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.

Richelle Mead

I hoped Lissa remained the only one with a surprise sibling.

Ronan Farrow

I had siblings from South Asia, from East Asia, from depressed communities around America, and you know, we'd have long conversations.

Rick Riordan

Sometimes she teased me that she’d eventually catch up to me in age and be my older sibling. Looking at her now, with that determined glint in her eyes and the confidence in her voice, I could almost believe her

Julia Roberts

Two of my three siblings are older, so I suppose I learned from them and became a very avid reader at a young age, which I think enough cannot be said for what you can discover through literature.

Caitlin Moran

When you live in a small house with five younger siblings, it's actually far more sensible- and much quicker- to cry alone.

Catherynne M. Valente

At the snowy summit of all these things, however, is the fact that you simply cannot go about locking your siblings in towers when they misbehave. It is unseemly and betrays a sad lack of creativity.

Brian Tracy

Self-acceptance begins in infancy, with the influence of your parents and siblings and other important people.

Andrea Hirata

I am the only one who is not married among my siblings.

Amy Adams

I always saw myself as more of a watcher, although I suppose my siblings might have a different viewpoint on it.