Sons, Boys & Brothers

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

You don't raise heroes; you raise sons. And if you treat them like sons, they'll turn out to be heroes, even if it's just in your own eyes. Walter Schirra Sr.

A wise son maketh a glad father... Proverbs10:1

Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And - which is more -- you'll be a Man, my son! Rudyard Kipling

A boy becomes a man when he decides it's more fun to steal a kiss than second base. Author Unknown

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

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

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

Our brothers and sisters are there with us from the dawn of our personal stories to the inevitable dusk. Susan Scarf Merrell

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

To the outside world we all grow old. But not to brothers and sisters. We know each other as we always were.We know each other's hearts. We share private family jokes. We remember family feuds and secrets, family griefs and joys. We live outside the touch of time. Clara Ortega

On the one hand, we'll never experience childbirth. On the other hand, we can open all our own jars. Jeff Green