Quotes About Sisters

#1. I love it if a man makes an effort to get to know my parents and sisters. Getting to know the people who matter to me goes a long way.

Summer Glau

#2. It was nice to be in such close physical proximity, even though they hadn't spoken in months, and only via cursory birthday cards and the like. In the end, it didn't matter. Sisters were sisters.

Emma Straub

#3. If your temper is violent towards your brothers and sisters in the Lord, whose kingdom are you trying to build?

Anna M. Aquino

#4. [?] Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, 14I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.

Anonymous

#5. Lord Biddenden's instincts were patriarchal. He liked to see his brothers and sisters under his roof, and to feel that they depended upon him for guidance; and he was almost as anxious for their advancement as his own.

Georgette Heyer

#6. My dad liked how January went with Jones. My sisters' names are Jina and Jacey Jones.

January Jones

#7. When our mothers, wives, sisters, and daughters are considered both different and inferior in the eyes of the God we worship, this belief tends to permeate society and everyone suffers.

Jimmy Carter

#8. Sisters: talk to each other, be connected and informed, form women's circles, share your stories, work together, and take risks. Together we are invincible.

Isabel Allende

#9. Sisters in Crime now has more than 4,000 members worldwide.

Sara Paretsky

#10. I don't see myself as a role model; people should look to mothers and sisters as role models.

Lily Allen

#11. I will not deny that Bael's exploit inspired mine own ... but I did not steal either of your sisters that I recall. Bael wrote his own songs, and lived them. I only sing the songs that better men have made.

George R R Martin

#12. They looked more like sisters than mother and daughter, and I wondered if believing in Jesus kept you younger-looking. But then I thought, if that were really true, Linda would be the biggest Jesus freak going, because she'd drown a baby in a bathtub if it would make her look ten years younger.

Matthew Quick

#13. Our current Western cultural plausibility structure elevates science and scorns and mocks religion, especially Christian teaching. As a result, believers in Western cultures do not as readily believe the supernatural worldview of the Bible in comparison with their Third World brothers and sisters.

J.P. Moreland

#14. I accepted what the Sisters taught in religion class: that God is loving, merciful, charitable, forgiving. That message didn't jibe with adults smacking kids.

Sonia Sotomayor

#15. My brother, who grew up with three sisters, was I won't say how many years old when he finally realized that he did not have to wrap the towel around his chest when he came out of the shower.

Amy Krouse Rosenthal

#16. I had older brothers and sisters who were high achievers, and I felt different, misunderstood by my family. That's not my family's fault; it was my perception.

Willie Aames

#17. After all, sisters didn't die, did they?

Erica James

#18. My sisters were sent away because my mother thought they were boring. I was not boring.

Karl Lagerfeld

#19. Sisters are a trial," he said. "And it doesn't matter if they're Elder or humani. Sometimes I think they exist solely to upset and annoy their brothers.

Michael Scott

#20. Tonight, the Sisters of Saint Joseph and I are going to The Slaughterhouse Bar. I have four rolls of quarters and we are going to dance until there's blood in our slippers.

Marie-Helene Bertino

#21. My sisters and I can still recite Dad's grilling rules: Rule No. 1: Dad is in charge. Rule No. 2: Repeat Rule No. 1.

Connie Schultz

#22. Now y'all, cut it out. Brothers and sisters shouldn't act like this."
Sissy stared at her brother's mate. "Are you new to the neighborhood?

Shelly Laurenston

#23. Those small brown men who sell their sisters on the streets of Cairo were once the mighty Egyptians.

L. Ron Hubbard

#24. If I were as rich as Mr. Darcy," cried a young Lucas, who came with his sisters, "I should not care how proud I was. I would keep a pack of foxhounds, and drink a bottle of wine a day.

Jane Austen

#25. But what Mom never told me is that along the way, you find sisters, and they find you. Girls are cool that way.

Adriana Trigiani

#26. All the worry people expend over not existing after they die, yet nary a one ever seems to spare a moment to worry about not having existed before they were conceived. Or at all. After all, one sperm over and we would have been our sisters, and we'd never have been missed.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#27. The humble listen to their brothers and sisters because they assume they have something to learn. They are open to correction, and they become wiser through it.

