Siblings Quotes

Sibling relationships - and 80 percent of Americans have at least one - 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.

family sisters

A sibling is the lens through which you see your childhood.

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.

Our siblings can be allies against our parents whenever we, as children, wage our silent, secret, but unavoidable wars against them.  Siblings also assuage feelings of loneliness, which is one of the main reasons an only child will wish for a brother or sister.

Siblings either learn to accept one another as independent individuals with their own sets of values and behaviors or cling to the shadow of the brother and sister they once knew.