Sister Quotes And Sayings

Sweet, crazy conversations full of half sentences, daydreams and misunderstandings more thrilling than understanding could ever be.

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.

A sibling may be the keeper of one's identity, the only person with the keys to one's unfettered, more fundamental self.

The best thing about having a sister was that I always had a friend.

More than Santa Claus, your sister knows when you've been bad and good.

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.

Beauty's sister is vanity, and its daughter lust.

I know some sisters who only see each other on Mother's Day and some who will never speak again. But most are like my sister and me... linked by volatile love, best friends who make other best friends ever so slightly less best.

To the outside world we all grow old. But not to brothers and sisters. We know each other as we always were. We know each other's hearts. We share private family jokes. We remember family feuds and secrets, family griefs and joys. We live outside the touch of time.

Sisters never quite forgive each other for what happened when they were five.

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.

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?

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

I come here tonight as a sister, blessed with a brother who is my mentor, my protector and my lifelong friend. And I come here as a wife who loves my husband and believes he will be an extraordinary president.

In a way, I was incredibly proud of her (not that I had any intention of letting it show while I was beating the crap out of her).

There's a special kind of freedom sisters enjoy. Freedom to share innermost thoughts, to ask a favor, to show their true feelings. The freedom to simply be themselves.

A sister is a little bit of childhood that can never be lost.

There is no better friend than a sister. And there is no better sister than you.

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

This life is what you make it. No matter what, you're going to mess up sometimes, it's a universal truth. But the good part is you get to decide how you're going to mess it up. Girls will be your friends - they'll act like it anyway. But 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. Also remember, sisters make the best friends in the world. As for lovers, well, they'll come and go too. And baby, I hate to say it, most of them - actually pretty much all of them are going to break your heart, but you can't give up because if you give up, you'll never find your soulmate. You'll never find that half who makes you whole and that goes for everything. Just because you fail once, doesn't mean you're gonna fail at everything. Keep trying, hold on, and always, always, always believe in yourself, because if you don't, then who will, sweetie? So keep your head high, keep your chin up, and most importantly, keep smiling, because life's a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about.

Help one another, is part of the religion of sisterhood.

Both within the family and without, our sisters hold up our mirrors: our images of who we are and of who we can dare to become.

Oh, the comfort - the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person - having neither to weigh thoughts nor to measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together.

A sister is a gift from God, sent from above to make life worthwhile here below.

Going to the theater is such a joyous experience. My dad would take my sister and me to plays when we were very young, like six or seven years old.

But whenever she thanks the givers for favors great and small, she thinks of the good little sister who gave her more than they all.

It was nice growing up with someone like you - someone to lean on, someone to count on... someone to tell on!

Foolishness is indeed the sister of wickedness.

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

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

My sister asked where Nicaragua was. I said, "Central America." She said, "Oh so near Kansas?" I see a pole and body glitter in her future.

The desire to be and have a sister is a primitive and profound one that may have everything or nothing to do with the family a woman is born to. It is a desire to know and be known by someone who shares blood and body, history and dreams, common ground and the unknown adventures of the future, darkest secrets and the glassiest beads of truth.

Sisters function as safety nets in a chaotic world simply by being there for each other.

What's the good of news if you haven't a sister to share it?

My sister wanted to be an actress, but she never made it. She does live in a trailer. She got halfway. She's an actress, she just never gets called to the set.

Sibling relationships - and 80 percent of Americans have at least one - outlast marriages, survive the death of parents, resurface after quarrels that would sink any friendship. They flourish in a thousand incarnations of closeness and distance, warmth, loyalty and distrust.

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

You must recognize that the way to get the good out of your brother and your sister is not to return evil for evil.

What is a sister - someone to confide in, a girl that bosses you about, a person that sides with you, a friend for life, a younger mother, someone who hogs the shower, smells like a chemist shop, a person who's understanding. That's a sister.

Our roots say we're sisters, our hearts say we're friends.

A sister will always notice her sister's first gray hairs with glee.

I love being a mother. I loved being a daughter, a sister, a wife. I love being a woman with men. I love having given birth.

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

We have two dogs, Mabel and Wolf, and three cats at home, Charlie, George and Chairman. We have two cats on our farm, Tom and Little Sister, two horses, and two mini horses, Hannah and Tricky. We also have two cows, Holy and Madonna. And those are only the animals we let sleep in our bed.

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

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...

I'm a woman, a mother, a daughter, a sister. I'm a real person operating in the world. For me to discuss the most private thing feels wrong. It feels like I'm betraying myself and my children.

There is space within sisterhood for likeness and differences, for the subtle differences that challenge and delight; there is space for disappointment - and surprise.

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.

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.

Sisters may share the same mother and father but appear to come from different families.

A sister is the cure for swollen heads and ego trips. One may a star, a Chief Executive-famous and rich and beautiful. But one's sister has the family photo album. And a long, long memory. And a tendency to wink at one on Top Occasions.

A sister shares childhood memories and grown-up dreams.

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.Viola in Reel Life

I've never had a divorce, but I've seen so many of my friends, my sister, my family go through that stuff, so I try to write for the people that can't write about it. I take on their sorrow, so I'm able to kind of express it, or their joy.

Sister to sister we will always be, a couple of nuts off the family tree.

A sister is a friend you don't have to avoid the truth with.

Sisterhood is powerful.