Sister Quotes:

It is true that I was born in Iowa, but I can't speak for my twin sister.

- Abigail Van Buren

topic: Sister, Iowa, Twins, Twin Sister

We hang out, we help one another, we tell one another our worst fears and biggest secrets, and then just like real sisters, we listen and don't judge.

- Adriana Trigiani

source: Adriana Trigiani (2010). “Viola in Reel Life”, p.121, Simon and Schuster

topic: Sister, Real, Judging, Worst Fear, Like A Sister

I consider my mom and all my sisters my friends.

- Alexa Vega

source: "AGENT ORANGE: Sleepover Star Alexa Vega Talks About Her New Movie!". Interview with B. Alan Orange, movieweb.com. July 9, 2004.

topic: Family, Sister, Mom

To his sister-in-law: What a contrast between us! You live a warm and glowing life, surrounded by loved ones whom you care for and who care for you; you are anchored in contentment. I drift about without rudder or compass, a wreck on the sea of life; I have no memories to cheer me, no pleasant illusions of the future to comfort me, or about me to satisfy my vanity. I have no family to furnish the only kind of survival that concerns us, no friends for the wholesome development of my affections, or enemies for my malice.

- Alfred Nobel

topic: Sister, Cheer, Memories, Rudders

Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister.

- Alice Walker

topic: Inspiring, Sister, Comforting, Brothers And Sisters, Inspirational Sister

I've got two sisters and they're both married and they're both much more settled into the way things are.

- Ann Wilson

topic: Sister, Two, Way, Two Sisters

Of the many guests we welcomed to the Mickey Mouse Club, my absolute favorites were the Lennon Sisters.

- Annette Funicello

topic: Sister, Guests, Clubs

She wouldn't climb out of the bed for her sister, but she had climbed into a crater. She wouldn't cross a room, but she had crossed a continent.

- Anthony Marra

topic: Sister, Bed, Rooms, Craters

It always seems to the brothers and the father that their brother or son didn't marry the right person.

- Anton Chekhov

topic: Sister, Brother, Father

Sweet is the voice of a sister in the season of sorrow.

- Benjamin Disraeli

topic: Sister, Sweet, Voice, Brothers And Sisters, Inspirational Brother And Sister

It's called Sisters of the Winter Madrigal. It was interesting for me to see it done after so many years; because I wrote it and I didn't realize what a rage I was in.

- Beth Henley

source: "Expressing "The Misery and Confusion Truthfully": An Interview with Beth Henley". "American Drama" Journal, Vol. 14, No. 1, 2005.

topic: Sister, Winter, Years

One of the best things about being an adult is the realization that you can share with your sister and still have plenty for yourself.

- Betsy Z. Cohen

topic: Sister, Adults, Realization, Inspirational Sisterhood, Other Sister

I was an only child; I didn't have a sister, or sisters.

- Beverly Cleary

topic: Sister, Children, Only Child

My two elder sisters married Englishmen and went abroad.

- Bill Forsyth

topic: Sister, Two, Married

She encouraged any artistic impulse I had, and my father discouraged any artistic impulse I had. They took out their problems with each other on me and my sister.

- Bill Griffith

topic: Sister, Father, Artistic

For many years, our Messianic Jewish brothers and sisters have paid a great price. Other Jews have rejected them, and the Christian church would require they walk away from their traditions to fit into the Gentile culture. We must face these past wrongs.

- Bill McCartney

topic: Sister, Christian, Brother, Past Wrongs

Ah, bless you, Sister, may all your sons be bishops.

- Brendan Behan

topic: Sister, Son, Bishops

There are two types of encryption: one that will prevent your sister from reading your diary and one that will prevent your government.

- Bruce Schneier

topic: Sister, Reading, Government, Encryption

My look was even more solidified when I started singing in Greenwich Village with my sister Lucy. We wore matching dresses as the Simon Sisters.

- Carly Simon

topic: Sister, Singing, Dresses, Greenwich, Greenwich Village

In thee my soul shall own combined the sister and the friend.

- Catherine Killigrew

topic: Sister, Soul, Thee, Inspirational Sister, Inspirational Sisterhood

A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.

- Chanakya

topic: Sister, Mother, Morning, Like A Mother, Good Wife

The next day the two sisters went to the ball, and so did Cinderella, but dressed more magnificently than before. The King's son was always by her side, and his pretty speeches to her never ceased.

- Charles Perrault

source: Charles Perrault (1942). “The Tales of Mother Goose as First Collected by Charles Perrault in 1696”, p.9, Library of Alexandria

topic: Sister, Kings, Son, Two Sisters

You can kid the world, but not your sister.

- Charlotte Gray

topic: Sister, Sibling, Kids, Brothers And Sisters, Inspirational Sister

We may look old and wise to the outside world. But to each other, we are still in junior school.

- Charlotte Gray

topic: Sister, Wise, School, Brothers And Sisters, Inspirational Sisterhood

Elder sisters never can do younger ones justice!

