Sister Quotes (Please Add Yours)

WHO CAN RESIST a good one-liner? Not us TSP types. Along the way as we’ve worked on building our network, we’ve collected a few favorites, in the hopes that you’ll help us build the list. Got a sister quote to share?

“Our siblings. They resemble us just enough to make all their differences confusing, and no matter what we choose to make of this, we are cast in relation to them our whole lives long.”–Susan Scarf Merrell, The Accidental Bond

“I, who have no sisters or brothers, look with some degree of innocent envy on those who may be said to be born to friends.”–James Boswell

“I don’t believe an accident of birth makes people sisters or brothers. It makes them siblings, gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood is a condition people have to work at.”–Maya Angelou

“If you don’t understand how a woman could both love her sister dearly and want to wring her neck at the same time, then you were probably an only child.”–Linda Sunshine

“You can kid the world. But not your sister.”–Charlotte Gray

“Of two sisters one is always the watcher, one the dancer.”–Louise Glück

“Help one another, is part of the religion of sisterhood.”–Louisa May Alcott

“A ministering angel shall my sister be.”–William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“Big sisters are the crab grass in the lawn of life.”–Charles M. Schulz

“Sisters is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.”–Margaret Mead

“Sisters never quite forgive each other for what happened when they were five.”–Pam Brown

“If sisters were free to express how they really feel, parents would hear this: ‘Give me all the attention and all the toys and send Rebecca to live with Grandma.’ “–Linda Sunshine

“It’s a great comfort to have an artistic sister.”–Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“My sisters have taught me how to live.”–George Wasserstein

“Having a sister is like having a best friend you can’t get rid of. You know whatever you do, they’ll still be there.“–Amy Li

“How do people make it through life without a sister?”–Sara Corpening

“There can be no situation in life in which the conversation of my dear sister will not administer some comfort to me.”–Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

“One’s sister is a part of one’s essential self, an eternal presence of one’s heart and soul and memory.”–Susan Cabill

“Sisters examine each other so they can have a map for how they should behave.”–Michael D. Kahn

“Sisters touch your heart in ways no other could. Sisters share…their hopes, their fears, their love, everything they have. Real friendship springs from their special bonds.”–Carrie Bagwell

“If your sister is in a tearing hurry to go out and cannot catch your eye, she’s wearing your best sweater.”–Pam Brown

“There’s a special kind of freedom sisters enjoy. Freedom to share innermost thoughts, to ask a favor, to show their true feelings. The freedom to simply be themselves.”–Anonymous

“Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister.”–Alice Walker

“We are sisters. We will always be sisters. Our differences may never go away, but neither, for me, will our song.”–Elizabeth Fishel

“You can’t think how I depend on you, and when you’re not there the color goes out of my life.”–Virginia Woolf, to her sister

“More than Santa Claus, your sister knows if you’ve been bad or good.”–Linda Sunshine

“Sweet is the voice of a sister in the season of sorrow.”–Benjamin Disraeli

“Our siblings push buttons that cast us in roles we felt sure we had let go of long ago – the baby, the peacekeeper, the caretaker, the avoider…. It doesn’t seem to matter how much time has elapsed or how far we’ve traveled.”--Jane Mersky Leder

“I was taking a nose dive somewhere between eleven and twelve because my sister had died and I was practicing something that siblings do, which is follow in their footsteps and die as well.”--Leo Kottke

“I think I’m funny because my family, my siblings were funny.“–Martin Short

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