These sibling quotes and sayings will have you reminiscing about your family members in no time. Most folks believe that those who have siblings are luckier than those who don’t. Your siblings may turn out to be the best friends you could ever find. They know you better than anyone else, and you can always rely on them.
Even the most accomplished and famous people have acknowledged the importance of having a brother or sister. In fact, for many, the more you have, the better it is. Here are some funny and lovely sibling quotes that will help you realize why these relationships matter so much.
Quotes About Siblings
You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.
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I don’t believe an accident of birth makes people sisters or brothers. It makes them siblings and gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood is a condition people have to work at.
Maya Angelou
Siblings are the people we practice on, the people who teach us about fairness and cooperation and kindness, and caring quite often the hard way.
Pamela Dugdale
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
Sisters and brothers are the truest, purest forms of love, family and friendship, knowing when to hold you and when to challenge you but always being a part of you.
Carol Ann Albright Eastman
The greatest gift our parents ever gave us was each other.
Unknown
Be nice to your siblings; they’re your best link to your past and the most likely to stay with you in the future.
Baz Lurhmann
Best Sibling Quotes
We may look old and wise to the outside world. But to each other, we are still in junior school.
Charlotte Gray
If you have a brother or sister, tell them you love them every day; that’s the most beautiful thing. I told my sister how much I loved her every day. That’s the only reason I’m OK right now.
Amaury Nolasco
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My siblings are my best friends.
America Ferrera
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
A sibling is the lens through which you see your childhood.
Ann Hood
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Sister Quotes
The best thing about having a sister was that I always had a friend.
Cali Rae Turner
To have a loving relationship with a sister is not simply to have a buddy or a confidant – it is to have a soulmate for life.
Victoria Secunda
Is solace anywhere more comforting than in the arms of a sister?
Alice Walker
When sisters stand shoulder to shoulder, who stands a chance against us?
Pam Brown
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
Sweet is the voice of a sister in the season of sorrow, and wise is the counsel of those who love us.
Benjamin Disraeli
A sister is someone who loves you from the heart. No matter how much you argue, you cannot be drawn apart.
Shiv Sharma
In some ways, siblings, and especially sisters, are more influential in your childhood than your parents.
Deborah Tannen
In the cookies of life, sisters are the chocolate chips.
Unknown
Brother Quotes
I grew up with six brothers. That’s how I learned to dance – waiting for the bathroom.
Bob Hope
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.
David Hyde Pierce
Once a brother, always a brother, no matter the distance, no matter the difference and no matter the issue.
Byron Pulsifer
What brothers say to tease their sisters has nothing to do with what they really think of them.
Esther Friesner
Older sibling, the only people who will pick on you for their own entertainment and beat up anyone else who tries.
Unknown
Half the time when brothers wrestle, it’s just an excuse to hug each other.
James Patterson
Funny Sibling Quotes
Siblings: children of the same parents, each of whom is perfectly normal until they get together.
Sam Levenson
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
Siblings that say they never fight are most definitely hiding something.
Lemony Snicket
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
Having a sister is like having a best friend you can’t get rid of. You know whatever you do, they’ll still be there.
Amy Li
The advantage of growing up with siblings is that you become very good at fractions.
Unknown
The mildest, drowsiest sister has been known to turn tiger if her sibling is in trouble.
Clara Ortega
Humorous Brother Sister Quotations
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 Cohen
Sometimes being a brother is even better than being a superhero.
Marc Brown
More than Santa Claus, your sister knows when you’ve been bad and good.
Linda Sunshine
What brothers say to tease their sisters has nothing to do with what they really think of them.
Esther M. Friesner
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
Half the time when brothers wrestle, it’s just an excuse to hug each other.
James Patterson
The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out of his nose.
Garrison Keillor
They say that no matter how old you become, when you are with your siblings, you revert back to childhood.
Karen White
Big sisters are the crab grass in the lawn of life.
Charles M. Schulz
Brother and Sister Quotations
I have a wonderful shelter, which is my family. I have a wonderful relationship with my brother and sister; this makes me feel that I know always where I belong.
Jose Carreras
Our brothers and sisters are there with us from the dawn of our personal stories to the inevitable dusk.
