Older Sibling Quotes

#1. When I was nineteen,
I told a thirty-
year-old man what a
fool I had been when
I was seventeen.
'We were always,' he
said glancing down, 'a
fool two years ago.

Donald Hall

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. I feel it in me like a woman having a baby, all that life churning inside me. I feel it every day; it moves, stretches, yawns. It's getting ready to be born. It knows exactly what it is.

Maurice Sendak

#5. Americans are generally very self-sufficient and I think generally averse to pretension, just as I am.

Tom Bodett

#6. AlmaMia was seven the night she shaved her fourteen-year-old sister's left eyebrow while the older sibling slept.

Magaly Guerrero

#7. 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

#8. I'm the youngest of four, but my closest sibling is 10 years older. I had a lot of imagination. I was running around playing little games by myself. But I never thought I was going to be an actor.

Daniel Breaker

#9. Nothing is more useful than silence.

Menander

#10. Venn was like a devilish older sibling, offering that brotherly combination of wholly unreliable and utterly trustworthy.

Tom Rachman

#11. Parents always stay older than you, but sibling sort of become adults together, and that complicates that relationship, I think.

Carrie Coon

#12. Bankruptcy and repudiation are the springboards from which much of our civilization vaults and turns its somersets, but the savagestands on the unelastic plank of famine.

Henry David Thoreau

#13. A beautiful product that doesn't work very well is ugly.

Jonathan Ive

#14. 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

#15. I've always been a big fan of beauty. Sure, you can't judge a book by its cover but who wants to have sex with a book?

Stephen Colbert

#16. 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

#17. I didn't revel in death, but I didn't hate it either. Death had raised me, like an older sibling. Amidst death, I had found my bearings as a soldier. Surrounded by death, I had found my place as a leader.

Roshani Chokshi

#18. Without exception, the dominance and coherence of culture proved to be an essential quality of the excellent companies.

Tom Peters

#19. Denigrating art you don't understand doesn't hurt the art - it reveals something about your willingness to learn.

Seth Godin

#20. I noticed that when my daughter was born, my son really, really liked her. But then as she started getting older, and as she started crawling around our house and touching different things that were his, sibling rivalry issues started appearing.

Gene Luen Yang

#21. your boss is an older sibling. You'll always be respectful, but you won't hesitate to offer frank advice when you think it's warranted - and you'll never suck up.

Gary Hamel

#22. The two of them were like oil and water. Her older sister was forever stuck in surrogate mommy role. But Viviana had never needed, nor wanted a replacement mother. Fate had seen fit to remove her biological mother, so she figured that was the way it was supposed to be.

Tirumalai S. Srivatsan

#23. When there is nothing left to love for, it's easy to die for something.

Gavin Mills

#24. I don't think of 'Macbeth' as the villain. I don't think of 'King Lear' as the villain. I don't think of 'Hamlet' as the villain. I don't think of 'Travis Bickle' as the villain.

Damien Chazelle

#25. I, your father, order it." "Wow, I guess it's because you killed every sibling of mine before they could walk so you've never dealt with a teenager or anyone older. But, seriously, that 'because I said so' thing doesn't work, pretty much ever.

Gini Koch

#26. I'd like to start off by saying that every experience no matter what it is, good or bad, you'll learn from it. That's just life. But something I've done I've regretted is probably picking on my siblings growing up, because you appreciate them so much more as you grow older.

Olivia Culpo