Famous Quotes & Sayings

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

One can be a brother only in something. Where there is no tie that binds men, men are not united but merely lined up.

I'd do about anything for her, she is pretty much the sister I have never had.

Charles Perrault

The next day the two sisters went to the ball, and so did Cinderella, but dressed more magnificently than before. The King's son was always by her side, and his pretty speeches to her never ceased.

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Dietrich Mateschitz

Of course, it will be a kind of a sister team,

She was always like a big sister to me.

It is true that I was born in Iowa, but I can't speak for my twin sister.

Alfred Nobel

To his sister-in-law: What a contrast between us! You live a warm and glowing life, surrounded by loved ones whom you care for and who care for you; you are anchored in contentment. I drift about without rudder or compass, a wreck on the sea of life; I have no memories to cheer me, no pleasant illusions of the future to comfort me, or about me to satisfy my vanity. I have no family to furnish the only kind of survival that concerns us, no friends for the wholesome development of my affections, or enemies for my malice.

Adriana Trigiani

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.

Courtney Love

I've been screwed by as many women as I have by men, in terms of lawyers. But lawyers don't count. If you take lawyers out of the equation, you have a more fair playing field. There is a sisterhood.

William Shakespeare

A ministering angel shall my sister be.

Dakota Fanning

When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.

Cole Porter

He may have hair upon his chest but, sister, so has Lassie.

Claudia Black

Sisterhood is magical and medicinal - use it as a lifelong resource.

My sister (Diane) is out here from South Carolina, so that makes this nice,

Mitch Hedberg

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

Ann Wilson

I've got two sisters and they're both married and they're both much more settled into the way things are.

Amelia Earhart

Obviously I faced the possibility of not returning when first I considered going. Once faced and settled there really wasn't any good reason to refer to it.

Douglas Adams

Time, we know, is relative. You can travel light years through the stars and back, and if you do it at the speed of light then, when you return, you may have aged mere seconds while your twin brother or sister will have aged twenty, thirty, forty or however many years it is, depending on how far you traveled. This will come to you as a profound shock, particularly if you didn't know you had a twin brother or sister.

Dorothy Allison

When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels.

Dolly Parton

For some reason, I have better luck when I work with women. I guess I have a good sense of sisterhood.

Anthony Marra

She wouldn't climb out of the bed for her sister, but she had climbed into a crater. She wouldn't cross a room, but she had crossed a continent.

Anais Nin

Love men and women not for their strength but their softness, not for their fullness but their hunger, not for their plenty but their need.

Anais Nin

You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead.

Anais Nin

I want to live darkly and richly in my femaleness.

Christy Turlington

Participating in a sisterhood with other women is hugely important in my life and a source of joy.

Christy Turlington

Ayurveda is a sister philosophy to yoga. It is the science of life or longevity and it teaches about the power and the cycles of nature, as well as the elements.

Alvin Lee

There is a big age gap between my sisters Janice and Irma and myself so I didn't know them that well when I was younger although they have been very supportive in later life.

Anthony Doerr

My sister-in-law is a painter, and I'll say, how long did it take you to paint that painting. She'll say, It took me maybe three days, but it took me all my life to get the skills to paint that painting.

Annette Funicello

Of the many guests we welcomed to the Mickey Mouse Club, my absolute favorites were the Lennon Sisters.

Ann Brashares

Different people were good at different things, Lena mused. Lena was good at writing thank-you notes, for instance, and Effie was good at being happy.

Jandy Nelson

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.

Jane Austen

The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder.