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Thank You Quotes for Siblings
Expressing gratitude to and for your brothers & sisters

"Brothers and sisters are as close as hands and feet."
Vietnamese Proverb
Our siblings may drive us crazy, but where would we be without brothers and sisters! Take the time to show them how much you care, and how grateful you are that they are in your life.
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Here is a selection of wonderful quotes – beautiful & heartfelt, humorous & cute, and a little wry – to help you express how much you appreciate your brother or sister. Use these quotes on thank you and birthday cards and notes, and on special gifts, presents & keepsakes.

If you're looking for thank you quotes specifically for your brother or sister, have a look at these pages:


Thank you quotes about siblings


Our brothers and sisters are there with us from the dawn of our personal stories to the inevitable dusk.
Susan Scarf Merrell, American journalist & author. From: The Accidental Bond


To the outside world, we all grow old. But not to brothers and sisters. We know each other as we always were... We live outside the touch of time.
Attributed to Clara Ortega


There is no time like the old time, when you and I were young!
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (1809-1894), American physician, academic, author & poet


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.
Maya Angelou (b. 1928), American author & poet


A sibling may be the keeper of one's identity, the only person with the keys to one's unfettered, more fundamental self.
Marian Sandmaier, American psychologist & author. From: Original Kin: The Search for Connection Among Adult Sisters & Brothers


There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.
Iris Murdoch (1919-1999), Anglo-Irish novelist & philosopher. From: A Severed Head



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Our siblings. They resemble us just enough to make all their differences confusing, and no matter what we choose to make of this, we are cast in relation to them our whole lives long.
Susan Scarf Merrell, American journalist & author. From: The Accidental Bond


I, who have no sisters or brothers, look with some degree of innocent envy on those who may be said to be born to friends.
James Boswell (1740-1795), Scottish lawyer and author


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


Your siblings are the only people in the world who know what it's like to have been brought up the way you were.
Betsy Cohen


Sibling relationships... 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