Robert Bly Quotes

I think that your relationship is always changing with your siblings.

I do find the sibling connection endlessly fascinating, as I do all family dynamics. I like how siblings seem to create their own parentless mini-civilization within a family, one that has its own laws, myths, language, humor, its own loyalties and treacheries.

As for my brothers, of whom I had three, I know not how they were bred.

I have a great relationship with everyone in my family, but I'm closer to my brothers than anyone else because they give me a lot of guidance.

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

I've got two younger brothers.

I have two older sisters.

Some brothers are like Cain and Abel. Other brothers can fight with each other and get along.

I have a great relationship with all my brothers. I've got three other ones. There's four boys and two girls. It's a family business.

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.

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.

the experience of having brothers and sisters, born of the same parents, sleeping under the same roof, eating at the same table, is an inescapable, delightful and repelling, desired and abhorred part of each child's life.

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

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 learning a lot about nonliteral siblings - stepsiblings, half-siblings - and the surprising power they can have.

Many people don't have relationships to their siblings in adulthood, or they have superficial ones. It's sort of unfashionable, particularly in America, to be close to your family.

My siblings are my best friends.

We have two older brothers and two younger sisters; Sam and I are in the middle, and I've always felt protective and closest to him.

I am obsessed with my sisters. Being the oldest, I probably just have that in me. But I also think I am the youngest sometimes. We all have moments when we are the maternal one of the group.

We all have competitive relationships with our siblings.

Certainly, people can get along without siblings. Single children do, and there are people who have irreparably estranged relationships with their siblings who live full and satisfying lives, but to have siblings and not make the most of that resource is squandering one of the greatest interpersonal resources you'll ever have.

When you have brothers, you learn to be fiercely competitive with someone you love so they won't kill you and you won't kill them.

I am extremely close to my brother, Kent, and my sister, Lauren, who have been remarkably understanding about all of my weird sibling tales.

I was an only child and grew up in York where my parents ran a surgical supplies shop. When I say I wish I had brothers and sisters, friends say it's not what it's cracked up to be, but I think it must be good to have someone who knew you from the beginning.

I have two older brothers. I am the baby. We're all very, very close. We're great communicators, so we get along really well.

In some ways, siblings, and especially sisters, are more influential in your childhood than your parents.