For those of you with siblings it can sometimes be hard to appreciate them. As children you would fight over, well, everything. But they are the people closest to you. They know everything about you and are probably your best friend.
April 10 is National Sibling Day, which means it's time to put away the hard feelings, let go of whatever grudges you and your sibling are holding and remember why your brother or sister is special. Here are 40 Quotes to recognize and celebrate the special bond between you and your siblings.
1. "Older siblings get more total-immersion mentoring with their parents before younger siblings come along. As a result, they get an IQ and linguistic advantage because they are the exclusive focus of their parents' attention." ― Jeffrey Kluger
2. "There's no other love like the love for a brother. There's no other love like the love from a brother." ― Terri Guillemets
3. "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
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. "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
6. "First a brother, then a bother, now a friend." ― Anonymous
7. "Two of my three siblings are older, so I suppose I learned from them and became a very avid reader at a young age, which I think enough cannot be said for what you can discover through literature." ― Julia Roberts
8. "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." ― Erica E. Goode
9. "Sometimes siblings can get in each other's space." ― Gisele Bündchen
10. "Sometimes being a brother is even better than being a superhero!" ― Marc Brown
11. "We can't understand when we're pregnant, or when our siblings are expecting, how profound it is to have a shared history with a younger generation: blood, genes, humor. It means we were actually here, on Earth, for a time―like the Egyptians with their pyramids, only with children." ― Anne Lamott
12. "When brothers agree, no fortress is so strong as their common life." ― Antisthenes
13. "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
14. "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
15. "Older siblings... the only people who will pick on you for their own entertainment and beat up anyone else who tries." ― Anonymous
16. "Siblings: children of the same parents, each of whom is perfectly normal until they get together." ― Sam Levenson
17. "The mildest, drowsiest sister has been known to turn tiger if her sibling is in trouble." ― Clara Ortega
18. "Having lots of siblings is like having built-in best friends." ― Kim Kardashian
19. "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." ― Dylan Thomas
20. "There's a special kind of freedom sisters enjoy. Freedom to share innermost thoughts, to ask a favor, to show their true feelings. The freedom to simply be themselves." ― Anonymous
21. "My siblings are my best friends." ― America Ferrera
22. "Comparison is a death knell to sibling harmony." ― Elizabeth Fishel
23. "The best thing about having a sister was that I always had a friend." ― Cali Rae Turner
24. "Like branches on a tree we grow in different directions yet our roots remain as one. Each of our lives will always be a special part of the other." ― Anonymous
25. "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
26. "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
27. "In the cookies of life, sisters are the chocolate chips." ― Anonymous
28. "How do people make it through life without a sister?" ― Sara Corpening
29. "Siblings: your only enemy you can't live without." ― Anonymous
30. "I know it's a cliche, but the whole family is just whacked. I mean, we're all out of our minds. They're the funniest, most eccentric bizarre people I've ever met, my siblings." ― Dana Carvey
31. "Siblings are the people we practice on, the people who teach us about fairness and cooperation and kindness and caringquite often the hard way." ― Pamela Dugdale
32. "We were a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, loving, laughing, defending, and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together." ― Erma Bombeck
33. "I think I'm funny because my family, my siblings were funny." ― Martin Short
34. "It takes two men to make one brother." ― Israel Zangwill
35. "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
36. "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
37. “ Brothers and sisters are as close as hands and feet.” – Vietnamese Proverb
38. “ 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.” – James Boswell
39. “ After a girl is grown, her little brothers — now her protectors — seem like big brothers.” – Terri Guillemets
40. “ 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
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