Sister Quotes

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About Sisters

A Sister is God's way of proving He doesn't want us to walk alone.
~ Unknown

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.
~ Unknown

Sisters are blossoms in the garden of life.
~ Unknown

Sisters annoy, interfere, criticize. Indulge in monumental sulks, in huffs, in snide remarks. Borrow. Break. Monopolize the bathroom. Are always underfoot. But if catastrophe should strike, sisters are there. Defending you against all comers.
~ Pam Brown

Husbands come and go; children come and eventually they go. Friends grow up and move away. But the one thing that's never lost is your sister.
~ Gail Sheeny

One's sister is part of one's essential self, an eternal presence of one's heart, soul and memory.
~ Susan Cabil

You can kid the world. But not your sister.
~ Charlotte Gray

A sister smiles when one tells one's stories - for she knows where the decoration has been added.
~ Chris Montaigne

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

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Sisters are different flowers from the same garden.
~ Unknown

In the cookies of life, sisters are the chocolate chips.
~ Unknown

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

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.
~ Rose Macaulay

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

We acquire friends and we make enemies, but our sisters come with the territory.
~ Evelyn Loeb

Whatever you do they will love you; even if they don't love you they are connected to you till you die. You can be boring and tedious with sisters, whereas you have to put on a good face with friends.
~ Deborah Moggach

She is your mirror, shining back at you with a world of possibilities. She is your witness, who sees you at your worst and best, and loves you anyway. She is your partner in crime, your midnight companion, someone who knows when you are smiling, even in the dark. She is your teacher, your defense attorney, your personal press agent, even your shrink. Some days, she's the reason you wish you were an only child.
~ Barbara Alpert

A sister is both your mirror - and your opposite.
~ Elizabeth Fishel

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Big Sister

Big sisters are the crabgrass in the lawn of life.
~ Charles M. Schultz

I always like to win. But I'm the big sister. I want to make sure she has everything, even if I don't have anything. It's hard. I love her too much. That's what counts.
~ Venus Williams

An older sister is a friend and defender - a listener, conspirator, a counsellor and a sharer of delights. And sorrows too.
~ Pam Brown

Elder sisters never can do younger ones justice!
~ Charlotte M. Yonge

An older sister helps one remain half child, half woman.
~ Unknown

I know my older sister loves me because she gives me all her old clothes and has to go out and buy new ones.
~ Unknown, attributed to a 4-year-old named Lauren

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Family

Brothers and sisters are as close as hands and feet.
~ Vietnamese Proverb

When mom and dad don't understand, a sister always will.
~ Unknown

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.
~ Clara Ortega

Our brothers and sisters are there with us from the dawn of our personal stories to the inevitable dusk.
~ Susan Scarf Merrell

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...
~ Jane Austen, Mansfield Park, 1814

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“Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.” ― Victor Borge

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Big sisters are the crabgrass in the lawn of life.
~ Charles M. Schultz

A sister will always notice her sister's first gray hairs with glee.
~ Allison M. Lee

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

I smile because you are my sister, I laugh because there is nothing you can do about it!
~ Unknown

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

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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

We acquire friends and we make enemies, but our sisters come with the territory.
~ Evelyn Loeb

If your sister is in a tearing hurry to go out and cannot catch your eye, she's wearing your best sweater.
~ Pam Brown

I know my older sister loves me because she gives me all her old clothes and has to go out and buy new ones.
~ Unknown, attributed to a 4-year-old named Lauren

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

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Like a Sister

I can barely even begin to tell you how much you touch my soul, raise my hopes, and inspire my smiles. Maybe the best way to convey it is to lovingly try and say that you've always been and you will always be… just like a sister to me.
~ Emilia Larson

You're the friend who means so much to me, the one I'm thinking of right now, the one who feels like family in my heart.
~ Barbara J. Hall

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Little Sister

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.
~ Pam Brown

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Nostalgia

A sister is a little bit of childhood that can never be lost.
~ Marion C. Garretty

A sister shares childhood memories and grown-up dreams.
~ Unknown

My sister taught me everything I really need to know, and she was only in sixth grade at the time.
~ Linda Sunshine

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.
~ Clara Ortega

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

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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