- Charlotte Mary Yonge

source: Charlotte Mary Yonge (1873). “The Pillars of the House, Or Under Wode, Under Rode”

topic: Sister, Justice, Elders, Older Sister, Inspirational Sisterhood

Going out in Paris was like going out in the '30s dressed like the Andrews Sisters. It was everything I'd seen in books at my grandparents' house, only it was our generation.

- Christian Lacroix

topic: Sister, Book, Our Generation, Grandparents House

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

source: 1862 Goblin Market and Other Poems,'Goblin Market'.

topic: Family, Sister, Cheer, Brothers And Sisters, Inspirational Brother And Sister

Ayurveda is a sister philosophy to yoga. It is the science of life or longevity and it teaches about the power and the cycles of nature, as well as the elements.

- Christy Turlington

source: "Live Stress-Free with Statistics and Numbers". Book by Vasant D. Chapnerka, p. 160, June 5, 2013.

topic: Sister, Philosophy, Yoga, Ayurveda

He may have hair upon his chest but, sister, so has Lassie.

- Cole Porter

source: Cole Porter (1954). “103 lyrics”

topic: Sister, Hair, May, Chests, Lassie

When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.

- Dakota Fanning

topic: Sister, Baby, Home, Strollers, My Baby

You keep your past by having sisters. As you get older, they're the only ones who don't get bored if you talk about your memories.

- Deborah Moggach

topic: Sister, Memories, Past, Older Sister, Inspirational Sisterhood

Whatever you do they will love you; even if they don't love you they are connected to you till you die. You can be boring and tedious with -sisters, whereas you have to put on a good face with friends.

- Deborah Moggach

topic: Sister, Love You, Faces, Other Sister, Rakhi

Loomis has always felt himself responsible for the fact that he did not stop Michael when he first murdered his sister, and so he's got that guilt to live with.

- Donald Pleasence

topic: Sister, Guilt, Firsts

When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels.

- Dorothy Allison

topic: Sister, Growing Up, Book

I was a bratty little sister. I was the youngest of three, and I often felt as though I didn't fit in.

- Dorothy Hamill

source: "Gold Medal Figure Skater". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 17, 2000.

topic: Sister, Three, Littles

My brother and sister are both older than I am and were born before my father went off to World War I.

- Douglass North

topic: Sister, Brother, Father, Brothers And Sisters

She never managed to find herself in these books no matter how hard she tried, exhuming traits from between the pages and donning them for an hour, a day, a week. We think in some ways, we have all done this our whole lives, searching for the book that will give us the keys to ourselves, let us into a wholly formed personality as though it were a furnished room to let. As though we could walk in and look around and say to the gray-haired landlady behind us, "We'll take it."

- Eleanor Brown

topic: Sister, Book, Thinking

We were never organized readers who would see a book through to its end in any sory of logical order. We weave in and out of words like tourists on a hop-on, hop-off bus tour. Put a book down in the kitchen to go to the bathroom and you might return to find it gone, replaced by another of equal interest. We are indiscriminate.

- Eleanor Brown

topic: Sister, Book, Order

A sister is both your mirror - and your opposite.

- Elizabeth Fishel

topic: Sister, Mirrors, Opposites, Inspirational Sister, Other Sister

I have two older sisters; I'm the youngest.

- Elizabeth Perkins

topic: Sister, Two, Older Sister

I would like more sisters, that the taking out of one, might not leave such stillness.

- Emily Dickinson

topic: Sister, Sibling, Might, Inspirational Sister, Inspirational Sisterhood

My mother was like a sister to me, only we didn't have sex quite so often.

- Emo Philips

topic: Love, Life, Sister, Like A Sister

Just before my final year of high school, my brother, sister and I moved with my mother to San Francisco.

- Eric Allin Cornell

topic: Sister, Mother, Brother, Brother Sister

I do not mourn the loss of my sister because she will always be with me, in my heart," she says. "I am, however, rather annoyed that my Tara has left me to suffer you lot alone. I do not see as well without her. I do not hear as well without her. I do not feel as well without her. I would be better off without a hand or a leg than without my sister. Then at least she would be here to mock my appearance and claim to be the pretty one for a change. We have all lost our Tara, but I have lost a part of myself as well.

- Erin Morgenstern

topic: Sister, Heart, Loss

We can choose to humble ourselves by conquering enmity toward our brothers and sisters, esteeming them as ourselves, and lifting them as high or higher than we are. . . .

- Ezra Taft Benson

topic: Sister, Brother, Humble, Confessing, Rendering

Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood.

- Fionnula Flanagan

topic: Sister, Sisterhood, Secret

I don't like my shoes,' said Rose. 'I'm wearing my shoes and you don't see me complain.' 'You only hear a person complain,' said Rose. 'Not see.' How has Rose lived for seventeen years and no one has killed her, not once?

- Franny Billingsley

topic: Sister, Years, Shoes

My sister and I were born in San Francisco. When our parents died, we came down here to live with relatives.

