh, so that gave me a lot of power within the family.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Dad, Kids, Laughing

  "Q&A With Jim Gaffigan: ‘Hot Pocket’ Comedian Reaches Out to Our Wounded Soldiers (VIDEO)". Interview with Joshua Kors, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 8, 2012.

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• A younger sister is someone to use as a guinea-pig in trying sledges and experimental go-carts. Someone to send on messages to Mum. But someone who needs you - who comes to you with bumped heads, grazed knees, tales of persecution. Someone who trusts you to defend her. Someone who thinks you know the answers to almost everything.

  Pam Brown

  Sister, Thinking, Pigs

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• On a movie set that works, you have your father figure, the director, you have your siblings, your other actors.

  Richard Gere

  Father, Directors, Actors

  "New Again: Richard Gere". Interview with Andy Warhol and Maura Moynihan, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 28, 2012.

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• Love is the feeling we get when we recognize the positive attributes in another. You have to continually and actively watch for the best parts of someone else that will let you experience love. I like this definition of love because it's not just for the romantic lovers out there but the love of a friend, a mother, sibling - all kinds of love.

  Michael Adam Hamilton

  Mother, Love Is, Romantic Love

  "Michael Adam Hamilton: Celebrating Life and Love". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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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, Loss, Gone

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

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