Susan Scarf Merrell
As a brother and sister, our tastes were pretty different growing up. He liked a lot of early hip hop. My dad didn’t understand it and would try to talk him out of it.
Taryn Manning
Your parents are the parents you know best. Your brother and sister, if you have them, are the brother and sister you know best. They may not be the ones you like the best. They may not be the most interesting, but they are the closest and probably the clearest to you.
James Salter
Brother and sister, together as friends, ready to face whatever life sends. Joy and laughter or tears and strife, holding hands tightly as we dance through life.
Suzie Huitt
I feel very much like I want to be with my brother and sister again. They’re nowhere. I know they’re nowhere and they don’t exist, but if nowhere means that’s where they are, that’s where I want to be.
Maurice Sendak
Brothers and sisters are as close as hands and feet.
Vietnamese Proverb
When brothers agree, no fortress is so strong as their common life.
Antisthenes
Sibling Relationship Quotes
Brother and sister, together as friends, ready to face whatever life sends. Joy and laughter or tears and strife, holding hands tightly as we dance through life.
Suzie Huitt
A bond as important as that of a husband and wife, is the bond between siblings.
Lee Dong-Wook
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
In many sibling relationships, the rate of conflict can be high, but the fun times in the backyard and the basement more than balance it out.
Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman
Siblings know you better than anyone. They may not always admire you, but they’ll always be intensely interested in you.
Dr Terri Apter
Sibling relationships 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
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
Having lots of siblings is like having built-in best friends.
Kim Kardashian
Estranged Family Quotes
Sisters never quite forgive each other for what happened when they were five.
Pam Brown
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
The strange part about a person’s lack of trust is that it often comes from not trusting themselves.
David W. Earle
I left my family, and I left my brother and sister, and I went and lived my dream. I saw everybody, but is it ever enough?
Joan Jett
It’s especially difficult when siblings leave the nest and grow into their own person, often apart from other siblings and parents. The ones we shared so much with growing up we suddenly have nothing in common with, it seems.
Unknown
Making amends is not only saying the words but also being willing to listen to how your behavior caused another’s pain, and then the really hard part…changing behavior.
David W. Earle
It has been said that blood is thicker than water.
I hope that will prove true to us in time.
Unknown
Like branches on a tree, we grow in different directions, yet our roots remain as one. Each of our lives will always be a special part of the other.
Unknown
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
National Siblings Day Sayings
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 – check out Dana’s Twitter account.
Our siblings. They resemble us just enough to make all their differences confusing, and no matter what we choose to make of this, we are cast in relation to them our whole lives long.
Susan Scarf Merrell
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
A sibling represents a person’s past, present, and future.
John Corey Whaley
I think people that have a brother or sister don’t realize how lucky they are. Sure, they fight a lot, but to know that there’s always somebody there, somebody that’s family.
Trey Parker & Matt Stone
The family is one of nature’s masterpieces.
George Santayana
What greater thing is there for human souls than to feel that they are joined for life – to be with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
George Eliot
Sibling Love Quotes
I grew up with an older brother, and the bond between siblings is unlike anything else, and it can be a real journey to accept what that bond is once you both mature into it. It’s not always what you imagined or hoped. But it’s one of the most important things in the world.
Ben Schnetzer
I do find the sibling connection endlessly fascinating, as I do all family dynamics. I like how siblings seem to create their own parentless mini-civilization within a family, one that has its own laws, myths, language, humor, its own loyalties, and treacheries.
Jandy Nelson
Power, that’s one thing, but love of family and of siblings is more important, is more powerful than any other power – at least earthly power, at least earthly power.
Sander Levin
Family Quotes
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
The power of a sibling who knows everything about you, who knows the family you grew up in, who carries half your genes – there’s nothing quite like that.
Jeffrey Kluger
Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.
Margaret Mead
We didn’t realize we were making memories, we just knew we were having fun.
Winnie the Pooh
Grateful For Siblings
Siblings often become good friends, and because they know each other so well, they can provide each other a deep sense of comfort.
Laura Markham
A sibling may be the sole keeper of one’s core identity, the only person with the keys to one’s unfettered, more fundamental self.
Marian Sandmaier
I have siblings. And there are certain things I know that I can push their buttons. And they know they have certain things where they can push mine.
Catherine Zeta-Jones
By Liz Olson
Liz is a writer and poet who lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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