Thomas Dubay

#28. Shouldn't he want to know about something that has happened to his mother, that will happen to his wife, his sisters, his daughter and, I went on morosely, if ever he has an affair, even to his mistress?

Azar Nafisi

#29. I was bullied very badly in high school. I was a very successful kid. I sold my first company at a young age. There was a lot of misplaced rage in high school towards me. My brothers and sisters identified it as bullying, but I didn't at the time.

Charlie Ebersol

#30. Feed your brothers and sisters simply, graciously, with generous care, and you will secure a place in their heart.

Maximillian Degenerez

#31. I don't think of myself as a feminist, but if someone calls me a feminist icon, that's fine. I've always stood up for women and myself in general. I have a great love and respect, because I have had beautiful sisters, aunts and my grandmas, but I love men. I totally understand the nature of men.

Dolly Parton

#32. I think that there's the Kim Kardashian brand and the Kardashian brand. I think they blend together, but I have different qualities or interests that my sisters might not be so into.

Kim Kardashian

#33. Don't be deceived, my dear brothers and sisters. Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows. (James 1:16-17)

Anonymous

#34. Are you flirting with another of my sisters?" Rolf sounded aggrieved. "Is no woman safe from you?

Jessica Day George

#35. My best friends are still the ones I first attached myself to when I went to school because, all of a sudden, I was leaving the rather pampered and occasionally very annoying world of having three older sisters to go to a male-dominated world.

James Nesbitt

#36. In 1835 at Kirtland I learned from my Sisters Husband Lyman R. Shirman, who was close to the Prophet and Received it from him. That the ancient order of plural marriage was again to be practiced by the Church.

Benjamin F. Johnson

#37. There is a lot more hard work to do in the future for the well-being of our sisters and brothers, the people of Thailand.

Yingluck Shinawatra

#38. The Celtic, Galatian, or Gallic nation received from the common mother endowments different from those of its Italian, Germanic, and Hellenic sisters.

Theodor Mommsen

#39. Will you love your brothers or sisters likewise, when they have committed a sin that cannot be atoned for without the shedding of their blood? Will you love that man or woman well enough to shed their blood?

Brigham Young

#40. The slingshot?" said Mrs. Wiggins. "Georgie's got it. We're going to take it down to the cow barn for safe keeping. Well, Alice, you're the judge and the jury, and if you say let him go - " She nodded to her sisters, who set Jimmy down and released his arms. The

Walter R. Brooks

#41. Of the many guests we welcomed to the Mickey Mouse Club, my absolute favorites were the Lennon Sisters.

Annette Funicello

#42. We come forth tonight," she bagen, "in the name of Sisterhood , to bring new Sisters into our fold. We present to you an oppurtunity, young Sisters. We are the new face of women. Our leadership will bring the dawn of a new era.

Kay Cassidy

#43. Every morning, just like in Alabama, I got up with the sun, ate my breakfast even before my mother and sisters and brothers, and went to school, winter, spring, and fall alike to run and jump and bend my body this way and that for Mr. Charles Riley.

Jesse Owens

#44. I know we will create a society where there are no rich or poor, no people without work or beauty in their lives, where money itself will disappear, where we shall all be brothers and sisters, where every one will have enough.

Sylvia Pankhurst

#45. I was raised primarily by women. I had a mother who almost killed herself to survive, I had a sister who was eight years older who was like a second mother, and my mother had two sisters. In the environment I grew up in, I heard a lot of female perspectives.

James L. Brooks

#46. An oligarchy of race, where the Saxon rules the African, might be endured; but this oligarchy of sex which makes father, brothers, husband, sons, the oligarchs over the mother and sisters, the wife and daughters of every household ... carries discord and rebellion into every home of the nation.

Susan B. Anthony

#47. Please, my dear brothers, let your wives and sisters go to the voter registration process. Later, you can control who she votes for, but please, let her go.

Hamid Karzai

#48. Me and my sisters all have such different body types.

Kim Kardashian

#49. 20 If someone says, "I love God," but hates a Christian brother or sister,* that person is a liar; for if we don't love people we can see, how can we love God, whom we cannot see? 21 And he has given us this command: Those who love God must also love their Christian brothers and sisters.*

Anonymous

#50. I am very impressed by The Carrivick Sisters, one of the best young duos I've heard. The girls sing and play as one and their work is characterised by great musicality. They are not only very talented instrumentalists and singers but they write really good songs as well.

