Sister Quotes

• It's not something someone sets out to do - I never really set out to make movies about strong fighting women, but it just seems to happen that way. I've certainly known some, and I think my sister was probably a big influence.

  

  Joe Wright
  • Women
  • Strong
  • Fighting

• Ndamukong started out playing soccer, like his sister before him. She excelled at it, played for Mississippi State, made the Cameroon national team.

  

  Jeanne Marie Laskas
  • She
  • Team
  • Soccer

• She is the mother I never had, she is the sister everybody would want. She is the friend that everybody deserves. I don't know a better person.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • She
  • Mother
  • Friend

• I have so many strong opinions on the entertainment industry, but if I'm in a deli somewhere, and someone says they love that Adam Sandler movie where he dresses up as his twin sister - well, I don't want to make people feel bad for how they feel about things. I'm always courteous, not mean.

  

  Andy Kindler
  • People
  • Up
  • Bad

• I must be absolutely clear about this. Britain cannot accept the present situation on the Budget. It is demonstrably unjust. It is politically indefensible: I cannot play Sister Bountiful to the Community while my own electorate are being asked to forego improvements in the fields of health, education, welfare and the rest.

  

  Margaret Thatcher
  • Education
  • Community
  • Health

• The desire to be and have a sister is a primitive and profound one that may have everything or nothing to do with the family a woman is born to. It is a desire to know and be known by someone who shares blood and body, history and dreams.

  

  Elizabeth Fishel
  • Family
  • May
  • History

• To be able to go the distance with a brother or sister, to have them turn into your ally, is about the greatest thing that can ever happen to you.

  

  Marie Brenner
  • Brother
  • Sister
  • Distance

• I grew up going to see my sister dance, both at the ballet and later as a modern dancer, and have always been a big fan of the ballet. So I have had a long relationship with dance.

  

  Bryce Dessner The National
  • Up
  • Long
  • Relationship

• I want to be alone and work until the day my heads hits the drawing table and I'm dead. Kaput. I feel very much like I want to be with my brother and sister again. They're nowhere. I know they're nowhere and they don't exist, but if nowhere means that's where they are, that's where I want to be.

  

  Maurice Sendak
  • Work
  • Alone
  • Brother

• I used to dress up in my older sister Alisia's clothes and thought modelling would be fun.

  

  Amy Jackson
  • Up
  • Fun
  • Sister

• I remember thinking, "My little sister is going to be something super special," because you always seemed to know what you wanted. And I'm just curious, where did that come from?

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • Thinking
  • Remember
  • Littles

• Do not be jealous of your sister. Know that diamonds and rosesare as uncomfortable when they tumble from one's lips as toads and frogs:colder, too, and sharper, and they cut.

  

  Neil Gaiman
  • Sister

• I have mentors like Erykah Badu. She's been like a big sister to me.

  

  Janelle Monae
  • She
  • Sister

• My sister was an actress when I was a kid - she still is a successful stage actress in Sweden.

  

  Joel Kinnaman
  • She
  • Sister

• If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone?

  

  Jodi Picoult
  • She
  • Stop
  • Sister

• 'Into The Gloss,' what I think it did so well was create a conversation around beauty and make beauty the main event as opposed to the ugly step-sister, which it often is in magazines.

  

  Emily Weiss
  • Sister
  • Ugly

• A sister is like yourself in a different movie, a movie that stars you in a different life.

  

  Deborah Tannen
  • Life
  • Different
  • Movie

• My sister ran away for four years; she was living on the streets. I didn't know where she was, and then I was getting in trouble.

  

  Jason Day
  • She
  • Sister

• My sister is older than me and would often go off, so I grew up alone in a sense. I had to amuse myself and developed a wonderful fantasy world and quite happily lived in it. I think, in adulthood, that helped me. I love pottering on my own.

  

  Amanda Donohoe
  • Up
  • World
  • Alone

• I started out wanting to be an actress. My sister was in this theater company in Brooklyn. I saw her in some plays, and I was immediately obsessed. I started auditioning for plays when I was about 10.

  

  Liz Tuccillo
  • Sister

• My mother enjoyed acting as well with my father, who used to direct her in plays at his regiment. My sister is an excellent singer. However, it was only me who decided to pursue acting as a career.

  

  Ajay Mehta
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Career

• Hark! they whisper; angels say, Sister spirit, come away!

  

  Alexander Pope
  • Sister

• Being the youngest of five boys with a younger sister, being the only one who didn't go to university, I had to prove it was the right decision to go into advertising.

  

  David Droga
  • Decision
  • Sister

• Acting is our job, not talking about it. In France, they know me like I belong to their family. I go somewhere and I feel like I'm sometimes the aunt, the grandmother, the mother, the sister. They all know me. But it's not supposed to be that way.

  

  Carole Bouquet
  • Family
  • Job
  • Mother

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