My Sister Quotes

• 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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• A ministering angel shall my sister be.

  William Shakespeare

  Sister, Sibling, Angel

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 5, sc. 1, l. [260]

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• My sister accommodates me, never reproaches me with her doctrine, never tries to change me. She accepts and loves me, despite our differences.

  Joy Harjo

  Differences, Trying, And Love

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• I started walking at night with my sister in law which has been amazing. It really does something for you. It just kind of clears the mind, it just makes you feel better, things start to tighten a little bit.

  Ashley Scott

  Feel Better, Sister In Law, Night

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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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• My sister-in-law is a painter, and I'll say, how long did it take you to paint that painting. She'll say, It took me maybe three days, but it took me all my life to get the skills to paint that painting.

  Anthony Doerr

  Sister In Law, Skills, Long

  "Off the Page: Anthony Doerr". Online discuss, www.washingtonpost.com. October 14, 2004.

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• 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

  Sister, Sibling, Adults

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• 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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• Help one another is part of the religion of our sisterhood.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Sister, Sibling, Sorority

  Louisa May Alcott (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Louisa May Alcott (Illustrated)”, p.810, Delphi Classics

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• 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

  Sister, Sibling, Love You

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• The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder.

  Jane Austen

  Sister, Brother, Sibling

  Jane Austen (2007). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen”, p.487, Wordsworth Editions

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• 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

  Sister, Letting Go, Remember

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• Between sisters, often, the child's cry never dies down. "Never leave me," it says; "do not abandon me."

  Louise Bernikow

  Sister, Children, Sibling

  Louise Bernikow (1981). “Among women”, HarperCollins

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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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• Your siblings are the only people in the world who know what it's like to have been brought up the way you were.

  Betsy Z. Cohen

  Brother, Sibling, People

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• 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

  Sister, Hurt, Love You

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

  Elizabeth Fishel

  Sister, Mirrors, Opposites

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• There is no time like the old time, when you and I were young!

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Sister, Sibling, Young

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• A toast once heard: "To my big sister, who never found her second Easter egg until I'd found my first."

  Robert Breault

  Sister, Easter, Eggs

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• Husbands come and go; children come and eventually they go. Friends grow up and move away. But the one thing that's never lost is your sister.

  Gail Sheehy

  Birthday, Sister, Children

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• 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

  Friendship, Sister, Brother

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.84, Beacon Press

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• 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

  Sister, Sibling, Loss

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.138, Simon and Schuster

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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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• 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

  Sister, Real, Judging

  Adriana Trigiani (2010). “Viola in Reel Life”, p.121, Simon and Schuster

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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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