Sibling Quotes

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.

Some people have concerns about what it means to leave our responsibilities to robots. I think to some degree in every family, you've got siblings who disagree over the care for their parents.

If you're an older sibling and you have a younger sibling who needs mentoring or is afraid of the dark, you develop nurturing and empathic skills that you wouldn't otherwise have.

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.

My siblings and I are known as ABCs, American-born Chinese.

From when I was born, my dad would dance with me in his arms, and I would watch my siblings dancing around in the living room. I just grew up with that. That was just my life.

I am extremely close to my brother, Kent, and my sister, Lauren, who have been remarkably understanding about all of my weird sibling tales.

That's the way it is with firstborns. Mom and Dad may think they're in charge, but the firstborn knows better, and so does the youngest sibling.

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.

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

I wasn't allowed to use people's real names, such as my siblings and my children's father, but there's nothing fabricated or untrue in my autobiography.

I was an only child. And it's very much my temperament. I remember playing with a piece of string in my room for hours. I had never thought about what it would be like to have siblings.

Changing schools and friends is hard on children and can often make them desperate and lonely enough to form closer ties with a sibling.

A long time ago, I had an idea to make a book for preschoolers who had older siblings who were going to school.

I have two sisters, and I think siblings are always going to be irresistible for novelists. They have been throughout time and they'll continue to be.

I am the youngest of four siblings, and were all so close. I dont know where I would be without my brothers and sister. I secretly believe that my parents love me the most!

Sibling relationships are complicated. All family relationships are. Look at Hamlet.

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

The oldest sibling always knows things that the younger ones don't.

It's a very different bond, siblings and friends. And I just - I wanted that huge family, just to surround me, be surrounded by.

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

Virtue and vice, evil and good, are siblings, or next-door neighbors, Easy to make mistakes, hard to tell them apart.

I just love music. I love all kinds of music, and I was exposed to it, me and my siblings, from the time we were in utero.

I hoped Lissa remained the only one with a surprise sibling.

I think more and more people are recognizing how much adults and elders are actually needed. That's a gift of the sibling society.

Siblings tend not to care much about boundaries and borders. Having worn each others' T-shirts, it's unlikely that they'd go to war over a border.

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

How competitive am I? A healthy amount. I have four siblings. It was competitive just eating dinner, like, "Everyone, get what you want from the chicken." Plus competing for your parents' attention.

Screw you, John." "Sorry, Sylvie. Can't—they frown on that kind of thing between step-siblings.

I am interested in intense, unbreakable emotional connections and oftentimes, such connections can be found between siblings.

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

Power, that's one thing, but love of family and of siblings is more important, is more powerful than any other power - at least earthly power, at least earthly power.

I do have siblings, but I don't have any brothers.

I've been doing music for a pretty long time, since I was a kid, and I must have been around 10 years old when I started playing shows with my siblings.

Love is sunshine, music, nature, my puppies, my boyfriend, my parents, my siblings, my true friends. It's a connection that allows us to coexist on this planet.

The dialectic cannot stop short before the conceptsof health and sickness, nor indeed before their siblings reason and unreason.

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

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.

More people would be depressed, if parents tried to please their children as frequently and as badly as children try to please their parents.

You know, I don’t think your brother dislikes you as much as you think. After all, he gave up a kingdom to stay with his family.

The fact that you have just buried your parent or parents and/or sibling or siblings does not make you less likely to die today.

Often the right path is the one that may be hardest for you to follow. But the hard path is also the one that will make you grow as a human being.

My mother says we’re supposed to make mistakes. That’s the way we learn.” Rocky Ryan in Bully At Ambush Corner.

The only reason that some people aren’t ashamed of their parents and/or siblings is because they know that we know that they did not choose them.

That's the difference between you and Greta. She has better things to do. She gets involved in clubs, activities. She has friends. But you? You slump around in that room of yours--

The last image I registered was Ethan and my hand – linked, bound and unbreakable.

Like a deep sad noteplayed beneath the oceanwaving through the orbthe memories of youthe bittersweet echoesinfixed forever in my heart

The gastliness of nothing. Because I was nobody's sister now.

Wyatt told me once that if tenderness were a disease, I’d be terminal.

It's a funny things about human nature. Nobody ever wonders why they've got a healthy brother or a perfect kiddie. Anything goes wrong, though, we soon start why, oh why...