- Freddy Fender

topic: Sister, San Francisco, Parent

Freedom and Justice are twin sisters.

- Friedrich Ebert

topic: Sister, Justice, Twins, Twin Sister

Husbands come and go; children come and eventually they go. Friends grow up and move away. But the one thing that's never lost is your sister.

- Gail Sheehy

topic: Sister, Children, Growing Up, Inspirational Sister, Inspirational Sisterhood

I was brought up by my mother and my two sisters, although they're older than me and fled the nest very young, so I was technically raised as an only child, but I was very much loved.

- Gary Oldman

topic: Sister, Mother, Children, Two Sisters

You may be as different as the sun and the moon, but the same blood flows through both your hearts. You need her, as she needs you...

- George R. R. Martin

topic: Sister, Heart, Moon, Other Sister, Blood Flow

You nine daughters of Jupiter, sisters of one heart.

- Gnaeus Naevius

topic: Sister, Daughter, Heart

Sometimes I just walk through; I just show up, as in The Other Sister.

- Hector Elizondo

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Sister, Sometimes, Walks

A successful home is based on the love and helpfulness of children just as it is based on loving parents handling their responsibilities. ... Be eager to forgive when problems arise at home. Help with your younger brothers and sisters when needed. You are their hero.

- Hugh W. Pinnock

topic: Sister, Brother, Children, Helpfulness, Loving Parents

My dear sister, I hope, when God Almighty in his righteous providence shall take me out of time into eternity, that it will be by a flash of lightning.

- James Otis

topic: Sister, Lightning, Dear God, Dear Sister

There were once two sisters who were not afriad of the dark because the dark was full of the other's voice across the room, because even when the night was thick and starless they walked home together from the river seeing who could last the longest without turning on her flashlight, not afraid because sometimes in the pitch of night they'd lie on their backs in the middle of the path and look up until the stars came back and when they did, they'd reach their arms up to touch them and did.

- Jandy Nelson

topic: Sister, Stars, Lying, Two Sisters

Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their power, which no subsequent connections can supply...

- Jane Austen

topic: Sister, Children, Mean, Mansfield Park, Brothers And Sisters

Real excellence and humility are not incompatible one with the other, on the contrary they are twin sisters.

- Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

topic: Sister, Real, Humility, Twin Sister, Keeping It Real

And my little sister died when she was 16.

- Jeremy London

topic: Sister, Little Sister, Littles

It is true that a fellow cannot ignore women - but he can think of them as he ought - as sisters, not as sparring partners.

- Jim Elliot

topic: Sister, Thinking, Partners, Sparring Partner, Sparring

In 1792, my Sister told me, I was growing out of my senses.

- Joanna Southcott

source: Joanna Southcott (1813). “Copies of letters sent to the clergy of Exeter. 1813. A communication sent in a letter to the Reverend Mr. P. in 1797. [1814] A dispute between the woman and the powers of darkness. 2d ed. 1813. The answer of the Lord to the powers of darkness. 2d ed. 1813. A caution and instruction to the sealed. 1807. A warning to the world. [1804] The strange effects of faith. 2d ed. 1801”

topic: Sister, Growing, My Sister

I have a sister, so I know-that relationship, it's all about fairness: you want your sibling to have exactly what you have-the same amount of toys, the same number of meatballs on your spaghetti, the same share of love. But being a mother is completely different. You want your child to have more than you ever did. You want to build a fire underneath her and watch her soar. It's bigger than words.

- Jodi Picoult

topic: Sister, Mother, Children, Meatballs, Build A Fire

If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone?

- Jodi Picoult

topic: Sister, Sibling, Loss, Other Sister, My Sister's Keeper

The chilly December day! two shivering bicycle mechanics from Dayton, Ohio first felt their homemade contraption whittled out of hickory sticks, gummed together with Arnstein's bicycle cement, stretched with muslin they'd sewn on their sister's sewing machine in their own backyard on Hawthorn Street in Dayton, Ohio, soar into the air above the dunes and the wide beach at Kitty Hawk.

- John Dos Passos

topic: Sister, Beach, Air, Kitties, Homemade

It was post war. It was very gray, very dreary. Everything was still rationed when I first saw the United States in 1951. I went over to visit my sister who was a war bride.

- John Mahoney

topic: Sister, War, United States, Post War

Lord, confound this surly sister, blight her brow with blotch and blister, cramp her larynx, lung and liver, in her guts a galling give her.

- John Millington Synge

topic: Sister, Giving, Lord, Blisters, Surly

Nobody fights you like your own sister; nobody else knows the most vulnerable parts of you and will aim for them without mercy.

- Jojo Moyes

topic: Sister, Fighting, Vulnerable

"I'm not going anywhere," she told me that night. But until we are old ladies-a cypress age, a Sawtooth age-I will continue to link arms with her, in public, in private, in a panic of love.

