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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.
Sep 24, 2025
Comparison is a death knell to sibling harmony.
Lord Help the Mister that comes between Me and My 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.
One can be a brother only in something. Where there is no tie that binds men, men are not united but merely lined up.
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.
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.
Let's go hand in hand, not one before another.
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.
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.
The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder.
We came into the world like brother and brother, And now let's go hand in hand, not one before another.
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.
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.
A Brother may not be a Friend, but a Friend will always be a 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.
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.
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.
Big sisters are the crab grass in the lawn of life.
My sister taught me everything I really need to know, and she was only in sixth grade at the time.
If your sister is in a tearing hurry to go out and cannot catch your eye, she's wearing your best sweater.
More than Santa Claus, your sister knows when you've been bad and good.
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.
You can kid the world, but not your sister.
Sweet is the voice of a sister in the season of sorrow.
There's no better friend than a 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.
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.
You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.
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