Quotes About Younger Brothers And Sisters

#1. I was desperate for a friend, and I used to lie in bed at night thinking about what it would be like. My younger brothers and sisters had friends, and I used to watch them playing to try to work out what they did and how friendship worked.

Daniel Tammet

#2. A successful home is based on the love and helpfulness of children just as it is based on loving parents handling their responsibilities ... Be eager to forgive when problems arise at home. Help with your younger brothers and sisters when needed. You are their hero.

Hugh W. Pinnock

#3. You shall find, that there cannot be a greater spur to the attaining what you would have the eldest learn, and know himself, than to set him upon teaching it his younger brothers and sisters.

John Locke

#4. My husband and I had to raise five of my younger brothers and sisters. They lived with us. We sent them to school.

Dolly Parton

#5. Animals are our younger brothers and sisters, also on the ladder of evolution but a few rungs lower. It is an important part of our responsibilities to help them in their ascent, and not to retard their development by cruel exploitation of their helplessness.

Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding

#6. If you want to remember yourself, the best thing is not to think about yourself. As long as you think about yourself, you will not remember yourself.

P.D. Ouspensky

#7. The measure of performance of any given agent is the amount of money it accumulates through its actions.

John Henry Holland

#8. We have two older brothers and two younger sisters; Sam and I are in the middle, and I've always felt protective and closest to him.

Rebecca Ferguson

#9. I got two older brothers and two younger sisters, and we grew up in the country, and we were a little feral. So as long as the car didn't end up in the rhubarb and you didn't get caught for doing whatever you were doing, you were fine.

Diego Klattenhoff

#10. At first a woman doesn't want anything but a husband, but as soon as gets one, she wants everything else in the world.

E.W. Howe

#11. My wife once said that one of her great ambitions was to walk down the streets of Hong Kong with her children. So we all went to Asia on one occasion. Then she said she'd like to walk down the streets of Jerusalem with her children. So we arranged our family finances and all went to Jerusalem.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#12. There's a reason it's called 'girls gone wild' and not 'women gone wild'. When girls go wild, they show their tits. When women go wild, they kill men and drown their kids in a tub.

Louis C.K.

#13. The right to determine your individual destiny belongs in your hands, and no one else's.

Ramez Naam

#14. Life is much more than the evanescent present. We should do all we can to preserve our antiquities, lest we forget who we are.

Laurence Overmire

#15. If you have supportive family and friends combined with a strong will; there is no limit to what you can achieve.

S.J. Hailey

#16. I had eight brothers and sisters. Every Christmas my younger brother Bobby would wake up extra early and open everybody's presents - everybody's - so by the time the rest of us got up, all the gifts were shredded, ribbons off, torn open and thrown aside.

Tommy Hilfiger

#17. My parents are like younger, urchinlike brothers and sisters whose faces are dirty and who blurt out humiliating things that can neither be anticipated nor controlled. I sigh and make the best of it. I feel I'm older than they are, much older. I feel ancient.

Margaret Atwood

#18. I like men who have known the best and the worst, whose life has been anything but a smooth trip. Storms have battered them, they have lain, sometimes for months on end, becalmed. There is a residue even if they fail. It has not been all tinkling; there have been grand chords.

James Salter

#19. I have lots of brothers and sisters, two of whom are younger than myself, so I rely on my phone, text messaging or e-mailing to stay in the loop and communicate when I'm away for big chunks of time.

Devon Aoki