Sibling Quotes - Page 5

• Elder sisters never can do younger ones justice!

  Charlotte Mary Yonge

  Sister, Justice, Funny Sister

  Charlotte Mary Yonge (1873). “The Pillars of the House, Or Under Wode, Under Rode”

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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

  Dark, Later In Life, Practice

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• There are parents, siblings, teachers and friends, but counting on them to motivate you isn't fair. They've all got their own lives, and while the may be able to help you out, if you can motivate yourself, then you're golden.

  Shannon Miller

  Teacher, Gymnastics, Parent

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• I had this odd sibling rivalry with America.

  Patti Davis

  Brother, America, Odd

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• It's torturous what my siblings put me through. I can take any Olympic final, I can fight in a world championship and fall behind and win in sudden death, but when it comes to my siblings, it's out of my control. There's not much I can do.

  Steven Lopez

  Fall, Fighting, Winning

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• Sisterhood is powerful.

  Robin Morgan

  Sister, Powerful, Sisterhood

  Robin Morgan (2014). “Upstairs in the Garden: Poems Selected and New, 1968–1988”, p.206, Open Road Media

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• We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we have to like each other. It may be the very recognition of all men as our brothers that accounts for the sibling rivalry, and even enmity, we have toward so many of them.

  Peter De Vries

  Love, Brother, Men

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• We may look old and wise to the outside world. But to each other, we are still in junior school.

  Charlotte Gray

  Sister, Wise, Brother

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• Sisterly love is, of all sentiments, the most abstract. Nature does not grant it any functions.

  Ugo Betti

  Sister, Love Is, Doe

  Ugo Betti (1968). “Three Plays”

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• 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.

  Syesha Mercado

  True Friend, Sunshine, Love Is

  "American Idol’s Syesha Mercado: On Honesty, Acceptance, and Being Present". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• When you're working with somebody else in that kind of way, you always have to have these guidelines to what you're doing - especially when you're working with your sibling. But when you're working by yourself you're free to do whatever you like.

  Eleanor Friedberger

  Way, Kind, Guidelines

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I was taking a nose dive somewhere between eleven and twelve because my sister had died and I was practicing something that siblings do which is follow in their footsteps and die as well.

  Leo Kottke

  Twelve, Noses, My Sister

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• I really just wanted to write about three brothers. When you do that, though, it gives you this wonderful opportunity to tie together different social milieus, because siblings usually move into different worlds as they grow up.

  Daniel Kehlmann

  Brother, Growing Up, Moving

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I think the fact that father is running now as opposed to in 2012 where he didn't that he's had enough faith in myself and my siblings to be able to run the company.We've got tens of thousands of people that are under his direct employ. Those people, he wouldn't leave a company and leave those people and their lives and everything they've put into it at risk if he didn't think there was competent leadership to take over after him.

  Sean Hannity

  Running, Father, Thinking

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• It's one of the worst-kept secrets of family life that all parents have a preferred son or daughter, and the rules for acknowledging it are the same everywhere: The favored kids recognize their status and keep quiet about it - the better to preserve the good thing they've got going and to keep their siblings off their back.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Daughter, Mother, Kids

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• When you're your parents' one shot at a genetic legacy, you may get to attend all the best schools, wear all the best clothes and eat all the best foods - at least relative to children in multiple-sibling households. But you also wind up with an overweening sense of your own importance.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Children, School, Wind

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• My favorite holiday memory was sitting at home all day in my pajamas during winter break for school watching a bunch of old Christmas movies like 'Jack Frost' and 'Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer' with my siblings and parents.

  Unknown

  Memories, Home, School

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• There's a sort of sibling moratorium when you're establishing yourself as an adult. So much of your energy has to be focused on other things like work and kids. But when people become more settled, siblings tend to regroup because now you're building a new extended family.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Kids, People, Energy

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• We all have a family, whether we like it or not; we all come from somewhere, and there's something strange in the way you have, with siblings, two or three personalities yoked together for life. You grow up thinking those family relationships are set in stone and then you get older and realize they're not. They're always shifting.

  Maggie O'Farrell

  Growing Up, Thinking, Personality

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• More than anything, having adventures with my siblings and spending time with my family and my husband make me happy.

  Daphne Oz

  Husband, Adventure, My Family

  Interview with Rachel Goldstien, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The greatest motivator and leveler in my life has been my yoga practice. It has taught me how to be a grown-up, follow through, give back, be compassionate, be a better mother, wife, daughter, sibling, friend, and just show up.

  Emily Carpenter

  Daughter, Mother, Yoga

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• I'm afraid not." Hades sighed. "My son here convinced me that perhaps I should prioritize my list of enemies." He glared at me with distaste. "As much as I dislike certain upstart demigods, it would not do for Olympus to fall. I would miss bickering with my siblings. And if there is one thing we agree on - it is that you were a TERRIBLE father.

  Rick Riordan

  Father, Fall, Son

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• They had nothing to say to each other. A five-year age gap between siblings is like a garden that needs constant attention. Even three months apart allows the weeds to grow up between you.

  Zadie Smith

  Weed, Growing Up, Garden

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• This is just one of those annoying and unjust differences between you and your younger sibling...I was probably fifteen before I could go to a friend's house without giving mom an FBI dossier on the people; Bex can practically hitchhike on the freeway with a mere "Have fun, honey.

  Deb Caletti

  Mom, Fun, Differences

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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

  Dark, Skills, Needs

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