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Sisters don't need words. They have perfected a language of snarls and smiles and frowns and winks - expressions of shocked surprise and incredulity and disbelief. Sniffs and snorts and gasps and sighs - that can undermine any tale you're telling.
Sep 29, 2025
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.
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.
One can be a brother only in something. Where there is no tie that binds men, men are not united but merely lined up.
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.
The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out of his nose.
It takes two men to make one brother.
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.
The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder.
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.
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.
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.
If you want to know how your girl will treat you after marriage, just listen to her talking to her little brother.
Sometimes being a brother is even better than being a superhero.
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.
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.
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.'
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.
I think I'm funny because my family, my siblings were funny.
Sisters never quite forgive each other for what happened when they were five.
Big sisters are the crab grass in the lawn of life.
If your sister is in a tearing hurry to go out and cannot catch your eye, she's wearing your best sweater.
Help one another is part of the religion of our sisterhood.
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.
An older sister is a friend and defender - a listener, conspirator, a counsellor and a sharer of delights. And sorrows too.
A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves - a special kind of double.
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.
You can kid the world, but not your sister.
For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather.
Sweet is the voice of a sister in the season of sorrow.
There's no better friend than a sister.
When sisters stand shoulder to shoulder, who stands a chance against us?
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.
Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister.
When brothers agree, no fortress is so strong as their common life.
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.
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.
Your True Nature Is Love. There's Nothing You Can Do About It.
Ignore reality, there's nothing you can do about it.
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.
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