Top 100 Sibling Quotes
#1. It seems to me that we have to draw the line in sibling rivalry whenever rivalry goes out of bounds into destructive behavior of aphysical or verbal kind. The principle needs to be this: Whatever the reasons for your feelings you will have to find civilized solutions.
Selma Fraiberg
#2. I do find the sibling connection endlessly fascinating, as I do all family dynamics. I like how siblings seem to create their own parentless mini-civilization within a family, one that has its own laws, myths, language, humor, its own loyalties and treacheries.
Jandy Nelson
#3. We have created a new demonstration program to allow families with a sick child who could be helped with a cord blood transplant from a sibling to bank cord blood from newborns should they decide to have another child.
Nathan Deal
#4. To lose a sibling is to lose the one different from you. There's no one now against whom to say: But I am like this. I am this.
Sofia Samatar
#5. Christian is staring at us. He's an only child and could never understand the delicate joys of sibling abuse.
Cynthia Hand
#6. My parents had three kids right after the Second World War, and we were all sort of sickly. Then I had a fourth sibling, with very serious asthma. The medical bills ... So my parents always struggled.
Patti Smith
#7. 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
#8. I needed another sibling the way I needed a sixth toe. Or a twelfth toe. You know, an extra one on each foot. Never mind.
Kate Carlisle
#9. As an only child, Cassandra found the well-worn paths of sibling interaction fascinating and horrifying in equal parts.
Kate Morton
#10. We're learning how important it is both to preserve sibling relationships if they work and repair them if they're broken. We're also learning a lot about nonliteral siblings - stepsiblings, half-siblings - and the surprising power they can have.
Jeffrey Kluger
#11. 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
#13. Eventually we will learn that the loss of indivisible love is another of our necessary losses, that loving extends beyond the mother-child pair, that most of the love we receive in this world is love we will have to share
and that sharing begins at home, with our sibling rivals.
Judith Viorst
#14. God bless you if you have one child, but I don't think anybody should have just one child. Everybody needs a sibling. I have siblings, and I have so many amazing, precious memories with my siblings. I don't know what I would do if I had been an only child.
Sherri Shepherd
#15. A sibling is the lens through which you see your childhood.
Ann Hood
#16. AlmaMia was seven the night she shaved her fourteen-year-old sister's left eyebrow while the older sibling slept.
Magaly Guerrero
#17. A glance through the Bible quickly dispels the rumor that sibling problems are an invention of the twenty-first century.
Todd Cartmell
#18. I'd been put into a box long before, after all. Each of us has. Are you the "difficult" child or the "histrionic" lover, the "argumentative" sibling or the "long-suffering" spouse? Boxes make us easier to understand, but they also imprison us because people don't see past them.
Martin Pistorius
#19. 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
#20. Step-parenting and being a step-sibling presents a lot of exciting opportunities. When families break up and re-form, there may be less order, less certainty, and a bit more trauma involved, but kids can end up having half-a-dozen parent figures.
Morris Gleitzman
#21. 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
#22. Someone who loves you, will act as sibling rather than a lover.
Olivie Boyke
#23. I have a secret sibling that I never knew existed and who was given up for adoption at birth by my parents, and she was born without legs.
Dominique Moceanu
#24. 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
#25. Still, I could have been kinder." She frowned, her eyes wandering. "Sibling relationships can be complex. I wonder, sometimes, if my own actions had some bearing upon the paths my brothers chose. Could I have been a better sister to them? Perhaps, as a young ymbryne, I was too focused on myself.
Ransom Riggs
#26. how does it feel,' wonders the neuroscientist Christof Koch, 'to bhe the mute hemisphere, permanently encased in one skull in the company of a dominant sibling that does all the talking?
Ian Leslie
#27. I guess because twins have this mystique, and triplets - I think the normal sibling connection potentially can be very powerful, and there's this idea that it's even more powerful. It really is, not just someone like me, but another version of me.
Curtis Sittenfeld
#28. The evaluative habits developed in sibling interactions undoubtedly affect the salience and choice of comparative referents in self-ability evaluations in later life
Albert Bandura
#29. Venn was like a devilish older sibling, offering that brotherly combination of wholly unreliable and utterly trustworthy.
Tom Rachman
#30. Parents always stay older than you, but sibling sort of become adults together, and that complicates that relationship, I think.
Carrie Coon
#31. Hence my obstinate emphasis on stylistic continuity from work to work rather than specific sibling relationships between the individual work and other members of its stylistic 'family' in the world outside.
Brian Ferneyhough
#32. When I watch my kids, and I see the primal level at which the sibling relationships are formed, then I completely understand what these unresolved adult sibling problems are based on. You know, 'Mom liked you better' and, 'You got your own room and I didn't.'
