National Siblings Day 2019: Quotes To Celebrate Your Brothers And Sisters

National Siblings Day is observed annually April 10 to honor the closest relatives and to remember the importance of brothers and sister in one’s life. The day was founded by Claudia Evart, a New Yorker, who lost her siblings at a very young age. Evart went on to establish an organization called the Siblings Day Foundation in 1997.

According to the foundation’s website, "Siblings are a special gift, and bonding amongst them is vital part of keeping our families, communities and nation strong. Brothers and sisters provide an anchor for one another, becoming some of our closest friends and most trusted advisers."

Here are 10 quotes about siblings, collected from Good Reads and Romper, which can be shared with family -

"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
"There's no other love like the love for a brother. There's no other love like the love from a brother." — Terri Guillemets
"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
"If you want to do really important things in life and big things in life, you can't do anything by yourself. And your best teams are your friends and your siblings." — Deepak Chopra
"There's a special kind of freedom sisters enjoy. Freedom to share innermost thoughts, to ask a favor, to show their true feelings. The freedom to simply be themselves." — Anonymous
"Back in time it seemed that having a sister were a tragedy. Instead it is one of the best presents my parents could have ever given me." — Sara Anzellotti
"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." — Christina Rossetti
"Sisters annoy, interfere, criticize. Indulge in monumental sulks, in huffs, in snide remarks. Borrow. Break. Monopolize the bathroom. Are always underfoot. But if catastrophe should strike, sisters are there. Defending you against all." — Pam Brown
"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." — Jeffrey Kluger
"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