Siblings Brothers Quotes:

Your True Nature Is Love. There's Nothing You Can Do About It.

- Byron Katie

topic: Sister, Daughter, Brother, Humorous Birthday, Small Gods

A Brother may not be a Friend, but a Friend will always be a Brother.

- Benjamin Franklin

source: Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.36, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

topic: Inspirational, Brother, May, Special Friend, Brother Sister

You can kid the world, but not your sister.

- Charlotte Gray

topic: Sister, Sibling, Kids, Brothers And Sisters, Inspirational Sister

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

topic: Sister, Children, Mean, Mansfield Park, Brothers And Sisters

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

- Benjamin Disraeli

topic: Sister, Sweet, Voice, Brothers And Sisters, Inspirational Brother And Sister

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

topic: Brother, Blessed, Sick, Brothers And Sisters, Inspirational Brother And Sister

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

topic: Friendship, Sister, Brother, My Siblings, Brotherly Love

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

topic: Sibling, Team, Important, Brothers And Sisters, My Siblings

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

source: Linda Sunshine (2012). “Mom Loves Me Best: (And Other Lies You Told Your Sister)”, p.20, Andrews McMeel Publishing

topic: Sister, Children, Only Child, Brothers And Sisters, Inspirational Sister

Let's go hand in hand, not one before another.

- William Shakespeare

source: BookCaps, William Shakespeare (2011). “The Comedy of Errors In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide”, p.171, BookCaps Study Guides

topic: Love, Life, Family, Inspirational Brother And Sister, Little Brother

Never make a companion equal to a brother.

- Hesiod

topic: Brother, Sibling, Companionship, Older Brother, Brothers And Sisters

Ignore reality, there's nothing you can do about it.

- Natalie Imbruglia

source: Song: Don't You Think?, Album: Left of the Middle, 1997

topic: Reality, Insanity, Humorous Birthday, Hurting You, Gold Digger

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

topic: Sibling, People, World, Brothers And Sisters, My Siblings

My sister taught me everything I really need to know, and she was only in sixth grade at the time.

- Linda Sunshine

source: Linda Sunshine (2012). “Mom Loves Me Best: (And Other Lies You Told Your Sister)”, p.44, Andrews McMeel Publishing

topic: Sister, Needs, Taught, Brothers And Sisters, Inspirational Sister

My brother is one of my true heroes. Steady and sober where I am impulsive and emotional.

- Mark McKinnon

topic: Brother, Hero, Emotional, True Hero, Cute Brother

An older sister is a friend and defender - a listener, conspirator, a counsellor and a sharer of delights. And sorrows too.

- Pam Brown

topic: Sister, Sibling, Sorrow, Older Sister, Inspirational Brother And Sister

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

topic: Brother, Care, Elders, My Siblings, Cute Brother

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

- Desmond Tutu

topic: Inspirational, Family, Cute Relationship, Happy Family, Family Holiday

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

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Family, Mother, Fathers Day, Inspirational Father, Step Dad

If you want to know how your girl will treat you after marriage, just listen to her talking to her little brother.

- Sam Levenson

topic: Inspirational, Girl, Wedding, Inspirational Brother And Sister, Little Brother

The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out of his nose.

- Garrison Keillor

topic: Inspirational, Brother, Sibling, Brothers And Sisters, Inspirational Brother And Sister

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

source: Antoine de Saint Exupery (1942). “Flight to Arras”

topic: Sister, Brother, Sibling, Brothers And Sisters, My Little Brother

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

topic: Inspirational, Brother, Say Anything, Brothers And Sisters, Inspirational Brother And Sister

If your sister is in a tearing hurry to go out and cannot catch your eye, she's wearing your best sweater.

- Pam Brown

topic: Funny, Sister, Sibling, Brothers And Sisters, Inspirational Brother And Sister

Big sisters are the crab grass in the lawn of life.

