Sister Quotes
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Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.
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More Sister Quotes
Dear sister, You dream like mad, you love like tinder, you aspire like a star-struck moth - for what? That you may hive little lyrics, and sell to a publisher for thirty pieces of silver.
richard le gallienne— Opening Lines from Epistle Dedicatory, to his sister, Sissie Le Gallienne English Poems Copland & Day 1895 kindle ebook
It was while Princess Margaret was attending a high-society party in New York that the hostess asked her politely how the Queen was keeping. "Which one?" she is reported to have replied with her typically razor-sharp wit. "My sister, my mother or my husband?"
Princess Margaret— From Snowdon: The Biography
Notes: When Aono, Yurito's sister, attempted to kill Matsuri with a katana, Yurito stood in the path of her blade. Yurito is slain and his illusionary form (he was a fake substitute created by Aono through Yaka powers) dissolved back into a sea of papers.
— Source: Play On! (a little-known dramedy play)
— Notes: The "character" is a fictious villain in the play posing as a scientist, who killed a archeologist named Sir Percival, for a necklace known mostly as the Darjeeling Diamond. But when a friend of one of the "characters", Steven Sellers, tips him off, Stanley Grimes is exposed as the murderer. When the police arrives as he holds the people inside the mansion he is in hostage, Grimes starts to have convulsions due to the diamond's curse and dies. Due to there being problems with during the progress on rehersals (then the play itself) with the dialougue, the death is made even more hilarious with the lines being flubbed, especially near the end of the play, when the "characters" exclaim the curse is from the three different names of the diamond and the "character" Lord Dudley shouts "All of them!" to try to get the play moving along. (Please note that when the word character was in quotation marks, I mean the roles the actual characters, which are the actors, and not the figures like Stanley Grimes or Steven Sellers, played).
Brevity is the sister of talent.
Anton Chekhov— 1889 Letter to Alexander Chekhov,11 Apr.
For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather, to cheer one on the tedious way, to fetch one if one goes astray, to lift one if one totters down, to strengthen whilst one stands.
christina rossetti— 1862 Goblin Market and Other Poems,'Goblin Market'.
I thought: Surely the fear of God is not in this place; and they will slay me for my wife's sake. And moreover she is indeed my sister, the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and so she became my wife. And it came to pass, when God caused me to wander from my father's house, that I said unto her: This is thy kindness which thou shalt show unto me; at every place whither we shall come, say of me: He is my brother.
abraham— To Abimelech in the wife-sister narrative of Genesis 20:11 - 23 (KJV)
Father calls me William, sister calls me Will,Mother calls me Willie, but the fellers call me Bill!Mighty glad I ain't a girl—ruther be a boy,Without them sashes, curls, an' things that 's worn by Fauntleroy!Love to chawnk green apples an' go swimmin' in the lake—Hate to take the castor-ile they give for bellyache!'Most all the time, the whole year round, there ain't no flies on me,But jest 'fore Christmas I'm as good as I kin be!
Eugene Field— Jest 'Fore Christmas, st. 1.
There are two kinds of cryptography in this world: cryptography that will stop your kid sister from reading your files, and cryptography that will stop major governments from reading your files.
bruce schneier— Bruce Schneier (1996). "Applied Cryptography 2nd edition Source Code in C". John Wiley & Sons.
To steal from a brother or sister is evil. To not steal from the institutions that are the pillars of the Pig Empire is equally immoral.
abbie hoffman— Introduction, p. iv
Allah made us all a different shade and colour. Nations and tribes recognize one another! ’Cause every single person is your sister and brother.
dawud wharnsby— "Colours of Islam"
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.
Lisa See— "Shanghai Girls" (2010, pg. 309)
I thought: Surely the fear of God is not in this place; and they will slay me for my wife's sake. And moreover she is indeed my sister, the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and so she became my wife. And it came to pass, when God caused me to wander from my father's house, that I said unto her: This is thy kindness which thou shalt show unto me; at every place whither we shall come, say of me: He is my brother .
