Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Dalai Lama

For a better, happier, more stable and civilized future, each of us must develop a sincere, warm-hearted feeling of brotherhood and sisterhood.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Douglass North

My brother and sister are both older than I am and were born before my father went off to World War I.

Dorothy Hamill

I was a bratty little sister. I was the youngest of three, and I often felt as though I didn't fit in.

Donald Pleasence

Loomis has always felt himself responsible for the fact that he did not stop Michael when he first murdered his sister, and so he's got that guilt to live with.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I told my sister that I didn't trust him.

Erin Morgenstern

I do not mourn the loss of my sister because she will always be with me, in my heart," she says. "I am, however, rather annoyed that my Tara has left me to suffer you lot alone. I do not see as well without her. I do not hear as well without her. I do not feel as well without her. I would be better off without a hand or a leg than without my sister. Then at least she would be here to mock my appearance and claim to be the pretty one for a change. We have all lost our Tara, but I have lost a part of myself as well.

Cassandra Clare

If the marriage were valid, she'd be your sister-in-law.

Carolyn Heilbrun

Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who have always had it.

Carly Simon

My look was even more solidified when I started singing in Greenwich Village with my sister Lucy. We wore matching dresses as the Simon Sisters.

Natalie Wood

Sometimes when I visit my sister and her two children, I wonder if she missed a lot by getting married. Right now, nothing could be further from my mind than getting married.

Candace Bushnell

Women with money and women in power are two uncomfortable ideas in our society.

Pam Brown

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.