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

A sister smiles when one tells one's stories - for she knows where the decoration has been added.
~ Chris Montaigne

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

How do people make it through life without a sister?
~ Sara Corpening

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Sentimental

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“A photograph can be an instant
of life captured for eternity
that will never cease
looking back at you.”
― Brigitte Bardot

Chance made us sisters. Hearts made us friends.
~ Zig Ziglar

A sister is one who reaches for your hand and touches your heart.
~ Unknown

A sister is a gift to the heart, a friend to the spirit, a golden thread to the meaning of life.
~ Isadora James

To have a loving relationship with a sister is not simply to have a buddy or a confident, it is to have a soulmate for life.
~ Victoria Secunda

A sister is someone who knows everything about you and loves you anyway.
~ Unknown

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.
~ Katherine Mansfield

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Sibling Rivalry

Never praise a sister to a sister in the hope of your compliments reaching the proper ears.
~ Rudyard Kipling

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

A sister will always notice her sister's first gray hairs with glee.
~ Allison M. Lee

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

Elder sisters never can do younger ones justice!
~ Charlotte M. Yonge

Our siblings push buttons that cast us in roles we felt sure we had let go of long ago - the baby, the peacekeeper, the caretaker, the avoider.... It doesn't seem to matter how much time has elapsed or how far we've traveled.
~ Jane Mersky Leder

If sisters were free to express how they really feel, parents would hear this: "Give me all the attention and all the toys and send Rebecca to live with Grandma."
~ Linda Sunshine

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Siblings

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.
~ Erica E. Goode, "The Secret World of Siblings,"
U.S. News & World Report, 10 January 1994

Siblings are the people we practice on, the people who teach us about fairness and cooperation and kindness and caring - quite often the hard way.
~ Pamela Dugdale

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

Our siblings. They resemble us just enough to make all their differences confusing, and no matter what we choose to make of this, we are cast in relation to them our whole lives long.
~ Susan Scarf Merrell

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Sisters as Adults

Separated by distance, joined by love.
~ Chuck Danes

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 Cohen

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

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Sisters as Friends

A sister by blood, A friend by choice.
~ Unknown

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

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

Sisters touch your heart in ways no other could. Sisters share... their hopes, their fears, their love, everything they have. Real friendship springs from their special bonds.
~ Carrie Bagwell

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 G. Rossetti

A loyal sister is worth a thousand friends.
~ Marian Eigerman

Having a sister is like having a best friend you can't get rid of. You know whatever you do, they'll still be there.
~ Amy Li

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A sister is a gift to the heart, a friend to the spirit, a golden thread to the meaning of life.

An older sister is a friend and defender - a listener, conspirator, a counsellor and a sharer of delights. And sorrows too.
~ Pam Brown

In thee my soul shall own combined the sister and the friend.
~ Catherine Killigrew

A sister is a forever friend.
~ Unknown

The best thing about having a sister was that I always had a friend.
~ Cali Rae Turner

A true sister is a friend who listens with her heart.
~ Unknown

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Sister in Time of Need

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 G. Rossetti

Sisters are for sharing laughter and wiping tears.
~ Unknown

Sweet is the voice of a sister in the season of sorrow.
~ Benjamin Disraeli

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

An older sister is a friend and defender - a listener, conspirator, a counsellor and a sharer of delights. And sorrows too.
~ Pam Brown

A Sister is God's way of proving He doesn't want us to walk alone.
~ Unknown

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The mildest, drowsiest sister has been known to turn tiger if her sibling is in trouble.
~ Clara Ortega

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

Sisters annoy, interfere, criticize. Indulge in monumental sulks, in huffs, in snide remarks. Borrow. Break. Monopolize the bathroom. Are always underfoot. But if catastrophe should strike, sisters are there. Defending you against all comers.
~ Pam Brown

There can be no situation in life in which the conversation of my dear sister will not administer some comfort to me.
~ Mary Montagu

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

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Sisterhood

Help one another, is part of the religion of sisterhood.
~ Louisa May Alcott

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

Sisterhood is powerful.
~ Robin Morgan

If we believed in the media we would think the only significant relationship in our lives is a romantic one. Yet sisterhood is probably the one that will last longer than any other... a sister will always be around.
~ Jane Dowdeswell

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