— To Abimelech in the wife-sister narrative of Genesis 20:11 - 23 (KJV)
I no longer have a father, nor a mother, nor a sister, nor a brother. I only have God to trust in.
Marguerite d'Angouleme— 1547 Cantique spirituel.
Sir, there isno Levitical degreesbetween nations, and on this occasion I can see neither sin nor shame in marrying our own sister.
Sir Boyle Roche— c.1800 Debate on theAct of Union between Great Britain and Ireland, Irish Houseof Commons, quotedin SirJonahBarrington Personal Sketches and Recollections of his ownTimes (1827).
"You will form a very inadequate estimate of a man's character, if you judge by what a fond sister says of him. The worst of them generally know how to hide their misdeeds from their sisters' eyes, and their mother's, too."
anne brontë— Mrs. Maxwell to Helen (Ch. XX : Persistence)
The umbrage given to Cuzzoni by her [ Faustina Bordoni's] coming hither, proves that as Turkish monarchs can bear no brother near the throne, an aspiring sister is equally obnoxious to a theatrical Queen.
charles burney— A General History of Music ([1776-89] 1935) vol. 2, page 736
It’s true that I wouldn’t have written the first book had my sister and mother been alive. It was my way of continuing our conversation. It’s also this Jewish thing of naming and remembering people, and I think there is a sense of keeping that side of life going.
nigella lawson— As quoted in "England's It Girl" by Joe Dolce in Gourmet (April 2001)
My sister Kwan believes she has yin eyes. She sees those who have died and now dwell in the World of Yin, ghosts who leave the mists just to visit her kitchen on Balboa Street in San Francisco."Libby-ah," she'll say to me. "Guess who I see yesterday, you guess." And I don't have to guess that she's talking about someone dead.
amy tan— The Hundred Secret Senses (1995)
Then gently scan your brother man,Still gentler sister woman;Tho' they may gang a kennin' wrang,To step aside is human.
Robert Burns— Robert Burns, Address to the Unco Guid.
Fiction is Truth's elder sister. Obviously. No one in the world knew what truth was till some one had told a story.
rudyard kipling— "Fiction", speech to the Royal Society of Literature, June 1926; published in Writings on Writing: Rudyard Kipling (1996), ed. Sandra Kemp and Lisa Lewis, p. 80
If music and sweet poetry agree. As they must needs (the sister and the brother), Then must the love be great 'twixt thee and me, Because thou lov'st the one, and I the other.
— To His Friend, Mr. R. L., In Praise of Music and Poetry, l. 1.
Cancer affects all of us, whether you're a daughter, mother, sister, friend, coworker, doctor, or patient.
Jennifer Anniston— American actress; found in Reimagining Women's Cancers by David Tabatsky
My curiosity sister of larks.
— Original: A minha curiosidade irmã das cotovias
— Ibid., p. 219
How strange it is to have a sister, Valerie thought. Someone you might have been.
Sarah Blakley-Cartwright— "Red Riding Hood" (2011)
My sister... You must take care of her.
— Who: Lars Halford
— Note: After Lord Diviculous stabs him, the words were said to Eddie on his dying breath.
And thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother's sister, nor of thy father's sister: for he uncovereth his near kin: they shall bear their iniquity.
— Leviticus 20:19 (KJV)
O, never say hereafter But I am truest speaker: you call’d me brother When I was but your sister; I you, brothers, When you were so indeed.
— Imogen, scene v
'O say, Shall we no voluntary bars Set to our drift? I, sister of the Stars, And Thou, my glorious, course-compelling Day!'
— 1877 To the Unknown Eros, bk.2, no.2,'The Contract'.
sister, look ye, How, by a new creation of my tailor's I've shook off old mortality.
John Ford— John Ford, The Fancies Chaste and Noble (1635-6; printed 1638), Act I, scene 3.
