Half Sibling Quotes & Sayings

Step-parenting and being a step-sibling presents a lot of exciting opportunities. When families break up and re-form, there may be less order, less certainty, and a bit more trauma involved, but kids can end up having half-a-dozen parent figures. — Morris Gleitzman

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

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. — Jeffrey Kluger

A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while, he knows something. — Wilson Mizner

to go out there, make a different and make this world — Shannon Polly

When I went back to England after a year away, the country seemed stuck, dozing in a fairy tale, stifled by the weight of tradition. — Brian Eno

Misers get up early in the morning; and burglars, I am informed, get up the night before. — G.K. Chesterton

Prosthetics can fix physical disabilities. But no prosthetic can fix an amputated spirit. So, don't let the society devoid you from your own spirit. Be brave and upright, and delve into even the depth of doom to achieve your goal. — Abhijit Naskar

Red was the blood of the siblings massacred in the North, black was for mourning them, green was for the prosperity Biafra would have, and, finally, the half of a yellow sun stood for the glorious future. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

One of my teachers at the psychoanalytic institute where I trained used to say, only half humorously, that 'the most important prerequisite for a vocation as a psychotherapist is a depressed mother'; based on my history, I think that a suffering but inaccessible father and a damaged sibling should be added to the list of qualifications. — Jeanne Safer

My own life has in some ways been a decades-long tour of the sibling experience. I have full sibs, I have half-sibs, and for a time I had step-sibs. — Jeffrey Kluger

The difficulties in the study of the infinite arise because we attempt, with our finite minds, to discuss the infinite, assigning to it those properties which we give to the finite and limited; but this ... is wrong, for we cannot speak of infinite quantities as being the one greater or less than or equal to another. — Galileo Galilei

Every abridgement of a good book is a fool abridged. — Michel De Montaigne

If you go out there and your main purpose is to get a sponsor, then it's not gonna work. Just go out there and have fun. That's how I got sponsored. — Ryan Sheckler