Back when my babies were little, I obsessed over these brother and sister images! They made me so happy and, now that they’re older, the messages and sayings continue to shed light on the beauty of their sibling relationship. In honor of National Sibling Day, we’re sharing 101 brother and sister quotes (along with brother and sister images) to make your heart smile and inspire a message for sister, Sibling Day post or photo-a-day project!
Brother and Sister Quotes
Sibling quotes are categorized into sections – sibling quotes, sister love quotes, brother love quotes and family legacy quotes – making it easy to find the perfect message for your needs!
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Love Quotes for Siblings
Writing all these sister and brother quotes made my heart smile. They’re so inspirational! Quotes about brother and sister relationships are powerful, and using sayings to remind us of the importance of family relationships is always a great idea.
For your inspiration, I segmented the love quotes for siblings into a few sections: inspirational quotes on sisters and brother, sister love quotes, brother love quotes, sibling fighting quotes (because you know they speak the truth and are super funny!!!) and general family quotes that can be applied to sibling relationships. We’ve even got a few quotes about little sisters!
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Inspirational Quotes on Sisters
1. “A sibling may be the keeper of one’s identity, the only person with the key to one’s unfettered more fundamental self.” –Marian Sandmaier
2. “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
3. “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
4. “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
5. “Siblings function as safety nets in a chaotic world simply by being there for each other.” – Carol Saline
6. “I’ve been the oldest child since before you were born.” – E.L. Konigsburg
7. “Our siblings 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
8. “The meaning of siblings isn’t always about sharing.” – Unknown
9. “An accident of birth does make you brothers and sisters. It makes you siblings. Sisterhood and brotherhood is a condition that we work at.” – Unknown
10. “To the outside world, we all grow old. But not to brothers and sisters. We know each other as we always were. We live outside the touch of time.” – Clara Ortega
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11. “Friends are the siblings that Gob never gave us.” – Mencius
12. “Siblings share a mirror of each other. Having a sibling means you’re never the only one.” – Unknown
13. “We know one other’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
14. “Brothers and sisters are as close as hands and feet.” – Vietnamese Proverb
15. “Having a sibling is having a ball!” – Unknown
16. “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
17. “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
18. “It is because we are different that each of us is special.” – Brian Dyson
19. “I want to be very close to someone I respect and admire and have somebody who feels the same about me.” – Richard Bach
20. “I hope you will always find each even when no one else can see.” – Unknown
21. “Siblings that play together, stay together.” – Unknow
22. “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
23. “Sisters and brothers just happen, we don’t get to choose them, but they become one of our most cherished relationships.” – Wes Adamson
24. “Our brothers and sisters are there with us from the dawn of our personal stories to the inevitable dusk.” – Susan Scarf Merrell
25. “We shared parents, home, pets, celebrations, secrets. And the threads of our experience became so interwoven that we are linked. I can never be utterly lonely, knowing you share the planet.” –Pam Brown
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Sister Love Quotes
26. “How do people make it through life without a sister?” – Sara Corpening
27. “The mildest, drowsiest sister has been known to turn tiger if her sibling is in trouble.” – Clara Ortega
28. “Lord help the mister that comes between me and my sister.” – Irving Berlin
29. “If you want to know how your girl will treat you after marriage, just listen to her talking to her little brother.” – Sam Levenson
30. “Sweet is the voice of a sister in the season of sorrow.” – Benjamin Disraeli
31. “A sister is both your mirror – and your opposite.” – Elizabeth Fishel
32. “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 Rosetti
33. As I grew up, one of my strongest allies has been my sister.” – Patti Smith
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Quotes for Brothers
34. “No life’s worth more than any other. No sister worth less than any brother.” – Michael Franti
35. “Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister?” – Alice Walker
36. “When traveling life’s journey it’s good to have a sister’s hand to hold on to.” – Unknown
37. “A sister is a little bit of childhood that can never be lost.” – Unknown
38. “When sisters stand shoulder to shoulder, who stands a chance against us?” – Pam Brown
39. “Sister and friend. Two words that mean the same thing.” – Unknown
40. “A sister is a gift to the heart. A friend to the spirit. A golden thread to the meaning of life.” – Unknown
41. “The greatest gift our parents ever gave us was each other.” – Unknown
42. “Sisters are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.” – Unknown
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Brother Love Quotes
43. “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
44. “There’s no buddy like a brother!” – Unknown
45. “A brother is a friend given by nature.” – Jean Baptiste Legouve
46. “After a girl is grown, her little brother – now her protector – seems like a big brother.” – Terri Guillemets
47. “When brothers agree, no fortress is so strong as their common life.” – Antisthenes
48. “Being pretty on the inside means you don’t hit your brother and you eat all your peas. That’s what my grandma taught me.” – Lord Chesterfield
