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Heart-Warming Sibling Quotes and Sayings

Although the relationships between siblings may be competitive, the bond between sisters and brothers is unbreakable. 

Sibling Love Quotes

Write these sister and brother love quotes on postcards, and they will surely appreciate these thoughtful messages.

1. Half the time when brothers wrestle, it’s just an excuse to hug each other.  – James Patterson
2. 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
3. There’s no other love like the love for a brother. There’s no other love like the love from a brother. – Terri Guillemets
4. I have a wonderful relationship with my brother and sister; this makes me feel that I always know where I belong. – Jose Carreras
5. I told my sister how much I loved her every day. That’s the only reason I’m OK right now. – Amaury Nolasco
6. Back in time, it seemed that having a sister was a tragedy. Instead, it is one of the best presents my parents could have ever given me. – Sara Anzellotti
7. You can be tedious with sisters, whereas you have to make a good face with friends. – Deborah Moggach
8. Sisterly love is, of all sentiments, the most abstract. Nature does not grant it any functions. – Ugo Betti
9. Some days, she’s the reason you wish you were an only child. – Barbara Alpert
10. I know my older sister loves me because she gives me all her old clothes and has to go out and buy new ones. – Unknown
11. Sister is the person who has known you your entire life and yet it’s your sister who knows exactly where to drive the knife to hurt you the most. – Lisa See
12. Brother and sister, together as friends, like joy and laughter or tears and strife, holding hands tightly as we dance through life. – Suzie Huitt
13. 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
14. No one in the world loved you quite the way a younger sibling did. – Laura Lippman
15. Brothers and sisters are as close as hands and feet. – Vietnamese Proverb
16. To have a loving relationship with a sister is not simply to have a buddy or confidence… it is to have a soulmate for life. – Victoria Secunda
17. What brothers say to tease their sisters has nothing to do with their thinking. – Esther M. Friesner
18. 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
19. A sister is someone who loves you from the heart. No matter how much you argue, you cannot be drawn apart. – Shiv Sharma
20. A sister is a gift to the heart, a friend to the spirit, a golden thread to the meaning of life. – Isadora James
21. 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
22. If you have a brother or sister, tell them you love them every day – that’s the most beautiful thing. – Amaury Nolasco
23. A sister is both your mirror and your opposite. – Elizabeth Fishel
24. Sometimes being a brother is even better than being a superhero. – Marc Brown
25. Brother and sister, together as friends, ready to face whatever life sends. – Robert Brault

Funny Sibling Quotes

Try these funny sibling quotes if you want to share a good laugh with your siblings. 

1. Siblings: your only enemy you can’t live without. – Unknown
2. Sibling relationships are complicated. All family relationships are. Look at Hamlet. – Maurice Saatchi
3. The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out of his nose. – Garrison Keillor
4. 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
5. The Rule of Sibs: If your sibling gets something you want, you (1) try to take it; (2) break it; or (3) say it’s no good. – Patricia Fleming
6. The advantage of growing up with siblings is that you become very good at fractions. – Robert Brault
7. More than Santa Claus, your sister knows when you’ve been bad and good. – Linda Sunshine
8. Half the time when brothers wrestle, it’s just an excuse to hug each other. – James Patterson
9. 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
10. 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
11. Everyone knows that if you’ve got a brother, you’re going to fight. – Liam Gallagher
12. My elder brother won’t die, and my younger brothers seem never to do anything else. – Oscar Wilde
13. Never let an angry sister comb your hair. – Patricia McCann
14. My brother has the most astonishing sister. I’m just saying. – Leslie Nevala
15. Do you think I’m crazy? Meet my sister. – Ginny Meadows
16. 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
17. As sure as the sun will rise every morning and set in the evening, just same I will love you all the days of my life. – Fawn Weaver
18. When sisters stand shoulder to shoulder, who stands a chance against us? – Pam Brown
19. My sister and I are so close that we finish each other’s sentences and often wonder who’s memories belong to whom. – Shannon Celebi
20. I’ve been the oldest child since before you were born. – E.L. Konigsburg.
21. What are sisters for if not to point out the things the rest of the world is too polite to mention? – Claire Cook.
22. That’s the best part of having siblings…you want to kill each other, but you’d kill for each other, too. – L.C. Davis.
23. The best way to get a puppy is to beg for a baby brother. – Winston Pendelton.
24. I grew up with six…I learned to dance – waiting for the bathroom. – Bob Hope.
25. He’s not heavy; he’s my brother. – James Wells

Inspirational Sibling Quotes

There are countless inspirational quotes for siblings, which you can share with your sibling. Here are some of the best. 

