Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jayme Braasch

I'd do about anything for her, she is pretty much the sister I have never had.

Willa Ford

My major influence was my ten years older sister.

Washington Irving

A father may turn his back on his child, … . but a mother's love endures through all.

Eric Allin Cornell

Just before my final year of high school, my brother, sister and I moved with my mother to San Francisco.

Jodi Picoult

I have a sister, so I know-that relationship, it's all about fairness: you want your sibling to have exactly what you have-the same amount of toys, the same number of meatballs on your spaghetti, the same share of love. But being a mother is completely different. You want your child to have more than you ever did. You want to build a fire underneath her and watch her soar. It's bigger than words.

Mary Wortley Montagu

There can be no situation in life in which the conversation of my dear sister will not administer some comfort to me.

Pam Brown

Sisters don't need words. They have perfected a language of snarls and smiles and frowns and winks - expressions of shocked surprise and incredulity and disbelief. Sniffs and snorts and gasps and sighs - that can undermine any tale you're telling.

Pam Brown

A younger sister is someone to use as a guinea-pig in trying sledges and experimental go-carts. Someone to send on messages to Mum. But someone who needs you - who comes to you with bumped heads, grazed knees, tales of persecution. Someone who trusts you to defend her. Someone who thinks you know the answers to almost everything.

Katherine Mansfield

Bless you, my darling, and remember you are always in the heart - oh tucked so close there is no chance of escape - of your sister.

Phoebe Cary

But whenever she thanks the givers for favors great and small, she thinks of the good little sister who gave her more than they all.

William Shakespeare

So we grew together like to a double cherry, seeming parted, but yet an union in partition, two lovely berries molded on one stem.

Christy Turlington

Participating in a sisterhood with other women is hugely important in my life and a source of joy.

Amelia Earhart

Obviously I faced the possibility of not returning when first I considered going. Once faced and settled there really wasn't any good reason to refer to it.

Anais Nin

Love men and women not for their strength but their softness, not for their fullness but their hunger, not for their plenty but their need.

Nancy Astor

The only thing the women were after was just the chance to help the world on. But some men were so dreadfully afraid of them that they refused to understand, and talked about 'shrieking sisterhoods' and 'disappointed spinsters' and rubbish of that sort.

Jeanne Tripplehorn

But we're all so different, we're different ages; we're not vying for the same roles. There's no competition, there's really kind of a sisterhood, on and off the set, you know?

Candace Bushnell

Women with money and women in power are two uncomfortable ideas in our society.

Claudia Black

Sisterhood is magical and medicinal - use it as a lifelong resource.

Tommy Russell

I think Ward is one of the best-kept secrets in West Tennessee.

Truman Capote

Most secrets should never be told, but especially those that are more menacing to the listener than to the teller.

Rhea Perlman

The secret to success is to try to never figure that out.

Will Durant

Perhaps it is one secret of their power that, having studied the fluctuations of prices, the [bankers] know that history is inflationary.

Robin Wasserman

I guess that's the secret. It would never have occurred to Lia to want to escape -- but then she gets kicked out. Best thing that ever happened to her? I'm not sure she would say yes, because obliviousness tends to be rather pleasant, but once you realized you've been bolivious, there's no turning back. You can't un-know what you know. You know?

Sarah Dessen

instead, we just sat there, together but really apart, watching a show about a stranger and all her secrets, while keeping our own to ourselves, as always.

Zach Braff

Incognito mode? What do they have to hide? Zach Braff doesn't have anything to hide - Zach Braff lays it all out there for everybody to see. That is Zach Braff's secret to Zach Braff's success.

Wilferd Peterson

The secret of being more vitally alive is to be more aware. Starting today, from this moment, become aware of awareness!

Voltaire

A woman can keep one secret the secret of her age.