Here is where I have combined my love for my sister with my passion for collecting quotations. :-)
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“My sisters have taught me how to live.”
~ George Wasserstein
“Sisters share the scent and smells… the feel of a common childhood.”
~ Pam Brown
“Sisters is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.”
~ Margaret Meed
“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
“Sisters are for sharing laughter and wiping tears.”
~Author Unknown
“How do people make it through life without a sister?”
~Sara Corpening
“A sister smiles when one tells one’s stories… for she knows where the decoration has been added.”
~Chris Montaigne
“There can be no situation in life in which the conversation of my dear sister will not administer some comfort to me.”
~ Lady Mary Worley Montagu
“Sisters are connected throughout their lives by a special bond… whether they try to ignore it or not. For better or for worse, sisters remain sisters, until death do them part.”
~ Brigid McConville
from “Sisters: Love and Conflict Within The Lifelong Bond”
“One’s Sister is a part of one’s essential self, an eternal presence of one’s heart and soul and memory.”
~ Susan Cabill
“My sister taught me everything I need to know, and she was only in the sixth grade at the time.”
~Linda Sunshine
“Chance made us Sisters, hearts made us friends.”
~ Unknown
“There is no time like the old time, when you and I were young!”
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
“No one knows better than a Sister how we grew up, and who our friends, teachers and favorite toys were. No one knows better than she…”
~ Dale V. Atkins
“Sisters — they share the agony and the exhilaration. As youngsters they may share popsicles, chewing gum, hair dryers and bedrooms. When they grow up, they share confidences, careers and children, and some even chat for hours every day.”
~ Roxanne Brown
“Sisters examine each other so they can have a map for how they should behave.”
~ Michael D. Kahn
“A sister is both your mirror — and your opposite.”
~ Elizabeth Fishel
“Sisterhood is powerful.”
~ Robin Morgan
“A sister is a little bit of childhood that can never be lost.”
~ Marion C. Garretty
“Both within the family and without, our sisters hold up our mirrors:
our images of who we are and of who we can dare to become.”
~ Elizabeth Fishel
“Your sister is the only creature on earth who shares your heritage, history, environment, DNA, bone structure, and contempt for stupid Aunt Gertie.”
~ Linda Sunshine
“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
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
“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.”
~ unknown
“Only a sister can compare the sleek body that now exists with the chubby body hidden underneath. Only a sister knows about former pimples, failing math, and underwear kicked under the bed.”
~ Laura Tracy, from “The Secret Between Us”
“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
“Sisters don’t need words. They have perfected a language of snarls and smiles and frowns and winks… expressions of shocked surprise and incredulity and disbelief. Sniffs and snorts and gasps and sighs… that can undermine any tale you’re telling.”
~ Pam Brown
“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
“The best thing about having a sister was that I always had a friend.”
~ Cali Rae Turner
“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 Sheeny, from “Sisters”
“Loving a sister is an unconditional narcissistic and complicated devotion that approximates a Mother’s love…. Sisters are inescapably connected, shaped by the same two parents, the same trove of memory and experience.”
~ Roxanne Brown
“To have a loving relationship with a sister is not simply to have a buddy or a confident — it is to have a soulmate for life.”
~ Victoria Secunda
“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
“There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.”
~ Iris Murdoch
“We are more than just acquaintances… it’s as if we are cut from the same fabric. Even though we appear to be sewn in a different pattern, we have a common thread that won’t be broken-by people or years or distance.”
~ Author Unknown
“She is your mirror, shining back at you with a world of possibilities. She is your witness, who sees you at your worst and best, and loves you anyway. She is your partner in crime, your midnight companion, someone who knows when you are smiling, even in the dark. She is your teacher, your defense attorney, your personal press agent, even your shrink. Some days, she’s the reason you wish you were an only child.”
~ Barbara Alpert
“Like branches on a tree we grow in different directions yet our roots remain as one. Each of our lives will always be a special part of the other.”
~ Author Unknown
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