A sibling is a brother or sister, someone who shares at least one parent with you. Sibling relationships can be incredibly important and unique, shaping a significant part of our lives as we grow up and often lasting a lifetime. They can be supportive, competitive, loving, or sometimes complex, but they’re a bond that can offer companionship, understanding, and shared experiences.
Sibling Quotes
1. “The mildest, drowsiest sister has been known to turn tiger if her sibling is in trouble.”
— Clara Ortega
2. “A bond as important as that of a husband and wife, is the bond between siblings.”
— Lee Dong-Wook
3. “Having lots of siblings is like having built-in best friends.”
— Kim Kardashian
4. “Brothers and sisters are as close as hands and feet.”
— Vietnamese Proverb
5. “Brothers and sisters can say things to one another that no one else can.”
— Gregory E. Lang
6. “The best thing about having a sister was that I always had a friend.”
— Cali Rae Turner
7. “My siblings are my best friends.”
— America Ferrera
8. “The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder.”
— Jane Austen
9. “What causes sibling rivalry? Having more than one kid.”
— Tim Allen
10. “Siblings that say they never fight are most definitely hiding something.”
— Lemony Snicket
11. “A brother is a friend given by nature.”
— Jean Baptiste Legouve
12. “Your brother is your alter ego. Your friend and sometimes your hero.”
— Maxime Lagacé
13. “Siblings are a volume of childhood memories; a nostalgia that cannot be easily deleted.”
— Vincent Okay Nwachukwu
14. “When brothers agree, no fortress is so strong as their common life.”
— Antisthenes
15. “Brothers and sisters separated by distance joined by love.”
— Chuck Danes
16. “There’s no other love like the love for a brother. There’s no other love like the love from a brother.”
— Terri Guillemets
17. “Sometimes Being a Brother Is Even Better Than Being a Superhero.”
— Marc Brown
18. “It takes two men to make one brother.”
— Israel Zangwill
19. “Help your brother’s boat across, and your own will reach the shore.”
— Hindu Proverb
20. “Sisters function as safety nets in a chaotic world simply by being there for each other.”
— Carol Saline
21. “Half the time when brothers wrestle, it’s just an excuse to hug each other.”
— James Patterson
22. “Is solace anywhere more comforting than in the arms of a sister.”
— Alice Walker
23. “When sisters stand shoulder to shoulder, who stands a chance against us?”
— Pam Brown
24. “A sister is both your mirror — and your opposite.”
— Elizabeth Fishel
25. “A sister is a little bit of childhood that can never be lost.”
— Marion C. Garretty
26. “A sibling is the lens through which you see your childhood.”
— Ann Hood
27. “Because brothers don’t let each other wander in the dark alone.”
— Jolene Perry
28. “Family is not an important thing. It’s everything.”
— Michael J. Fox
29. “I may fight with my siblings. But once you lay a finger on them, you’ll be facing me.”
— Abby Slater
30. “Siblings – the definition that comprises love, strife, competition and forever friends.”
— Byron Pulsifer
31. “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
32. “A sister is someone, who loves you from the heart. No matter how much you argue, you cannot be drawn apart.”
— Shiv Sharma
33. “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
34. “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
35. “Blessed is the servant who loves his brother as much when he is sick and useless as when he is well and can be of service to him. And blessed is he who loves his brother as well when he is a far 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.”
— St. Francis of Assisi
36. “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
37. “Sweet is the voice of a sister in the season of sorrow, and wise is the counsel of those who love us.”
— Benjamin Disraeli
38. “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 tedious with sisters, whereas you have to put on a good face with friends.”
— Deborah Moggach
39. “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
40. “To have a loving relationship with a sister is not simply to have a buddy or a confident… it is to have a soulmate for life.”
— Victoria Secunda
41. “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.”
— Leonardo DiCaprio
42. “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
43. “If you want to know how your girl will treat you after marriage, just listen to her talking to her little brother.”
— Sam Levenson
44. “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
45. “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
46. “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.”
— Edwin Markham
47. “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
48. “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
49. “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
50. “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
51. “I see a brother and sister, sitting over there together, fighting over a toy, they just can’t seem to see, their love shining through, with every smile that they bring.”
― Valerie Dupont
52. “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
53. “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
54. “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
55. “Sisters and brothers just happen, we don’t get to choose them, but they become one of our most cherished relationships.”
― Wes Adamson
56. “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
57. “Our brothers and sisters bring us face to face with our former selves and remind us how intricately bound up we are in each other’s lives.”
― Jane Mersky Leder
58. “As your brother, I always know that you my sister look out for me. And as your younger brother I also know you will always be older than me.”
― Theodore W. Higginsworth
59. “Brothers and sisters can provide the most encouragement and support when life’s trials get us down. Talk to them!”
― Catherine Pulsifer
60. “During life’s journey you will find most sisters and brothers are friends, companions, and support for each other.”
― Kate Summers
61. “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
62. “You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.”
