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
For the Colonel's Lady an' Judy O'Grady Are sisters under their skins!
— 1896 'The Ladies'.
With white tails smoking free,Long streaming manes, and arching necks, they showTheir kinship to their sisters of the sea –And forward hurl their thunderbolts of snow.Still out of hardships bred,Spirits of power and beauty and delightHave ever on such frugal pastures fedAnd loved to course with tempests through the night.
roy campbell— "Horses on the Camargue," lines 41-48
This is for my peoples who just lost somebody,your best friend, your baby, your man or your lady,put your hand way up high,we will never say bye,mamas, daddies, sisters, brothers, friends and cousins,this is for my peoples who lost their grandmothers,lift your head to the sky,cause we will never say bye.
mariah carey— "Bye Bye", "E=MC²", 2008
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
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.
Sophocles— Variant: I am Fortune's child,Not man's; her mother face hath ever smiledAbove me, and my brethren of the sky,The changing Moons, have changed me low and high.There is my lineage true, which none shall wrestFrom me; who then am I to fear this quest?
— Oedipus (Line 1079?).
My brothers and sisters all hated me 'cause I was an only child.
"weird al" yankovic— "Generic Blues", UHF soundtrack (1989)
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.
Let brothers and sisters from one end of the world, speak in all brotherly love, all affection, and one sweetness, to their brothers and sisters in the other extremity of the world. Then we shall succeed in rearing up one vast cathedral in this world, where men of all nations and races shall glorify the Supreme Ruler of the Universe.
keshub chunder sen— Sermon preached at Mill-hill Chapel, Leeds on 28th August 1870.
For the colonel's lady an' Judy O'Grady, Are sisters under their skins.
rudyard kipling— Rudyard Kipling, Barrack Room Ballads, Introduction.
You are blood. You are sisters. No man can break that bond.
Kim Boykin— "A Peach of a Pair" (2015), written to Nettie by her mother in a letter.
What are sisters for if not to point out the things the rest of the world is too polite to mention?
Claire Cook— "Must Love Dogs: New Leash on Life" (2014)
