(491 quotes found)
“Just because we're sisters under the skin doesn't mean we've got much in common.”
Angela Carter
“For Catholics before Vatican II, the land of the free was pre-eminently the land of Sister Says-except, of course, for Sister, for whom it was the land of Father Says.”
Wilfrid Sheed
“First, the baby loves mother's milk; second, he learns of his mother and father; third, his brothers, sisters and aunts; fourth, the love of play awakens. Fifth, he runs after food and drink; sixth, in his sexual desire, he does not respect social customs. Seventh, he gathers wealth and dwells in his house; eighth, he becomes angry, and his body is consumed. Ninth, he turns grey, and his breathing becomes labored; tenth, he is cremated, and turns to ashes. His companions send him off, crying out and lamenting. The swan of the soul takes flight, and asks which way to go.”
Sri Guru Granth Sahib
“So your flesh shall be part of mineAnd part of mine be yours.Brother and sister we shall beWhose unity endures.Always the sister doll will cry,Made in these careful ways,Cry on and on, Come back to me,Come back, in a few days.”
William Empson
“Sisters are always drying their hair. Locked into rooms, alone, they pose at the mirror, shoulders bare, trying this way and that their hair, or fly importunate down the stair to answer the telephone.”
Phyllis McGinley
“He may have hair upon his chest but, sister, so has Lassie.”
Cole Porter
“Watch out sister, watch out brother, watch our childer while they kill each other with a gun they bought at Wal-Mart discount stores.”
Sheryl Crow
“Real excellence and humility are not incompatible one with the other, on the contrary they are twin sisters.”
Jean Baptiste Lacordaire
“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
“The Japanese even forced fathers to rape their own daughters or sons their mothers, brothers their sisters in order to further degrade the victims.”
Iris Chang
