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 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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• 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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• We may look old and wise to the outside world. But to each other, we are still in junior school.

  Charlotte Gray

  Sister, Wise, Brother

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

  Louise Glück

  Sister, Two, Dancer

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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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• Sometimes being a brother is even better than being a superhero.

  Marc Brown

  Life, Sister, Brother

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• 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

  Sister, Sibling, Heart

  Katherine Mansfield, Vincent O'Sullivan, Margaret Scott (1984). “The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield: 1903-1917”, Oxford University Press, USA

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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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• 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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• Sisterly love is, of all sentiments, the most abstract. Nature does not grant it any functions.

  Ugo Betti

  Sister, Sibling, Love Is

  Ugo Betti (1968). “Three Plays”

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• You can kid the world, but not your sister.

  Charlotte Gray

  Sister, Sibling, Kids

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• Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister.

  Alice Walker

  Sister, Inspiring, Sibling

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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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• 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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• Sweet is the voice of a sister in the season of sorrow.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Sister, Sweet, Brother

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.1219, Delphi Classics

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

  Catherine Killigrew

  Sister, Sibling, Soul

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