Older Sister Quotes

• I played with dolls until I was 15. My mother encouraged it because my older sister got married when she was 15, so Mom thought that the longer I stayed with dolls, the better.

  Linda Evans

  Sister, Mom, Mother

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• My older sister was at the cusp of new wave, and I had older brothers from my father's first marriage who were rock 'n' roll guys, so I was exposed to a lot of popular culture.

  Paul Thomas Anderson

  Brother, Father, Rocks

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• I had an older brother who passed away recently, an older sister and a younger brother.

  Steve Case

  Sister, Brother, Passed Away

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• Sometimes you really dig a girl, the moment you kiss her, And then you get distracted by her older sister.

  John Sebastian

  Sister, Girl, Kissing

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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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• My older sister is bossy, my brother is a stirrer and me - well, I am perfect!

  Jenny Eclair

  Brother, Perfect, Big Sister

  "My family values". Interview with Jo Mears, www.theguardian.com. August 28, 2009.

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• I have an older sister who sounds, unfortunately, exactly like me, and we sound like our mother did.

  Jill Abramson

  Mother, Big Sister, Sound

  "Jill Abramson’s New Yorker, CBS Profiles" by Jack Mirkinson, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 17, 2011.

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• You keep your past by having sisters. As you get older, they're the only ones who don't get bored if you talk about your memories.

  Deborah Moggach

  Sister, Memories, 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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• 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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• The first-born in every family is always dreaming for an imaginary older brother or sister who will look out for them.

  Bill Cosby

  Family, Sister, Dream

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• My older sister has entire kingdoms inside of her, and some of them are only accessible at certain seasons, in certain kinds of weather.

  Karen Russell

  Weather, Kingdoms, Kind

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• I have two older sisters; I'm the youngest.

  Elizabeth Perkins

  Sister, Two

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• I'm used to being around kids. Even when I was growing up in London, I had an older sister, I had a younger sister that I used to look after from time to time.

  David Beckham

  Inspirational, Growing Up, Kids

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• I definitely used to lie about my age. I'm from Tennessee and everyone would vacation in Destin, Florida, where there are lots of cute guys. I would go with my older sister and lie about my age to them.

  Lucy Hale

  Cute, Lying, Vacation

  "An In-Depth Conversation With the Cast of 'Pretty Little Liars'". Interview with Natasha Vargas-Cooper, bullettmedia.com. March 12, 2012.

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• My major influence was my ten years older sister.

  Willa Ford

  Sister, Years, Influence

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• It's still a mystery to me, but even though my mother was like an older sister to me, I kind of put her up on a pedestal.

  Steven Spielberg

  Mother, Pedestal, Kind

  "Spielberg: A director's life reflected in film". "60 Minutes" with Lesley Stahl, cbsnews.cbsig.net. January 10, 2013.

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• So we dream on. Thus we invent our lives. We give ourselves a sainted mother, we make our father a hero; and someone’s older brother and someone’s older sister – they become our heroes too. We invent what we love and what we fear. There is always a brave lost brother – and a little lost sister, too. We dream on and on: the best hotel, the perfect family, the resort life. And our dreams escape us almost as vividly as we can imagine them.

  John Irving

  Mother, Dream, Brother

  John Irving (1986). “The Hotel New Hampshire”

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• My mother, grandmother and older sister all cooked, so it was hard to get into the kitchen. So I have no talent for cooking. I was always out in the garage with my dad. I have a tool belt. I'm a repair chick

  Cheryl Ladd

  Mother, Dad, Cooking

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• My older sister has entire kingdoms inside of her, and some of them are only accessible at certain seasons, in certain kinds of weather. One such melting occurs in summer rain, at midnight, during the vine-green breathing time right before sleep. You have to ask the right question, throw the right rope bridge, to get there-and then bolt across the chasm between you, before your bridge collapses.

  Karen Russell

  Summer, Rain, Sleep

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• And what renders him so unmarriageable?” Eloise asked. Francesca leveled a serious stare at her older sister. Eloise was mad if she thought she should set her cap for Michael. “Well?” Eloise prodded. “He could never remain faithful to one woman,” Fran-cesca said, “and I doubt you‟d be willing to put up with infidelities.” “No,” Eloise murmured, “not unless he‟d be willing to put up with severe bodily injury.

  Julia Quinn

  Mad, Faithful, Infidelity

  Julia Quinn (2006). “When he was wicked”

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• I once tried to give him a friendly little "drugs chat". He politely corrected me on every single fact, then said he'd noticed I drank above the recommended guidelines of Red Bull and did I think I might have an addiction? That was the last time I tried to act like the older sister.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Thinking, Addiction, Giving

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• How would you feel about life if Death was your older sister?

  Neil Gaiman

  Feels, Ifs

  Neil Gaiman, Sam Kieth (2009). “The Absolute Sandman”, Titan Publishing Company

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• After I moved with my mother to St. Louis, my older sister and I went to see Ike Turner, who was the hottest then. His music charged me. I was never attracted to him, but I wanted to sing with his band.

  Tina Turner

  Mother, Band, Turner

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. May, 2005.

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• I have an older sister named Haley and she wanted to be an actress. So I wanted to be an actress. It's really funny the way that some people don't give kids enough credit for like really being driven, and really wanting to do things so badly.

  Hilary Duff

  Kids, Funny Things, Giving

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