— Desmond Tutu
63. “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
64. “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
65. “The best thing about having four big brothers is you always have someone to do something for you.”
― Chloe Moretz
66. “What brothers say to tease their sisters has nothing to do with what they really think of them.”
― Esther M. Friesner
67. “Once a brother, always a brother, no matter the distance, no matter the difference and no matter the issue.”
― Byron Pulsifer
68. “That’s the best part of having siblings,” I laugh. “Half the time, you want to kill each other, but you’d kill for each other, too.”
― L.C. Davis
69. “If thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother.”
― Epictetus
70. “Back in time it seemed that having a sister were a tragedy. Instead it is one of the best presents my parents could have ever given me.”
― Sara Anzellotti
71. “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
72. “Siblings are branches of a tree some stay close some go in different directions they fruit, grow bigger till they die and fall.”
― The Omani Shed
73. “If your sister is in a tearing hurry to go out and cannot catch your eye, she’s wearing your best sweater.”
― Pam Brown
74. “True siblings are bound together by far more essential things than blood, while more times than many blood isn’t thicker than water.”
― Constantina Maud
75. “Sometimes it’s heartbreaking to see your siblings as the people they’ve become. Maybe that’s why we all stay away from each other as a matter of course.”
― Jonathan Tropper
76. “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
77. “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
78. “From their struggles to establish dominance over each other, siblings become tougher and more resilient.”
― Adele Faber
79. “Sibling rivalry was, and still is to this day, rampant in my family. We were all competing for my parents’ divided attention.”
― Janine di Giovanni
80. “They say that no matter how old you become, when you are with your siblings, you revert back to childhood.”
― Karen White
81. “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 Luhrmann
82. “Our brothers and sisters are there with us from the dawn of our personal stories to the inevitable dusk.”
― Susan Scarf Merrell
83. “Siblings know you better than anyone. They may not always admire you, but they’ll always be intensely interested in you.”
― Dr. Terri Apter
84. “I always saw myself as more of a watcher, although I suppose my siblings might have a different viewpoint on it.”
― Amy Adams
85. “A sister is someone you can always count on, even if you don’t know it at the time.”
― Sally Painter
86. “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
87. “My brothers are like oil and vinegar, but they have always been there for me. In that way, they are exactly alike!”
― Sally Painter
88. “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
89. “My siblings don’t look like each other, but each of them looks like me.”
― Sally Painter
90. “When you have a lot of siblings, you always do something to feel special.”
― Lee Daniels
91. “We are all the siblings of Kuwait. She is the mother and the father, and we are the shield that protects her from her enemies.”
― Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah
92. “A sibling represents a person’s past, present, and future.”
― John Corey Whaley
93. “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
94. “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
95. “Siblings are our partners and rivals, our first friends, and our first enemies.”
― Erica Goldblatt Hyatt
96. “Siblings: children of the same parents, each of whom is perfectly normal until they get together.”
― Sam Levenson
97. “Siblings help teach each other social skills and play a part in each other’s identity development.”
― Kate Strohm
98. “Sibling relationships can be very meaningful and intimate, but it is common for people to drift apart as they grow older and build their own families and other relationships.”
― TD Styles
99. “My sister accommodates me, never reproaches me with her doctrine, never tries to change me. She accepts and loves me, despite our differences.”
― Joy Harjo
100. “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
101. “The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out his nose.”
― Garrison
102. “My sister and I are so close that we finish each other’s sentences and often wonder whose memories belong to whom.”
― Shannon Celebi
103. “That’s the function of big brothers… to help their little sisters when their worlds are collapsing.”
― Susan Beth Pfeffer
104. “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.”
― Kames Boswell
105. “Being the youngest sibling, I’ve always been the most pampered child.”
― Soha Ali Khan
106. “I was the eldest child, so I know how it feels to have attention shared with a sibling.”
— Suriya
107. “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
108. “I’m actually an only child with very supportive parents, so I didn’t have the sibling rivalry to draw from.”
― Aidan Gallagher
109. “I sit between my brother the mountain and my sister the sea. We three are one in loneliness, and the love that binds us together is deep and strong and strange.”
― Kahlil Gibran
110. “Siblings always remember every wrong you did to them, but they also remember your every kindness.”
― Sally Painter
111. “If I have friends I don’t like, I can drop them. You can divorce a husband or wife. Siblings are inescapable.”
― Geoffrey Greif, Ph.D
112. “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
113. “I honestly don’t know how people can go through life without a sister, older or younger. You have always inspired me and guided me through my hard times.”
― Jordan Van Dootingh
114. “We all have competitive relationships with our siblings.”
― John Benjamin Hickey
115. “The best sibling you can have is a brother or sister who pushes you to 10x levels of success!”
― Grant Cardone
116. We acquire friends and we make enemies, but our sisters come with the territory.”
― Evelyn Loeb
117. “I always saw myself as more of a watcher, although I suppose my siblings might have a different viewpoint on it.”
― Amy Adams