165 Brother Sister Quotes

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Famous Brother Sister Quotes

A brother is a friend provided by nature. — Legouve Pere

Love the older sister, but yearn for the younger sister. — Thai Proverbs

Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship. — Margaret Mead

I have three sisters and I've always wanted a brother, so I was really interested in that notion. — Ryan Phillippe

A sister is both your mirror - and your opposite. — Elizabeth Fishel

Never make a companion equal to a brother. - Hesiod

Never make a companion equal to a brother. — Hesiod

If a woman doesn’t love you, she calls you “brother. — African Proverbs

Siblings: children of the same parents, each of whom is perfectly normal until they get together. — Sam Levenson

It takes two men to make one brother. - Israel Zangwill

It takes two men to make one brother. — Israel Zangwill

An older sister is a friend and defender - a listener, conspirator, a counsellor and a sharer of delights. And sorrows too. — 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

What strange creatures brothers are! — Jane Austen

Your brother, your brother, do not be deceived by greed. — Moroccan Proverbs

Brothers love each other when they are equally rich. — African Proverbs

A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves - a special kind of double. — Toni Morrison

Short Brother Sister Quotes

  • Sometimes being a brother is even better than being a superhero. — Marc Brown
  • Why don't you say "What?" if you like to sleep with your own sister. — The Undertaker
  • In thee my soul shall own combined the sister and the friend. — Catherine Killigrew
  • The jester is brother to the sage. — Arthur Koestler
  • A Brother may not be a Friend, but a Friend will always be a Brother. — Benjamin Franklin
  • Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister. — Alice Walker
  • The first day you meet, you are friends. the next day you meet, you are brothers. — Afghan Proverbs
  • A son is a son 'til he gets a wife, but a daughter is a daughter all her life. — Emily Giffin
  • We're sisters, we're roommates, we're all that. — Serena Williams
  • A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for a difficult time. — Bible Proverbs

Top 10 Brother Sister Quotes

I sought my soul, but my soul I could not see, I sought my god, but my god eluded me; And then I sought my sisters and my brothers, and in them I found all three. — Baba Amte

Brothers and sisters: Now is not the time for thinking small, now is not the time for the same-old, same-old establishment politics and stale inside-the-Beltway ideas. — Bernie Sanders

In the City of Death, there is pitch darkness and huge clouds of dust, neither sister nor brother is there. This body is frail, old age is overtaking it. — Guru Gobind Singh

You must recognize that the way to get the good out of your brother and your sister is not to return evil for evil. — Louis Farrakhan

Just remember, some come, some go. The ones that stay with you through everything - they're your true best friends. Don't let go of them. — Sayings

We are born on the same soil, breathe the same air, live on the same land, and why should we not be brothers and sisters? — Nathan Bedford Forrest

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. — Unknown Author

The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder. — Jane Austen

My sister taught me everything I really need to know, and she was only in sixth grade at the time. — Linda Sunshine

When brothers agree, no fortress is so strong as their common life. - Antisthenes

When brothers agree, no fortress is so strong as their common life. — Antisthenes

Brother Sister Image Quotes

Brother sister quote We must learn to live together as brothers or we will perish together as fools.
We must learn to live together as brothers or we will perish together as fools.

Brothers And Sisters Quotes

Those are the same stars, and that is the same moon, that look down upon your brothers and sisters, and which they see as they look up to them, though they are ever so far away from us, and each other. — Sojourner Truth

Whoever wishes to meet Jesus must meet him in places where brothers and sisters of Jesus are hungry, thirsty, naked, unwanted, sick or in prison. Whoever keeps himself distant from these places remains distant from Jesus. — Richard Wurmbrand

The Holocaust is a great warning to us all. We shall never forget our sisters and brothers. We have to ensure it is not repeated and to ensure we never go back to the days when humans behaved as beasts. Forgetfulness is a menace, we must remember. — Shimon Peres

Brother sister quote Because i have a sister I will always have a friend.
Because i have a sister I will always have a friend.

We are called to speak for the weak, for the voiceless, for the victims of our nation and for those it calls enemy, for no document from human hands can make these humans any less our brothers and sisters. — Martin Luther King, Jr.