Annette Bening
#33. I am extremely close to my brother, Kent, and my sister, Lauren, who have been remarkably understanding about all of my weird sibling tales.
Karen Russell
#34. I was the sibling that kind of kept it all on a level when life at home got tough. I did it through comedy, sarcasm and distraction. All families are complicated, but my home life was glaringly uncomfortable much of the time, and it was me that took the onus.
Johnny Galecki
#35. Your sibling, after all, is the only other person in the world who understands how fucked up your parents made you.
Deb Caletti
#36. Sibling relationships are complicated. All family relationships are. Look at Hamlet.
Maurice Saatchi
#37. Happiness is greatest when shared with a sibling or a child.
Abigail George
#38. It was a kind of love where no matter what your relation with the person is, you care for them as much as you possibly can. Your protect them like parent, understand them like a sibling, talk to them like a friend and love them like a life-partner.
Aakash Neeraj Mittal
#39. No one in the world loved you quite the way a younger sibling did.
Laura Lippman
#41. I don't remember any sibling rivalry growing up, because by the time I was really conscious, Tom was going away to college. My relationship with him, which is a very close one, really developed in more recent years.
David Hyde Pierce
#42. Gary had hoped to find her more cooperative. He already had one "alternative" sibling and he didn't need another. It frustrated him that people could so happily drop out of the world of conventional expectations; it felt like a unilateral rewriting, to his disadvantage, of the rules of life.
Jonathan Franzen
#43. 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
#44. Love for me is my North Star. It's the highest form of grace. And I love that there's different levels and different ways of showing it, and different representations of it. Whether it's love shown to a stranger, love to a sibling, your child, your parents, your partner.
Ben Harper
#45. A sibling would be the one person in the whole world who would be with you from birth until death. At every step, she or he would be there.
John Shors
#46. Broad-mindedness is related to tolerance; open-mindedness is the sibling of peace.
Salman Rushdie
#47. 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
#48. There's nothing like competing for your boyfriend's attention with an emotionally needy sibling to make you feel like the worst sort of evil psycho-bitch.
Lauren Willig
#49. 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
#50. If the Universe did procreate, it must be the mother of this strength within me ever expanding beyond my carnal limitations. Every mind open, must be my sibling.
Dew Platt
#51. If his/her siblings and parents are not treated and he/she is strong enough to continue the recovery, a sibling will take up the "druggie" role.
Virgil Miller Newton
#52. After a while, marriage is a sibling relationship
marked by occasional, and rather regrettable, episodes of incest.
Martin Amis
#53. 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
#54. Having a sibling means you always have a best friend for life.
Abigail George
#55. My first child is going to be the oldest sibling to the next kid, and that may change with each and every year. I'm looking forward to how one baby influences the other, and to my family as a whole, to every single chapter.
Blake Lively
#56. Back when I was on my first assignment as a seeker, I was way out in Arizona. Brought in this kid named Clarisse."
"Clarisse?"
"Sibling of yours," Hedge said. "Ares kid. Violent. Rude. Lots of potential.
Rick Riordan
#57. A sibling may be the keeper of one's identity, the only person with the keys to one's unfettered, more fundamental self.
Marian Sandmaier
#58. 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
#59. No one could have nicer sisters. No sibling problems there.
Henry Fonda
#60. Who else but a sibling travels with you from the start of life's path to the bitter end?
Glennon Doyle Melton
#61. It's not the easiest thing in the world to act with Harry - we are very close. I'm not saying it won't ever happen again but it's best to work with other people. There are no professional boundaries at which to stop when you act with a sibling.
Luke Treadaway
#62. She tries to wear her pain on the inside. She always has. It's the trademark of the oldest sibling, I think.
Laura Miller
#63. 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
#64. I was born in 1957 as the second son of the late Sat Paul and Lalita Mittal. My father was a politician and, at one point of time, an MP. A gap of two years separates me from both my elder brother Rakesh and younger sibling Rajan.
Sunil Mittal
#65. I hope that people will realize that the struggle to make a life better with a sibling is worth it.
Marie Brenner
#66. 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
#67. Sibling relationships figure in a lot of my books. You don't often see relationships between adult siblings explored in fiction.
Dara Horn
#68. She could see that to lose a sibling was hard: it could only seem unnatural:out of time, out of order, a vicious re-run of your own departure into nothingness.
Fay Weldon
#69. She developed a kind of disdain for her only sibling usually reserved for despotic political regimes and perpetrators of genocide.
Elisa Albert
#70. My sister and I never engaged in sibling rivalry. Our parents weren't that crazy about either one of us.
