Quotations About / On: SISTER

A gorgeous example of denial is the story about the little girl who was notified that a baby brother or sister was on the way. She listened in thoughtful silence, then raised her gaze from her mother's belly to her eyes and said, "Yes, but who will be the new baby's mommy?"

She saw a dust bearing bee sink into the sanctum of a bloom; the thousand sister calxes arch to meet the love embrace and the ecstatic shiver of the tree from root to tiniest branch creaming in every blossom and frothing with delight. So this was a marriage!

Anne: He hit me, Jack. My own brother, he hit me.
Jack: Your brother's an old-fashioned man, he believes in a sister's honor. Me, I'm Modern Man, the 20th-century type. I run.

"Don't let him cut my hand off—
The doctor, when he comes. Don't let him, sister!"
So. But the hand was gone already.

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.

I take your arms boldly,
each day a new excursion.
Come, my sister,
we are two virgins,
our lives once more perfected
and unused.

I am greatly pleased with your account of Fanny; I found her
in the summer just as you describe, almost another sister, M&
could not have supposed that a niece would ever have been so much
to me. She is quite after one's own heart.

Underneath this sable hearse
Lies the subject of all verse:
Sidney's sister, Pembroke's mother;
Death ere thou has slain another,
Fair, and learned, and good as she,
Time shall throw a dart at thee.

I knew this guy that broke my sister's nose when I was a kid and I always thought that's why he became a priest. He tied her up in a chair and it was like, you know, I thought he was like overcompensating.

Before any woman is a wife, a sister or a mother she is a human being. We ask nothing as women but everything as human beings.