These siblings quotes will inspire you. Siblings, each of two or more children or offspring having one or both parents in common; a brother or sister.
Below you will find a collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging siblings quotes, siblings sayings, and siblings proverbs.
Inspirational Siblings Quotes
- “I loved performing; I was always trying to impress my siblings by being a clown. I think that came from being the runt of the litter.” ~ Rose Byrne
- “Your siblings are the only people in the world who know what it’s like to have been brought up the way you were.” ~ Betsy Z. Cohen
- “There is a destiny which makes us brothers; none goes his way alone. All that we send into the lives of others comes back into our own.” ~ Edwin Markham
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“You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.” ~ Desmond Tutu
- “One can be a brother only in something. Where there is no tie that binds men, men are not united but merely lined up.” ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
- “Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.” ~ Margaret Mead
- “If you want to know how your girl will treat you after marriage, just listen to her talking to her little brother.” ~ Sam Levenson
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“Comparison is a death knell to sibling harmony.” ~ Elizabeth Fishel
- “Your parents leave you too soon and your kids and spouse come along late, but your siblings know you when you are in your most inchoate form.” ~ Jeffrey Kluger
- “I know it’s a cliche, but the whole family is just whacked. I mean, we’re all out of our minds. They’re the funniest, most eccentric bizarre people I’ve ever met, my siblings.” ~ Dana Carvey
- “My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, ‘You’re tearing up the grass’; ‘We’re not raising grass,’ Dad would reply. ‘We’re raising boys.'” ~ Harmon Killebrew
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“Having lots of siblings is like having built-in best friends.” ~ Kim Kardashian
- “Brothers don’t necessarily have to say anything to each other – they can sit in a room and be together and just be completely comfortable with each other.” ~ Leonardo DiCaprio
- “The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out of his nose.” ~ Garrison Keillor
- “We know one another’s faults, virtues, catastrophes, mortifications, triumphs, rivalries, desires, and how long we can each hang by our hands to a bar. We have been banded together under pack codes and tribal laws.” ~ Rose Macaulay
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“Friends are the siblings God never gave us.” ~ Mencius
- “I don’t believe an accident of birth makes people sisters or brothers. It makes them siblings, gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood is a condition people have to work at.” ~ Maya Angelou
- “There is a little boy inside the man who is my brother… Oh, how I hated that little boy. And how I love him too.” ~ Anna Quindlen , Siblings quotes love
- “It snowed last year too: I made a snowman and my brother knocked it down and I knocked my brother down and then we had tea.” ~ Dylan Thomas
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“I think I’m funny because my family, my siblings were funny.” ~ Martin Short
- “Siblings that say they never fight are most definitely hiding something” ~ Daniel Handler
- “When brothers agree, no fortress is so strong as their common life.” ~ Antisthenes
- “Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their power, which no subsequent connections can supply.” ~ Jane Austen
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“Sweet is the voice of a sister in the season of sorrow.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli
- “I sought my soul, but my soul I could not see. I sought my God, but my God eluded me. I sought my brother and I found all three.” ~ Unknown
- “Blessed is the servant who loves his brother as much when he is sick and useless as when he is well and an be of service to him. And blessed is he who loves his brother as well when he is afar off as when he is by his side, and who would say nothing behind his back he might not, in love, say before his face.” ~ Francis of Assisi , Siblings quotes brother
- “I, who have no sisters or brothers, look with some degree of innocent envy on those who may be said to be born to friends.” ~ James Boswell
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“It takes two men to make one brother.” ~ Israel Zangwill
- “The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder.” ~ Jane Austen
- “You can kid the world, but not your sister.” ~ Charlotte Gray
- “Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister.” ~ Alice Walker
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“My siblings are my best friends.” ~ America Ferrera
- “When I was growing up, my mother was always a friend to my siblings and me (in addition to being all the other things a mom is), and I was always grateful for that because I knew she was someone I could talk to and joke with, and argue with and that nothing would ever harm that friendship.” ~ Marlo Thomas
