Sister Quotes

• I have never been a 'hair person.' Growing up, my mom and my sister, who loved to get their hair done, would always give me a hard time about not getting mine done.

  

  Jessica Williams
  • Up
  • Time
  • Done

• My father certainly believed that one could make a living outside of an office, as he did. And that if I didn't want to work for other people, there wasn't any reason why I had to. He conveyed that very strongly to my sister and I - that smart people can make their own livings.

  

  Amy Bloom
  • People
  • Work
  • Why

• My mom, dad, and sister have all watched every episode of everything I've ever done.

  

  Lindy Booth
  • Done
  • Dad
  • Mom

• I wish I had acted better. I wish I had been the kind of sister who was patient enough to show my brother the proper spelling for 'Power Rangers.'

  

  Jenny Zhang
  • Power
  • Wish
  • Brother

• Cosmology is the elder sister of cosmogony.

  

  Agnes Mary Clerke
  • Sister
  • Cosmology
  • Cosmogony

• When I first moved to L.A., I didn't have a lot of money to join a gym or take classes, so I improvised. My sister and I went to the library and looked over their DVD collection and discovered Neena and Veena, these Egyptian twins who have a whole series of belly dancing routines. We did them all.

  

  AnnaLynne McCord
  • Money
  • Library
  • Gym

• My big sister Melissa, is such a stud and my little sister Suzanna, has always had a perfect body and big blue eyes. We were a force.

  

  Jennifer Garner
  • Perfect
  • Sister
  • Force

• Oh, I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness. You went to the movies then, you saw two movies and a short. When Mickey Mouse came on the screen and there was his big head, my sister said she had to hold onto me. I went berserk.

  

  Maurice Sendak
  • She
  • Sister

• I had some friends who were great skiers who I would hang out with, like Jonny Moseley, the Olympic moguls champion, who tried to date my sister once.

  

  Dean Cain
  • Great
  • Friends
  • Champion

• We have tried you citizens; we are trying you now, and you have a couple of dollars for the sorrowing mothers, brothers and sisters by way of a charity gift.

  

  Rose Schneiderman
  • Trying
  • Mother
  • Couple

• “No!” Patricia’s eyes flooded and she felt short of breath. “You can’t! You can’t!” And then she was running, careening, with the red bucket in one hand. She could hear her sister behind her, smashing branches.

  

  Charlie Jane Anders
  • Running
  • Hear
  • Patricia

• I do have a sister. I have never written much about sisters before. I am very close to my sister, but, maybe, because we are very close, it never occurred to me to write about her.

  

  Amy Bloom
  • Sister

• My sister and I used to act as maids and waitresses at my great aunt and uncle's cocktail parties, which were very much sort of retired, minor stars of the Yiddish theater and the Yiddish opera.

  

  Amy Bloom
  • Great
  • Uncle
  • Aunt

• I don't know how I didn't kill any one of my sisters. For this one horror film we were making, I made my own harness for my sister. I wrapped her in all these ropes, but then also put a noose around her neck and hung her from a tree. Now I think, 'What if my harness didn't work?' I'm so lucky that nothing ever happened.

  

  Alexa Vega
  • Work
  • Tree
  • Sister

• God has enabled man to distinguish between his sister, his mother, his daughter and his wife.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • God
  • Mother
  • Wife

• I never looked at myself as the fat sister. Sometimes I would beat people to the punch and say, 'Oh I'm the fat, funny one,' because that's what people would say about me. But I never really thought that.

  

  Khloe Kardashian
  • People
  • Funny
  • Sister

• My sister is my biggest Broadway hero.

  

  Andrew Keenan-Bolger
  • Hero
  • Sister

• My own mother, my sister and nearly all the women in my family had full-time jobs as mothers. They were wonderful at it. They drove their children back and forth to soccer, skating lessons, piano lessons, private schools, but I sensed, even in my own mother, a kind of distant dissatisfaction.

  

  Janine di Giovanni
  • Time
  • Women
  • Children

• I liked the idea of being from 'somewhere else.' I do think that's inherited. My father never had a fixed sense of where home was, and for my sister and me, it is much easier not to belong than to belong.

  

  Claire Messud
  • Home
  • Father
  • Sister

• Family doesn't necessarily mean that you have to have a mother, a father, a little brother, and an older sister.

  

  Bindi Irwin
  • Family
  • Mother
  • Father

• It is that fundamental belief, it is that fundamental belief, I am my brother’s keeper, I am my sister’s keeper that makes this country work. It’s what allows us to pursue our individual dreams and yet still come together as one American family. E pluribus unum. Out of many, one.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Work
  • Country
  • Family

• I was six when I saw that everything was God, and my hair stood up, and all, Teddy said. It was on a Sunday, I remember. My sister was a tiny child then, and she was drinking her milk, and all of a sudden I saw that she was God and the milk was God. I mean, all she was doing was pouring God into God, if you know what I mean.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Up
  • God
  • She

• My dad had given my sister and I our starter car, a red, old 1985 Chevy Blazer. It was so beat up, the taillights would fall off, and we would use red duct tape.

  

  Amy Purdy
  • Up
  • Dad
  • Fall

• I was not expecting my sister to ask me to be her best man. I was so honored.

  

  Brad Goreski
  • Sister

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