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.

A Brother may not be a Friend, but a Friend will always be a Brother.

Help one another is part of the religion of our sisterhood.

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.

When I look at each of my brothers, I see two things. First, I see the next place I want to leave a rosy welt. Second, I see a good man who will always be there, no matter how hard life gets for me or him. Then, I get out of the way because I realize he‘s coming at me with a wet dish towel.

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

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

Ignore reality, there’s nothing you can do about it.

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.

Your True Nature Is Love. There’s Nothing You Can Do About It.

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.

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.

It snowed last year too: I made a snowman and my brother knocked it down and I knocked my brother down and then we had tea.

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.

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.

My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, ‘You’re tearing up the grass‘; ‘We’re not raising grass,’ Dad would reply. ‘We’re raising boys.’

The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out of his nose.

Big sisters are the crab grass in the lawn of life.

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

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

Oh, brothers! I don’t care for brothers. My elder brother won‘t die, and my younger brothers seem never to do anything else.

You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.

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

Your siblings are the only people in the world who know what it’s like to have been brought up the way you were.

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.

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

There’s no better friend than a sister.

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

Having lots of siblings is like having built-in best friends.

Sometimes siblings can get in each other’s space.

You can kid the world, but not your sister.

I grew up with six brothers. That’s how I learned to dance – waiting for the bathroom.

Sometimes being a brother is even better than being a superhero.

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.

Let’s go hand in hand, not one before another.