Ralph McTell

#51. Sisters is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship. ~Margaret Mead

Margaret Mead

#52. I grew up in Alabama in a very small town and didn't have access to the finest of anything, really. But my mother was the kind of woman who just wanted us, me and my sisters, to be exposed to any and anything she could find.

Andre Holland

#53. One of the sisters started shaving her legs and marrying tax inspectors, so she was no good.

Eva Ibbotson

#54. We have forgotten to be our brothers and sisters keepers. And we have forgotten that the Number 1 goal is to love one another.

Ann Richards

#55. My mom was an opera singer, and she gave up her career to raise a family. But she also taught my sisters how to sing.

Tika Sumpter

#56. Sisters, as you know, also have a unique relationship. This is the person who has known you your entire life, who should love you and stand by you no matter what, and yet it's your sister who knows exactly where to drive the knife to hurt you the most.

Lisa See

#57. When the others were picked up and walked home by friends or fathers or best friend's sisters,
I was the kid in a grey hoodie, walking with the poets, the singers, the thinkers, and I was not alone.

Charlotte Eriksson

#58. I'm very proud of my sisters and everything they've accomplished and done. I'm very proud of where I came from.

Eva Longoria

#59. Growing up with two sisters, you either play by yourself or play Barbie with them. I played by myself.

Ricky Williams

#60. All my brothers and sisters have stories about Dad like this. I remember, when my sister was about to beat him in checkers for the first time, he knocked the board over.

Terry Gross

#61. The artistic side of our family was very important because one person encourages the other. It was a vey enlightening place to be as a kid because of all the music and dancing, and my dad played banjo; my sisters played piano and sang.

Dave Davies

#62. I haven't heard anything about a reunion show for Sisters. But if the script was good I would do it.

Sela Ward

#63. My first three-sisters novel in a while, 'Sandcastles' tells the story of the Sullivan family - two passionate artists and their three wildly different daughters. There's also a renegade nun and a mystery man, but I don't want to give too much away!

Luanne Rice

#64. My mother painted and wrote. She always had a painting in progress on an easel in the kitchen, so our house always smelled like oil paint. At night, she wrote after she'd put my sisters and me to bed, and the sound of her typing was our lullaby.

Luanne Rice

#65. We moved to the city when I was 7, and the lack of exercise made me frustrated. I started fighting with my sisters, and my parents put me in judo as an outlet. I became very competitive and won a lot of medals.

Cesar Millan

#66. When my mother died, it sort of put a damper on things. My career didn't have the same significance or excitement. It had always been about doing well for my family - my brothers, sisters, father, mother. Then something interesting and important happened - I started doing things for me.

John Travolta

#67. I feel comfortable with women. I have two sisters, so I grew up in a female-dominated environment.

Josh Radnor

#68. Stop looking for peace. Give yourselves where you are. Stop looking at yourselves, look instead at your brothers and sisters in need. Ask how you can better love your brothers and sisters. Then you will find peace.

Jean Vanier

#69. Something was going on. Something big, like the dreams that brought her sisters together. But this time, it wasn't a theater bringing them together. It was a killer tearing them apart.

Lisa Kessler

#70. I always call my cousin because we're so close. We're almost like sisters, and we're also close because our mom's are sisters.

Britney Spears

#71. There is a goddess of Memory, Mnemosyne; but none of Forgetting. Yet there should be, as they are twin sisters, twin powers, and walk on either side of us, disputing for sovereignty over us and who we are, all the way until death.

Richard Holmes

#72. Do you have a large family? You seem like someone who suffered through a great deal of sisters."
"I've suffered through a great many people, but none of them sisters. I'm an only child."
That explains a few things, Ceony thought.

Charlie N. Holmberg

#73. I would warn my brethren and sisters to never flatter persons because of their ability; for they cannot bear it. Self is easily exalted, and in consequence, persons lose their balance.

Ellen G. White

#74. I grew up walking around naked in my house. My mom was like that, and my sisters.

