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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• A ministering angel shall my sister be.

  William Shakespeare

  Sibling, Angel, Sisterhood

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

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

  Charlotte Gray

  Sibling, Kids, Reality

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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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• I sought my soul, but my soul I could not see, I sought my god, but my god eluded me; And then I sought my sisters and my brothers, and in them I found all three.

  Baba Amte

  Inspirational, God, Brother

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• Sisters make the best friends in the world.

  Marilyn Monroe

  World, Heartbreaking Love, Sisters And Friends

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

  Elizabeth Fishel

  Mirrors, Opposites, Rakhi

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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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• 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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• 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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• Those are the same stars, and that is the same moon, that look down upon your brothers and sisters, and which they see as they look up to them, though they are ever so far away from us, and each other.

  Sojourner Truth

  Brother, Stars, Moon

  Sojourner Truth (1998). “Narrative of Sojourner Truth”, p.27, Penguin

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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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• 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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• 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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• One of the best things about being an adult is the realization that you can share with your sister and still have plenty for yourself.

  Betsy Z. Cohen

  Sibling, Adults, Rakhi

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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, Dream, Brother

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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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• 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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• You know full well as I do the value of sisters' affections: There is nothing like it in this world.

  Charlotte Bronte

  World, Affection, Wells

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• Big sisters are the crab grass in the lawn of life.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Funny, Family, Sibling

  Peanuts (comic strip), 17 June 1961

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