Sibling Quotes - Page 6

• With a diplomat father, for whom foreign postings were a fact of life, my siblings and I were expected to attend boarding schools in Britain.

  Arabella Weir

  Father, School, Diplomats

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• My own life has in some ways been a decades-long tour of the sibling experience. I have full sibs, I have half-sibs, and for a time I had step-sibs.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Long, Half, Way

  Jeffrey Kluger (2011). “The Sibling Effect: What the Bonds Among Brothers and Sisters Reveal About Us”, p.10, Penguin

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• When I look back at those pictures of my mother performing - and listen to her recordings - it makes me sad to think that all of that joy she found in her work came to an end. I wish she hadn't had to make that sacrifice, even if it was for the benefit of my father and siblings and me.

  Marlo Thomas

  Mother, Father, Sacrifice

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• We're learning how important it is both to preserve sibling relationships if they work and repair them if they're broken. We're also learning a lot about nonliteral siblings - stepsiblings, half-siblings - and the surprising power they can have.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Broken, Important, Half

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• I have lots of older siblings, and as they started to leave the house, I went from cooking once a week to twice, three times, and so on. After a while, it was just like making the bed.

  Hugh Jackman

  House, Cooking, Bed

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• He would read up on parenting, if he thought it would help, but his errors always seemed too basic for the manuals. "Always tell your kids they have siblings..." He couldn't imagine any child-raising guru taking the trouble to write that down. Maybe there was a gap in the market.

  Nick Hornby

  Children, Kids, Writing

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• Outside of football and training, I am somewhat of a homebody. Love hangin' out with my siblings and close friends.

  Tim Tebow

  Football, Training, Close Friends

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• The counter-argument would be, so what if my sexual relationships are superficial, one can still have satisfying and rewarding relationships with friends, or parents, or siblings, or whatever.

  Chester Brown

  Parent, What If, Would Be

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• That's when it happens. Maybe it was my argument. Maybe it was my scary zeal. Whatever the reason, as soon as Megan whistles, the crowd is on its feet. They're blowing bubbles. They're raising their lighters high. They're cheering through their fangs... For Dawn Summers, for themselves and each other, for every sibling who got tossed into a situation beyond her control. For me. And for my sister, who whistles again... Once more with feeling.

  Cynthia Leitich Smith

  Summer, Cheer, Feet

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• When I was about six, I saw my elder siblings play chess and pestered my mother into teaching me. Very soon, I was beating everyone at home, and they thought it would be good to join a club. So my sister would take me to the Tal chess club on Thursdays and weekends.

  Viswanathan Anand

  Mother, Teaching, Home

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• You will notice that what we are aiming at when we fall in love is a very strange paradox. The paradox consists of the fact that, when we fall in love, we are seeking to re-find all or some of the people to whom we were attached as children. On the other hand, we ask our beloved to correct all of the wrongs that these early parents or siblings inflicted upon us. So that love contains in it the contradiction: The attempt to return to the past and the attempt to undo the past.

  Woody Allen

  Witty, Falling In Love, Children

  "Fictional character: Professor Levy". "Crimes and Misdemeanors", www.imdb.com. 1989.

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

  Gisele Bundchen

  Space, Brothers And Sisters, Sometimes

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• I consider myself lucky to be an only child because if I had other siblings, my mother would not have been able to take me to every audition and be so supportive of my career.

  Lea Michele

  Mother, Children, Careers

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My parents had three kids right after the Second World War, and we were all sort of sickly. Then I had a fourth sibling, with very serious asthma. The medical bills... So my parents always struggled.

  Patti Smith

  War, Kids, Medical Bills

  "'Even as a child, I felt like an alien'". Interview with Simon Reynolds, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2005.

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• ...since I was a little boy, she had always wanted me to go. She was always sending me off on a bus someplace, to elementary school, to camp, to relatives in Kentucky, to college. She pushed me away from her just as she'd pushed my elder siblings away when we lived in New York, literally shoving them out the front door when they left for college.

  James McBride

  New York, School, Boys

  James McBride (2012). “The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother”, p.146, A&C Black

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• A ministering angel shall my sister be.

  William Shakespeare

  Sister, Angel, Sisterhood

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 5, sc. 1, l. [260]

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• I never question God. Sometimes I say, 'Why me? Why do I have such a hard life? Why do I have this disease? Why do I have siblings who died?' But then I think and say, 'Why not me?'

  Mattie Stepanek

  Thinking, Hard Life, Why Not

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• I had a really happy childhood - my siblings were great, my mother was very fanciful, and I loved to read. But there was always financial strife.

  Patti Smith

  Mother, Childhood, Financial

  "'Even as a child, I felt like an alien'". Interview with Simon Reynolds, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2005.

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• Broad-mindedness is related to tolerance; open-mindedness is the sibling of peace.

  Salman Rushdie

  Tolerance, Broads, Related

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• Previous generations understood about death, and undoubtedly would have seen a reasonable amount of death. Once you get into the Victorian era, you might well have seen the funerals of many of your siblings before you were very old.

  Terry Pratchett

  Funeral, Generations, Might

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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, Thinking

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• Ever since I was a about seven or eight; I think it was seven. My brother said "I want to start acting," and me and my sister just said, "Oh we'll try it, we'll see." It was just one of those things - we were just like, "Oh, we'll see what happens." So we ended up - all my siblings and me - we ended up just trying it, and I got that one role on In Plain Sight and then we just decided to keep going and see what happens. And then: Hunger Games.

  Willow Shields

  Brother, Thinking, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We have to divide mother love with our brothers and sisters. Our parents can help us cope with the loss of our dream of absolute love. But they cannot make us believe that we haven't lost it.

  Judith Viorst

  Mother, Dream, Brother

  Judith Viorst (2010). “Necessary Losses: The Loves Illusions Dependencies and Impossible Ex”, p.96, Simon and Schuster

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• There is a belief that children drop out of school because they're needed by their families to work, or the little girls are needed to take care of younger siblings. It turns out that's not really true.

  Nicholas Negroponte

  Girl, Children, School

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• As a kid, I dreamt of becoming a writer. My most exciting pastime was reading novels; in fact, I would read anything I could find. I never thought I would pursue mathematics until my last year in high school. I grew up in a family with three siblings. My parents were always very supportive and encouraging. It was important for them that we have meaningful and satisfying professions, but they didn't care as much about success and achievement.

  Maryam Mirzakhani

  Meaningful, Reading, Kids

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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