Rearing three children is like growing a cactus, a gardenia, and a tubful of impatiens. Each needs varying amounts of water, sunlight… — Phyllis Grissim-Theroux Copy Share Image
My siblings and I were raised like tenants, to be honest. There was a total absence of intimacy in my family, though… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
“Family… that was my older sister Tiffany as well. My emotional spectrum for her covered everything from “my dearest sister, foundation of… — Hasimir Fenrig Copy Share Image
We can't understand when we're pregnant, or when our siblings are expecting, how profound it is to have a shared history with… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
My favorite holiday memory was sitting at home all day in my pajamas during winter break for school watching a bunch of… — Becky G Copy Share Image
You're surrounded by other people all the time. And you have to take responsibility if you're the eldest or one of the… — Harry West Copy Share Image
Sisters annoy, interfere, criticize. Indulge in monumental sulks, in huffs, in snide remarks. Borrow. Break. Monopolize the bathroom. Are always underfoot. But… — Pam Brown Copy Share Image
We're learning how important it is both to preserve sibling relationships if they work and repair them if they're broken. We're also… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
I've always had this interest in sibling relationships because I don't have any siblings. I'm completely a product of the one-child policy… — Marie Lu Copy Share Image
My parents are hard workers and they showed me what it means to work hard. I would give a lot of the… — Clay Guida Copy Share Image
When I think of [my relationship with Gable], considering the way it started, it was curious. We became devoted to each other.… — Myrna Loy Copy Share Image
Some of the best times I've spent in Colorado have been in the backcountry with my mom and siblings, and more recently,… — Mark Udall Copy Share Image
Sometimes she teased me that she’d eventually catch up to me in age and be my older sibling. Looking at her now,… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
A child who is disillusioned abruptly, by his peers or siblings, being ridiculed for his faith and imagination, may choose never to… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
It's not the easiest thing in the world to act with Harry - we are very close. I'm not saying it won't… — Luke Treadaway Copy Share Image
But now I’m wondering if I need it anymore, if we ever really need these words, “Dauntless,” “Erudite,” “Divergent,” “Allegiant,” or if… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Family's the one thing you can't change. You can cover yourself with tattoos. You can get a grapefruit-sized ring going through your… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
Right, then, mate, terribly sorry for my unspeakable rudeness, and I do beg your pardon. I can only say that it was… — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
...since I was a little boy, she had always wanted me to go. She was always sending me off on a bus… — James McBride Copy Share Image
Home is that youthful region where a child is the only real living inhabitant. Parents, siblings, and neighbors are mysterious apparitions who… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
We have created a new demonstration program to allow families with a sick child who could be helped with a cord blood… — Nathan Deal Copy Share Image
Older siblings get more total-immersion mentoring with their parents before younger siblings come along. As a result, they get an IQ and… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
Siblings may be ambivalent about their relationships in life, but in death the power of their bond strangles the surviving heart. Death… — Barbara Ascher Copy Share Image
Family: the most important thing of all. My siblings may drive me crazy at times but they are my blood. They’re all… — Tabitha Suzuma Copy Share Image
Eventually we will learn that the loss of indivisible love is another of our necessary losses, that loving extends beyond the mother-child… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
The family. We are a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
Because of my unique experience as my mom's child, the beginning of my journey was more about me trying to figure out… — Tracee Ellis Ross Copy Share Image
It always struck Fire, the physical affection between these siblings, who as often as not were at each other's throats over one… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
I would have to name two people - my parents. I've seen them come through adversity and work hard to create the… — Dwyane Wade Copy Share Image
Your spouse, a sibling, a friend need to read your drafts. They have to be people unafraid to tell you what sucks.… — Douglas Brunt Copy Share Image
I think I wish I had never spanked my children, but I have. And they remember every instance like they tattooed it… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
I'm not very active on social media. I'm not on Facebook or Twitter or Instagram, or anything like that. But I think… — Alexander Skarsgard Copy Share Image
But the three siblings were not born yesterday. Violet was born more than fifteen years before this particular Wednesday, and Klaus was… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A younger sister is someone to use as a guinea-pig in trying sledges and experimental go-carts. Someone to send on messages to… — Pam Brown Copy Share Image
My dad loved Scotland, so we would pile into his caravan and head for the Highlands, to Fort William and Loch Ness.… — Rick Astley Copy Share Image
I was home-schooled. My mom wasn't a fan of public school systems. She was scared of letting me go. So, she home-schooled… — Britt Robertson Copy Share Image
“Losing a sibling, especially in youth, is a particular blow, a lateral loss of shared history and DNA that lacerates your identity.… — Ann Gisleson Copy Share Image
Horizontal hostility may be expressed in sibling rivalry or in competitive dueling which wrecks not only office tranquility or suburban domesticity but… — Florynce Kennedy Copy Share Image
I do find the sibling connection endlessly fascinating, as I do all family dynamics. I like how siblings seem to create their… — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
It seems to me that we have to draw the line in sibling rivalry whenever rivalry goes out of bounds into destructive… — Selma Fraiberg Copy Share Image
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