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
Wisdom and goodness are twin-born. One heart must hold both sisters, never seen apart.
william cowper— William Cowper, Expostulation, line 634.
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.
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)
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
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
But my friends, my brothers and sisters of the Pacific, we know who we are. We carry in our hearts the knowledge that we are the bearers of a proud legacy that surely marks us as people of strength, and courage and will. We have survived in our aquatic continent through many centuries.
ratu sir kamisese mara— Opening address, Pacific Vision festival, Auckland, New Zealand (26 July 1999)
There were three sisters, three little sisters,And each one was only in her teens,And one loved a soldier, and one loved a sailor,And one loved a man from the marines.
vic mizzy— Song, Three Little Sisters
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)
Those [Christians] had left to love on earth were then: brothers and sisters in hatred, whom they called then: brothers and sisters in love.
georg brandes— p. 32 (An Essay on Aristocratic Radicalism (1889))
Never praise a sister to a sister, in the hope of your compliments reaching the proper ears, and so preparing the way for you later on. sisters are women first, and sisters afterwards; and you will find that you do yourself harm.
rudyard kipling— False Dawn.
For the colonel's lady an' Judy O'Grady, Are sisters under their skins.
rudyard kipling— The Ladies, Stanza VIII.
"Isn't it sad, that in a time when we face so many devastating problems – poverty, HIV/AIDS, war and conflict – that in our Communion we should be investing so much time and energy on disagreement about sexual orientation?" [The Communion, which] "used to be known for embodying the attribute of comprehensiveness, of inclusiveness, where we were meant to accommodate all and diverse views, saying we may differ in our theology but we belong together as sisters and brothers" now seems "hell-bent on excommunicating one another. God must look on and God must weep."
desmond tutu— "Tutu calls on Anglicans to accept gay bishop". Spero News. 2005-11-14. Retrieved on 2006-05-26.
Beautiful that war and all its deeds of carnage, must in time be utterly lost; That the hands of the sisters Death and Night incessantly softly wash again and ever again, this soiled world.
walt whitman— Drum-Taps. Reconciliation.
To become a token woman whether you win the Nobel Prize or merely get tenure at the cost of denying your sisters is to become something less than a man ... since men are loyal at least to their own world-view, their laws of brotherhood and self-interest.
— Adrienne Rich As quoted in Ms. magazine, p. 44 (September 1979)
You know full well as I do the value of sisters’ affections; there is nothing like it in this world.
charlotte brontë— 19th century English novelist and poet
We acquire friends and we make enemies, but our sisters come with the territory.
Evelyn Loeb— "The Ultimate Guide to Celebrating Kids: K-6th Grade School" by Linda LaTourelle (2005, pg. 175)
My sisters were the coolest people I knew, and still are. I have always aspired to be like them and know what they know. My sisters were the color and noise in my black-and-white boy world.
Rob Sheffield— "Talking to Girls About Duran Duran: One Young Man's Quest for True Love and a Cooler Haircut" (2010)
I am the child of Fortune, the giver of good, and I shall not be shamed. She is my mother; my sisters are the Seasons; my rising and my falling match with theirs. Born thus, I ask to be no other man than that I am.
— Variant: I am Fortune's child,
Not man's; her mother face hath ever smiled
Above me, and my brethren of the sky,
The changing Moons, have changed me low and high.
There is my lineage true, which none shall wrest
From me; who then am I to fear this quest?
— Oedipus (Line 1079?).
There is sorrow enough in the natural way From men and women to fill our day; But when we are certain of sorrow in store, Why do we always arrange for more? Brothers and sisters, I bid you beware Of giving your heart to a dog to tear.
— 1909 'The Power of the Dog'.
Oh, Men, with sisters dear! Oh, Men, with Mothers and Wives! It is not linen you're wearing out, But human creatures' lives!
thomas hood— St. 4. (The Song of the Shirt (1843))
Brothers and sisters, I bid you beware Of giving your heart to a dog to tear.
rudyard kipling— The Power of the Dog, Stanza 1 (1909).
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?
— As quoted in Sojourner Truth : A Self-made Woman (1974) by Victoria Ortiz
