Sisters And Mothers Quotes:

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

- Byron Katie

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

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

- Honore de Balzac

topic: Family, Mothers Day, Mom, Joys Of Motherhood, Special Mother

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

I am a true psychic. In my family it's the norm. My sister and mother are always 'in my head' and say or do the same things I'm doing at the same time.

- Franny Armstrong

topic: Mother, Psychics, My Family, Sisters And Mothers

That was the thing about best friends. Like sisters and mothers, they could piss you off and make you cry and break your heart, but in the end, when the chips were down, they were there, making you laugh even in your darkest hours.

- Kristin Hannah

topic: Best Friend, Mother, Heart, Bff, Friends Forever

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

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

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

Woman is the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacity...If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior...If non-violence is the law of our being, the future is with women.

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Women, Law, Violence, Women Equality, International Women's Day

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

- Louise Glück

topic: Sister, Two, Dancer, 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

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

- Pam Brown

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

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

Let the tears which fell, and the broken words which were exchanged in the long close embrace between the orphans, be sacred. A father, sister, and mother, were gained, and lost, in that one moment. Joy and grief were mingled in the cup; but there were no bitter tears: for even grief arose so softened, and clothed in such sweet and tender recollections, that it became a solemn pleasure, and lost all character of pain.

- Charles Dickens

source: Charles Dickens (1839). “Oliver Twist”, p.205

topic: Mother, Sweet, Pain, Joy And Grief, Sisters And Mothers

It's true that I wouldn't have written the first book had my sister and mother been alive. It was my way of continuing our conversation. It's also this Jewish thing of naming and remembering people, and I think there is a sense of keeping that side of life going.

- Nigella Lawson

topic: Mother, Book, Thinking, Sisters And Mothers