Sibling Quotes - Page 4

• I don't understand how people learn to live in the world if they haven't had siblings. Everything I learned about negotiation, territoriality, coexistence, dislike, inbred differences and love despite knowledge I learned from my four younger siblings.

  Anna Quindlen

  Differences, People, Inbreds

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• Passion and platonic friendliness, often contrary siblings, frequently wear similar faces to hide the great distance between them.

  Darin Strauss

  Distance, Passion, Faces

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• Right, then, mate, terribly sorry for my unspeakable rudeness, and I do beg your pardon. I can only say that it was caused by my natural affront to the notion of her as my sister. Since I'll be shagging her tonight, you can imagine how I'd be distressed at the thought of rogering my sibling" "You shmuck! The only thing you'll be shagging tonight is yourself!" "You wanted sincerity, well, luv, I was sincere.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Sorry, Tonight, Imagine

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• My siblings and I were raised like tenants, to be honest. There was a total absence of intimacy in my family, though there was still a great deal of camaraderie among the kids. Things were set up almost like a business, and it had to be managed that way because we were really poor, and there were a lot of mouths to feed.

  Sufjan Stevens

  Kids, Honest, Intimacy

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Siblings may be ambivalent about their relationships in life, but in death the power of their bond strangles the surviving heart. Death reminds us that we are part of the same river, the same flow from the same source, rushing towards the same destiny. Were you close? Yes, but we didn't know it then.

  Barbara Ascher

  Heart, Destiny, Grieving

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• It always struck Fire, the physical affection between these siblings, who as often as not were at each other's throats over one thing or another. She liked the way the four of them shifted and changed shape, bumping and clanging against one another, sharpening each other's edges and then smoothing them down again, and somehow always finding the way to fit together.

  Kristin Cashore

  Fire, Together, Shapes

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.96, Hachette UK

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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, Sorrow, Delight

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• I always saw myself as more of a watcher, although I suppose my siblings might have a different viewpoint on it.

  Amy Adams

  Different, Viewpoints, Might

  Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 6, 2013.

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• Even though fathers, grandparents, siblings, memories of ancestors are important agents of socialization, our society focuses on the attributes and characteristics of mothers and teachers and gives them the ultimate responsibility for the child's life chances.

  Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot

  Education, Mother, Teacher

  Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot (1978). “Worlds apart: relationships between families and schools”, Basic Books (AZ)

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• A sibling is the lens through which you see your childhood.

  Ann Hood

  Childhood, Lenses, Your Children

  Ann Hood (2014). “Do Not Go Gentle: My Search for Miracles in a Cynical Time”, p.70, Open Road Media

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

  Robert Bly

  Thinking, People, Adults

  Source: www.utne.com

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• My mom says I'm her sugarplum.
  My mom says I'm her lamb.
  My mom says I'm completely perfect
  Just the way I am.
  My mom says I'm a super-special wonderful terrific little guy.
  My mom just had another baby.
  Why?

  Judith Viorst

  Mom, Baby, Perfect

  Judith Viorst (2010). “Necessary Losses: The Loves Illusions Dependencies and Impossible Ex”, p.94, Simon and Schuster

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

  Maurice Saatchi

  Looks, Complicated, Family Relationship

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• 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.

  Kevin Leman

  Mom, Dad, Thinking

  Dr. Kevin Leman (2009). “Born to Win: Keeping Your Firstborn Edge without Losing Your Balance”, p.32, Baker Books

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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

  Book, School, Ideas

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• In the sibling society, both the adult and the elder get lost, and no one knows where they are.

  Robert Bly

  Adults, Lost, Elders

  Source: www.utne.com

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• There can be no situation in life in which the conversation of my dear sister will not administer some comfort to me.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Sister, Situations In Life, Sorority

  Mary Wortley Montagu, James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie Wharncliffe (1837). “The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes”, p.200

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• I do not believe that the accident of birth makes people sisters and brothers. It makes them siblings. Gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood are conditions people have to work at. It's a serious matter. You compromise, you give, you take, you stand firm, and you're relentless...And it is an investment. Sisterhood means if you happen to be in Burma and I happen to be in San Diego and I'm married to someone who is very jealous and you're married to somebody who is very possessive, if you call me in the middle of the night, I have to come.

  Maya Angelou

  Brother, Believe, Mean

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• I would like more sisters, that the taking out of one, might not leave such stillness.

  Emily Dickinson

  Sister, Might, Sisterhood

  Emily Dickinson (1986). “Selected Letters”, p.148, Harvard University Press

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• I haven’t come from the typical path or background of someone who would make it to this level as a ballerina. When it came to my childhood-growing up in a single-parent home, often struggling financially-my mother definitely instilled in me and my siblings this strength, this will, to just continue to survive and succeed.

  Misty Copeland

  Mother, Growing Up, Struggle

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• Anyone who has raised more than one child knows full well that kids turn out the way they turn out - astonishingly, for the most part, and usually quite unlike their siblings, even their twins, raised under the same flawed rooftree. Little we have done or said, or left undone and unsaid, seems to have made much mark. It's hubris to suppose ourselves so influential; a casual remark on the playground is as likely to change their lives as any dedicated campaign of ours. They come with much of their own software already in place, waiting, and none of the keys we press will override it.

  Barbara Holland

  Children, Kids, Keys

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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, Past

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• Bless you, my darling, and remember you are always in the heart - oh tucked so close there is no chance of escape - of your sister.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Sister, Heart, Remember You

  Katherine Mansfield, Vincent O'Sullivan, Margaret Scott (1984). “The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield: 1903-1917”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Whatever you do they will love you; even if they don't love you they are connected to you till you die. You can be boring and tedious with -sisters, whereas you have to put on a good face with friends.

  Deborah Moggach

  Sister, Love You, Rakhi

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• In thee my soul shall own combined the sister and the friend.

  Catherine Killigrew

  Sister, Soul, Sorority

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