Jennifer Lopez

#75. Little sisters," Carter said. "If they talked too much, the Egyptians threw them to the crocodiles.

Rick Riordan

#76. You were indeed called to be free, brothers and sisters. Don't turn this freedom into an excuse for your corrupt nature to express itself. Rather, serve each other through love. Galatians 5:13

Dianne Neal Matthews

#77. Fundamentalist Christians are my sisters and brothers, my family and friends, my oldest colleagues and coworkers. But I fear their love for the nation has become an obsession to reshape it in their own image.

Mel White

#78. The pursuit of otherness, the sense that we are somehow different than our brothers and sisters, no matter where we find them, allows for all the other great evils: racism, sexism, homophobia, violence against gay people and against women.

Anna Quindlen

#79. My brothers and sisters all sang, too, and they all have good voices.

Charley Pride

#80. Things like,
Brothers and sisters!
Saving money!
Setting the table!
True love...
... I MEAN! Foods you don't like!

Marcy Heisler

#81. you know the sisters were a bunch of Puseyites, all bells and smells

Marion Chesney

#82. I inspected the crowd. Honey was snapchatting, the two cops were texting, and the Banger sisters had planted themselves at a table with a good view of the entire area, just in case someone else died. They didn't want to miss a thing.

Suzanne M. Trauth

#83. I am fairly certain that I was the first Seven Sisters grad to eat duck liver chased with a Diet Coke in the lobby of a federal penitentiary. Then again, you never know.

Piper Kerman

#84. Three of her sisters became queens along the Silk Route, ruling over the grand Turkic nations of Onggud, Uighur, and Karluk.

Jack Weatherford

#85. The butcher with his bloody apron incites bloodshed, murder. Why not? From cutting the throat of a young calf to cutting the throats of our brothers and sisters is but a step. While we ourselves are living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal conditions on the earth?

Isadora Duncan

#86. May the strangers next door that you meet this morning become your brothers and sisters in the Lord this afternoon and go to the nations later this evening.

J.D. Payne

#87. I want to give a shout-out to all my Saudi Arabian brothers and sisters. If you could all please send me some oil for my jet, I would truly appreciate it.

Puff Daddy

#88. There are many of the sisters whose labors are not known beyond their own dwellings, and perhaps not appreciated there. But what difference does that make? If your labors are acceptable to God, however simple the duties, if faithfully performed, you should never be discouraged.

Eliza R. Snow

#89. Animals are our inferior brothers and sisters. They are not meant to be eaten, but must be treated with love.

Dharma Mittra

#90. Sisters and brothers just happen, we don't get to choose them, but they become one of our most cherish relationships.

Wes Adamson

#91. We are a mixed up people. We have mixed up ways of naming, too ... When my father's brothers and sisters first went to colonial schools, they had to produce a surname. They also had to show they were good Christians by adopting a western name. They adopted my grandfather's name as surname. Wainaina.

Binyavanga Wainaina

#92. I have six brothers and sisters. My mother has six kids from two different marriages. And we would just sit around making fun of each other's dad, and all our dads had real problems.

Michael Che

#93. Brothers are not like sisters.

David Levithan

#94. On 'Love Actually,' I met Hugh Grant, who is a relative: our great-grandmothers were sisters. He'd call me cousin and ruffle my hair. And it was brilliant working with David Tennant on 'Doctor Who.'

Thomas Sangster

#95. I'm the youngest of three sisters. We were always performing plays for each other.

Sarah Snook

#96. It is in struggle and service with our brothers and sisters, individually and collectively, that we find the meaning of life.

Jesse Jackson

#97. My sisters are my favorite people on earth.

Ryan Phillippe

#98. What can I do?" Klaus asked.
"You can pray this works," Violet said, but the Baudelaire sisters were so quick with their tasks that there was no time for even the shortest of religious ceremonies.

Lemony Snicket

#99. Her eyes watered and she was a foot taller than any of her sisters, mostly because of the length of her neck which would one day hang from the end of a rope.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#100. Brothers and sisters, good evening. You all know that the duty of the conclave was to give a bishop to Rome. It seems that my brother cardinals have gone almost to the ends of the earth to get him ... but here we are.

Pope Francis