Sibling Quotes - Page 7

• Love for me is my North Star. It's the highest form of grace. And I love that there's different levels and different ways of showing it, and different representations of it. Whether it's love shown to a stranger, love to a sibling, your child, your parents, your partner.

  Ben Harper

  Stars, Children, Parent

  "Interview: Ben Harper: Musician. Poet. Environmentalist. Activist. Prophet". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• There's a truly unbelievable story in the paper today, that a young brother and sister... have been turned down for adoption by their own grandparents... If that weren't enough, the siblings are now to be adopted by two complete strangers against the wishes of the grandparents... And as if that weren't enough, the two strangers are a gay couple, who have been selected ahead of several heterosexual couples.

  Andrea Leadsom

  Brother, Couple, Gay

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• We're always looking for the best people that apply and have showed interest about being on the [Big Brother] show. In the past, other houseguests' siblings have approached us or applied, and in some cases it works out like Elissa [Reilly Slater] and in some cases it doesn't. We want to make sure we have the best people ultimately.

  Allison Grodner

  Brother, Past, Work Out

  "'Big Brother' Bosses Talk Casting Diversity, Lack of Female Winners and Avoiding a Season 15 Repeat". Interview with Brian Porreca, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 22, 2016.

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• My parents have not insisted that we go to college, but she wanted us to learn. Teacher, librarian, secretary, nurse. All my siblings were employed. But I wanted to be the boss, an independent contractor.

  Bette Midler

  Teacher, Independent, College

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• I'd have to say, what inspires me is making sure my siblings have a good role model to look up to.

  Melanie Iglesias

  Role Models, Inspire, Roles

  "Melanie Iglesias: The Practice of Happiness". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• As you get older, you welcome people into your family because siblings get married and have kids. But then people also get divorces and things like that, and sometimes there's an exit from the family.

  Justin Hartley

  Kids, Divorce, People

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• Not a lot of siblings have opportunity [of realizing ourselves and realizing each other], because they're always being pushed together so much. They need their time apart in order to realize themselves and realize who they are.

  Willow Smith

  Opportunity, Order, Together

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• I have seven step-siblings from my mother's second and third marriages. My degree of closeness to my step-siblings varies among the seven but I have a great sense of loyalty to all of them, especially the four from my childhood. If those people needed my help I would be there for them.

  Ann Patchett

  Loyalty, Mother, People

  Interview with Jeff Vasishta, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 16, 2016.

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• Relations between parents and children and siblings and mates. This is not external. We can't separate them.

  Dallas Willard

  Children, Parent, Mates

  Source: renovare.org

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• If you look at the statistics of fratricide or intra-sibling homicide, it's extremely rare. And look at Burke [Ramsey] and JonBenet at the time of her murder. She was the powerhouse, the firecracker; she's the dominant one, not him. I just don't see it. And as I recall, John Ramsey passed a lie detector test. I can unequivocally say that Burke is not the killer nor do I think John Ramsey is the killer. Let's leave it there.

  Nancy Grace

  Lying, Thinking, Statistics

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• I use the phrase 'sibling society' to suggest a culture fundamentally without fathers, mothers, grandfathers, grandmothers, or ancestors. The thinking is horizontal.

  Robert Bly

  Mother, Father, Thinking

  Source: www.utne.com

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• The sibling society is the flattening out of the previously democratic society.

  Robert Bly

  Democratic, Democratic Society

  Source: www.utne.com

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• All of those on the left, as I am, have always vastly preferred the democratic society over the hierarchical society and still do, but the democratic culture doesn't exist without highly informed citizens capable of thinking well, and if you have schools in which 40 percent of the people coming out of them cannot make change for a dollar, you don't have a democracy. You have a sibling society.

  Robert Bly

  School, Thinking, People

  Source: www.utne.com

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• If we call the young ones, say 10 to 30 years old, 'siblings,' we can see they tend to be naturally ecological. They regard whales and owls as siblings too. That's a great advance.

  Robert Bly

  Whales, Years, Owl

  Source: www.utne.com

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• It seems to me that we have to draw the line in sibling rivalry whenever rivalry goes out of bounds into destructive behavior of aphysical or verbal kind. The principle needs to be this: Whatever the reasons for your feelings you will have to find civilized solutions.

  Selma Fraiberg

  Feelings, Principles, Needs

  Selma H. Fraiberg (2015). “The Magic Years: Understanding and Handling the Problems of Early Childhood”, p.281, Simon and Schuster

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• Husbands come and go; children come and eventually they go. Friends grow up and move away. But the one thing that's never lost is your sister.

  Gail Sheehy

  Birthday, Sister, Children

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• Because of my unique experience as my mom's child, the beginning of my journey was more about me trying to figure out who I was on my own. My mom is one of the greatest moms and so supportive of all my siblings and of all of us being who we are, and not who she wanted us to be.

  Tracee Ellis Ross

  Mom, Children, Unique

  "Tracee Ellis Ross: The ​'Stylista' Speaking Up for Sisters". Interview with Melanie Yvette, www.ebony.com. November 8, 2012.

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• My father was a man of the theater. I grew up in a theater family. As a young man, as a boy, I gypsied around with my siblings and my parents to, like, eight different towns, went to eight different schools. All those things were extremely formative, and I think that's what happens.

  John Lithgow

  Father, School, Boys

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I've always been an actress, entertaining my family was the start. I'm a goof ball among many of my cousins and siblings.

  Aeriel Miranda

  Cousin, Balls, Actresses

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• Home is that youthful region where a child is the only real living inhabitant. Parents, siblings, and neighbors are mysterious apparitions who come, go, and do strange unfathomable thing in and around the child, the region's only enfranchised citizen.

  Maya Angelou

  Children, Real, Home

  Maya Angelou (2008). “Letter to My Daughter”, p.7, Random House

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• I had siblings from South Asia, from East Asia, from depressed communities around America, and you know, we'd have long conversations.

  Ronan Farrow

  America, Long, Community

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• If a child has an older sibling involved in an addiction, there is a 90 percent chance that he or she will get involved too.

  Virgil Miller Newton

  Children, Addiction, Chance

  "How to Stop Your Relatives from Driving You Crazy: Strategies for coping with 'Challenging' Relatives". Book by Denise Lang, 1992.

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• If his/her siblings and parents are not treated and he/she is strong enough to continue the recovery, a sibling will take up the "druggie" role.

  Virgil Miller Newton

  Strong, Recovery, Parent

  "Gone Way Down: Teenage Drug-Use is a Disease". American Studies Press, Tampa, Florida, 1981.

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• The words secret and sacred are siblings.

  Mary Ruefle

  Secret, Sacred

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• We all have competitive relationships with our siblings.

  John Benjamin Hickey

  "Q&A: The stars of 'The Big C'!". Interview with Catriona Wightman, www.digitalspy.com. February 10, 2011.

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