Erma Bombeck
#71. But such a cheap shot from a sibling can never be left alone.
John Grisham
#72. Get done with the damn sibling rivalry and let's get back with the task at hand here so we can figure out what we're going to do.
Pixie Lynn Whitfield
#73. Throughout history, adultery has had few rivals as a cause of murder and human misery. The reason we tend to resemble our mates is that many of us are looking for someone who reminds us of our parent or sibling of the opposite sex, who in turn resembles us.
Jared Diamond
#74. The best parent, the best sibling, the best friend and even God are more interested in being with you, than above you,
Sarah Young
#75. So it - we have one enduring, uh, idea that will always live on with the Smothers Brothers, that 'Mom always liked you best.' We're the universal, uh, feeling that every child, every sibling has had somewhere along the line. Or, 'Who did she like best?' And that became kind of a little mantra.
Tom Smothers
#76. Contentment is the sibling of happiness;
joy is the fountain of both.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#77. What causes sibling rivalry?"
"Having more than one kid.
Tim Allen
#78. A sibling is a friend for life, but they are a friend for life that you are forced to have. And like anything that you are forced to do, occasionally people will drive you crazy.
Alex Hirsch
#79. If you listen to The Browns, it's a very pretty sound. It was sibling harmony, a sound that was very pleasing. I've never heard anybody that could come close to that particular sound. It couldn't be imitated.
Jim Ed Brown
#80. INSTEAD OF DISMISSING NEGATIVE FEELINGS ABOUT A SIBLING, ACKNOWLEDGE THE FEELINGS.
Adele Faber
#81. You cannot decide how many children your parents will give birth to, but you can identify the sibling(s) (if any) with whom you can have a healthy relationship.
Widad Akreyi
#82. I was the eldest child, so I know how it feels to have attention shared with a sibling.
Suriya
#83. I hoped Lissa remained the only one with a surprise sibling.
Richelle Mead
#84. My brother, Chris Massey from 'Zoey 101', was acting first at a young age. I just followed in my sibling's footsteps.
Kyle Massey
#85. 'Empire' deals with the black experience, the human experience, sibling rivalry, what it feels like to be ignored or doted upon by a parent, illness, death. There are so many things that I think the audience can identify with.
Grace Gealey
#86. For months, my parents had been trying to prepare me for the arrival of a real sibling. They had given me a doll to play with and encouraged me to take care of her. And when the baby, a little boy they named Rahm, finally arrived, they encouraged me to help take care of him, too.
Ezekiel Emanuel
#87. Haruhi: This is a sibling squabble, not a fight to the death! You're both wrong, and acting like idiots only proves it!
Bisco Hatori
#88. The room does feel strange, oppressive even, with the TV off. In fact, Katie can't remember ever being in this room without it on. It's as if they're missing their fifth sibling, the one who never shuts up and demands all the attention.
Lisa Genova
#89. 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
#90. Max cuffed his brother good-naturedly on the ear as River slid in past him and bent to kiss Sophia on the cheek. "Hello, are you sure you're with the right brother?"
Sophia had never had a younger sibling. But this man with his laughing eyes and bright smile ... "Are you making me an offer?
Nalini Singh
#91. Today, I'm proud and happy to say I'm very close to all the Bachchans, and Abhishek is like a sibling
Subhash K. Jha
#92. Selfless love can transform sibling rivalry. - Emily Osburne
Gary Chapman
#93. I had this odd sibling rivalry with America.
Patti Davis
#94. Changing schools and friends is hard on children and can often make them desperate and lonely enough to form closer ties with a sibling.
Linda Sunshine
#95. Well, it's true for every elder sibling, We have this supremely potent weapon "parents " on our side in such matters. In fact, such are the times when our maturity works wonders in hitching parents to our side over these younger siblings.
Parul Wadhwa
#96. I write, as far as I can tell, because writing is a black sheep sibling of prayer, an urgent struggle against a bad connection, intent, hopeful, innocent, never quite good enough.
Kirk Wilson
#97. My own life has in some ways been a decades-long tour of the sibling experience. I have full sibs, I have half-sibs, and for a time I had step-sibs.
Jeffrey Kluger
#98. Where would you be without friends? The people to pick you up when you need lifting? We come from homes far from perfect, so you end up almost parent and sibling to your friends - your own chosen family. There's nothing like a really loyal, dependable, good friend. Nothing.
Jennifer Aniston
#99. There are very serious forms of, and reactions to, sibling victimization.
David Finkelhor
#100. I'm fascinated by twins. It's such an interesting thing. I'm an only child, so I don't have a sibling. But, if you think about the bond that siblings have, that intensifies so much when you think about being in the womb together.
Sarah Michelle Gellar
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