From the time I can first recall the rain falling on the red clay in Florida. I wanted to make things. When my brothers and sisters were making mud pies, I would be making ducks and chickens with the mud. — Augusta Savage

No member of the animal kingdom nurses past maturity, no member of the animal kingdom ever did a thing to me. Its why I don't eat red meat or white fish, don't give me no blue cheese. Were all members of the animal kingdom, leave your brothers and sisters in the sea. — Prince

In Community of Caring, we believe the quality of caring we give to our parents, to our brothers and sisters, to our families, to our friends and neighbors, and to the poor and the powerless endows a life, a community with respect, hope and happiness. — Eunice Kennedy Shriver

Most of all the other beautiful things in life come by twos and threes, by dozens and hundreds. Plenty of roses, stars, sunsets, rainbows, brothers, and sisters, aunts and cousins, but only one mother in the whole world. — Kate Douglas Wiggin

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

From my parents, I learned a very strong work ethic, and all of my brothers and sisters all worked from the earliest days of life right through to the present time. — George J. Mitchell

Siblings Sisters And Brothers Quotes

Your True Nature Is Love. There's Nothing You Can Do About It. - Byron Katie

Your True Nature Is Love. There's Nothing You Can Do About It. — Byron Katie

Ignore reality, there's nothing you can do about it. — Natalie Imbruglia

I had a really wonderful upbringing. We were a tight family. It was wonderful to grow up with so many siblings. We were all just a year or two apart, and we were always so supportive of each other. I learned everything from my older brother and sister and taught it to my younger sisters. — Joaquin Phoenix

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. — Erma Bombeck

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. — Rose Macaulay

You can kid the world, but not your sister. — Charlotte Gray

Help one another is part of the religion of our sisterhood. — Louisa May Alcott

There's no better friend than a sister. — Mary Engelbreit

Big sisters are the crab grass in the lawn of life. — Charles M. Schulz

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

Inspirational Brother And Sister Quotes

All Americans must recognize that the face of terror is not the true faith - face of Islam. Islam is a faith that brings comfort to a billion people around the world. It's a faith that has made brothers and sisters of every race. It's a faith based upon love, not hate. — George W. Bush

It is in struggle and service with our brothers and sisters, individually and collectively, that we find the meaning of life. — Jesse Jackson

We came into the world like brother and brother, And now let's go hand in hand, not one before another. — William Shakespeare

When sisters stand shoulder to shoulder, who stands a chance against us? — Pam Brown

There is no time like the old time, when you and I were young! — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Lord Help the Mister that comes between Me and My Sister. — Irving Berlin

Not everyone is your brother or sister in the faith, but everyone is your neighbor, and you must love your neighbor. — Timothy Keller

A good motivation is what is needed: compassion without dogmatism, without complicated philosophy; just understanding that others are human brothers and sisters and respecting their human rights and dignities. That we humans can help each other is one of our unique human capacities. — Dalai Lama

Growing up, I had a very normal relationship with my brother and sister. But, over time, they became my best friends, and now I hang out with them all the time. I'm very close with them. — Logan Lerman

Black men and women who refuse to live under oppression are dangerous to white society because they become symbols of hope to their brothers and sisters, inspiring them to follow their example. — Huey Newton

Cute Brother Sister Quotes

Of two sisters one is always the watcher, one the dancer. — Louise Glück

Half the time when brothers wrestle, it's just an excuse to hug each other. — James Patterson

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. — Michael Morpurgo

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 Z. Cohen

I think I'm funny because my family, my siblings were funny. — Martin Short

Siblings Brothers Quotes

I work harder than every single person I know, and the only person that is on the same level as me is my brother. If you look at the top social media stars, it's me and him. I think that's our advantage. We're not the prettiest; we're not even the funniest, we're not the wittiest, whatever it is. — Jake Paul

We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we have to like each other. It may be the very recognition of all men as our brothers that accounts for the sibling rivalry, and even enmity, we have toward so many of them. — Peter De Vries

I got into a competition with my brother over who could make better Vine videos. — Jake Paul

Sweet is the voice of a sister in the season of sorrow. — Benjamin Disraeli

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

Friends are the siblings God never gave us. — Mencius

My brother is one of my true heroes. Steady and sober where I am impulsive and emotional. — Mark McKinnon

Max cuffed his brother good-naturedly on the ear as River slid in past him and bent to kiss Sophia on the cheek. “Hello, are you sure you’re with the right brother?” Sophia had never had a younger sibling. But this man with his laughing eyes and bright smile... “Are you making me an offer? — Nalini Singh

