In Memory Of My Sister Quotes

#1. It was one of the great pleasures of my life to donate the entire sum of the Nobel Prize, in memory of my sister Ruth Blobel, to the restoration of Dresden.

Gunter Blobel

#2. Heart, soul, treasure, rain, sister, memory, knowledge, hope, will.

Alice Hoffman

#3. ...he had accepted life as a medium for action. Something to wield like a tool. One's own life: an instrument for shaping the world.

Laini Taylor

#4. Truly nothing is to be expected except for the unexpected.

Alice James

#5. I've always wanted to skate. If and when I decide to retire ... I want to perform. I want to be on the ice. I want to continue contributing to the sport. I feel like I still have a lot to offer.

Jeremy Abbott

#6. I got the sense that Alabama is a place where people don't want handouts and don't much care for people talking out of the side of their mouth.

Adam McKay

#7. We children sat transfixed before that moon our mother had called forth from the waters. When the moon had reached its deepest silver, my sister, Savannah, though only three, cried aloud to our mother, to Luke and me, to the river and the moon, "Oh, Mama, do it again!" And I had my earliest memory.

Pat Conroy

#8. Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.

George Eliot

#9. But what was good tween us must have been nothing but bodies, she say. Cause I don't know the Albert that don't dance, can't hardly laugh, never talk bout nothing, beat you and hid your sister Nettie's letters. Who he?

Alice Walker

#10. Modesty means admitting the possibility of error, subsuming the self for the good of the whole, remaining open to surprise and the gifts that only failure can bring. There are many ways to practice it. Try taking up golf. Or making your own bagels. Or raising a teenager.

Nancy Gibbs

#11. Sitting under the candlenut tree in the courtyard is pleasant in the afternoon. Laced in shadows, frangipani & coral hibiscus ward away the memory of recent evil. The sisters go about their duties, Sister Martinique tends her vegetables, the cats enact their feline comedies & tragedies.

David Mitchell

#12. Miraculously, though, the same coral heads that split the ship's sides held the wounded vessel fast, upright as if she were in the jaws of a vise.

Kieran Doherty

#13. 'Black Beauty,' by Anna Sewell, remains a star-dusted memory because my mom read it aloud to my sister and me at night for months. I was no more than 7.

Scott Turow

#14. In the months before the repatriation her heart had hardened around her sister's absence, letting her love Natasha in memory as she could never love her in reality.

Anthony Marra

#15. I think everyone must have a first memory of some house, some room, a vivid picture that will remain deep down in one forever.

Sister Parish

#16. Even today, the memory of Ribbon Creek influences the way new recruits are handled - not with kid gloves, but with respect for their safety and dignity. This too is part of the Marine ethos: to take care of their brother and sister Marines.

Tom Clancy

#17. I have to do this my way.

W. Mark Felt

#18. The object of most prayers is to wangle an advance on good intentions.

Robert Breault

#19. I believe that which you study is only matched in importance by the sincerity with which you approach it.

Chris Matakas

#20. When someone asks me to help create a room my first reaction, if I do not already know the person, is to try to feel out what he or she really wants the room to be and to understand, if possible, what "memory," old or new, has brought this idea about.

Sister Parish

#21. The universe owes you nothing, Kady. It has already given you everything, after all. It was here long before you, and it will go on long after you. The only way it will remember you is to do something worth remembrance.

Amie Kaufman

#22. I picked out Nathan and James standing next to each other and wiggled in between them.
"Dude we got lucky, threesome." James whispered over my head to Nathan.
"Puh-leez ... " I muttered and rolled my eyes.
Nathan shushed us both.

Bella Shadow

#23. Strong winds buffet the sea oats and tall dune grasses, tossing sand and seabirds where it will, winding my sister's golden hair into sunlit spirals of silk until it becomes the only good memory I have of her
the only memory I allowed myself to keep.

Karen White

#24. Women like to sit down with trouble - as if it were knitting.

Ellen Glasgow

#25. With her I'd buried myself, every memory of who I was now, six feet under with the sister I'd put there.

Trisha Leaver

#26. It's hard to dismiss the obvious symmetry between Longo [Evan Longoria] and the franchise for which he's now the poster-child: for the player, Hondo Junior College to MLB All-Star ... for the team, worst to first.

Tucker Elliot

#27. If you continue to improve a product enough, you'll eventually ruin it.

David Pogue

#28. A sister is the cure for swollen heads and ego trips. One may a star, a Chief Executive-famous and rich and beautiful. But one's sister has the family photo album. And a long, long memory. And a tendency to wink at one on Top Occasions.

Pam Brown

#29. My earliest memory is seeing Michael Jackson in Melbourne with my sister when I was about ten. I still have this souvenir stick with a glove that would light up and make a peace sign in a bunch of different colors. I'm so happy my mom didn't throw that out.

Emilie De Ravin

#30. My sister Cordelia's last report said that she was not only the worst girl in the school, but the worst there had ever been in the memory of the oldest nun.

Evelyn Waugh