Sister Quotes
1781 Sister quotes by 1220 unique authors
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The children were overwhelmingly morbid. Not a single adult asked me where butterflies go when they die, but this question was more popular than pixie…
— Sloane Crosley
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See the mountains kiss high Heaven And the waves clasp one another; No sister-flower would be forgiven If it disdained its brother; And the sunlight…
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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A ministering angel shall my sister be.
— William Shakespeare
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Why do you mention my father?' screamed he; 'Why do you mingle a recollection of him with the affairs of today?' Because I am he…
— Alexandre Dumas
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His sister had been sent down to the village to ask Mistress Garlick the witch how you stopped spelling recommendation.
— Terry Pratchett
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I read library books as fast as I could go, rushing them home in the basket of my bicycle. From the minute I reached our…
— Eudora Welty
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I have little sister Lola, she is small and very funny.
— Lauren Child
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His eldest sister (who modestly prefers to be identified here as a Tuckahoe homemaker) has asked me to describe him as looking like 'the blue-eyed…
— J D Salinger
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I have an idea that most of all he is running away from love, because it's too big and too demanding. He's running away from…
— William Saroyan
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This was solidarity. The debutante having her toenails pedicured - the housewife buying carrots from a pushcart - the bookkeeper who had wanted to be…
— Ayn Rand
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Well done, Sister," Blind Seer said. "I look forward to meeting this One above Ones. Now, you must make ready. I, of course, am already…
— Jane Lindskold
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Conscience is what makes a boy tell his mother before his sister does.
— Evan Esar
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I am the cute one! She's just my sister.
— Mary-Kate Olsen
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My sister, Swede, who often sees to the nub, offered this: People fear miracles because they fear being changed--though ignoring them will change you also.…
— Leif Enger
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Oh, there was a wedding all right. Did I mention that my sister didn't show up at the church either, Mr. Clayborne?
— Julie Garwood
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Lastly, she pictured to herself how this same little sister of hers would, in the after-time, be herself a grown woman; and how she would…
— Lewis Carroll
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Well, I knew that goat would be a little gold mine," I say. Yes, of course I was referring to that, not the lasting joy…
— Suzanne Collins
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Amy adored both the new look and the new person it allowed her to be. Following the photo shoot, she wore her bruises to the…
— David Sedaris
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Different people were good at different things, Lena mused. Lena was good at writing thank-you notes, for instance, and Effie was good at being happy.
— Ann Brashares
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She was stretched on her back beneath the pear tree soaking in the alto chant of the visiting bees, the gold of the sun and…
— Zora Neale Hurston
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I asked the girl if she could bring a sister for me. She did. Sister Maria Teresa. It was a very slow evening. We discussed…
— Woody Allen
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When Jo's conservative sister Meg says she must turn up her hair now that she is a "young lady," Jo shouts, "I'm not! and if…
— Louisa May Alcott
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Just about everything in this world is easier said than done, with the exception of "systematically assisting Sisyphus's stealthy, cyst-susceptible sister," which is easier done…
— Daniel Handler
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She looked into the distance, and the old terror flamed up for an instant, then sank again. Edna heard her father's voice and her sister…
— Kate Chopin
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My mother, Southern to the bone, once told me, “All Southern literature can be summed up in these words: ‘On the night the hogs ate…
— Pat Conroy
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