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Quotations about Siblings,
Sisters and Brothers
The advantage of growing up with siblings is that you become very good at fractions. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
Our brothers and sisters are there with us from the dawn of our personal stories to the inevitable dusk. ~Susan Scarf Merrell, The Accidental Bond: The Power of Sibling Relationships, 1995
I, who have no sisters nor brothers, look with some degree of innocent envy on those who may be said to be born to friends... ~Samuel Johnson, 1758
Bare is shoulder without brother, bare hearth without sister. ~Gaelic proverb
It is impossible to keep a small boy in the house, even in the worst weather, unless he has a sister to torment. ~Mary Wilson Little, Reveries of a Paragrapher, 1897
Help one another, is part of the religion of our sisterhood... ~Louisa May Alcott, "The Sunny Side," An Old-Fashioned Girl, 1870
More than Santa Claus, your sister knows when you've been bad and good. ~Linda Sunshine, "You're Only Jung Once," Mom Loves Me Best (And Other Lies You Told Your Sister), 1990
How lonely a place the world must be sometimes for people who have no sisters. ~Pam Brown, To a Very Special Sister, 1997, helenexley.com
A brother is a friend given by nature. ~Jean-Baptiste Legouvé (1729–1783) ["Un frère est un ami donné par la nature."
A toast once heard: "To my big sister, who never found her second Easter egg until I'd found my first." ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
Bless you, my darling, and remember you are always in the heart — oh tucked so close there is no chance of escape — of your sister. ~Kathleen Bowden (Katherine Mansfield), letter to Jeanne Beauchamp, 1909
...it snowed and it snowed. But here a small boy says: "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
Who was it when we both were young,
First prais'd me with her artless tongue,
And on my neck delighted hung?
My Sister.
~"Mr. Lynch," 1800s, in imitation of Ann Taylor (1782–1866)
How do people make it through life without a sister? ~Sara Corpening Whiteford
In thee my soul shall own combin'd
The sister and the friend.
~Katharine Killigrew (c.1530–1583)
...and the younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder. ~Jane Austen, Mansfield Park, 1814
The younger brother hath the more wit. ~Proverb
For we would run about all day,
And when at hide-and-seek we'd play,
Who came to find me where I lay?
My Sister.
~"Mr. Lynch," 1800s, in imitation of Ann Taylor (1782–1866)
There can be no situation in life in which the conversation of my dear sister will not administer some comfort to me. ~Mary Wortley Montagu, 1727
There's no other love like the love for a brother. There's no other love like the love from a brother. ~Terri Guillemets
Friends get the slightly expurgated version of your life. Sisters know the original text. ~Pam Brown, To a Very Special Sister, 1997, helenexley.com
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, Mom Loves Me Best (And Other Lies You Told Your Sister), 2006
For there is no friend like a sister,
In calm or stormy weather;
To cheer one on the tedious way,
To fetch one if one goes astray,
To lift one if one totters down,
To strengthen whilst one stands.
~Christina Rossetti, "Goblin Market," 1862
It takes two men to make one brother. ~Israel Zangwill, The Principle of Nationalities, 1917 [Context note: In this address, Zangwill is actually referring to the brotherhood of humanity, not siblings.
For it was ever our delight,
To love each other day and night,
Nor would I do a thing to spite
My Sister.
~"Mr. Lynch," 1800s, in imitation of Ann Taylor (1782–1866)
Two scorpions living in the same hole will get along better than two sisters in the same house. ~Arabian proverb
What is a sister? She is your mirror, shining back at you with a world of possibilities. She is your witness, who sees you at your worst and best, and loves you anyway. She is your partner in crime, your midnight companion, someone who knows when you're smiling, even in the dark. She is your teacher, your defense attorney, your personal press agent, even your shrink. Some days, she's the reason you wish you were an only child. ~Barbara Alpert, No Friend Like a Sister, 1996
For thou wert always kind to me,
And it will my ambition be,
To prove a faithful friend to thee,
My Sister.
~"Mr. Lynch," 1800s, in imitation of Ann Taylor (1782–1866)
As we grew up, my brothers acted like they didn't care,
but I always knew they looked out for me and were there!
~Catherine Pulsifer, www.wow4u.com
Big sisters are the crab grass in the lawn of life! ~Charles M. Schulz, Peanuts, 1961 [Linus]
Years have fled by; but the memory of my little angel-sister has never passed from my remembrance. ~Amy Campbell, "A Tale of the 31st of December," Christmas Eve, and New Year's Eve, 1872
If your sister is in a tearing hurry to go out and cannot catch your eye, she's wearing your best sweater. ~Pam Brown, quoted in Sisters…, 1995, helenexley.com
Her sister was
her lighthouse,
her joy, and
her best frenemy.
~Terri Guillemets, "Sis," 2019, scrambled blackout poetry created from Elizabeth Bass, You Again, 2014, page 3
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