My Siblings Quotes - Page 2

• When I was growing up, my mother was always a friend to my siblings and me (in addition to being all the other things a mom is), and I was always grateful for that because I knew she was someone I could talk to and joke with, and argue with and that nothing would ever harm that friendship.

  Marlo Thomas

  Mom, Mother, Brother

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• We can't understand when we're pregnant, or when our siblings are expecting, how profound it is to have a shared history with a younger generation: blood, genes, humor. It means we were actually here, on Earth, for a time - like the Egyptians with their pyramids, only with children.

  Anne Lamott

  Children, Sibling, Mean

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• 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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• The family. We are a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms. . . and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together.

  Erma Bombeck

  Family, Sibling, Character

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  I grew up with six brothers. That's how I learned to dance - waiting for the bathroom.

  Bob Hope

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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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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• 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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• Half the time when brothers wrestle, it's just an excuse to hug each other.

  James Patterson

  Brother, Sibling, Hug

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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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• Not only had my brother disappeared, but--and bear with me here--a part of my very being had gone with him. Stories about us could, from them on, be told from only one perspective. Memories could be told but not shared.

  John Corey Whaley

  Brother, Memories, Perspective

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

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• Oh, brothers! I don't care for brothers. My elder brother won't die, and my younger brothers seem never to do anything else.

  Oscar Wilde

  Brother, Care, Funny Brother

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.11, Oxford University Press on Demand

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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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• The love of a family is life's greatest blessing

  Eva Burrows

  Love, Family, Blessed

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• Siblings: children of the same parents, each of whom is perfectly normal until they get together.

  Sam Levenson

  Relationship, Family, Sister

  Sam Levenson (2016). “Everything But Money: A Life of Riches”, p.124, Open Road Media

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• When I look at each of my brothers, I see two things. First, I see the next place I want to leave a rosy welt. Second, I see a good man who will always be there, no matter how hard life gets for me or him. Then, I get out of the way because I realize he's coming at me with a wet dish towel.

  Daniel Pearce

  Brother, Men, Two

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• Never make a companion equal to a brother.

  Hesiod

  Brother, Sibling, Companionship

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• If sisters were free to express how they really feel, parents would hear this: "Give me all the attention and all the toys and send Rebecca to live with Grandma."

  Linda Sunshine

  Funny, Sister, Sibling

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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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• Comparison is a death knell to sibling harmony.

  Elizabeth Fishel

  Brother, Sibling, Harmony

  "Forget poignancy, Arsenal prefer to deal in title significance" by Sachin Nakrani, www.theguardian.com. February 12, 2008.

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• Your parents leave you too soon and your kids and spouse come along late, but your siblings know you when you are in your most inchoate form.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Sister, Brother, Sibling

  "Why we can never escape our siblings". Interview with Mandy Van Deven, www.salon.com. September 11, 2011.

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• Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.

  Margaret Mead

  Relationship, Family, Sister

  Attributed to Margaret Mead in Ellyn Sanna "Sisters by Birth Friends by Choice: All the Things I Love About You", June 2003.

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• If you want to know how your girl will treat you after marriage, just listen to her talking to her little brother.

  Sam Levenson

  Inspirational, Girl, Wedding

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• There is a destiny which makes us brothers; none goes his way alone. All that we send into the lives of others comes back into our own.

  Edwin Markham

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  EDWIN MARKHAM (1901). “LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS”

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  My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, 'You're tearing up the grass'; 'We're not raising grass,' Dad would reply. 'We're raising boys.'

  Harmon Killebrew

  Family, Fathers Day, Mother

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Having lots of siblings is like having built-in best friends.

  Kim Kardashian

  Life, Success, Brother

  "Kim Kardashian: We Can't Keep Up!". Interview With Katie Couric, www.glamour.com. January 2, 2011.

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