- Karen Russell

topic: Sister, Night, Age, Cypresses

Bless you, my darling, and remember you are always in the heart - oh tucked so close there is no chance of escape - of your sister.

- Katherine Mansfield

topic: Sister, Heart, Chance, Inspirational Sisterhood, Other Sister

We each deal with childhood in different ways. That brothers and sisters can take the same lump of clay that is childhood and use it to shape themselves into unique human beings is a miracle in itself. Despite individual struggles, triumphs, joys and disappointments, someone is made of the same stuff and has been at your side, whether figuratively or literally, from the beginning. Use our brother and sister quote collection to explore this truth and gain compassionate understanding for yourself and your siblings.

- Laura Ramirez

topic: Sister, Brother, Disappointment, Brothers And Sisters

I, Lawrence Klein, was born in Omaha, Nebraska, as were my elder brother and younger sister.

- Lawrence Klein

topic: Sister, Brother, Nebraska, Omaha, Younger Sister

The ones the listeners loved most of all in those early years were the four Lennon girls who became the whole nation's little sisters.

- Lawrence Welk

source: Lawrence Welk, Bernice McGeehan (1973). “Wunnerful, Wunnerful: The Autobiography of Lawrence Welk”

topic: Sister, Girl, Years

My sister taught me everything I really need to know, and she was only in sixth grade at the time.

- Linda Sunshine

source: Linda Sunshine (2012). “Mom Loves Me Best: (And Other Lies You Told Your Sister)”, p.44, Andrews McMeel Publishing

topic: Sister, Needs, Taught, Brothers And Sisters, Inspirational Sister

More than Santa Claus, your sister knows when you've been bad and good.

- Linda Sunshine

source: Linda Sunshine (2012). “Mom Loves Me Best: (And Other Lies You Told Your Sister)”, p.25, Andrews McMeel Publishing

topic: Sister, Santa, Santa Claus, Inspirational Sisterhood, Other Sister

If you don't understand how a woman could both love her sister dearly and want to wring her neck at the same time, then you were probably an only child.

- Linda Sunshine

source: Linda Sunshine (2012). “Mom Loves Me Best: (And Other Lies You Told Your Sister)”, p.20, Andrews McMeel Publishing

topic: Sister, Children, Only Child, Brothers And Sisters, Inspirational Sister

If sisters were free to express how they really feel, parents would hear this: "Give me all the attention and all the toys and send Rebecca to live with Grandma."

- Linda Sunshine

topic: Sister, Grandma, Giving, Inspirational Sisterhood, My Siblings

May and I are sisters. We'll always fight, but we'll always make up as well. That's what sisters do: we argue, we point out each other's frailties, mistakes, and bad judgment, we flash the insecurities we've had since childhood, and then we come back together. Until the next time.

- Lisa See

source: Lisa See (2010). “Shanghai Girls”, p.132, A&C Black

topic: Sister, Mistake, Fighting

We hug, but there are no tears. For every awful thing that's been said and done, she is my sister. Parents die, daughters grow up and marry out, but sisters are for life. She is the only person left in the world who shares my memories of our childhood, our parents, our Shanghai, our struggles, our sorrows, and, yes, even our moments of happiness and triumph. My sister is the one person who truly knows me, as I know her. The last thing May says to me is 'When our hair is white, we'll still have our sister love.

- Lisa See

source: Lisa See (2013). “Shanghai Girls and Dreams of Joy: Two Bestselling Novels”, p.412, Random House

topic: Sister, Daughter, Growing Up, Moments Of Happiness, Shanghai

Sisters, as you know, also have a unique relationship. This is the person who has known you your entire life, who should love you and stand by you no matter what, and yet it's your sister who knows exactly where to drive the knife to hurt you the most.

- Lisa See

topic: Sister, Hurt, Love You, Other Sister, Cute Sibling

I'm the oldest and I've got two sisters.

- Lisa Snowdon

topic: Sister, Two, Two Sisters

Rock 'n' roll offered me a platform to speak what I felt. It also offered me a platform to support my mama and my brothers and sisters - twelve children.

- Little Richard

topic: Sister, Brother, Children

But my brother Joey was there, and my sister Tina Nina Minnelli was there.

- Liza Minnelli

topic: Sister, Brother, Nina, Joey

I always went to my sister, because she was older and had the care of me after my mother died.

- Lizzie Borden

source: Lizzie Borden, Albert Mason, Caleb Blodgett, Justin Dewey, Massachusetts. Superior Court (Bristol County) (1937). “Trial of Lizzie Borden”

topic: Sister, Mother, Care, Mother Died

My sister Liza and I have never felt that we were in competition.

- Lorna Luft

topic: Sister, Competition, My Sister

Between sisters, often, the child's cry never dies down. "Never leave me," it says; "do not abandon me."

- Louise Bernikow

source: Louise Bernikow (1981). “Among women”, HarperCollins

topic: Sister, Children, Cry, Never Leave Me, Other Sister

Of two sisters one is always the watcher, one the dancer.

