60+ Famous Quotes About the Meaning of Having a Sister
Having grown up in a family with a sister on your side is the living proof of a constant support. Although chemistries do change according to the relationship (a sister-to-sister background is often different to a brother-to-sister photo album), one thing is more than certain: your sister has always been there for you, either as the mirror of your virtues and your inconsistencies (we have to admit we all have some) or as a symbol of affection and unconditional love.
Here’s what a large number of writers, poets and journalists, both women and men, had to say about the caring yet explosive, supportive yet passionate relationship one can have with their sister in this collection of sister quotes. Sharing one of these quotes may also turn out to be an original way of wishing Happy Birthday to your sister on her special day and showing your love to her.
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Best Sister Quotes
- A sister is a gift to the heart, a friend to the spirit, a golden thread to the meaning of life. – Isadora James
- …she’ll go and fall in love, and there’s an end of peace and fun, and cozy times together. – Louisa May Alcott
- A sibling may be the keeper of one’s identity, the only person with the keys to one’s unfettered, more fundamental self. – Marian Sandmaier
- A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves – a special kind of double. – Toni Morrison
- A sister is a forever friend. – Unknown
- A sister is both your mirror – and your opposite. – Elizabeth Fishel
- A sister smiles when one tells one’s stories – for she knows where the decoration has been added. – Chris Montaigne
- An older sister helps one remain half child, half woman. – Unknown
- An older sister is a friend and defender – a listener, conspirator, a counselor and a sharer of delights. And sorrows too. – Pam Brown
- Brothers and sisters are as close as hands and feet. – Vietnamese Proverb
- 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
- 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
- We may look old and wise to the outside world. But to each other, we are still in junior school. — Charlotte Gray
- ‘You’re a big sister?’ I was shocked. She seemed so good-natured and compassionate. – Natalie Standiford
- I would like more sisters, that the taking out of one, might not leave such stillness… – Emily Dickinson
- 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
- 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
- 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
- If your sister is in a tearing hurry to go out and cannot catch your eye, she’s wearing your best sweater. – Pam Brown
- Is solace anywhere more comforting than in the arms of a sister. – Alice Walker
- It’s hard to be responsible, adult and sensible all the time. How good it is to have a sister whose heart is as young as your own. — Pam Brown
- It was nice to be in such close physical proximity, even though they hadn’t spoken in months, and only via cursory birthday cards and the like. In the end, it didn’t matter. Sisters were sisters. – Emma Straub
- My sister and I are so close that we finish each other’s sentences and often wonder who’s memories belong to whom. – Shannon Celebi
- My sister taught me everything I really need to know, and she was only in sixth grade at the time. – Linda Sunshine
- One of the best things about being an adult is the realization that you can share with your sister and still have plenty for yourself. — Betsy Cohen
- Our brothers and sisters are there with us from the dawn of our personal stories to the inevitable dusk. – Susan Scarf Merrell
- Our siblings push buttons that cast us in roles we felt sure we had let go of long ago – the baby, the peacekeeper, the caretaker, the avoider… It doesn’t seem to matter how much time has elapsed or how far we’ve traveled. – Jane Mersky Leder
- Siblings are the people we practice on, the people who teach us about fairness and cooperation and kindness and caring – quite often the hard way. – Pamela Dugdale
- Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship. – Margaret Mead
- Sisters function as safety nets in a chaotic world simply by being there for each other. – Carol Saline
- 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
- You keep your past by having sisters. As you get older, they’re the only ones who don’t get bored if you talk about your memories. — Deborah Moggach
- Sisters may share the same mother and father but appear to come from different families. – Unknown
- You may be as different as the sun and the moon, but the same blood flows through both your hearts. You need her, as she needs you… – George R.R. Martin
- That’s the best thing about little sisters: They spend so much time wishing they were elder sisters that in the end they’re far wiser than the elder ones could ever be. – Gemma Gurgess
- The best thing about having a sister was that I always had a friend. – Cali Rae Turner
- There can be no situation in life in which the conversation of my dear sister will not administer some comfort to me. – Mary Montagu
- There is no better friend than a sister. And there is no better sister than you. – Unknown
- We acquire friends and we make enemies, but our sisters come with the territory. – Evelyn Loeb
- 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
- We know one another’s faults, virtues, catastrophes, mortifications, triumphs, rivalries, desires, and how long we can each hang by our hands to a bar. We have been banded together under pack codes and tribal laws. — Rose Macaulay
Sister Love Quotes
- Whatever you do they will love you; even if they don’t love you they are connected to you till you die. You can be boring and tedious with sisters, whereas you have to put on a good face with friends. — Deborah Moggach
- Sisterly love is, of all sentiments, the most abstract. Nature does not grant it any functions. – Ugo Betti
- 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
- I know my older sister loves me because she gives me all her old clothes and has to go out and buy new ones. – Unknown
- 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
Best Friend Sister Quotes
- Girls will be your friends – they’ll act like it anyway. But just remember, some come, some go. The ones that stay with you through everything – they’re your true best friends. – Marilyn Monroe
- 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
- How the hell do you sum up your sister in three minutes? She’s your twin and your polar opposite. She’s your constant companion and your competition. She’s your best friend and the biggest bitch in the world. She’s everything you wish you could be and everything you wish you weren’t. – M. Molly Backes
- I know some sisters who only see each other on Mother’s Day and some who will never speak again. But most are like my sister and me… linked by volatile love, best friends who make other best friends ever so slightly less best. – Patricia Volk
Short Sister Quotes
- What’s the good of news if you haven’t a sister to share it? – James DeVries
- When mom and dad don’t understand, a sister always will. – Unknown
- When sisters stand shoulder to shoulder, who stands a chance against us? – Pam Brown
- Sister to sister we will always be, a couple of nuts off the family tree. — Unknown
- Sisterhood is powerful. — Robin Morgan
- Sisters are blossoms in the garden of life. — Unknown
- Our roots say we’re sisters, our hearts say we’re friends. – Unknown
- Of two sisters one is always the watcher, one the dancer. — Louise Glück
- Elder sisters never can do younger ones justice! – Charlotte M. Yonge
- How do people make it through life without a sister? – Sara Corpening
- You can kid the world, but not your sister. – Charlotte Gray
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