Funny Sister Quotes

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

  Emily Dickinson

  Sister, Sibling, Might

  Emily Dickinson (1986). “Selected Letters”, p.148, Harvard University Press

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• 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

  Sister, Brother, Sibling

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

  Linda Sunshine

  Sister, Sibling, Needs

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

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

  Linda Sunshine

  Funny, Sister, Sibling

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

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• 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

  Sister, Friends, Brother

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

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• 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

  Sister, Brother, Children

  Jane Austen (1833). “Mansfield Park”, p.208

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• 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

  Sister, Sibling, Situations In Life

  Mary Wortley Montagu, James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie Wharncliffe (1837). “The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes”, p.200

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• 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

  Funny, Sister, Sibling

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• Elder sisters never can do younger ones justice!

  Charlotte Mary Yonge

  Sister, Sibling, Justice

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

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• 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

  Sister, Brother, Sibling

  Maya Angelou, Jeffrey M. Elliot (1989). “Conversations with Maya Angelou”

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• A sister is both your mirror - and your opposite.

  Elizabeth Fishel

  Sister, Mirrors, Opposites

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• 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

  Sister, Sibling, Thinking

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

  Kate Winslet

  Sister, House, Parent

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

  Toni Morrison

  Sister, Sweet, Crazy

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• 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

  Sister, Sibling, Heart

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• There's no better friend than a sister.

  Mary Engelbreit

  Sister, Funny Sibling, Brother Sister

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

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

  Byron Katie

  Sister, Daughter, Brother

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

  Natalie Imbruglia

  Sister, Letting Go, Brother

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

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• 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

  Sister, Funny Inspirational, Children

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

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

  Pam Brown

  Sister, Sibling, Sorority

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

  Pam Brown

  Sister, Sibling, Smell

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• 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

  Sister, Sarcastic, Sibling

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

  Pam Brown

  Funny, Sister, Sibling

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

  Pam Brown

  Sister, Sibling, Sorrow

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• 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

  Sister, Sibling, Indulge In

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