- Louise Glück

topic: Sister, Two, Dancer, Inspirational Sister, Inspirational Sisterhood

My sisters were going out with artists and poets, and eventually it was the creative world which attracted me.

- Luc Ferrari

topic: Sister, Artist, Creative

My father's sister never married in order to raise me.

- Marcel Carne

topic: Sister, Father, Order

If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Inspirational, Change, Sister

There can be no situation in life in which the conversation of my dear sister will not administer some comfort to me.

- Mary Wortley Montagu

topic: Sister, Comfort, Conversation, Inspirational Sister, Inspirational Sisterhood

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

topic: Sister, Brother, Sibling, Brothers And Sisters, Inspirational Brother And Sister

It was my sister Maureen who was responsible for my becoming a Reagan.

- Michael Reagan

source: Michael Reagan, Joe Hyams (1989). “On the outside looking in”, Kensington Books

topic: Sister, Becoming, My Sister

Sister Virginia used to say, 'You'll be known by the company you keep.'

- Michael Scheuer

topic: Sister, Virginia, Used, Company You Keep

Sometimes when I visit my sister and her two children, I wonder if she missed a lot by getting married. Right now, nothing could be further from my mind than getting married.

- Natalie Wood

topic: Sister, Children, Two

My sister is a nurse and saves people's lives.

- Nicholas Lea

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Sister, Nurse, People

For me being the youngest, there was never ever anything that was an issue to cause rivalry between me and my sisters.

- Nicole Appleton

topic: Sister, Issues, Causes

The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Funny, Sister, Sarcastic

If your sister is in a tearing hurry to go out and cannot catch your eye, she's wearing your best sweater.

- Pam Brown

topic: Funny, Sister, Sibling, Brothers And Sisters, Inspirational Brother And Sister

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 comers.

- Pam Brown

topic: Sister, Sibling, Bathroom, Inspirational Sister, Inspirational Sisterhood

My sisters said, Why do you make those faces? You make yourself so ugly.

- Paul Lynde

topic: Sister, Faces, Ugly

Dear brothers and sisters, after the great Pope John Paul II, the cardinals have elected me - a simple, humble worker in the vineyard of the Lord.

- Pope Benedict XVI

topic: Sister, Brother, Humble, Brothers And Sisters, Vineyards

Actual evidence I have none, But my aunt's charwoman's sister's son Heard a policeman, on his beat Say to a housemaid in Downing Street That he had a brother, who had a friend, Who knew when the war was going to end.

- Reginald Arkell

topic: Sister, Brother, War, Downing, Downing Street

In saving Tibet, you save the possibility that we are all brothers, sisters.

- Richard Gere

topic: Sister, Brother, Saving, Tibet

A toast once heard: "To my big sister, who never found her second Easter egg until I'd found my first."

- Robert Breault

topic: Sister, Easter, Eggs, Easter Egg, Big Sister

Sisterhood is powerful.

- Robin Morgan

topic: Sister, Powerful, Sisterhood, Thank You Sister

I have three sisters and I've always wanted a brother, so I was really interested in that notion.

- Ryan Phillippe

topic: Sister, Brother, Three, Three Sisters

My sisters are my favorite people on earth.

- Ryan Phillippe

topic: Sister, People, Earth

Sisters in Crime now has more than 4,000 members worldwide.

- Sara Paretsky

topic: Sister, Crime, Members

I haven't heard anything about a reunion show for Sisters. But if the script was good I would do it.

- Sela Ward

topic: Sister, Scripts, Reunion

It was around 4 p.m. in the afternoon. I was just taking a nap. Luckily, my sister was home.

- Sherman Austin

source: Interview with Merlin Chowkwanyun, www.counterpunch.org. August 14, 2003.

topic: Sister, Home, Naps, Afternoon Naps

I have a lot of very close girlfriends and sisters - I'm from an all female family. My father often quips that even the cat was neutered!

- Shirley Manson

topic: Family, Sister, Girlfriend, Quip

It has not been an easy cross to bear. It has caused considerable confusion. My husband constantly complained about the awkwardness of being married to a woman whom he called Sister.

- Sister Parish

topic: Sister, Husband, Confusion, Awkwardness, Crosses To Bear

Those are the same stars, and that is the same moon, that look down upon your brothers and sisters, and which they see as they look up to them, though they are ever so far away from us, and each other.

- Sojourner Truth

topic: Sister, Brother, Stars, Moon And Stars, Rakhi

I had an older brother who passed away recently, an older sister and a younger brother.

- Steve Case

topic: Sister, Brother, Passed Away, Older Sister, Older Brother

You see, we are here, as far as I can tell, to help each other; our brothers, our sisters, our friends, our enemies. That is to help each other and not hurt each other.

- Stevie Ray Vaughan

source: YouTube Chanel "ed1962"/ "Stevie Ray Vaughan - 11 - Life Without You - Philadelphia Blues (Bootleg)", www.youtube.com. October 27, 2009.

topic: Sister, Friends, Hurt, Helping Each Other

It is useless, sisters, for you to attempt the duties of your exalted callings . . . without the constant companionship of the Spirit of God.