49. “Help your brother’s boat across and your own will reach the shore.” – Hindu Proverb
50. “What strange creatures brothers are!” – Jane Austen
51. “We are not only our brother’s keeper; in countless large and small ways, we are our brother’s maker.” – Bonaro Overstreet
52. “All for one and one for all, my brother and my friend. What fun we have, the time we share. Brothers ’til the end.” – Unknown
53. “Never make a companion equal to a brother.” – Hesiod
54. “The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out of his nose.” – Garrison Keillor
55. “There is no other love like the love for a brother. There is no other love like the love from a brother.” – Terri Guillemets
56. “A brother shares childhood memories and grown-up dreams.” –Author Unknown
57. “Of all the things I have to play, I’d choose my brother any day.” – Unknown
58. “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 Quindla
59. “We must learn together as brothers or perish together as fools.” – Martin Luther King Jr
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Sibling Fighting Quotes
60. “Siblings that say they never fight are most definitely hiding something.” – Lemony Snicket
61. “Our siblings push buttons that cast us in roles we felt sure we had let go of years ago – the baby, the peacemaker, the caretaker, the avoider. It doesn’t seem to matter how much time has elapsed or how far we’ve traveled.” – Jane Mersky Leder
62. “You think you’re smart, but I’ve seen you naked.” – Bare Naked Ladies
63. “Blood may be thicker than water, but it’s certainly not as thick as ketchup. Nor does it go as well with French Fries.” – Jarod Kintz
64. “The best way to get a puppy is to beg for a baby brother… and they’ll settle for a puppy every time.” –Winston Pendelton
65. “A friend is a brother who was once a bother.” –Author Unknown
66. “It snowed last year. I made a snowman and my brother knocked it down and I knocked my brother down and then we had tea.” – Dylan Thomas
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67. “The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder.” – Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
68. “If loving someone is putting them in a straight jacket and kicking them down a flight of stairs, then yes, I have loved a few people.” –Jarod Kintz
69. “Blessed is the servant who loves his brother as much as 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 afar 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
70. “It was nice growing up with someone like you – someone to lean on, someone to count on… someone to tell on!” – Unknown
71. “I’m not bossy! I just have better ideas.” –Author Unknown
72. “If you stare at someone long enough, they’ll eventually look back at you.” – Cory Doctorow
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Family Quotes on Legacy
73. “Be strong enough to stand alone, be yourself enough to stand apart, but be wise enough to stand together when the time comes.” – Unknown
74. “Someones sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.” – Les Brown
75. “The family is one of nature’s masterpieces.” – George Santayana
76. “In our play we reveal what kind of people we are.” – Ovid
77. “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,’ my dad would reply, ‘We’re raising boys.” – Hamon Killebrew
78. “Necessity may be the mother of invention but play is certainly the father.” – Unknown
79. “You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.” – Desmond Tutu
80. “Wherever you are, my love will find you.” – Nancy Tilman
81. “When your mother asks, ‘Do you want a piece of advice?’ it’s a mere formality. It doesn’t matter if you answer yes or no. You’re going to get it anyway.” – Erma Bombeck
82. “One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.” – George Herbert
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83. “If you bungle raising your children, I don’t think whatever else you do well matters very much.” – Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
84. “I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments when they aren’t trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.” – Umberto Eco
85. “There’s no greater joy than settling into the arms of your most fierce defender.” – Unknown
86. “The things I want to know are in books. My best friend is the man who’ll get me a book I haven’t read.” – Abraham Lincoln
87. “Teaching children about the natural world should be seen as one of the most important events in their lives.” – Thomas Berry
88. “I have always imagined paradise will be a kind of library.” – Jorge Luis Borges
89. “I sustain myself with the love of family.” – Maya Angelou
90. “Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.” – Helen Keller
91. “There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million.” – Walt Streightiff
92. “When you have confidence, you can have a lot of fun. And when you have fun, you can do amazing things.” – Joe Namath
93. “When I count my blessings, I count you twice.” – Irish Proverb
94. “You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.” – Plato
95. “Carve your name on hearts, not tombstones. A legacy is etched into the minds of others and the stories they share about you.” – Shannon L. Adler
96. “The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, and all the sweet serenity of books.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
97. “Home is where you are loved the most and act the worst.” – Marjorie Pay Hinckley
98. “All the time a person is a child he is both a child and learning to be a parent. After he becomes a parent he becomes predominantly a parent reliving childhood.” – Dr Benjamin Spock
99. “The soul is healed by being with children.” – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
100. “Your children need your presence more than your presents.” – Jesse Jackson
101. “It’s no trick loving someone at their best. Love is loving them at their worst.” –Tom Stoppard
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