Siblings Sisters And Brothers Quotes

• 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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• Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their power, which no subsequent connections can supply.

  Jane Austen

  Sister, Brother, Children

  Jane Austen (1833). “Mansfield Park”, p.208

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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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• The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out of his nose.

  Garrison Keillor

  Inspirational, Brother, Sibling

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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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• I don't remember any sibling rivalry growing up, because by the time I was really conscious, Tom was going away to college. My relationship with him, which is a very close one, really developed in more recent years.

  David Hyde Pierce

  Relationship, Growing Up, Sibling

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• For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather.

  Christina Rossetti

  Family, Sister, Cheer

  1862 Goblin Market and Other Poems,'Goblin Market'.

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

  Antisthenes

  Brother, Strong, 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, 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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• Sometimes being a brother is even better than being a superhero.

  Marc Brown

  Life, Sister, Brother

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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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• 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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• My sister taught me everything I really need to know, and she was only in sixth grade at the time.

  Linda Sunshine

  Sister, Sibling, Needs

  Linda Sunshine (2012). “Mom Loves Me Best: (And Other Lies You Told Your Sister)”, p.44, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• If you don't understand how a woman could both love her sister dearly and want to wring her neck at the same time, then you were probably an only child.

  Linda Sunshine

  Sister, Funny Inspirational, Children

  Linda Sunshine (2012). “Mom Loves Me Best: (And Other Lies You Told Your Sister)”, p.20, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Ignore reality, there's nothing you can do about it.

  Natalie Imbruglia

  Sister, Letting Go, Brother

  Song: Don't You Think?, Album: Left of the Middle, 1997

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• Never make a companion equal to a brother.

  Hesiod

  Brother, Sibling, Companionship

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• There's no better friend than a sister.

  Mary Engelbreit

  Sister, Funny Sibling, Funny Sister

  Mary Engelbreit (2002). “The Blessings of Friendship: A Friendship Treasury”, p.62, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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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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