Older Sibling Quotes

• 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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• You keep your past by having sisters. As you get older, they're the only ones who don't get bored if you talk about your memories.

  Deborah Moggach

  Sister, Memories, 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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• Older siblings get more total-immersion mentoring with their parents before younger siblings come along. As a result, they get an IQ and linguistic advantage because they are the exclusive focus of their parents' attention.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Sibling, Parent, Focus

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• 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.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Sibling, Dark, Skills

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• Sometimes she teased me that she’d eventually catch up to me in age and be my older sibling. Looking at her now, with that determined glint in her eyes and the confidence in her voice, I could almost believe her

  Rick Riordan

  Sibling, Believe, Eye

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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, Sibling, Addiction

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

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

  Lynne Rae Perkins

  Sibling, Book, School

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• You're surrounded by other people all the time. And you have to take responsibility if you're the eldest or one of the older siblings, and you're constantly communicating in a way that perhaps you aren't if you're in a smaller family.

  Harry West

  Sibling, Responsibility, People

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I wrote before I could write. I got my hands on a journal, maybe a hand-me-down; I had three older siblings. My first entries are in the handwriting of the sister closets in age (5 years my senior). She must have gotten tired of my dictations because she gave up and then my blocky scrawl shows up. I wrote plays as a kid mostly.

  Julianna Baggott

  Senior, Sibling, Writing

  "The Rumpus Interview With Julianna Baggott". Interview with Roxane Gay, therumpus.net. May 11, 2012.

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• I was the youngest of the six kids, and to make my older siblings laugh, that was very important. I did a great impression of our dad that made them all laugh, so that gave me a lot of power within the family.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Dad, Sibling, Kids

  "Q&A With Jim Gaffigan: ‘Hot Pocket’ Comedian Reaches Out to Our Wounded Soldiers (VIDEO)". Interview with Joshua Kors, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 8, 2012.

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• When you learn conflict-resolution skills in the playroom, you then practice them on the playground, and that in turn stays with you. If you have a combative sibling or a physically intimidating, older sibling, you learn a lot about how to deal with situations like that later in life. 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.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Sibling, Dark, Later In Life

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• My older siblings and I all work in 'the industry'. So obviously we have hectic schedules, but we make it work.

  Lily Collins

  Sibling, Hectic Schedule, Schedules

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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

  Sibling, House, Cooking

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