1. You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them. – Desmond Tutu
2. Like branches on a tree, we grow in different directions, yet our roots remain as one. Each of our lives will always be a particular part of the other. – Unknown
3. Siblings are like streetlights along the road, they don’t make distance any shorter, but they light up the path and make the walk worthwhile. – Unknown
4. What more significant thing is there for human souls than to feel joined for life – to be with each other in silent unspeakable memories. – George Eliot
5. If thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother. – Epictetus
6. 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
7. They say that no matter how old you become when with your siblings, you revert to childhood. – Karen White
8. Power, that’s one thing, but the love of family and siblings is more important, is more potent than any other power. – Sander Levin
9. A sibling represents a person’s past, present, and future. – John Corey Whaley
10. In some ways, siblings, especially sisters, are more influential in your childhood than your parents. – Deborah Tannen
11. Sweet is the voice of a sister in the season of sorrow, and wise is the counsel of those who loves us. – Benjamin Disraeli
12. 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
13. Siblings often become good friends, and because they know each other so well. – Laura Markham
14. Sisterhood and brotherhood is a condition people have to work at. – Maya Angelou
15. Our brothers and sisters are there with us from the dawn of our personal stories to the inevitable dusk. – Susan Scarf Merrell
16. Siblings are branches of a tree. They fruit grow bigger till they die and fall. – The Omani Shed
17. A sibling represents a person’s past, present, and future. – John Corey Whaley
18. 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
19. As sure as the sun will rise every morning and set in the evening just the same. – Fawn Weaver
20. Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back, and reasons to stay. – Dalai Lama
21. You need her, as she needs you. – George R.R. Martin
22. Siblings fight, but siblings also know that they are of the same blood and share our family’s exact origins. – Vera Nazarian
23. My sister and I are so close that we finish each other’s sentences and often wonder who’s memories belong to whom. – Shannon Celebi
24. A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for a time of adversity. – Proverbs 17:17
25. For not even His brothers believed in Him. – John 7:5

Short Sibling Quotes

Check out some quotes defining the same:

1. Because of you, I will always have a friend. – Unknown
2. A sibling is a lens through which you see your childhood. – Ann Hood
3. But being a brother or a sister is the role of a lifetime. – Holly Goldberg Sloan
4. The greatest gift our parents ever gave us was each other. – Unknown
5. Brothers and sisters are as close as hands and feet. Vietnamese – Proverb
6. Not always eye to eye, but always heart to heart. – Unknown
7. Having lots of siblings is like having built-in best friends. – Kim Kardashian
8. The family is one of nature’s masterpieces. – George Santayana
9. Because of you, I will always have a friend. – Unknown
10. Our roots say we’re siblings. Our hearts say we’re friends. – Unknown
11. There’s no other love like the love from a brother. – Terri Guillemets
12. Brothers and sisters separated by distance joined by love. – Chuck Danes
13. A sibling has lived them with you. – Unknown
14. First a brother, then a bother, now a friend. – Unknown
15. In the cookies of life, siblings are the chocolate chips. – Unknown
16. Help your brother’s boat across, and your own will reach the shore. – Hindu Proverb
17. It takes two men to make one brother. – Israel Zangwill
18. When brothers agree, no fortress is so strong as their common life. – Antisthenes
19. Sometimes being a brother is even better than being a superhero. – Marc Brown
20. What’s the good of news if you haven’t a sister to share it? – James DeVries
21. When mom and dad don’t understand, a sister always will. – Unknown
22. When sisters stand shoulder to shoulder, who stands a chance against us? – Pam Brown
23. Sister to sister we will always be, a couple of nuts off the family tree. – Unknown
24. Sisterhood is powerful. – Robin Morgan
25. Sisters are blossoms in the garden of life. – Unknown

Beautiful Brother and Sister Quotes

Here are some emotional sibling quotes:

1. We didn’t realize we were making memories, we just knew we were having fun. – Winnie the Pooh
2. Not by blood, but bonded to each other just the same. – Unknown
3. True siblings are bound together by far more essential things than blood, while more times than many bloods isn’t thicker than water. – Constantina Maud
4. Siblings are different flowers from the same garden. – Unknown
5. A brother share childhood memories and grown-up dreams. – Unknown
6. 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
7. Our families are defined by far more than just blood so that we can find our way to who we need right now. – E.B. Johnson
8. Later the brothers had quarreled, one of those family quarrels we all know with deeply entangled roots, each having much to hide. – Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
9. There is so much that is still silent between Jaja and me. Perhaps we will talk more with time, or perhaps we never will be able to say it all, to clothe things in words, things that have long been naked. – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
10. You are never so a stranger as when you become a stranger. – Luigina Sgarro
11. Our roots say we’re sisters, our hearts say we’re friends. – Unknown
12. Of two sisters one is always the watcher, one the dancer. – Louise Glück
13. Elder sisters never can do younger ones justice! – Charlotte M. Yonge
14. How do people make it through life without a sister? – Sara Corpening
15. You can kid the world, but not your sister. – Charlotte Gray

Take a look at this selection of sister quotations from a wide range of authors, poets, and journalists – both female and male. And you may share one of these quotations with her to demonstrate your affection.

Also Read:

Sibling Rivalry in Children
Things You Face as a Younger Sibling
How to Encourage Your Child to Teach a Sibling