My Sister Quotes - Page 30

• I was so shy and when my sister was born I found it hard. I was really strange and kind of too quiet.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Shy, Strange, Quiet

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• Having someone in your class call you fat, ugly, too tall and so on, you start to think all those things about yourself. And if you're like me, those words are played on repeat inside your head. When I was at home, I felt loved and safe. My sisters were always a safe haven for me. I knew they would always play with me and make me feel like I was one of them. Now we have so many more social outlets, there are so many ways to be stalked and bullied. If social media is too much for you to handle then don't have a Twitter or Facebook account, just be yourself. Be who you want to be.

  Khloe Kardashian

  Being Yourself, Home, Thinking

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• I've always felt lucky because my parents included my sister and I in their cultural life.

  Clemence Poesy

  Parent, Lucky, Felt

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• My aunt put my cousins into a childrens modelling agency, then my mum did it with us. Me and my sister got a few TV adverts, which was good pocket money. A director saw photos of me and asked me to do a short film.

  Sullivan Stapleton

  Cousin, Aunt, Agency

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• Mondays I sleep. I go in at ten, do my lift, watch the game from the day before. Tuesday is off, but I go in, lift, watch film. Then I have French toast with my sister.

  Ndamukong Suh

  Monday, Sleep, Games

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• [To the patronizing train conductor who had twice said, 'Auntie, give me your ticket':] Which of my sister's sons are you?

  Mary McLeod Bethune

  Son, Racism, Giving

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• My parents got carried away with the letter P when they were naming the kids in our family. There's me, Paula, my sisters Peggy and Patty, and my brother Pjimmy, spelled with a silent P.

  Paula Poundstone

  Brother, Kids, Names

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• For those roses bright, oh, those roses bright!
  I have twined them in my sister's locks
  That are hid in the dust from sight.

  Phoebe Cary

  Sight, Dust, Rose

  Phoebe Cary (1868). “Poems of Faith, Hope, and Love”, p.174

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• My sister Kwan believes she has yin eyes. She sees those who have died and now dwell in the world of Yin, ghosts who leave the mists just to visit her kitchen on Balboa Street in San Francisco.

  Amy Tan

  Believe, Eye, San Francisco

  Amy Tan (2012). “The Hundred Secret Senses”, p.7, HarperCollins UK

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• Thirty years ago, my sister, Gale (so named because a gale hit Boston Harbor the night she was born), some friends and I stole a boat in the middle of the night and sailed it out of the Santa Barbara harbor. Suddenly we were becalmed and the current began pushing us toward the breakwall. With no running lights and no power, we were dead in the water. Out of that darkness a steel hull appeared: it was the local Coast Guard cutter. My father, stern-faced and displeased, stood in the bow.

  Gretel Ehrlich

  Running, Father, Night

  Gretel Ehrlich (1995). “A Match to the Heart: One Woman's Story of Being Struck By Lightning”, p.29, Penguin

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• Grandpa did everything at his own pace, a speed that my sister and I referred to as 'when snails attack.' ... My grandparents' house was only about ten miles from ours, but the ride there would necessitate sandwiches packed for the trip, and several books to keep us occupied.

  Jenny Lawson

  Book, Grandpa, House

  Jenny Lawson (2012). “Let's Pretend This Never Happened: (A Mostly True Memoir)”, p.31, Pan Macmillan

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• I long for the day my sisters will rise, and occupy the sphere to which they are called by their high nature and destiny.

  Lucretia Mott

  Destiny, Long, Spheres

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• When my sister Joan arrived, I asked if I could swap her for a rabbit. When I think what a marvellous friend she's been, I'm so glad my parents didn't take me at my word.

  Maeve Binchy

  Thinking, Parent, Rabbits

  Interview With Jessica Simmons, www.theguardian.com. November 12, 2010.

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• I played the clarinet, and my sister played the violin... If wed had the discipline and the passion, maybe we could have been good.

  Sara Zarr

  Passion, Discipline, Violin

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• And the general shot my sister. I could not look at her, but I remember the sound of when she hit the ground. I hear that sound when things hit the ground still. Anything.' If I could, I would make it so nothing ever hit the ground again.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Sound, Looks, Remember

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• My sister Tiffany told me years ago, 'You can never write about me.' Then she called six months ago and said she wanted to be in a story. She was worried people thought I didn't like her.

  David Sedaris

  Writing, Years, People

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• I was brought up Catholic and we show my mom, my mother, my sister and then I take pains to explain on camera, that there were years after that where I wasn't really religious. I certainly wasn't a Catholic anymore, but I still lived with some mythical man in my head. I didn't really put a name to a face, but I just knew that if I was in trouble or scared I would go, 'Oh God, please help me get out of this one.'

  Bill Maher

  Mom, Mother, Religious

  "Bill Maher Gets Ridiculous with Religulous". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. February 16, 2009.

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• I'm very proud of my sister and protective of her. Solange is the one person I will fight for. Don't talk about my sister; don't play with me about my sister. If you do, you'll see another side of me. I admire her, and though she's five years younger than me, I strive to be like her. She's so smart and secure. She's sensitive to people's feelings, but not afraid of what they think.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Smart, Fighting, Thinking

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• I believe strongly in the rights of women... my mother is a woman, my sister is a woman, my daughter is a woman, my wife is a woman.

  Abdallah II

  Daughter, Mother, Believe

  "Transcript: Saudi King Abdullah Talks to Barbara Walters". abcnews.go.com. October 14, 2005.

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• Almost everything in 'A Day With Wilbur Robinson' has some basis in truth. And yes, my sister did pay me to feed her grapes while she talked to her boyfriend on the phone.

  William Joyce

  Sister, Phones, Pay

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• I felt the calling to serve my country. My parents came to the United States from Mexico and Colombia, and this country treated them well. It gave my sisters and me the opportunity to get an education and succeed. I wanted to repay my country for how they treated my family and ensure that our values and freedom are intact for future generations.

  Ruben Gallego

  Country, Opportunity, Parent

  "Congress at War". www.politico.com. July, 2015.

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• The weirdest thing about me is that I like to walk around naked. I grew up walking around naked in my house. My mom was like that, and my sisters. My father worked nights and slept during the day, so we had no one to hide from.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Mom, Father, Night

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• I got into psychology simply because that's what my sister did, and I grew up in a family that was very like, follow your sister's footsteps. I went to the same school she went to, did the same degree she did ... really had no interest in it, to be honest.

  Lilly Singh

  School, Psychology, Degrees

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• There's always sacrifices. My family don't generally say that they're related to me - my sister doesn't say she's my sister - because they don' t want to be judged or lauded based on who I am.

  Lucy Liu

  Sacrifice, Who I Am, Want

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• My sister and I both benefited hugely from the great security that our parents had given us, and then we went off and squandered it all rushing around in showbiz.

  Tom Hollander

  Rushing, Parent, Given

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