Sister Quotes

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

  

  Janelle Monae
  • She
  • Sister

• I think it's been a little difficult at times for the audience, because they've told me they see me as a family member. So to see your little sister sing about sex... I think they are pretty used to it now.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Thinking
  • Family
  • Pretty

• I was crawling out of the bedroom window with my older sister when I should have still been playing with dolls.

  

  Beth Moore
  • Sister

• 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

• My parents were kind of over protective people. Me and my sister had to play in the backyard all the time. They bought us bikes for Christmas but wouldn't let us ride in the street, we had to ride in the backyard. Another Christmas, my dad got me a basketball hoop and put it in the middle of the lawn! You can't dribble on grass.

  

  Jimmy Fallon
  • People
  • Time
  • Parents

• 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

• I'm ridiculous in my oversharing; my mom and sister are very open but a little more judicious than me... and my father is a decidedly private person.

  

  Lena Dunham
  • Father
  • Mom
  • Sister

• A tie is like kissing your sister.

  

  Duffy Daugherty
  • Sister
  • Kissing
  • Tie

• Getting involved with the Boys and Girls Club helped keep me and my sister from getting in trouble.

  

  Ne-Yo
  • Sister

• Mondays I sleep. I go in at ten, do my lift, watch the game from the day before. Tuesday is off, but I go in, lift, watch film. Then I have French toast with my sister.

  

  Ndamukong Suh
  • Game
  • Sleep
  • Tuesday

• 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

• My parents homeschooled my sister and me for many years. Why? Because the local school insisted that I, being three, should go to preschool, and my sister, being five, should go to kindergarten. The problem? You learn your alphabet in preschool, and I was already reading chapter books.

  

  Adora Svitak
  • School
  • Why
  • Parents

• I always wanted to be a designer and always felt surprised as a child when my sister used to deliberate about whether to be a nurse or a teacher.

  

  Matthew Williamson
  • Teacher
  • Sister
  • Nurse

• Crime is a very hard genre to feminise. If you have a female protagonist she is going to be looking after her mum when she gets older; she is going to be worried about her brother and sister; she will be making a living while bringing up kids.

  

  Denise Mina
  • Up
  • She
  • Kids

• There are two types of encryption: one that will prevent your sister from reading your diary and one that will prevent your government.

  

  Bruce Schneier
  • Reading
  • Sister

• My father was predisposed to drunken rages. I would hide under the bed. My sister and I were talking just the other day about the terror a drunken man in a rage can create in a child.

  

  Antonio Villaraigosa
  • Father
  • Sister

• I was always a performer kid - like, annoyingly so. I would put on shows for my family and direct my friends in little plays, and my little sister, I'd make up dances with her. But when I was 12, that was when I started taking it seriously, and my mom for some reason believed in me and helped me find an agent in Cleveland, which did nothing for me.

  

  Lili Reinhart
  • Up
  • Family
  • Friends

• I did a book signing when we were in New York the day before yesterday. A lady came through and she was just weeping, and said, 'I wish this would have been brought out sooner, my sister is in prison for suffocating her child.'

  

  Marie Osmond
  • She
  • Book
  • Wish

• I came into this environment where there was so much love, so much positive energy. I never heard my parents say, 'We have adopted kids.' The minute my sister Linda and I landed in Sweden, we were their kids.

  

  Marcus Samuelsson
  • Kids
  • Parents
  • Energy

• Right now the tabloids are saying I'm pregnant, and they're naming the baby. It's hilarious. I don't know when I'll want to get married. I never pictured myself as a bride, but after my sister's wedding,I did start thinking about what kind of wedding I'd want. I don't think I want a big one.

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • Thinking
  • Baby
  • Wedding

• In the summer of 1964, my sister and I went to South Ballston, Virginia, to stay with my aunt and her kids. They passed the civil rights bill that summer; my cousins were so happy because now they could swim in the pool.

  

  Edward P. Jones
  • Kids
  • Happy
  • Summer

• It's a mystery of parenthood that your son can give mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to a stray, worm-riddled dog, share a piece of re-chewed gum from a kid with bronchitis and pick his nose and eat it on a regular basis, yet won't sit next to his sister because of 'Girl Germs'.

  

  Kathy Lette
  • Girl
  • Mystery
  • Regular

• There was some indecision as to when I was born. My sister said it was 1916. I'd lost my birth certificate.

  

  Michael Gough
  • Born
  • Indecision
  • Certificate

• There was a great strain in our family because my father didn't want anything to do with me. He was happy to see my brother and sister, but not me. I don't know why. Maybe it was shame. I don't know. But he never wanted anything to do with me. That rejection was terribly hurtful and it went on for years.

  

  Carol Vorderman
  • Great
  • Family
  • Why

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