Quotes - Sisters
A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves- a special kind of double. |
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~ TONI MORRISON First black woman to receive the Nobel Prize for literature |
A sister is a little bit of childhood that can never be lost. |
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~ MARION C. GARRETTY Author |
A sister is a little bit of childhood that can never be lost. |
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~ MARION C. GARRETTY Author |
A sister is always there to defend you no matter what. |
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~ FELICITY MARTIN Freelance writer and photographer |
A sister is one of the nicest things that can hapen to anyone. |
Brothers and sisters are as close as hands and feet. |
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~ VIETNAMESE PROVERB |
Having a sister is like having a best friend you can't get rid of. You know whatever you do, they'll still be there. |
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~ AMY LI |
Help one another is part of the religion of our sisterhood. |
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~ LOUISA MAY ALCOTT American novelist, known best for "Little Women" |
How do people make it through life without a sister? |
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~ SARA CORPENING Cookbook Author |
If I you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you. |
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~ A. A. MILNE, WINNIE THE POOH English Author and Playwright best know for his childrens books featuring Winnie The Pooh. |
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 an only child. |
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~ LINDA SUNSHINE Author |
If your sister is in a tearing hurry to go out and cannot catch your eye, she's wearing your best sweater. |
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~ PAM BROWN Australian author and poet |
Is solice anwhere more comforting than in the arms of a sister. |
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~ ALICE WALKER Essayist, poet, novelist, activist and medium |
Lord help the mister that comes between me and my sister... |
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~ IRVING BERLIN Jewish American poet, lyricist, was prolific and composed over 3000 songs, including "God Bless America" and "White Christmas" |
Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essense. |
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~ VINCENT VAN GOGH Dutch Post-impressionist Artist, with over 900 paintings and 1100 drawings done in a 10 year period. |
Never let an angry sister comb your hair. |
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~ PATRICIA MCCANN |
One's sister is part of one's essential self, an eternal presence of one's heart, soul and memory. |
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~ SUSAN CABIL |
She is your witness, who sees you at your worst and best, and loves you anyway. |
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~ BARBARA ALPERT cookbook author |
Sweet is the voice of a sister in the season of sorrow. |
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~ BENJAMIN DISRAELI British Conservative statesman and literary figure |
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart. |
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~ HELEN KELLER American author, lecturer, political activist, first deafblind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts Degree. Her story is told dramatically in the play/movie THE MIRACLE WORKER. |
There is a special kind of freedom sisters enjoy. |
There is nothing wrong with the world that a sensible woman could not settle in an afternoon. |
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~ JEAN GIRAUDOUX French novelist, essayist, diplomat and playwright |
To the outside world we all grow old. But not to brothers and sisters. We know each other as we always were. We know each others hearts. We share private family jokes. We remember family feuds and secrets, family griefs and joys. We live outside the touch of time. |
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~ CLARA ORTEGA |
We know one another's faults, virtues, catastrophes, mortifications, truimphs, 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. |
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~ ROSE MACAULAY |
Well behaved women rarely make history. |
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~ LAUREL THATCHER ULRICH |
What's the good of news, if you haven't a sister to share it? |
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~ JENNY DEVRIES |
When a woman who has much to say says nothing, her silence can be deafening. |
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~ KING MONGKUT ANNA AND THE KING |
Where there's a sibling, there's quibbling. |
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~ SELMA RASKIN |
You can kid the world, but not your sister. |
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~ CHARLOTTE GRAY Best-selling award-winning author |