Brother and Sister Quote - In Honor of Siblings

A brother is ...

We each deal with childhood in different ways. That brothers and sisters can take the same lump of clay that is childhood and use it to shape themselves into unique human beings is a miracle in itself. Despite individual struggles, triumphs, joys and disappointments, someone is made of the same stuff and has been at your side, whether figuratively or literally, from the beginning. Use our brother and sister quote collection to explore this truth and gain compassionate understanding for yourself and your siblings.

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Brother and Sister Quote:

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

Brothers and sisters are as close as hands and feet.

~Vietnamese Proverb

The family is one of nature's masterpieces.

~George Santayana

Brother and Sister Quote:

To the outside world, we all grow old. But not to brothers and sisters. We know each other as we always were. We know each other's hearts. We share private family jokes. We remember family feuds and secrets, family griefs and joys. We live outside the touch of time.

~Clara Ortega

Help one another is part of the religion of sisterhood.

~Louisa May Alcott

Brother and Sister Quote:

Sibling relationships - and 80 percent of Americans have at least one - outlast marriages, survive the death of parents, resurface after quarrels that would sink any friendship. They flourish in a thousand incarnations of closeness and distance, warmth, loyalty and distrust.

~Erica E. Goode, "The Secret World of Siblings," U.S. News & World Report, 10 January 1994

A brother is a friend given by Nature.

~Legouve

Brother and Sister Quote:

~Susan Scarf Merrell

Lord help the mister that comes between me
and my sister ...

~Irving Berlin

Big Brother Quote:

We are not only our brother's keeper; in countless large and small ways, we are our brother's maker.

~Bonaro Overstreet

Brother and Sister Quote:

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



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You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you,
as you are to them.

~Desmond Tutu

Our siblings push buttons that cast us in roles we felt sure we had let go of long ago - the baby, the peacekeeper, the caretaker, the avoider.... It doesn't seem to matter how much time has elapsed or how far we've traveled.

~Jane Mersky Leder

Sweet is the voice of a sister in the season of sorrow.

~Benjamin Disraeli

How do people make it through life without a sister?

~Sara Corpening

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 Quindlan

Brother and Sister Quote:

Our brothers and sisters are there with us from the dawn of our personal stories to the inevitable dusk.

~Susan Scarf Merrell



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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

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