Sister Quotes - Page 6

• One does not arise from such a book as Sister Carrie with a smirk of satisfaction; one leaves it infinitely touched.

  H. L. Mencken

  Book, Smirk, Literature

  H.L. Mencken (1917). “A book of prefaces”, p.98, Рипол Классик

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• For many years, our Messianic Jewish brothers and sisters have paid a great price. Other Jews have rejected them, and the Christian church would require they walk away from their traditions to fit into the Gentile culture. We must face these past wrongs.

  Bill McCartney

  Christian, Brother, Past

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• We were never organized readers who would see a book through to its end in any sory of logical order. We weave in and out of words like tourists on a hop-on, hop-off bus tour. Put a book down in the kitchen to go to the bathroom and you might return to find it gone, replaced by another of equal interest. We are indiscriminate.

  Eleanor Brown

  Book, Order, Kitchen

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• I live myself with my cat Pebbles. She isn't enjoying the attention as much as me - she ran off up the stairs as soon as the film crew for the show came into the house. She didn't come down for hours. But I have the support of all my brothers and sisters and my neighbours and friends - everyone thinks it's just great.

  Susan Boyle

  Brother, Cat, Thinking

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• I have two older sisters; I'm the youngest.

  Elizabeth Perkins

  Two, Older Sister

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• I was lucky I always got along with girls. It was never like a big deal. I had a lot of girls that I was friends with that I wasn't sexual with. I think having two older sisters made me comfortable like that. I just like people, so I can just go up and say whatever.

  Vince Vaughn

  Friends, Girl, Thinking

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• But my brother Joey was there, and my sister Tina Nina Minnelli was there.

  Liza Minnelli

  Brother, Nina, Joey

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• It is true that a fellow cannot ignore women - but he can think of them as he ought - as sisters, not as sparring partners.

  Jim Elliot

  Thinking, Sparring Partner, Partners

  "Shadow of the Almighty". Book by Elisabeth Elliot, Chapter 4, 1989.

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• I was brought up by my mother and my two sisters, although they're older than me and fled the nest very young, so I was technically raised as an only child, but I was very much loved.

  Gary Oldman

  Mother, Children, Two

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• I played with dolls until I was 15. My mother encouraged it because my older sister got married when she was 15, so Mom thought that the longer I stayed with dolls, the better.

  Linda Evans

  Mom, Mother, Dolls

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• From my parents, I learned a very strong work ethic, and all of my brothers and sisters all worked from the earliest days of life right through to the present time.

  George J. Mitchell

  Strong, Brother, Work Ethic

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• My sister said, You're making it hard for all us housewives in Nebraska.

  Kate Millett

  Nebraska, Said, Housewife

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• My dear sister, I hope, when God Almighty in his righteous providence shall take me out of time into eternity, that it will be by a flash of lightning.

  James Otis

  Lightning, Dear God, Eternity

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• I don't know whether John Roberts has a twin, perhaps a sister or, uh, someone with a Hispanic last name

  John Cornyn

  Names, Lasts, Twins

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• The anguish I always feel when she's in pain wells up in my chest and threatens to register on my face.

  Suzanne Collins

  Pain, Faces, Wells

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.17, Scholastic Inc.

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• I should fear the infinite power and inflexible justice of the almighty mortal hardly as yet apotheosized, so wholly masculine, with no sister Juno, no Apollo, no Venus, nor Minerva, to intercede for me, thumoi phileousa te, kedomene te.

  Henry David Thoreau

  God, Women, Justice

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• England! awake! awake! awake! Jerusalem thy sister calls! Why wilt thou sleep the sleep of death And close her from thy ancient walls?

  William Blake

  Wall, Sleep, Jerusalem

  'Jerusalem' (1815) 'To the Christians' (plate 77) "England! awake!... "

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• Say to the seceded States, "Wayward sisters, depart in peace."

  Winfield Scott

  Peace, States

  Letter to William H. Seward, 3 Mar. 1861

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• My career has always revolved around what I do and don't want my sisters and brothers seeing me doing

  Melissa Joan Hart

  Brother, Careers, Want

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• I have six sisters, so I assumed I'd have a girl. Learning I was having a boy was really weird.

  Melissa Joan Hart

  Girl, Boys, Six

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• Before I thought there was a common denominator between my films - as if all my characters were sisters - but I'm not so sure now.

  Juliette Binoche

  Character, Common, Film

  "Emotional Intelligence". The Sunday Herald, January 08, 2006.

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• O men with sisters dear, O men with mothers and wives, It is not linen you 're wearing out, But human creatures' lives!

  Thomas Hood

  Mother, Men, Wife

  'The Song of the Shirt' (1843)

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• Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood.

  Fionnula Flanagan

  Sisterhood, Secret, Divine

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• Sometimes you really dig a girl, the moment you kiss her, And then you get distracted by her older sister.

  John Sebastian

  Girl, Kissing, Sometimes

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• I learned respect for womanhood from my father's tender caring for my mother, my sister, and his sisters. Father was the first to arise from dinner to clear the table. My sister and I would wash and dry the dishes each night at Father's request. If we were not there, Father and Mother would clean the kitchen together.

  Robert D. Hales

  Mother, Respect, Father

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