Mary Schmich Quotes

I think it is important to remember that there are so many different ways to be sisters.

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.

He is my brother. She is my sister. Come what will, they are my kin.

Big sisters and brothers... I am telling you, it never changes.

My sisters, we didn't like each other as kids. We were scared of each other, I think, but we've grown to love each other. It was fun to write about these sisters who were supposed to hate each other but really don't.

My brother …

I wouldn't say that it's hard for sisters to treat each other with respect. Many do.

I've got two younger brothers.

I have two big brothers.

I know I will never be able to replace my parents, but over the years I have realized that you aren't able to choose your own family.

People say, 'Well, you're not Pau's little brother anymore.' I'm always going to be Pau's younger brother and Adria's older brother.

If I meant that I missed Bochy and Hunter, it's the guys I'd been joking around with most. Hunter is like my brother, and Bochy is like my dad. But at the end of the day, I missed all the guys.

Surely a gentle sister is the second best gift to a man; and it is first in point of occurrence; for the wife comes after.

You keep your past by having sisters. As you get older, they're the only ones who don't get bored if you talk about your memories.

Whatever you do they will love you; even if they don't love you they are connected to you till you die. You can be boring and tedious with -sisters, whereas you have to put on a good face with friends.

I think the essence of family is that you have to agree to it, and then supply, out of your imagination and capacity for loyalty, the contents of it.

Half the time when brothers wrestle, it's just an excuse to hug each other.

God gives us relatives; thank God, we can choose our friends.

Family is a unique gift that needs to be appreciated and treasured, even when they're driving you crazy. As much as they make you mad, interrupt you, annoy you, curse at you, try to control you, these are the people who know you the best and who love you.

Having sisters is the best. I have a different relationship with each of them. I go to Kim for fashion advice, Khloe is always boy and family advice, and Kourtney is like another mother to me.

I'm one of three brothers.

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.

'Frozen' definitely isn't about a man, but about the relationship between two sisters. At different times in our lives we find ourselves either more connected to or disconnected from the people in our family, and I think audiences will really be able to relate to that.

For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, to fetch one if one goes astray, to lift one if one totters down, to strengthen whilst one stands.

Witnessing the bond between a parent and their little ones firsthand really brought home to me how much I was missing.