- Susa Young Gates

topic: Sister, Useless, Calling, Spirit Of God

I live myself with my cat Pebbles. She isn't enjoying the attention as much as me - she ran off up the stairs as soon as the film crew for the show came into the house. She didn't come down for hours. But I have the support of all my brothers and sisters and my neighbours and friends - everyone thinks it's just great.

- Susan Boyle

topic: Sister, Brother, Cat, Film Crew

The anguish I always feel when she's in pain wells up in my chest and threatens to register on my face.

- Suzanne Collins

topic: Sister, Pain, Faces

I had two sisters, and we would love to get dressed up and pretend that we were chic, sophisticated ladies. And I think that was a great sort of preparation, in a way.

- Suzanne Farrell

topic: Sister, Thinking, Two, Dressed Up, Two Sisters

The coolest thing is that my sister and I, you know, we've done what a lot of people have not been able to do. Which is to have our own careers, together.

- Tia Mowry

topic: Sister, Careers, People

I would live with all of my sisters if I could. We've always been very close, my sisters and me.

- Tom Cruise

topic: Sister, My Sister

A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves - a special kind of double.

- Toni Morrison

topic: Sister, Sibling, Special, Brothers And Sisters, Inspirational Sister

Sweet, crazy conversations full of half sentences, daydreams and misunderstandings more thrilling than understanding could ever be.

- Toni Morrison

topic: Sister, Sweet, Crazy, Funny Sister

Sisterly love is, of all sentiments, the most abstract. Nature does not grant it any functions.

- Ugo Betti

topic: Sister, Love Is, Doe, Inspirational Sister, Inspirational Sisterhood

I always like to win. But I'm the big sister. I want to make sure she has everything, even if I don't have anything. It's hard. I love her too much. That's what counts.

- Venus Williams

topic: Love, Sister, Sports, Big Sister

I was lucky I always got along with girls. It was never like a big deal. I had a lot of girls that I was friends with that I wasn't sexual with. I think having two older sisters made me comfortable like that. I just like people, so I can just go up and say whatever.

- Vince Vaughn

topic: Sister, Girl, Thinking, Older Sister, Big Deal

My major influence was my ten years older sister.

- Willa Ford

topic: Sister, Years, Older Sister

Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart must hold both sisters, never seen apart.

- William Dean Howells

topic: Sister, Heart, Twins

Say to the seceded States, "Wayward sisters, depart in peace."

- Winfield Scott

source: Letter to William H. Seward, 3 Mar. 1861

topic: Sister, States

Listen, sister. I don't dance and I can't take time out now to learn.

- Frank Wead

topic: Sister, Dance, War

Let the erring sisters depart in peace; the idea of getting up a civil war to compel the weaker States to remain in the Union appears to us horrible to the last degree.

- Jane Swisshelm

topic: Sister, War, Ideas, Erring

"Come on Grace, I'm not going to tell on you. I'm your sister." And that's all she has to say.

- Robin Epstein

topic: Sister, Grace

I sought my soul, but my soul I could not see. I sought my God, but my God eluded me. I sought my brother and I found all three.

- Unknown

topic: Friendship, Sister, Brother, My Siblings, Brotherly Love

There is a big age gap between my sisters Janice and Irma and myself so I didn't know them that well when I was younger although they have been very supportive in later life.

- Alvin Lee

topic: Sister, Age, Supportive, Age Gap

I'm the youngest of six children; both of my sisters are housewives and they each have four kids.

- Roma Downey

topic: Sister, Children, Kids

We know one another's faults, virtues, catastrophes, mortifications, triumphs, rivalries, desires, and how long we can each hang by our hands to a bar. We have been banded together under pack codes and tribal laws.

- Rose Macaulay

topic: Sister, Brother, Sibling, Brothers And Sisters, Inspirational Brother And Sister

We have tried you citizens; we are trying you now, and you have a couple of dollars for the sorrowing mothers, brothers and sisters by way of a charity gift.

- Rose Schneiderman

source: “'I Can’t Talk Fellowship': Lessons From the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in the Wake of the BP Oil Disaster" by Cherri Foytlin, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 7, 2013.

topic: Sister, Mother, Brother

AIDS can destroy a family if you let it, but luckily for my sister and me, Mom taught us to keep going. Don't give up, be proud of who you are, and never feel sorry for yourself.

- Ryan White

topic: Sister, Mom, Sorry, World Aids Day, Feel Sorry For You

God is present in everything. In the universe in creation, in me and all that happens to me, in my brothers and sisters, in the church - everywhere.

- Thea Bowman

source: Source: www.beliefnet.com

topic: Sister, God, Religious, God Within Us

Big sisters are the crab grass in the lawn of life.