- Charles M. Schulz

source: Peanuts (comic strip), 17 June 1961

topic: Funny, Family, Sister, Brothers And Sisters, Inspirational Brother And Sister

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

source: "Why we can never escape our siblings". Interview with Mandy Van Deven, www.salon.com. September 11, 2011.

topic: Sister, Brother, Sibling, Brothers And Sisters, My Siblings

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

source: EDWIN MARKHAM (1901). “LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS”

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Inspirational Brother And Sister, Boomerang

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

topic: Funny, Brother, Grandma, Brothers And Sisters, Mother And Grandmother

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

topic: Sister, Brother, Sibling, Brothers And Sisters, Inspirational Brother And Sister

Being his real brother I could feel I live in his shadows, but I never have and I do not now. I live in his glow.

- Michael Morpurgo

topic: Brother, Real, Shadow, Brother Sister, Cute Brother

A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves - a special kind of double.

- Toni Morrison

topic: Sister, Sibling, Special, Brothers And Sisters, Inspirational Sister

We came into the world like brother and brother, And now let's go hand in hand, not one before another.

- William Shakespeare

source: BookCaps, William Shakespeare (2011). “The Comedy of Errors In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide”, p.171, BookCaps Study Guides

topic: Inspirational, Thank You, Brother, Inspirational Brother And Sister, Little Brother

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

topic: Christmas, Brother, Healing, Brothers And Sisters, Inspirational Brother And Sister

Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.

- Margaret Mead

source: Attributed to Margaret Mead in Ellyn Sanna "Sisters by Birth Friends by Choice: All the Things I Love About You", June 2003.

topic: Relationship, Family, Sister, Brothers And Sisters, Inspirational Brother And Sister

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

topic: Inspirational, Brother, Sibling, Brothers And Sisters, Inspirational Brother And Sister

When brothers agree, no fortress is so strong as their common life.

- Antisthenes

topic: Strong, Brother, Common, Inspirational Brother And Sister, Little Brother

Sometimes being a brother is even better than being a superhero.

- Marc Brown

topic: Brother, Superhero, Sometimes, Brothers And Sisters, Inspirational Brother And Sister

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

source: James Boswell, Roger Ingpen (1791). “The Life of Samuel Johnson”, p.74

topic: Brother, Envy, Degrees, Brothers And Sisters, Two Sisters

I think I'm funny because my family, my siblings were funny.

- Martin Short

topic: Brother, Sibling, Thinking, Brothers And Sisters, Cute Brother And Sister

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

topic: Sister, Brother, Sibling, Brothers And Sisters, Inspirational Brother And Sister

The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder.

- Jane Austen

source: Jane Austen (2007). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen”, p.487, Wordsworth Editions

topic: Sister, Brother, Sibling, Little Brother, My Siblings

It takes two men to make one brother.

- Israel Zangwill

source: Israel Zangwill (1917). “The Principle of Nationalities”

topic: Brother, Men, Two, Brothers And Sisters, Inspirational Brother And Sister

Help one another is part of the religion of our sisterhood.

- Louisa May Alcott

source: Louisa May Alcott (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Louisa May Alcott (Illustrated)”, p.810, Delphi Classics

topic: Sister, Sibling, Sorority, Brothers And Sisters, Inspirational Sister

Sisters never quite forgive each other for what happened when they were five.

- Pam Brown

topic: Funny, Sister, Sibling, Inspirational Sister, Inspirational Sisterhood

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

topic: Brother, Sibling, Mean, Brothers And Sisters, Cute Brother And Sister

There's no better friend than a sister.

- Mary Engelbreit

source: Mary Engelbreit (2002). “The Blessings of Friendship: A Friendship Treasury”, p.62, Andrews McMeel Publishing

topic: Sister, Funny Sibling, Funny Sister, Brothers And Sisters, Other Sister

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

topic: Family, Character, Trying, Brothers And Sisters, Life Is Pain

I grew up with six brothers. That's how I learned to dance - waiting for the bathroom.

- Bob Hope

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Life, My Siblings, Dysfunctional Family

Comparison is a death knell to sibling harmony.

- Elizabeth Fishel

source: "Forget poignancy, Arsenal prefer to deal in title significance" by Sachin Nakrani, www.theguardian.com. February 12, 2008.

topic: Brother, Sibling, Harmony, Brothers And Sisters, My Siblings

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

topic: Brother, Men, Two, Inspirational Brother And Sister, My Siblings