- “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
- “We can’t understand when we’re pregnant, or when our siblings are expecting, how profound it is to have a shared history with a younger generation: blood, genes, humor. It means we were actually here, on Earth, for a time – like the Egyptians with their pyramids, only with children.” ~ Anne Lamott
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“Sometimes being a brother is even better than being a superhero.” ~ Marc Brown
- “If you want to do really important things in life and big things in life, you can’t do anything by yourself. And your best teams are your friends and your siblings.” ~ Deepak Chopra , Siblings quotes life
- “A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves – a special kind of double.” ~ Toni Morrison
- “Never make a companion equal to a brother.” ~ Hesiod
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“The love of a family is life’s greatest blessing” ~ Eva Burrows
- “When I look at each of my brothers, I see two things. First, I see the next place I want to leave a rosy welt. Second, I see a good man who will always be there, no matter how hard life gets for me or him. Then, I get out of the way because I realize he’s coming at me with a wet dish towel.” ~ Daniel Pearce
- “Not only had my brother disappeared, but–and bear with me here–a part of my very being had gone with him. Stories about us could, from then on, be told from only one perspective. Memories could be told but not shared.” ~ John Corey Whaley
- “If you don’t understand how a woman could both love her sister dearly and want to wring her neck at the same time, then you were probably an only child.” ~ Linda Sunshine
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“My sister taught me everything I really need to know, and she was only in sixth grade at the time.” ~ Linda Sunshine
- “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
- “If sisters were free to express how they really feel, parents would hear this: “Give me all the attention and all the toys and send Rebecca to live with Grandma.”” ~ Linda Sunshine , Siblings quotes sister
- “Half the time when brothers wrestle, it’s just an excuse to hug each other.” ~ James Patterson
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“Ignore reality, there’s nothing you can do about it.” ~ Natalie Imbruglia
- “Oh, brothers! I don’t care for brothers. My elder brother won’t die, and my younger brothers seem never to do anything else.” ~ Oscar Wilde
- “I grew up with six brothers. That’s how I learned to dance – waiting for the bathroom.” ~ Bob Hope
- “Older siblings get more total-immersion mentoring with their parents before younger siblings come along. As a result, they get an IQ and linguistic advantage because they are the exclusive focus of their parent’s attention.” ~ Jeffrey Kluger
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“Sometimes siblings can get in each other’s space.” ~ Gisele Bundchen
- “The family is one of nature’s masterpieces.” ~ George Santayana
- “Big sisters are the crabgrass in the lawn of life.” ~ Charles M. Schulz
- “Your True Nature Is Love. There’s Nothing You Can Do About It.” ~ Byron Katie
- “I have siblings. And there are certain things I know that I can push their buttons. And they know they have certain things where they can push mine.” ~ Catherine Zeta-Jones
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“Help one another is part of the religion of our sisterhood.” ~ Louisa May Alcott
- “Being pretty on the inside means you don’t hit your brother and you eat all your peas – that’s what my grandma taught me.” ~ Lord Chesterfield
- “Sisters never quite forgive each other for what happened when they were five.” ~ Pam Brown
- “An older sister is a friend and defender – a listener, conspirator, a counselor, and a sharer of delights. And sorrows too.” ~ Pam Brown
- “Sisters annoy, interfere, criticize. Indulge in monumental sulks, in huffs, in snide remarks. Borrow. Break. Monopolize the bathroom. Are always underfoot. But if catastrophe should strike, sisters are there. Defending you against all comers.” ~ Pam Brown
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“When sisters stand shoulder to shoulder, who stands a chance against us?” ~ Pam Brown
- “The family. We are a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another’s desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms. . . and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together.” ~ Erma Bombeck
- “Siblings: children of the same parents, each of whom is perfectly normal until they get together.” ~ Sam Levenson
- “I enjoyed my upbringing, my siblings did, we’re polite, we’re respectful, but at the end of the day we’re young, we like to have fun. But now, more so than ever, the youth has been vilified to the point where it feels like you can’t enjoy being young anymore, you just have to sit it out and wait until you get old.” ~ Tinie Tempah