Sister Friend Quotes:

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

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

- Catherine Killigrew

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

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

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

You can kid the world, but not your sister.

- Charlotte Gray

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

- Louise Glück

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

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

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

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

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

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

- Pam Brown

topic: Funny, Sister, Sibling, 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

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

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

I, who have no sisters or brothers, look with some degree of innocent envy on those who may be said to be born to friends.

- James Boswell

source: James Boswell, Roger Ingpen (1791). “The Life of Samuel Johnson”, p.74

topic: Brother, Envy, Degrees, Brothers And Sisters, Two Sisters

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

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 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

Cancer affects all of us, whether you're a daughter, mother, sister, friend, coworker, doctor, patient.

- Jennifer Aniston

topic: Mother Daughter, Cancer, Doctors, Coworker, Cancer Patients

The unmarried woman seldom escapes a widowhood of the spirit. There is sure to be some one, parent, brother, sister, friend, more comfortable to her than the day, with whom her life is so entwined that the wrench of parting leaves a torn void never entirely healed or filled.

- Charlotte Mary Yonge

source: Charlotte Mary Yonge (2015). “Delphi Complete Novels of Charlotte Mary Yonge (Illustrated)”, p.8801, Delphi Classics

topic: Brother, Grief, Loss, Widowhood, Unmarried

Like most of us, I'm used to juggling about 52 roles in life. Wife. Mother. Sister. Friend. Author. Sometimes I feel a bit 'multiple-personality'.

- Sophie Kinsella

topic: Mother, Wife, Personality, Multiple Personalities, Wife Mother

If but one message, I may leave behind, One single word of courage for my kind, It would be this – Oh, brother, sister, friend, Whatever life may bring – what God may send, No matter whether clouds life soon or late-- Take heart and wait!

- Grace Noll Crowell

topic: Patience, Brother, Heart, Brother Sister, Sister Friend

A woman needs someone she can trust, someone who laughs when she laughs, but who has different ideas so she can learn from and teach to them. She needs someone who will stand up with her and encourage her to be a woman-not just a female. See where you are, admit what you know, and what you need, and search for a sister friend.

- Maya Angelou

topic: Ideas, Laughing, Black History, Different Ideas, Sister Friend

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

I am Gabrielle Anwar: mother, lover, daughter, sister, friend, and creator in the pursuit of happiness.

- Gabrielle Anwar

source: "My Miami: Gabrielle Anwar Talks ‘Burn Notice,’ Champagne, Breasts And Sunburn" By Amanda McCorquodale, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 21, 2013.

topic: Daughter, Mother, Pursuit Of Happiness, Sister Friend

I want to be the best daughter, sister, friend and wife I can possibly be - because when I die, I am not going to be buried with my Oscar.

- Zoe Saldana

source: "Zoë Saldana: The Most Elegant Member of the Glam New Guard". Interview with Laurie Sandell, www.glamour.com. March 2, 2010.

topic: Daughter, Wife, Want, Sister Friend