Sister Quotes - page 2

Do not be jealous of your sister. Know that diamonds and roses are as uncomfortable when they tumble from one's lips as toads and frogs: colder, too, and sharper, and they cut. (Neil Gaiman)
In Blue Crush, we meet three Hawaiian surfers who work as hotel maids, live in a grotty rental, and are raising the kid sister of one of them. Despite this near-poverty, they look great; there is nothing like a tan and a bikini to overcome class distinctions. View quote
Roger Ebert
Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister. View quote
Alice Walker
I have a very young brother and sister, and if you can get a kid singing the words to a song after they heard it for the first time, it's a hit." View quote
Adam Levine
She looked into the distance, and the old terror flamed up for an instant, then sank again. Edna heard her father's voice and her sister Margaret's. She heard the barking of an old dog that was chained to the sycamore tree. The spurs of the cavalry officer clanged as he walked across the porch. There was the hum of bees, and the musky odor of pinks filled the air. View quote
Kate Chopin
The Labour Party is the sister Party for the Democrats and their progressive views are the ones that we are most aligned with. View quote
Harriet Harman
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? View quote
Jodi Picoult
As a brother and sister, our tastes were pretty different growing up. He liked a lot of early hip hop. My dad didn't understand it and would try to talk him out of it. View quote
Taryn Manning
If All Men Were Brothers, Would You Let One Marry Your Sister? View quote
Theodore Sturgeon
It's true that I wouldn't have written the first book had my sister and mother been alive. It was my way of continuing our conversation. It's also this Jewish thing of naming and remembering people, and I think there is a sense of keeping that side of life going. View quote
Nigella Lawson
The revenge of an elder sister may be long in coming, but, like a South-Eastern express, it arrives in its own good time. (Saki)
Ah, bless you, Sister, may all your sons be bishops. View quote
Brendan Behan
A girl has the power to go forward in her life. And she's not only a mother, she's not only a sister, she's not only a wife. But a girl has the – she should have an identity. She should be recognized and she has equal rights as a boy. View quote
Malala Yousafzai
Fiction is Truth's elder sister. Obviously. No one in the world knew what truth was till some one had told a story. View quote
Rudyard Kipling
Never praise a sister to a sister, in the hope of your compliments reaching the proper ears, and so preparing the way for you later on. Sisters are women first, and sisters afterwards; and you will find that you do yourself harm. View quote
Rudyard Kipling
Where shall we see a better daughter, or a kinder sister, or a truer friend? View quote
Jane Austen
Don't solicit for your sister, that's not nice, Unless you get a good percentage of her price. View quote
Tom Lehrer
We will make a great and awful mistake if we fail to settle Hebron, neighbor and predecessor of Jerusalem, with a large Jewish settlement, constantly growing and expanding, very soon. This will also be a blessing to the Arab neighbors. Hebron is worthy to be Jerusalem's sister. View quote
David Ben-Gurion
Sister, mother And spirit of the river, spirit of the sea, Suffer me not to be separated And let my cry come unto Thee. View quote
T. S. Eliot
It's always the idle habits you acquire which you will regret. Father said that. That Christ was not crucified: he was worn away by a minute clicking of little wheels. That had no sister. View quote
William Faulkner
Did you ever have a sister? did you? (William Faulkner)
You will form a very inadequate estimate of a man's character, if you judge by what a fond sister says of him. The worst of them generally know how to hide their misdeeds from their sisters' eyes, and their mother's, too. View quote
Anne Brontë
Where is home? I've wondered where home is, and I realized, it's not Mars or someplace like that, it's Indianapolis when I was nine years old. I had a brother and a sister, a cat and a dog, and a mother and a father and uncles and aunts. And there's no way I can get there again. View quote
Kurt Vonnegut
My sister, who never understood most of the things I wanted her to, might have been able to understand what had happened to me in this summer of weddings and beginnings. And she was right. The first boy was always the hardest. page 40000. View quote
Sarah Dessen
What is Time, O sister of similar features, that you speak of it so subserviently? Are we to be the slaves of the sun, that secondhand, overrated knob of gilt, or of his sister, that fatuous circle of silver paper? A curse upon their ridiculous dictatorship! View quote
Mervyn Peake