Best Younger Siblings Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I don't understand how people learn to live in the world if they haven't had siblings. Everything I learned about negotiation, territoriality, coexistence, dislike, inbred differences and love despite knowledge I learned from my four younger siblings.”

People Ifs World Differences Four Havens And Love Despite Dislike Negotiation Sibling Coexistence Inbreds Younger Siblings

Author:Anna Quindlen

“When you live in a small house with five younger siblings, it's actually far more sensible- and much quicker- to cry alone.”

House Five Cry Sensible Sibling Younger Siblings

Book:How to Be a Woman

Source: How to Be a Woman

“There is a belief that children drop out of school because they're needed by their families to work, or the little girls are needed to take care of younger siblings. It turns out that's not really true.”

Children Littles Care School Turns Girl Belief Needed Take Care Sibling Really True Younger Siblings

Author:Nicholas Negroponte

“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.”

Parent Results Attention Focus Advantage Mentor Exclusive Sibling Mentoring Linguistics My Siblings Immersion Sibling Day Younger Siblings Older Sibling

Author:Jeffrey Kluger

“If you're an older sibling and you have a younger sibling who needs mentoring or is afraid of the dark, you develop nurturing and empathic skills that you wouldn't otherwise have.”

Ifs Needs Dark Skills Sibling Nurturing Mentoring Younger Siblings Older Sibling

Author:Jeffrey Kluger

“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.”

Mean Children Earth Generations Blood Profound Genes Expecting Pregnant Sibling Pyramids Younger Generation My Siblings Young Generation Sibling Day Younger Siblings Egyptian Pyramids

Author:Anne Lamott

“I joined the army on my seventeenth birthday, full of the romance of war after having read a lot of World War I British poetry and having seen a lot of post-World War II films. I thought the romantic presentations of war influenced my joining and my presentation of war to my younger siblings.”

World War Film Romance Army British Posts War Of The Worlds Birthday World War Ii World War I Sibling Presentation Joining Younger Siblings

Author:Walter Dean Myers

“All of my friends who have younger siblings who are going to college or high school - my number one piece of advice is: You should learn how to program.”

Should School Numbers Pieces Advice College High School My Friends Program Sibling One Piece Going To College Younger Siblings

Author:Mark Zuckerberg

“This is just one of those annoying and unjust differences between you and your younger sibling...I was probably fifteen before I could go to a friend's house without giving mom an FBI dossier on the people; Bex can practically hitchhike on the freeway with a mere "Have fun, honey.”

People Giving House Fun Differences Mom Mere Having Fun Just One Honey Annoying Fifteen Unjust Sibling Fbi Freeways Younger Siblings

Author:Deb Caletti

“A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves - a special kind of double.”

“I'm not prepared for Rue's family. Her parents, whose faces are still fresh with sorrow. Her fiver younger siblings, who resemble her so closely. The slight builds, the luminous brown eyes. They form a flock of small dark birds.”

Stills Eye Faces Form Parent Dark Sorrow Bird Prepared Brown Bereavement Sibling Flocks Luminous Brown Eyes Rue Younger Siblings

Book:Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)

Source: Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)

“Max cuffed his brother good-naturedly on the ear as River slid in past him and bent to kiss Sophia on the cheek. “Hello, are you sure you’re with the right brother?” Sophia had never had a younger sibling. But this man with his laughing eyes and bright smile... “Are you making me an offer?”

Men Eye Past Laughing Brother Offers Kissing Rivers Ears Cheeks Bent Hello Sibling Max Sophia Bright Smiles Younger Siblings

Book:Bonds of Justice

Source: Bonds of Justice

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

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

Source: The Complete Novels of Jane Austen

“My parents were liberal intellectuals but even they expected me to stay at home and look after my younger siblings and do the housework.”

Looks Home Parent Expected Sibling Housework Stay At Home Younger Siblings

Author:Sara Paretsky

“My number one piece of advice is: you should learn how to program.”

Should Numbers Pieces Advice Program Entrepreneur One Piece Younger Siblings

Author:Mark Zuckerberg

“When you learn conflict-resolution skills in the playroom, you then practice them on the playground, and that in turn stays with you. If you have a combative sibling or a physically intimidating, older sibling, you learn a lot about how to deal with situations like that later in life. If you're an older sibling and you have a younger sibling who needs mentoring or is afraid of the dark, you develop nurturing and empathic skills that you wouldn't otherwise have.”

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