35 Quotes About Siblings Being Best Friends

Siblings are a tremendous part of our childhood development. These quotes about siblings being best friends demonstrate how much they contribute to our growth and well being.

“A bond as important as that of a husband and wife, is the bond between siblings.”

“A brother is a friend given by nature.”

“A sibling may be the keeper of one’s identity, the only person with the keys to one’s unfettered, more fundamental self.”

“A sibling represents a person’s past, present, and future.”

“Be nice to your siblings, they’re your best link to your past and the most likely to stay with you in the future.”

“Brother and sister, together as friends, ready to face whatever life sends. Joy and laughter or tears and strife, holding hands tightly as we dance through life.”

“Brothers and sisters are as close as hands and feet.”

“Brothers and sisters can say things to one another that no one else can.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“My siblings are my best friends.”

“Not all conflicts between siblings are good, of course. A child who is repeatedly humiliated or made to feel insignificant by a brother or sister is learning little except humiliation and shame.”

“Older siblings… the only people who will pick on you for their own entertainment and beat up anyone else who tries.”

“Our brothers and sisters are there with us from the dawn of our personal stories to the inevitable dusk.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Siblings – the definition that comprises love, strife, competition and forever friends.”

“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.”

“Siblings that say they never fight are most definitely hiding something.”

“Siblings: children of the same parents, each of whom is perfectly normal until they get together.”

“Siblings: your only enemy you can’t live without.”

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

“Sweet is the voice of a sister in the season of sorrow.”

“The best things in life come in threes, like friends, dreams, and memories.”

“The family is one of nature’s masterpieces.”

“The mildest, drowsiest sister has been known to turn tiger if her sibling is in trouble.”

“There is an absurdity in it, particularly in the relationship between the siblings.”

“There’s no other love like the love for a brother. There’s no other love like the love from a brother.”

“They say that not matter how old you become, when you are with your siblings, you revert back to childhood.”

“To the outside world, we all grow old. But not to brothers and sisters.”

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

“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.”

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

Many people form a unique bond and friendship with their siblings that last a lifetime.