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• If your sister is in a tearing hurry to go out and cannot catch your eye, she's wearing your best sweater.

  Pam Brown

  Funny, Sibling, Eye

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• Ah, bless you, Sister, may all your sons be bishops.

  Brendan Behan

  Son, May, Bishops

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• We can choose to humble ourselves by conquering enmity toward our brothers and sisters, esteeming them as ourselves, and lifting them as high or higher than we are. . . .

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Brother, Humble, Enmity

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• I sought my soul, but my soul I could not see. I sought my God, but my God eluded me. I sought my brother and I found all three.

  Unknown

  Friendship, Brother, Sibling

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.84, Beacon Press

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• A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all.

  Washington Irving

  Love, Family, Mom

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• Sweet, crazy conversations full of half sentences, daydreams and misunderstandings more thrilling than understanding could ever be.

  Toni Morrison

  Sweet, Crazy, Understanding

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• Husbands come and go; children come and eventually they go. Friends grow up and move away. But the one thing that's never lost is your sister.

  Gail Sheehy

  Birthday, Children, Growing Up

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• Not everyone is your brother or sister in the faith, but everyone is your neighbor, and you must love your neighbor.

  Timothy Keller

  Love, Faith, Christian

  Timothy Keller (2010). “Generous Justice: How God's Grace Makes Us Just”, p.48, Penguin

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• All my family, my blood, is mixed up now. They don't even all know each other. I just hope they don't never hate or fight each other, not knowin who they are. Cause all these people livin are brothers and sisters and cousins. All these beautiful different colors! We!... We the human Family. God says so! FAMILY!

  J. California Cooper

  Family, Beautiful, God

  FaceBook post by J. California Cooper from Jul 04, 2012

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• Between sisters, often, the child's cry never dies down. "Never leave me," it says; "do not abandon me."

  Louise Bernikow

  Children, Sibling, Cry

  Louise Bernikow (1981). “Among women”, HarperCollins

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• The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Sarcastic, Technology

  Oscar Wilde, Harford Montgomery Hyde (1982). “The annotated Oscar Wilde”

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• A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.

  Chanakya

  Mother, Morning, Husband

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• I finally moved out of my parent's house. It was only fair to let my sister have her own room.

  Kate Winslet

  House, Parent, Rooms

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• It always seems to the brothers and the father that their brother or son didn't marry the right person.

  Anton Chekhov

  Brother, Father, Son

  Note-Book of Anton Chekhov, 1921.

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

  Pam Brown

  Sibling, Sorority, Chance

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• "Come on Grace, I'm not going to tell on you. I'm your sister." And that's all she has to say.

  Robin Epstein

  Grace

  Robin Epstein (2010). “God Is in the Pancakes”, p.89, Penguin

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• We are not our brother’s keeper we are our brother and we are our sister. We must look past complexion and see community.

  Maya Angelou

  Brother, Past, Community

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Jan 09, 2014

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• I have a sister, so I know-that relationship, it's all about fairness: you want your sibling to have exactly what you have-the same amount of toys, the same number of meatballs on your spaghetti, the same share of love. But being a mother is completely different. You want your child to have more than you ever did. You want to build a fire underneath her and watch her soar. It's bigger than words.

  Jodi Picoult

  Mother, Children, Sibling

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “My Sister's Keeper”, p.477, Simon and Schuster

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• Nobody fights you like your own sister; nobody else knows the most vulnerable parts of you and will aim for them without mercy.

  Jojo Moyes

  Fighting, Vulnerable, Like You

  Jojo Moyes (2012). “The Girl You Left Behind”, p.108, Penguin UK

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• Each one of us is responsible for the whole of humankind. We need to think of each other really as brothers and sisters and to be concerned for each other’s welfare. Rather than working solely to acquire wealth, we need to do something meaningful, something directed seriously towards the welfare of humanity as a whole.

  Dalai Lama

  Meaningful, Brother, Thinking

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• I'm older than my sister so I started writing first. I started writing at school. I was always top of my class in composition, essays, English Lit and all of that.

  Joan Collins

  Writing, School, Class

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• Listen, sister. I don't dance and I can't take time out now to learn.

  Frank Wead

  Dance, War, Dancing

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• God is present in everything. In the universe in creation, in me and all that happens to me, in my brothers and sisters, in the church - everywhere.

  Thea Bowman

  God, Religious, Brother

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• It was around 4 p.m. in the afternoon. I was just taking a nap. Luckily, my sister was home.

  Sherman Austin

  Home, Naps, Afternoon

  Interview with Merlin Chowkwanyun, www.counterpunch.org. August 14, 2003.

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• Just because we're sisters under the skin doesn't mean we've got much in common.

  Angela Carter

  Mean, Justice, Feminism

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