Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robin Morgan

Sisterhood is powerful.

Sara Paretsky

Sisters in Crime now has more than 4,000 members worldwide.

Richard Gere

In saving Tibet, you save the possibility that we are all brothers, sisters.

Ugo Betti

Sisterly love is, of all sentiments, the most abstract. Nature does not grant it any functions.

Vince Vaughn

I was lucky I always got along with girls. It was never like a big deal. I had a lot of girls that I was friends with that I wasn't sexual with. I think having two older sisters made me comfortable like that. I just like people, so I can just go up and say whatever.

Willa Ford

My major influence was my ten years older sister.

William Blake

England! awake! awake! awake! Jerusalem thy sister calls! Why wilt thou sleep the sleep of death And close her from thy ancient walls?

Ryan White

AIDS can destroy a family if you let it, but luckily for my sister and me, Mom taught us to keep going. Don't give up, be proud of who you are, and never feel sorry for yourself.

Ryan Phillippe

My sisters are my favorite people on earth.

Ryan Phillippe

I have three sisters and I've always wanted a brother, so I was really interested in that notion.

Henry David Thoreau

I should fear the infinite power and inflexible justice of the almighty mortal hardly as yet apotheosized, so wholly masculine, with no sister Juno, no Apollo, no Venus, nor Minerva, to intercede for me, thumoi phileousa te, kedomene te.

Jeffrey Kluger

Your parents leave you too soon and your kids and spouse come along late, but your siblings know you when you are in your most inchoate form.

Jim Elliot

It is true that a fellow cannot ignore women - but he can think of them as he ought - as sisters, not as sparring partners.

Jeanne Tripplehorn

But we're all so different, we're different ages; we're not vying for the same roles. There's no competition, there's really kind of a sisterhood, on and off the set, you know?

Jeremy London

And my little sister died when she was 16.

Gisele Bundchen

If I honour my needs first, I will be the best wife, the best mum, the best sister, the best friend. I have to come first, because then everyone benefits.

George Bernard Shaw

Sister, you're trying to keep me alive as an old curiosity, but I'm done, I'm finished, I'm going to die.

Gary Oldman

I was brought up by my mother and my two sisters, although they're older than me and fled the nest very young, so I was technically raised as an only child, but I was very much loved.

George R. R. Martin

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...

Gail Sheehy

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.

Ezra Taft Benson

We can choose to humble ourselves by conquering enmity toward our brothers and sisters, esteeming them as ourselves, and lifting them as high or higher than we are. . . .

Erma Bombeck

My sister and I never engaged in sibling rivalry. Our parents weren't that crazy about either one of us.

Fionnula Flanagan

Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood.

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.

Candace Bushnell

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

Katherine Mansfield

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.

H. L. Mencken

One does not arise from such a book as Sister Carrie with a smirk of satisfaction; one leaves it infinitely touched.

James Boswell

I, who have no sisters or brothers, look with some degree of innocent envy on those who may be said to be born to friends.

Elle Fanning

I'm a big fish eater. Salmon - I love salmon. My sister loves Chinese food and sushi and all that. I'm not as big of a fan, but she likes it so we eat it a lot. So I'm beginning to like it more. I don't like the raw sushi. I liked the cooked crab and lobster and everything.