siblings

Brothers and sisters are as close as hands and feet. 

 ~Vietnamese Proverb

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

The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard 

that food came out his nose. 

 ~Garrison Keillor

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, "The Secret World of Siblings"

After a girl is grown, her little brothers - now her protectors - seem like big brothers. 

 ~Astrid Alauda