- Charles M. Schulz

source: Peanuts (comic strip), 17 June 1961

topic: Funny, Family, Sister, Brothers And Sisters, Inspirational Brother And Sister

You know full well as I do the value of sisters' affections: There is nothing like it in this world.

- Charlotte Bronte

topic: Sister, World, Affection

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

source: "Why we can never escape our siblings". Interview with Mandy Van Deven, www.salon.com. September 11, 2011.

topic: Sister, Brother, Sibling, Brothers And Sisters, My Siblings

Help one another is part of the religion of our sisterhood.

- Louisa May Alcott

source: Louisa May Alcott (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Louisa May Alcott (Illustrated)”, p.810, Delphi Classics

topic: Sister, Sibling, Sorority, Brothers And Sisters, Inspirational Sister

…she'll go and fall in love, and there's an end of peace and fun, and cozy times together.

- Louisa May Alcott

source: Louisa May Alcott (2016). “Little Women: Top Novelist Focus”, p.196, 谷月社

topic: Sister, Falling In Love, Fun, Other Sister, Sibling Day

I'm older than my sister so I started writing first. I started writing at school. I was always top of my class in composition, essays, English Lit and all of that.

- Joan Collins

topic: Sister, Writing, School, Essays

Brothers and sisters, friends and enemies: I just can't believe everyone in here is a friend, and I don't want to leave anybody out.

- Malcolm X

source: "The Ballot or The Bullet (Cleveland Version)". Malcolm X's speech at Cory Methodist Church in Cleveland, Ohio (April 3, 1964) as quoted in "Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements" edited by George Breitman (pp. 23-44), 1965.

topic: Sister, Brother, Believe, Sister Friend

Sister, you're trying to keep me alive as an old curiosity, but I'm done, I'm finished, I'm going to die.

- George Bernard Shaw

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Sister, Curiosity, Dying

You will not easily get a man to believe that his carnal love for the woman he has made his wife is as high a love as that he feltfor his mother or sister.

- D. H. Lawrence

source: D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.5231, Delphi Classics

topic: Sister, Mother, Sex, Ex Wife

Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.

- Margaret Mead

source: Attributed to Margaret Mead in Ellyn Sanna "Sisters by Birth Friends by Choice: All the Things I Love About You", June 2003.

topic: Relationship, Family, Sister, Brothers And Sisters, Inspirational Brother And Sister

Sisters make the best friends in the world.

- Marilyn Monroe

topic: Sister, World, Heartbreaking Love, Sisters And Friends, Sisters Friendship

Different people were good at different things, Lena mused. Lena was good at writing thank-you notes, for instance, and Effie was good at being happy.

- Ann Brashares

source: Ann Brashares (2012). “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Complete Collection”, p.461, Delacorte Press

topic: Sister, Writing, People, Thank You Note

When called to the Council of the Twelve, October 4, 1963, he said in the Salt Lake Tabernacle: I think of a little sister, a French-Canadian sister, whose life was changed by the missionaries as her spirit was touched. As she said good-by to me and my wife in Quebec, she said, "President Monson, I may never see the Prophet. I may never hear the Prophet. But President, far better, now that I am a member of this Church, I can obey the Prophet."

- Thomas S. Monson

topic: Sister, Thinking, Lakes, Quebec

One can be a brother only in something. Where there is no tie that binds men, men are not united but merely lined up.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

source: Antoine de Saint Exupery (1942). “Flight to Arras”

topic: Sister, Brother, Sibling, Brothers And Sisters, My Little Brother

There's no better friend than a sister.

- Mary Engelbreit

source: Mary Engelbreit (2002). “The Blessings of Friendship: A Friendship Treasury”, p.62, Andrews McMeel Publishing

topic: Sister, Funny Sibling, Funny Sister, Brothers And Sisters, Other Sister

One does not arise from such a book as Sister Carrie with a smirk of satisfaction; one leaves it infinitely touched.

- H. L. Mencken

source: H.L. Mencken (1917). “A book of prefaces”, p.98, Рипол Классик

topic: Sister, Book, Smirk

Then gently scan your brother man, Still gentler sister woman; Though they may gang a kennin' wrang, To step aside is human.

- Robert Burns

source: 'Address to the Unco Guid' (1787); aiblins perhaps

topic: Sister, Brother, Men, Liberality

I should fear the infinite power and inflexible justice of the almighty mortal hardly as yet apotheosized, so wholly masculine, with no sister Juno, no Apollo, no Venus, nor Minerva, to intercede for me, thumoi phileousa te, kedomene te.

- Henry David Thoreau

topic: Sister, God, Women, Minerva, Infinite Power

Time, we know, is relative. You can travel light years through the stars and back, and if you do it at the speed of light then, when you return, you may have aged mere seconds while your twin brother or sister will have aged twenty, thirty, forty or however many years it is, depending on how far you traveled. This will come to you as a profound shock, particularly if you didn't know you had a twin brother or sister.

