Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Reagan

It was my sister Maureen who was responsible for my becoming a Reagan.

Sojourner Truth

Those are the same stars, and that is the same moon, that look down upon your brothers and sisters, and which they see as they look up to them, though they are ever so far away from us, and each other.

Marilyn Monroe

Just remember, some come, some go. The ones that stay with you through everything - they're your true best friends. Don't let go of them.

Marilyn Monroe

Sisters make the best friends in the world.

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.

Lacey Chabert

I like to get together with my sisters and my nephews, and I try not to travel on weekends so that I can spend time with friends and family.

Freedom and Justice are twin sisters.

Jojo Moyes

Nobody fights you like your own sister; nobody else knows the most vulnerable parts of you and will aim for them without mercy.

Hector Elizondo

Sometimes I just walk through; I just show up, as in The Other Sister.

Malcolm X

Brothers and sisters, friends and enemies: I just can't believe that everyone in here is a friend and I don't want to leave anybody out.

Luc Ferrari

My sisters were going out with artists and poets, and eventually it was the creative world which attracted me.

H. L. Mencken

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

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...

Christian Lacroix

Going out in Paris was like going out in the '30s dressed like the Andrews Sisters. It was everything I'd seen in books at my grandparents' house, only it was our generation.

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.

Freddy Fender

My sister and I were born in San Francisco. When our parents died, we came down here to live with relatives.

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.

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.

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. . . .

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.

Phoebe Cary

But whenever she thanks the givers for favors great and small, she thinks of the good little sister who gave her more than they all.

Kate Winslet

I finally moved out of my parent's house. It was only fair to let my sister have her own room.

Louise Gluck

Of two sisters one is always the watcher, one the dancer.

Susan Boyle

I live myself with my cat Pebbles. She isn't enjoying the attention as much as me - she ran off up the stairs as soon as the film crew for the show came into the house. She didn't come down for hours. But I have the support of all my brothers and sisters and my neighbours and friends - everyone thinks it's just great.

Steve Case

I had an older brother who passed away recently, an older sister and a younger brother.

Lisa See

Sisters, as you know, also have a unique relationship. This is the person who has known you your entire life, who should love you and stand by you no matter what, and yet it's your sister who knows exactly where to drive the knife to hurt you the most.

Lisa See

May and I are sisters. We'll always fight, but we'll always make up as well. That's what sisters do: we argue, we point out each other's frailties, mistakes, and bad judgment, we flash the insecurities we've had since childhood, and then we come back together. Until the next time.

Lisa See

We hug, but there are no tears. For every awful thing that's been said and done, she is my sister. Parents die, daughters grow up and marry out, but sisters are for life. She is the only person left in the world who shares my memories of our childhood, our parents, our Shanghai, our struggles, our sorrows, and, yes, even our moments of happiness and triumph. My sister is the one person who truly knows me, as I know her. The last thing May says to me is 'When our hair is white, we'll still have our sister love.

John Taylor

It is true, we do not like to lose a good, kind companion, a wife, a husband, a child, a brother, a sister, or any of our near and dear friends or relatives; but we have to do it, and it is right and proper that we should. They go a little before us; when we get there they will receive and welcome us and say, "God bless you, you have come at last." That is the way I look at it. I ex pect to strike hands and embrace my friends who have gone before.

Joan Collins

I'm older than my sister so I started writing first. I started writing at school. I was always top of my class in composition, essays, English Lit and all of that.