Oh, yeah. I grew up in Southern California in the 1960′s. It was very different. I was an only child as opposed to having siblings. My brothers all lived with my step-mom. I am very close to them, but we were not raised in the same house. — David Cassidy

Not only had my brother disappeared, but--and bear with me here--a part of my very being had gone with him. Stories about us could, from them on, be told from only one perspective. Memories could be told but not shared. — John Corey Whaley

Siblings Sisters Quotes

You keep your past by having sisters. As you get older, they're the only ones who don't get bored if you talk about your memories. — Deborah Moggach

Sisterhood is powerful. — Robin Morgan

A ministering angel shall my sister be. — William Shakespeare

When I was about six, I saw my elder siblings play chess and pestered my mother into teaching me. Very soon, I was beating everyone at home, and they thought it would be good to join a club. So my sister would take me to the Tal chess club on Thursdays and weekends. — Viswanathan Anand

Sisters annoy, interfere, criticize. Indulge in monumental sulks, in huffs, in snide remarks. Borrow. Break. Monopolize the bathroom. Are always underfoot. But if catastrophe should strike, sisters are there. Defending you against all comers. — Pam Brown

I would like more sisters, that the taking out of one, might not leave such stillness. — Emily Dickinson

One of the best things about being an adult is the realization that you can share with your sister and still have plenty for yourself. — Betsy Z. Cohen

Your sister is the only creature on earth who shares your heritage, history, environment, DNA, bone structure, and contempt for stupid Aunt Gertie. — Linda Sunshine

Between sisters, often, the child's cry never dies down. "Never leave me," it says; "do not abandon me." — Louise Bernikow

Whatever you do they will love you; even if they don't love you they are connected to you till you die. You can be boring and tedious with -sisters, whereas you have to put on a good face with friends. — Deborah Moggach

Sister Friend Quotes

I want to say a little something that's long overdue, the disrespect to women has got to be through. To all the mothers and the sisters and the wives and friends, I wanna offer my love and respect till the end. — Adam Yauch

I grew up in a house full of women: my mother, grandmother, three sisters, and two female cats. And I still have the buzz of their conversations in my head. As an adult, I have more female friends than male ones: I just love the way that women talk. — James Patterson

Whenever you're working towards something greater than yourself, it's almost a selflessness that the Lord delights in when you're serving your teammate or your friend or your sister in Christ. — Tobin Heath

As a child, I never heard one woman say to me, "I love my body". Not my mother, my elder sister, my best friend. No one woman has ever said, "I am so proud of my body." So I make sure to say it to Mia , because a positive physical outlook has to start at an early age. — Kate Winslet

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. — Christina Rossetti

More than Santa Claus, your sister knows when you've been bad and good. — Linda Sunshine

Extraterrestri als are living now on Earth. They are everywhere, among your friends, neighbors, even your relatives. Their blood flows through our veins. We are as much brothers and sisters to beings from the stars as we are to animals of the Earth. — Dolores Cannon

This cruel age has deflected me, like a river from this course. Strayed from its familiar shores, my changeling life has flowed into a sister channel. How many spectacles I've missed: the curtain rising without me, and falling too. How many friends I never had the chance to meet. — Anna Akhmatova

That was the thing about best friends. Like sisters and mothers, they could piss you off and make you cry and break your heart, but in the end, when the chips were down, they were there, making you laugh even in your darkest hours. — Kristin Hannah

Bless you, my darling, and remember you are always in the heart - oh tucked so close there is no chance of escape - of your sister. — Katherine Mansfield

Sister Love Quotes

Loving one another with the charity of Christ, let the love you have in your hearts be shown outwardly in your deeds so that compelled by such an example, the sisters may also grow in the love of God and charity for one another. — Clare of Assisi

Zora Neale Hurston said fear is the greatest emotion and I said, 'No my dear sister.' Fear will make us move to save our own skins. Love also makes us save ourselves, but it will make us move to save others as well. — Sonia Sanchez

What is Music? How do you define it? Music is a calm moonlit night, the rustle of leaves in Summer. Music is the far off peal of bells at dusk! Music comes straight from the heart and talks only to the heart: it is Love! Music is the Sister of Poetry and her Mother is sorrow! — Sergei Rachmaninoff

