Sisters 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 Sisters Quotes
[E]veryone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or fields for my sake will receive a hundred times as much and will inherit eternal life.
jesus christ— 19:29
Let's get rid of Infirmary Feminism, with its bedlam of bellyachers, anorexics, bulimics, depressives, rape victims, and incest survivors. Feminism has become a catch-all vegetable drawer where bunches of clingy sob sisters can store their moldy neuroses.
camille paglia— As quoted in The Quotable Bitch: Women Who Tell It Like It Really Is (2007) edited by Jessie Shiers, p. 167 ISBN 9781599212135
Think well about this, dear brothers and sisters, and you will see that we should have been in a state of terrible chaos, in a fratricidal war, in a country which would no longer be Yugoslavia, but be only a group of petty little states fighting among themselves and destroying each other. But our people do not want that to happen.
josip broz tito— Jasper Ridley, Tito: A Biography (Constable and Company Ltd., 1994), p. 263.
Wisdom and goodness are twin-born. One heart must hold both sisters, never seen apart.
william cowper— William Cowper, Expostulation, line 634.
Feminism has become a catch-all vegetable drawer where bunches of clingy sob sisters can store their moldy neuroses.
Heinz R(udolf) Pagels— 1992 'The Return of Carry Nation: Catharine Mackinnon and Andrea Dworkin', in Playboy, Oct. Collected inVamps andTramps (1994).
The Christmas just before I turned four, my parents bought me a pair of little black skates and the Bay of Quinte was frozen and my two sisters took me out there and held my hands and taught me to skate. Now I don't know if this is true—although it sounds good!—but rumour has it by the end of the day they couldn't keep up with me.
bobby hull— Quoted in Andrew Podnieks, "One on One with Bobby Hull," Legends of Hockey.net (2001-12-11)
May Allah, by the virtue of the Hidden Imam, God will remove the evil of America and Israel from humanity....I say to those dear people: Oh Iraqi brothers and sisters, America and Israel don't want your heads to remain attached to your bodies.
ahmad jannati— Friday Sermon In Tehran University By Ayatollah Jannati: America Will Collapse. We Must Be Patient. June 2004
Those whom we strive to benefit Dear to our hearts soon grow to be; I love my Rich, and I admit That they are very good to me. Succor the poor, my sisters, I While heaven shall still vouchsafe me health Will strive to share and mollify The trials of abounding wealth.
Edward Sanford Martin— A Little Brother of the Rich
I have a dream: That one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of "interposition" and "nullification" one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.
— Martin Luther King Jr., I Have a Dream (1963)
My world was a community ballet school, a marching band, my two sisters and my girlfriends. I played saxophone in the band and was a bit nerdy.
— Jennifer Garner, in Jennifer Garner Was Not A Cool Kid, Fanshare, 6 February 2012
Dear Kashubian brothers and sisters! Cherish the values and the heritage that define your identity.
— Pope John Paul II, 11 June 1987 Gdynia, Poland; Cited at vatican.va, 2013
— Original: "Drodzy bracia i siostry Kaszubi! Strze?cie tych warto?ci i tego dziedzictwa, które stanowi? o Waszej to?samo?ci." (Polish)
sisters, I ain't clear what you be after. If women want any rights more than they's got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it?
sojourner truth— As quoted in Sojourner Truth : A Self-made Woman (1974) by Victoria Ortiz
I am the monarch of the sea, The Ruler of the Queen's Navee, Whose praise Great Britain loudly chants And we are his sisters, and his cousins, and his aunts!
Sir W(illiam) S(chwenck) Gilbert— 1878 HMS Pinafore, act1.
O! men with sisters dear, O! men with mothers and wives! It is not linen you're wearing out, But human creatures' lives!
Honorius of Autun— 1843 'The Song of the Shirt'.
For the Colonel's Lady an' Judy O'Grady Are sisters under their skins!
— 1896 'The Ladies'.
I see Macbeth as a young, open-faced warrior, who is gradually sucked into a whirpool of events because of his ambition. When he meets the weird sisters and hears their prophecy, he's like the man who hopes to win a million — a gamble for high stakes.
Roman Polanski— Interview in Playboy magazine (February 1972); also quoted in Make It Again, Sam : A Survey of Movie Remakes (1975) by Michael B. Druxman, p. 105
Say to the seceded States, "Wayward sisters, depart in peace."
winfield scott— Letter to William H. Seward (3 March 1861); though the only suggestion from this letter commonly quoted, this was actually the last and final alternative of what he considered to be 4 options available to President Abraham Lincoln in dealing with the secessionist states.
If anyone has read a lot of books and thinks I am primitive because I have not read even one, then he should throw away those books and get one which says we are all brothers and sisters under God and we too have a right to live.
roy sesana— Acceptance Speech for The Right Livelihood Award
You Olympians, however, know you didn't get here solely on your own power. For most of you, loving parents, sisters or brothers, encouraged your hopes, coaches guided, communities built venues in order to organize competitions. All Olympians stand on the shoulders of those who lifted them.
mitt romney— Speech at the Opening Ceremonies at the 2002 Winter Olympics, quoted in Montanaro, Domenico (July 23, 2012). "Romney to Olympians: 'You didn't get here solely on your own'". NBC News. Retrieved on 2012-07-24.
But is there nothing else, That we may do but only walk? Methinks, Brothers and sisters lawfully may kiss.
— Act IV, scene 4.
The bee is enclosed, and shines preserved, in a tear of the sisters of Phaeton, so that it seems enshrined in its own nectar. It has obtained a worthy reward for its great toils; we may suppose that the bee itself would have desired such a death.
— Martial, Epigrams (c. 80-104 AD), Book IV, Epigram 32. (For same idea see Ant, Fly, Spider; also Pope, under Wonders).
Brothers and sisters are as close as hands and feet.
unknown— Vietnamese Proverb
Brothers and sisters are as close as hands and feet.
unknown— Vietnamese Proverb
Charles Dickens: "If Husain fought to quench his worldly desires, (as alleged by certain Christian critics) then I do not understand why his sisters, wives and children accompanied him. It stands to reason therefore that he sacrificed purely for Islam."
— Charles Dickens, Islam as preached by the Prophet and his holy descendants, p. 86 Hashimali Haji Shariff, 1981
Hear me, sisters who control the Threads. [Kratos: Keep going!] Another searches for what only the sisters may give. [Kratos: Read it!] As proof that he is worthy-- No! Please no, I cannot do it! [Kratos: Read!] Accept this sacrifice...of...my blood.
— Who: First Translator of Lahkesis
— Note: Head is bashed repeatedly into the book his is reading from each time that Kratos speaks, as well as a final blow as he finishes. Due to time travel, his death could have been undone at the end of the game.
