Quotes about Sister
I have such unmanageable thoughts,' returned his sister, 'that they will wonder.' 'Then
- Charles Dickens
This was the mother, the dead sister Ellen: this Niobe without tears who had conceived to the demon in a kind of nightmare, who even while alive had moved but without life and grieved but without weeping, who now had an air of tranquil and unwitting desolation, not as if she had either outlived the others or had died first, but as if she had never lived at all.
- William Faulkner
After I moved with my mother to St. Louis, my older sister and I went to see Ike Turner, who was the hottest then. His music charged me. I was never attracted to him, but I wanted to sing with his band.
- Tina Turner
Better die an old maid, sister, than marry the wrong man.
- Billy Sunday
Do you know what friendship is?' he asked. 'Yes,' replied the gypsy; 'it is to be brother and sister; two souls which touch without mingling, two fingers on one hand.' 'And love?' pursued Gringoire. 'Oh! love!' said she, and her voice trembled, and her eye beamed. 'That is to be two and to be but one. A man and a woman mingled into one angel. It is heaven.
- Victor Hugo
A gentle sister is the second best gift to a man.
- Herman Melville
It is in deep solitude and silence that I find the gentleness with which I can truly love my brother and sister.
- Thomas Merton
Not everyone is your brother or sister in the faith, but everyone is your neighbor, and you must love your neighbor.
- Timothy Keller
They'll read and sing a sacred song, And make a prayer both loud and long, And teach the right and do the wrong, Hailing htthe brother, sister, throng, With words of heavenly union.
- Frederick Douglass
Be a good girl, she said. I hope you'll be a good sister to Laura. I know you try to be. I nodded. I didn't know what to say. I felt I was the victim of an injustice: why was it always me who was supposed to be a good sister to Laura, instead of the other way around? Surely my mother loved Laura more than she loved me.
- Margaret Atwood
If you like to swallow him, for his sister's sake, you may; but I've no sauce that will make him go down.
- George Eliot
No one had to tell me why Martha stayed in the kitchen while her sister Mary sat at Jesus's feet. Martha was an introvert. She found chopping potatoes far less exhausting than talking to people, and besides, she could hear everything they were saying right where she was without having to come up with something to say herself.
- Barbara Brown Taylor