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Quotes About Sibling

My name is Nick Sinclair, he said, and watched the young man's curious smile change to open animosity. I would like to see Lauren. I'm Lauren's brother, the young man retorted, and she doesn't want to see you. Her brother! Nick's momentary relief was followed by an absurd impulse to smash the younger man's face for stealing Lauren's allowances when she was a little girl. I've come to see her, Nick stated impacably, and if I have to walk over you to get to her, I will.
~ Judith McNaught
My brother's a pain. He won't get out of bed In the morning. Mom has to carry him Into the kitchen. He opens his eyes
~ Judy Blume
But I am the greatest sister in the history of the world.
~ Judy Blume
Roses are red Violets are blue I am your brother And you are mine, too.
~ Judy Blume
My brother was adopted. Somebody left him on the back doorstep when he was a baby. We found him when he was 16. We didn't use that door.
~ Wendy Liebman
As a result he hated Gabriel, in the way a second son hates an elder
~ Daniel Silva
face she could scarcely recall, the alcoholic brother who'd never worked a day in his life—but everything
~ Daniel Silva
Maybe this is what it's like for all only children: To love the family that isn't almost as much as the one that is.
~ James Howe
are strengthened through sibling relationships; they learn to play, bicker, fight, and play again, to accept criticism and bounce back from hurt, to tell secrets and become intimate. "If there remained in Franklin Roosevelt throughout his life," Boettiger Jr. continued, "an insensitivity towards and discomfort with profound and vividly expressed feelings it may have been in part the lengthened shadow of his early sheltering from ugliness and jealousy and conflicting interests.
~ Doris Kearns Goodwin
Except once, long ago, over an estrangement with his wife Mariotta, Lord Culter had never been jealous of the young brother he had seen grow from babyhood. Until the moment Francis had left home at sixteen, a prisoner of war to the English, Richard knew him solely as a blond and delicate boy, interested only, it seemed, in reading and music, whose apparent fragility concealed a will of steel, and a turn of phrase which could wound like a sword-cut.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
What's poor Richard ever done to you except get himself born first?" The blue eyes were speculative. "Ill-calculated," he agreed. "But not necessarily final.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
How about that, my own brother, my own bright light, thou Igor?
~ Dorothy Dunnett
There is no greater pleasure than winning a competition with one's sister and no greater sorrow than to see her suffer because of it.
~ Adrienne Sharp
The doctor's sister, who rejoiced in the singularly inappropriate name of Aimée, had all the positive assurance that her brother lacked.
~ Agatha Christie
Mom loved my brother more. Not that she didn't love me - I felt the wash of her love every day, pouring over me, but it was a different kind, siphoned from a different, and tamer, body of water. I was her darling daughter; Joseph was her it.
~ Aimee Bender
Get off the throne, Mr. Quindar. And you," Madame Granity said, pointing to me, "you get on it. I know your sister's got the gift, and it often runs in siblings, however I'd still like to see it for myself.
~ Alastair Reynolds
When you have a big family, certainly with strong personalities, you feel like you have to fall into a role, and I didn't want to be the little sister or the daughter, because that's who you become as an adult.
~ Erin Foster
My brother Peter was always the life of the party, and so the running joke for the first 12 years of my life was he was Pete, and I was 'Re-Pete.'
~ Benjamin Bratt
I was the second-youngest child in a family that took up the better part of an entire pew at our Baptist church.
~ Beth Moore
My brother Carl became a physicist; I became an economist.
~ George Akerlof
I'm the oldest in my family and do play piano.
~ David Lambert
My mum had this idea I was going to be this long-haired hippie playing guitar and bought me one when I was 13, but my little brother picked it up instead and was such a natural, he kept it! Io Echo is a band my brother now plays in; they're really good.
~ Liberty Ross
My brother and I had many games. We were inseparable. We had a little team going on between us. We had even a language that was kind of like pig latin. So we'd speak in the language. It's called Op.
~ Lake Bell
When I was a young actor and working in London, I would pop home to see my sister, and Ewan would always be intrigued about what I'd been doing. I think he found my shoulder-length hair and pink, flared jeans glamorous, which they were anything but.
~ Denis Lawson