Top 345 Sibling Rivalry Quotes & Sayings

I hoped Lissa remained the only one with a surprise sibling.

When you talk in terms of a rivalry game, it's always important for our guys to understand the history of the rivalry and the history of the game.

We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we have to like each other. It may be the very recognition of all men as our brothers that accounts for the sibling rivalry, and even enmity, we have toward so many of them.

I always wanted a sibling.

People always say, 'Oh, I'd love to work with my sibling,' or 'My God, I could never work with my sibling.' It was just a natural process for us. We started collaborating on our first films and it evolved. We have a passion for film that we shared as we were growing up.

I'm actually an only child with very supportive parents, so I didn't have the sibling rivalry to draw from.

No one could have nicer sisters. No sibling problems there.

There isn't any sibling rivalry; I think we have very different, very individual career paths and have never really thought that way. He's my brother. I only have one, and we're very close. We wouldn't ever allow that stuff affect our relationship.

There's something about having a sibling that you know will always stick with you.

I was an only child but I never longed for a sibling. It just didn't occur to me.

There are very serious forms of, and reactions to, sibling victimization.

I don't remember any sibling rivalry growing up, because by the time I was really conscious, Tom was going away to college. My relationship with him, which is a very close one, really developed in more recent years.

Rivalry doesn't help anybody.

Rivalry adds so much to the charms of one's conquests.

Mothers and daughters have that rivalry thing.

The pressure people put on themselves and the rivalry between the teams is much more marked. And I think that's a good thing. As long as that rivalry remains within the spirit of competition, it con only spur everyone on.

In the sibling society, both the adult and the elder get lost, and no one knows where they are.

Sibling relationships have been underemphasised in learning about child development.

Rivalry is the life of trade, and the death of the trader.

I noticed that when my daughter was born, my son really, really liked her. But then as she started getting older, and as she started crawling around our house and touching different things that were his, sibling rivalry issues started appearing.

There's something unnatural about losing a sibling when they're young.

Today, I'm proud and happy to say I'm very close to all the Bachchans, and Abhishek is like a sibling

'Empire' deals with the black experience, the human experience, sibling rivalry, what it feels like to be ignored or doted upon by a parent, illness, death. There are so many things that I think the audience can identify with.

My sister and I never engaged in sibling rivalry. Our parents weren't that crazy about either one of us.

When you learn conflict-resolution skills in the playroom, you then practice them on the playground, and that in turn stays with you. If you have a combative sibling or a physically intimidating, older sibling, you learn a lot about how to deal with situations like that later in life. If you're an older sibling and you have a younger sibling who needs mentoring or is afraid of the dark, you develop nurturing and empathic skills that you wouldn't otherwise have.

I had this odd sibling rivalry with America.

The oldest sibling always knows things that the younger ones don't.

When I watch my kids, and I see the primal level at which the sibling relationships are formed, then I completely understand what these unresolved adult sibling problems are based on. You know, 'Mom liked you better' and, 'You got your own room and I didn't.'

You actually do confront your dark side, your impulses, or your feelings of sibling rivalry in Cinderella or whatever. You admit that they exist and then you work through them and conquer them and come out living happily ever after having learned something. That's one reason why the fairy tales keep having traction and meaning.

There is no overt rivalry among our children.

Emulation is not rivalry. Emulation is the child of ambition; rivalry is the unlovable daughter of envy.

I am tired of hearing about Coach Harbaugh; I think he needs to get in check with reality because, at the end of the day, you can't talk smack about a rivalry when you haven't won a rivalry game. You got to win ballgames to be able to talk behind it.

I was the eldest child, so I know how it feels to have attention shared with a sibling.

The Midnight Express and the Rock 'n' Roll Express were the greatest tag team rivalry of all time and drew more money than any other tag team rivalry probably in history, and I did manage the WWF champion and WWF Tag Team champion at different points in time but my phone hasn't rung and I haven't lost sleep over it.

The State certainly played a decisive role. I also believe that it may have stemmed from the rivalry itself. Grow or die, devour or die. That's the one problem that I have to wrestle with. I have to wrestle with whether or not rivalry in the free market does not ultimately lead to concentration, corporatism, and finally totalitarianism.

I think the Swansea-Cardiff rivalry is good.

A sibling represents a person's past, present, and future.

A sibling is the lens through which you see your childhood.

Insecurity is at the heart of every rivalry.

The greatest gift you can give your child is another sibling.

Records don’t mean anything in rivalry games.

There are no frictions between us, there is only rivalry.

There is no rivalry between Google and traditional advertising.

Jill : What causes sibling rivalry? Tim : Having more than one kid!

Sibling rivalry was, and still is to this day, rampant in my family. We were all competing for my parents' divided attention.

There was always sibling rivalry. Tennis, football, boxing, whatever - you always want to come out on top of big sis.

Erasmus dramatizes a well-established political position: that of the fool who claims license to criticize all and sundry without reprisal, since his madness defines him as not fully a person and therefore not a political being with political desires and ambitions. The Praise of Folly, therefore sketches the possibility of a position for the critic of the scene of political rivalry, a position not simply impartial between the rivals but also, by self-definition, off the stage of rivalry altogether.

Being the youngest sibling, I've always been the most pampered child.

Could rivalry be a productive system?

Horizontal hostility may be expressed in sibling rivalry or in competitive dueling which wrecks not only office tranquility or suburban domesticity but also some radical political groups and, it must be sadly said, some women's liberation groups. ... [it is] misdirected anger that rightly should be focused on the external causes of oppression.

Rivalry and envy are Siamese twins.

What rivalry? I win all the matches.

Comparison is a death knell to sibling harmony.

I had true rivalries. Not only did I want to beat my opponent, but I didn't want to let him up, either. I had a rivalry with Mac, Lendl, Borg. Everybody knew there was tension between us, on court and off. That's what's really ingrained in my mind: 'This is real. This isn't a soft rivalry.' There were no hugs and kisses.

I'm all for a good rivalry as long as lines are drawn.

It seems to me that we have to draw the line in sibling rivalry whenever rivalry goes out of bounds into destructive behavior of aphysical or verbal kind. The principle needs to be this: Whatever the reasons for your feelings you will have to find civilized solutions.

If you're an older sibling and you have a younger sibling who needs mentoring or is afraid of the dark, you develop nurturing and empathic skills that you wouldn't otherwise have.

You live each rivalry in a different way.

When I was writing the script, I knew didn't want to make a sports movie. I was very clear that I wanted to make a sibling rivalry story. So when I was writing the script, the football was getting in the way of the drama. One day, I saw Michael Haneke's Funny Games, which is probably the most violent film I've ever seen - but the violence is off camera. When I finished watching the film, I said, 'Hey, that's what I have to do.' Haneke gave me this solution.

There's so much of a rivalry there, the Devils and Rangers.