Sister Friend Quotes

• For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, to fetch one if one goes astray, to lift one if one totters down, to strengthen whilst one stands.

  Christina Rossetti

  Family, Sister, Cheer

  1862 Goblin Market and Other Poems,'Goblin Market'.

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• In thee my soul shall own combined the sister and the friend.

  Catherine Killigrew

  Sister, Sibling, Soul

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• We hang out, we help one another, we tell one another our worst fears and biggest secrets, and then just like real sisters, we listen and don't judge.

  Adriana Trigiani

  Sister, Real, Judging

  Adriana Trigiani (2010). “Viola in Reel Life”, p.121, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Sister, Funny Inspirational, Children

  Linda Sunshine (2012). “Mom Loves Me Best: (And Other Lies You Told Your Sister)”, p.20, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• You can kid the world, but not your sister.

  Charlotte Gray

  Sister, Sibling, Kids

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• Sweet is the voice of a sister in the season of sorrow.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Sister, Sweet, Brother

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.1219, Delphi Classics

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• There's no better friend than a sister.

  Mary Engelbreit

  Sister, Funny Sibling, Funny Sister

  Mary Engelbreit (2002). “The Blessings of Friendship: A Friendship Treasury”, p.62, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather.

  Christina Rossetti

  Family, Sister, Cheer

  1862 Goblin Market and Other Poems,'Goblin Market'.

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• More than Santa Claus, your sister knows when you've been bad and good.

  Linda Sunshine

  Funny, Sister, Sibling

  Linda Sunshine (2012). “Mom Loves Me Best: (And Other Lies You Told Your Sister)”, p.25, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their power, which no subsequent connections can supply.

  Jane Austen

  Sister, Brother, Children

  Jane Austen (1833). “Mansfield Park”, p.208

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• Sisters, as you know, also have a unique relationship. This is the person who has known you your entire life, who should love you and stand by you no matter what, and yet it's your sister who knows exactly where to drive the knife to hurt you the most.

  Lisa See

  Sister, Hurt, Love You

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• Of two sisters one is always the watcher, one the dancer.

  Louise Glück

  Sister, Two, Dancer

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• An older sister is a friend and defender - a listener, conspirator, a counsellor and a sharer of delights. And sorrows too.

  Pam Brown

  Sister, Sibling, Sorrow

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• When sisters stand shoulder to shoulder, who stands a chance against us?

  Pam Brown

  Sister, Sibling, Sorority

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• Just remember, some come, some go. The ones that stay with you through everything - they're your true best friends. Don't let go of them.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Sister, Letting Go, Remember

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• Sisterly love is, of all sentiments, the most abstract. Nature does not grant it any functions.

  Ugo Betti

  Sister, Sibling, Love Is

  Ugo Betti (1968). “Three Plays”

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• Bless you, my darling, and remember you are always in the heart - oh tucked so close there is no chance of escape - of your sister.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Sister, Sibling, Heart

  Katherine Mansfield, Vincent O'Sullivan, Margaret Scott (1984). “The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield: 1903-1917”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Sisters never quite forgive each other for what happened when they were five.

  Pam Brown

  Funny, Sister, Sibling

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• 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

  Sister, Brother, Sibling

  Maya Angelou, Jeffrey M. Elliot (1989). “Conversations with Maya Angelou”

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• Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.

  Margaret Mead

  Relationship, Family, Sister

  Attributed to Margaret Mead in Ellyn Sanna "Sisters by Birth Friends by Choice: All the Things I Love About You", June 2003.

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• If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone?

  Jodi Picoult

  Sister, Sibling, Loss

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.138, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Sister, Friends, Brother

  James Boswell, Roger Ingpen (1791). “The Life of Samuel Johnson”, p.74

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• Help one another is part of the religion of our sisterhood.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Sister, Sibling, Sorority

  Louisa May Alcott (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Louisa May Alcott (Illustrated)”, p.810, Delphi Classics

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• I would like more sisters, that the taking out of one, might not leave such stillness.

  Emily Dickinson

  Sister, Sibling, Might

  Emily Dickinson (1986). “Selected Letters”, p.148, Harvard University Press

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• A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves - a special kind of double.

  Toni Morrison

  Sister, Sibling, Special

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