You might not always get along with your siblings but that doesn’t mean that they aren’t important to you. In fact, apart from your parents, they are the only people who’ve seen you at your best and worst moments and still love you anyway. They are always beside you, no matter where you are in life.
To celebrate that wonderful bond, here’s a heartwarming collection of siblings quotes.
Siblings Quotes
Two of my three siblings are older, so I suppose I learned from them and became a very avid reader at a young age, which I think enough cannot be said for what you can discover through literature. – Julia Roberts
A sister is a gift to the heart, a friend to the spirit, a golden thread to the meaning of life.
My siblings are my best friends. – America Ferrera
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
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
Brothers are like streetlights along the road, they don’t make the distance any shorter but they light up the path and make the walk worthwhile.
In some ways, siblings, and especially sisters, are more influential in your childhood than your parents. – Deborah Tannen
Siblings – the definition that comprises love, strife, competition and forever friends. – Byron Pulsifer
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. – Clara Ortega
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
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
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.
As we grew up, my brothers acted like they didn’t care, but I always knew they looked out for me and were there! – Catherine Pulsifer
Siblings: your only enemy you can’t live without.
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
They say that no matter how old you become, when you are with your siblings, you revert back to childhood. – Karen White
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
A sibling is also one of your best friends.
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
Being brother and sister means being there for each other.
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
A brother shares childhood memories and grown-up dreams.
The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out his nose. – Garrison
A sibling represents a person’s past, present, and future. – John Corey Whaley
The advantage of growing up with siblings is that you become very good at fractions.
When you have a lot of siblings, you always do something to feel special. – Lee Daniels
The greatest gifts my parents ever gave me were my brothers.
Brothers and sisters are as close as hands and feet. – Vietnamese Proverb
I may fight with my siblings. But once you lay a finger on them, you’ll be facing me.
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.
Our siblings. They resemble us just enough to make all their differences confusing and loving no matter what we choose to make of this, we are cast in relation to them our whole lives long. – Susan Scarf Merrell
The best thing about having four big brothers is you always have someone to do something for you. – Chloe Moretz
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
Having lots of siblings is like having built-in best friends. – Kim Kardashian
Sisters are probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship!
Sometimes being a brother is even better than being a superhero.
Siblings that say they never fight are most definitely hiding something. – Lemony Snicket
Sometimes being a sister is way better than being a princess.
Sisters are probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship!
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. Because it’s not always what you want. It’s not always what you expect. It’s not always what you imagined or hoped. But it’s one of the most important things in the world. – Ben Schnetzer
Having a brother or a sister is truly a blessing. Let your siblings know how grateful you are for having them in your life by sharing these wonderful siblings quotes.