Sister Quotes

• 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

  Memories, Sibling, Past

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• A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves - a special kind of double.

  Toni Morrison

  Sibling, Special, Rakhi

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• For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, to fetch one if one goes astray, to lift one if one totters down, to strengthen whilst one stands.

  Christina Rossetti

  Family, Cheer, Weather

  1862 Goblin Market and Other Poems,'Goblin Market'.

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• You may be as different as the sun and the moon, but the same blood flows through both your hearts. You need her, as she needs you.

  George R. R. Martin

  Heart, Moon, Blood

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.196, Bantam

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

  Charlotte Gray

  Sibling, Kids, Reality

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• A ministering angel shall my sister be.

  William Shakespeare

  Sibling, Angel, Sisterhood

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

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• Siblings: children of the same parents, each of whom is perfectly normal until they get together.

  Sam Levenson

  Relationship, Family, Brother

  Sam Levenson (2016). “Everything But Money: A Life of Riches”, p.124, Open Road Media

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

  Louisa May Alcott

  Sibling, Sorority, Helping

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

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• Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.

  Margaret Mead

  Relationship, Family, Sibling

  Attributed to Margaret Mead in Ellyn Sanna "Sisters by Birth Friends by Choice: All the Things I Love About You", June 2003.

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

  Elizabeth Fishel

  Mirrors, Opposites, Rakhi

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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

  Sarcastic, Sibling, Expression

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• She is the mother I never had, she is the sister everybody would want. She is the friend that everybody deserves. I don't know a better person.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Mother, Want, Better Person

  "Oprah Winfrey: 'I'm Not a Lesbian'". Interview with Barbara Walters, abcnews.go.com. December 8, 2010.

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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

  Funny Inspirational, Children, Funny Life

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

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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

  Brother, Sibling, Believe

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

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• Sisters make the best friends in the world.

  Marilyn Monroe

  World, Heartbreaking Love, Sisters And Friends

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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

  Sibling, Needs, Rakhi

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

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• What are sisters for if not to point out the things the rest of the world is too polite to mention.

  Claire Cook

  World, Polite, Ifs

  Claire Cook (2014). “Must Love Dogs: New Leash on Life”, p.188, Marshbury Beach Books

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

  Louise Glück

  Two, Dancer, Funny Sibling

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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

  Wise, Brother, Sibling

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

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Sweet, Brother, Sibling

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

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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

  Sibling, Loss, Gone

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

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• There were once two sisters who were not afriad of the dark because the dark was full of the other's voice across the room, because even when the night was thick and starless they walked home together from the river seeing who could last the longest without turning on her flashlight, not afraid because sometimes in the pitch of night they'd lie on their backs in the middle of the path and look up until the stars came back and when they did, they'd reach their arms up to touch them and did.

  Jandy Nelson

  Stars, Lying, Home

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

  Pam Brown

  Sibling, Sorority, Chance

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

  Alice Walker

  Inspiring, Sibling, Comforting

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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

  Sibling, Situations In Life, Sorority

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

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