- Douglas Adams

source: Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.706, Pan Macmillan

topic: Sister, Time, Brother, Speed Of Light, Travel Light

The first-born in every family is always dreaming for an imaginary older brother or sister who will look out for them.

- Bill Cosby

topic: Family, Sister, Dream, Older Sister, Older Brother

England! awake! awake! awake! Jerusalem thy sister calls! Why wilt thou sleep the sleep of death And close her from thy ancient walls?

- William Blake

source: 'Jerusalem' (1815) 'To the Christians' (plate 77) "England! awake!... "

topic: Sister, Wall, Sleep

I finally moved out of my parent's house. It was only fair to let my sister have her own room.

- Kate Winslet

topic: Sister, House, Parent, Funny Sister

Where are the flowers, the fair young flowers, that lately sprang and stood In brighter light and softer airs, a beauteous sisterhood?

- William C. Bryant

source: William Cullen Bryant, “The Death Of The Flowers”

topic: Sister, Flower, Light

Brothers and Sisters, I bid you beware Of giving your heart to a dog to tear.

- Rudyard Kipling

source: Actions and Reactions (1909) "The Power of the Dog"

topic: Sister, Dog, Art, Dog Died, Dog Grief

Women opened the windows of my eyes and the doors of my spirit. Had it not been for the woman-mother, the woman-sister, and the woman-friend, I would have been sleeping among those who seek the tranquility of the world with their snoring.

- Khalil Gibran

topic: Sister, Mother, Sleep, Snoring

Your True Nature Is Love. There's Nothing You Can Do About It.

- Byron Katie

topic: Sister, Daughter, Brother, Humorous Birthday, Small Gods

Why not simply honor your parents, love your children, help your brothers and sisters, be faithful to your friends, care for your mate with devotion, complete your work cooperatively and joyfully, assume responsibility for problems, practice virtue without first demanding it of others, understand the highest truths yet retain an ordinary manner? That would be true clarity, true simplicity, true mastery.

- Laozi

source: Laozi, Brian Browne Walker (1992). “Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu”

topic: Sister, Faith, Brother, Love Your Children

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

- Erma Bombeck

topic: Sister, Sibling, Crazy, Sibling Rivalry

There is no time like the old time, when you and I were young!

- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

topic: Sister, Sibling, Young, Inspirational Brother And Sister, Old Time

She is the mother I never had, she is the sister everybody would want. She is the friend that everybody deserves. I don't know a better person.

- Oprah Winfrey

source: "Oprah Winfrey: 'I'm Not a Lesbian'". Interview with Barbara Walters, abcnews.go.com. December 8, 2010.

topic: Sister, Mother, Want

In a letter from Bath to her sister, Cassandra, one senses her frustration at her sheltered existence, Tuesday, 12 May 1801. Another stupid party . . . with six people to look on, and talk nonsense to each other.

- Jane Austen

topic: Sister, Stupid, Party

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

- Jane Austen

source: Jane Austen (2009). “Northanger Abbey”, p.8, Wild Jot Press

topic: Love, Sister, Wedding, Perverseness, Heroes And Heroines

The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder.

- Jane Austen

source: Jane Austen (2007). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen”, p.487, Wordsworth Editions

topic: Sister, Brother, Sibling, Little Brother, My Siblings

Big sisters and brothers... I am telling you, it never changes.

- Janet Jackson

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Sister, Brother, Never Change, Big Sister

An older sister is a friend and defender - a listener, conspirator, a counsellor and a sharer of delights. And sorrows too.

- Pam Brown

topic: Sister, Sibling, Sorrow, Older Sister, Inspirational Brother And Sister

When sisters stand shoulder to shoulder, who stands a chance against us?

- Pam Brown

topic: Sister, Sibling, Sorority, Brothers And Sisters, Inspirational Brother And Sister

It's hard to be responsible, adult and sensible all the time. How good it is to have a sister whose heart is as young as your own.

- Pam Brown

topic: Sister, Sibling, Heart, Older Sister, Brothers And Sisters

Sisters don't need words. They have perfected a language of snarls and smiles and frowns and winks - expressions of shocked surprise and incredulity and disbelief. Sniffs and snorts and gasps and sighs - that can undermine any tale you're telling.

- Pam Brown

topic: Sister, Sarcastic, Sibling, Incredulity, Inspirational Sisterhood

Sisters never quite forgive each other for what happened when they were five.

- Pam Brown

topic: Funny, Sister, Sibling, Inspirational Sister, Inspirational Sisterhood

A younger sister is someone to use as a guinea-pig in trying sledges and experimental go-carts. Someone to send on messages to Mum. But someone who needs you - who comes to you with bumped heads, grazed knees, tales of persecution. Someone who trusts you to defend her. Someone who thinks you know the answers to almost everything.

- Pam Brown

topic: Sister, Sibling, Thinking, Inspirational Sisterhood, Younger Sister

Sisters share the scent and smells... the feel of a common childhood.

- Pam Brown

topic: Sister, Sibling, Smell, Brothers And Sisters, Inspirational Sister