Sister Quotes

• '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

• As a child in South Carolina, I spent summers like so many children - sitting on my grandparents' back porch with my siblings, spitting watermelon seeds into the garden or, even worse, swallowing them and trembling as my older brother and sister spoke of the vine that was probably already growing in my belly.

  

  Jacqueline Woodson
  • Children
  • Growing
  • Brother

• 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

• My sister is raised to know her value and to know that she stands behind no man. You know, when she gets a husband, you stand side by side, equal partnership. You stand behind no one cause you have to lift each other up. You can't do that if you're 30 percent of the value in your relationship or the household.

  

  Aldis Hodge
  • Up
  • She
  • Relationship

• Going to the theater is such a joyous experience. My dad would take my sister and me to plays when we were very young, like six or seven years old.

  

  Julia Roberts
  • Experience
  • Dad
  • Play

• 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

• They say a tie is like kissing your sister. I guess that is better than kissing your brother.

  

  Lou Holtz
  • Sports
  • Brother
  • Coaching

• If God made Adam and Eve, they had children... wait a minute... that means someone banged their sister!

  

  Carlos Mencia
  • Children
  • Sister
  • Banged

• My sister was the one person who told me not to change, that my skin was beautiful. She really helped me feel good about myself.

  

  Khoudia Diop
  • Good
  • She
  • Beautiful

• 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

• I was raised by all women. I had no men in my life; it was my mom, my sister, and my grandmother. I've never identified as a man. I've always either felt like a boy or something else. I feel really uncomfortable thinking that, technically, I'm supposed to be a man, because I don't feel like one.

  

  Zachary Cole Smith
  • Life
  • Men
  • Thinking

• The visas came through in 1955, when I was 15. That June, we sailed for New York aboard the Conte Biancamano. When we passed the Statue of Liberty, Anna Maria my sister tried to sing 'The Star-Spangled Banner'.

  

  Mario Andretti
  • Star
  • Sister
  • June

• Honestly...how did I do as a big sister?

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • Bigs
  • Honestly
  • Big Sister

• And my little sister died when she was 16.

  

  Jeremy London
  • She
  • Sister

• I want a family. I see my sister, and she's on her second baby, and I'm like, 'That's success.' Having a family - I can't wait for that.

  

  Adrienne Bailon 3LW
  • Family
  • She
  • Success

• Everybody I meet who uses 'WhatsApp', I ask them a question: 'How did you hear about it?' And they say, 'My friends, my sister or my brother, somebody I know hounded me to install WhatsApp.' We think there is more power to the network when it grows organically.

  

  Jan Koum
  • Power
  • Friends
  • Question

• My mom and sister and I all cook.

  

  Trisha Yearwood
  • Mom
  • Sister

• When I grew up on the south side of Chicago, it was kind of a rough neighborhood, and when my parents saw the prospect of my older sister going to middle school, high school, they decided that we would move to the north side of Chicago, Highland Park, and for me, that was a whole new ballgame.

  

  John M. Grunsfeld
  • Up
  • School
  • High

• Growing up, I never heard my parents curse, never. The first time I ever said a curse word was with my sister Kim.

  

  Kourtney Kardashian
  • Up
  • Time
  • Parents

• When I was younger, my sister thought it was funny to pretend to punch me in the face because my mom was concerned about my teeth falling out. They were loose for a long time, and she knocked out my teeth.

  

  Amy Adams
  • Time
  • Long
  • She

• 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

• 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

• Every time I was playing basketball, I felt sick to my stomach. I didn't realize that feeling was having to leave my family - having to leave my sister, who can't even communicate with me when I'm gone.

  

  Elena Delle Donne
  • Time
  • Family
  • Feeling

• We were so poor when I was a kid that I had a sister who was stamped, 'Made In Japan.'

  

  Pete Rose
  • Sister

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