Famous Quotes & Sayings

Little Richard

Rock 'n' roll offered me a platform to speak what I felt. It also offered me a platform to support my mama and my brothers and sisters - twelve children.

Pam Brown

It's hard to be responsible, adult and sensible all the time. How good it is to have a sister whose heart is as young as your own.

Pam Brown

Sisters never quite forgive each other for what happened when they were five.

Pam Brown

Sisters annoy, interfere, criticize. Indulge in monumental sulks, in huffs, in snide remarks. Borrow. Break. Monopolize the bathroom. Are always underfoot. But if catastrophe should strike, sisters are there. Defending you against all comers.

Pam Brown

When sisters stand shoulder to shoulder, who stands a chance against us?

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.

Jodi Picoult

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?

Jodi Picoult

I have a sister, so I know-that relationship, it's all about fairness: you want your sibling to have exactly what you have-the same amount of toys, the same number of meatballs on your spaghetti, the same share of love. But being a mother is completely different. You want your child to have more than you ever did. You want to build a fire underneath her and watch her soar. It's bigger than words.

Oprah Winfrey

She is the mother I never had, she is the sister everybody would want. She is the friend that everybody deserves. I don't know a better person.

Marcel Carne

My father's sister never married in order to raise me.

Lorna Luft

My sister Liza and I have never felt that we were in competition.

Liza Minnelli

But my brother Joey was there, and my sister Tina Nina Minnelli was there.

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.

Mary Wortley Montagu

There can be no situation in life in which the conversation of my dear sister will not administer some comfort to me.

Michael Scheuer

Sister Virginia used to say, 'You'll be known by the company you keep.'

Michael Reagan

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

Freddy Fender

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

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.

John F. Kennedy

I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians.

Kate Winslet

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

Laurie Colwin

Friendship is not possible between two women one of whom is very well dressed.

Laurie Holden

I think women are amazing and womens friendships are like a sisterhood and we should see more of it in television and film.

Washington Irving

A father may turn his back on his child, … . but a mother's love endures through all.

William Joyce

Almost everything in 'A Day With Wilbur Robinson' has some basis in truth. And yes, my sister did pay me to feed her grapes while she talked to her boyfriend on the phone.

William C. Bryant

Where are the flowers, the fair young flowers, that lately sprang and stood In brighter light and softer airs, a beauteous sisterhood?

Rudyard Kipling

Brothers and Sisters, I bid you beware Of giving your heart to a dog to tear.

William Dean Howells

Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart must hold both sisters, never seen apart.