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.
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
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.
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
And those three sisters, three little sisters,They stayed home and read their magazines,And you can tell it to the army, tell it to the navy,And tell it to the marines.
vic mizzy— Song, Three Little Sisters
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
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.
You shall find, that there cannot be a greater spur to the attaining what you would have the eldest learn, and know himself, than to set him upon teaching it his younger brothers and sisters .
john locke— Sec. 119 (Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693))
But is there nothing else, That we may do but only walk? Methinks, Brothers and sisters lawfully may kiss.
— Act IV, scene 4.
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)
sisters function as safety nets in a chaotic world simply by being there for each other.
Carol Saline— American journalist, broadcaster, author and public speaker.
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?).
Say to the seceded States: "Wayward sisters depart in peace."
winfield scott— Letter addressed to W. H. Seward. Washington, March 3, 1861. Quoted from this letter by Horace Greeley, and ascribed to him.
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
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.
