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
Lord, confound this surly sister, Blight her brow with blotch and blister, Cramp her larynx, lung and liver, In her guts a galling give her.
john millington synge— The Curse
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'.
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 was born?with ready-made parents and a sister and brother who had already begun their store of experience, inaccessible to me except through their language and the record, always slightly different, of our mother and father, and as each member of the family wasborn, each,ina sensewithmemories onloan, began to supply the individual furnishings of each Was-land, each Is-land, and the hopes and dreams of the Future.
Janet Paterson also known as Jean Paterson Frame Frame— 1982 To the Is-land, ch.1,'In the Second Place'.
L'Angleterre toujours sera s½ur de la France. England will always be the sister of France.
— 1827 Cromwell, act 2, sc.2.
We will make a great and awful mistake if we fail to settle Hebron, neighbor and predecessor of Jerusalem, with a large Jewish settlement, constantly growing and expanding, very soon. This will also be a blessing to the Arab neighbors. Hebron is worthy to be Jerusalem's sister.
david ben-gurion— As quoted in "Hebron Is Jerusalem's Sister", Sdeh Boker, 18 Shvat 5730 (25 January 1970)
England! awake! awake! awake!Jerusalem thy sister calls!Why wilt thou sleep the sleep of deathAnd close her from thy ancient walls?
william blake— Ch. 4, prefatory poem, plate 77, st. 1
She's got a sister / God only knows how I missed her / And on the palm of her hand is a blisterShe's got a brother / We don't get on with one another / But I quite fancy her mother / And I think that she likes meShe's got one in the oven / But it's nothing to do with me"
Noel Gallagher— She's Electric
The revenge of an elder sister may be long in coming, but, like a South-Eastern express, it arrives in its own good time.
saki— "Reginald on Besetting Sins"
Frugality may be termed the daughter of Prudence, the sister of Temperance and the parent of Liberty.
samuel johnson— No. 57 (2 October 1750).
The little sister of the Poor * * * * The Poor, and their concerns, she has Monopolized, because of which It falls to me to labor as A Little Brother of the Rich.
— Edward Sandford Martin, A Little Brother of the Rich.
Progressivism was a sister movement of fascism, and today's liberalism is the daughter of Progressivism.
— Liberal Fascism (2008), p. 5. (Quotes)
You're not a lady! You're nothin' but a sister!
Toulouse and Berlioz— "The Aristocats" (1970), said to Marie.
Nobody fights you like your own sister; nobody else knows the most vulnerable parts of you and will aim for them without mercy.
Jojo Moyes— "The Girl You Left Behind" (2013)
I had a sister. Theo! Theo!
— Who: Luke
— Note: Said as Theo runs away with Kee, before a tank shell blows him up.
And yet indeed, she is my sister; she is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.
— Abraham, speaking of Sarah, in Genesis 20:12 (KJV)
The nakedness of thy sister, the daughter of thy father, or daughter of thy mother, whether she be born at home, or born abroad, even their nakedness thou shalt not uncover.
— Leviticus 18:9 (KJV)