I love black thighs, you sisters better realize That real hair and real eyes get real guys. So before you makeup your face, you better make up your mind. — Common

No man who respects his mother or loves his sister, can speak disparagingly of any woman; however low she may seem to have sunk, she is still a woman. I want every man to remember this. Every woman is, or, at some time, has been a sister or daughter. — Victoria Woodhull

See the mountains kiss high Heaven And the waves clasp one another; No sister-flower would be forgiven If it disdained its brother; And the sunlight clasps the earth, And the moonbeams kiss the sea - What is all this sweet work worth If thou kiss not me? — Percy Bysshe Shelley

A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night. — Chanakya

The first service that one owes to others in the fellowship consists of listening to them. Just as love of God begins with listening to his word, so the beginning of love for our brothers and sisters is learning to listen to them. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all. — Washington Irving

Parents, brothers and sisters, grandparents, aunts and uncles are made more powerful guides and rescuers by the bonds of love that are the very nature of a family. — Henry B. Eyring

Sisters Friendship Quotes

Another fella told me, he had a sister who looked just fine. Instead of being my deliverance, she had a strange resemblance to a cat name of Frankenstein. — Sam Cooke

We are sisters. We will always be sisters. Our differences may never go away, but neither, for me, will our song. — Elizabeth Fishel

I'm an only child. Which is kind of bad, because having a brother or sister is like another form of friendship. That's something I've missed out on, except I know that I couldn't be doing what I am doing now if I had brothers and sisters. — Natalie Portman

Do you know what friendship is... it is to be brother and sister; two souls which touch without mingling, two fingers on one hand. — Victor Hugo

Sisters make the best friends in the world. — Marilyn Monroe

Sisters define their rivalry in terms of competition for the gold cup of parental love. It is never perceived as a cup which runneth over, rather a finite vessel from which the more one sister drinks, the less is left over for the others. — Elizabeth Fishel

I think women are amazing and womens friendships are like a sisterhood and we should see more of it in television and film. — Laurie Holden

Sisters are the true friends who ask how you are, and then wait to hear the answer. — Jill Shalvis

A real friend isn't capable of feeling sorry for you. — Jodi Picoult

I draw strength from spirit, from the divine light. I draw strength from the love my sister and I have for each other, from my nieces, Christina and Isabella, and the true friendships I have in my life that are based in being real with each other and mutual love and support. — Agapi Stassinopoulos

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Hip Hop can be a very powerful weapon to help expand young people's political and social consciousness. But just as with any weapon, if you don't know how to use it, if you don't know where to point it, or what you're using it for, you can end up shooting yourself in the foot or killing your sisters or brothers. — Assata Shakur

I am what I am thanks to my mother, my father, my brother, my sister... because they have given me everything. The education I have is thanks to them. — Ronaldinho

I was the youngest. The yule lamb. The one who always got away without doing the washing up. My sister was four years older, and my brother six years. — Jeremy Irons

All my family, my blood, is mixed up now. They don't even all know each other. I just hope they don't never hate or fight each other, not knowin who they are. Cause all these people livin are brothers and sisters and cousins. All these beautiful different colors! We!... We the human Family. God says so! FAMILY! — J. California Cooper

God helping me, I will help my brothers and sisters in Christ, because they are my brothers and sisters. — Joseph Barber Lightfoot

Labor wants pride and joy in doing good work, a sense of making or doing something beautiful or useful - to be treated with dignity and respect as brother and sister. — Thorstein Veblen

We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change. — Katharine Hepburn

We have forgotten to be our brothers and sisters keepers. And we have forgotten that the Number 1 goal is to love one another. — Ann Richards

I have just been condemned, not to a shameful death, which can only apply to felons, but rather to finding your brother again...I seek forgiveness for all whom I know for every harm I may have unwittingly caused them...Adieu, good, gentle sister...I embrace you with all my heart as well as the poor, dear children. — Marie Antoinette

I know we will create a society where there are no rich or poor, no people without work or beauty in their lives, where money itself will disappear, where we shall all be brothers and sisters, where every one will have enough. — Sylvia Pankhurst

They are all my Astro brothers and sisters, and we always have each other’s backs. — Christina Koch

Christianity was literally born in the Middle East, and we must not forget our Middle Eastern brothers and sisters in Christ. — Prince Charles

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