Siblings Sisters Quotes:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

You can kid the world, but not your sister.

- Charlotte Gray

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

A Brother may not be a Friend, but a Friend will always be a Brother.

- Benjamin Franklin

source: Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.36, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

topic: Inspirational, Brother, May, Special Friend, Brother Sister

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

There is a little boy inside the man who is my brother... Oh, how I hated that little boy. And how I love him too.

- Anna Quindlen

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

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

- Catherine Killigrew

topic: Sister, Soul, Thee, Inspirational 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

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

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

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

Ignore reality, there's nothing you can do about it.

- Natalie Imbruglia

source: Song: Don't You Think?, Album: Left of the Middle, 1997

topic: Reality, Insanity, Humorous Birthday, Hurting You, Gold Digger

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

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

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

Just remember, some come, some go. The ones that stay with you through everything - they're your true best friends. Don't let go of them.

- Marilyn Monroe

topic: Letting Go, Remember, Inspirational Brother And Sister, Inspirational Sister, Universal Truth

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

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

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

I think I'm funny because my family, my siblings were funny.

- Martin Short

topic: Brother, Sibling, Thinking, Brothers And Sisters, Cute Brother And Sister

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

topic: Sibling, Team, Important, Brothers And Sisters, My Siblings

Let's go hand in hand, not one before another.

- William Shakespeare

source: BookCaps, William Shakespeare (2011). “The Comedy of Errors In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide”, p.171, BookCaps Study Guides

topic: Love, Life, Family, Inspirational Brother And Sister, Little Brother

Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas - that's what my grandma taught me.

- Lord Chesterfield

topic: Funny, Brother, Grandma, Brothers And Sisters, Mother And Grandmother

Brothers don't necessarily have to say anything to each other - they can sit in a room and be together and just be completely comfortable with each other.

- Leonardo DiCaprio

topic: Inspirational, Brother, Say Anything, Brothers And Sisters, Inspirational Brother And Sister

Comparison is a death knell to sibling harmony.

- Elizabeth Fishel

source: "Forget poignancy, Arsenal prefer to deal in title significance" by Sachin Nakrani, www.theguardian.com. February 12, 2008.

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

It takes two men to make one brother.

- Israel Zangwill

source: Israel Zangwill (1917). “The Principle of Nationalities”

topic: Brother, Men, Two, Brothers And Sisters, Inspirational Brother And Sister

Siblings: children of the same parents, each of whom is perfectly normal until they get together.

- Sam Levenson

source: Sam Levenson (2016). “Everything But Money: A Life of Riches”, p.124, Open Road Media

topic: Relationship, Family, Children, Inspirational Family Love, My Siblings

It snowed last year too: I made a snowman and my brother knocked it down and I knocked my brother down and then we had tea.

- Dylan Thomas

topic: Christmas, Brother, Healing, Brothers And Sisters, Inspirational Brother And Sister

We came into the world like brother and brother, And now let's go hand in hand, not one before another.

- William Shakespeare

source: BookCaps, William Shakespeare (2011). “The Comedy of Errors In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide”, p.171, BookCaps Study Guides

topic: Inspirational, Thank You, Brother, Inspirational Brother And Sister, Little Brother

The family. We are a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms. . . and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together.

- Erma Bombeck

topic: Family, Character, Trying, Brothers And Sisters, Life Is Pain

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

- Louise Glück

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

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

You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.

- Desmond Tutu

topic: Inspirational, Family, Cute Relationship, Happy Family, Family Holiday

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

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

- Pam Brown

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

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

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