Sister Quotes

We’ve collected the best Sister Quotes from the greatest minds of the world: Elle Fanning, Goldust, Phillip Phillips, Maurice Sendak, Jenny Lewis. Use them as an inspiration.

After ‘Somewhere’ came out, people started to recognize me more. Whenever I was walking down the street, they’d be like, ‘Oh, wow – are you Elle Fanning?’ Before ‘Somewhere,’ they asked me if I was Dakota Fanning, because we looked alike, and I’d say, ‘No, I’m her younger sister.’

Elle Fanning

My sister, Kristin Ditto, was a part of the Cowboys organization from 1998 to 2000 as a Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader.

Goldust

My sister has a non-profit organization called Mission Change. It helps the homeless and kids.

Phillip Phillips

Oh, I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness. You went to the movies then, you saw two movies and a short. When Mickey Mouse came on the screen and there was his big head, my sister said she had to hold onto me. I went berserk.

Maurice Sendak

My parents divorced when I was 3 years old. They had a lounge act in Las Vegas, where I was born. The band broke up and the marriage dissolved, and my mother, my sister and I moved to Southern California. And I didn’t see my dad a lot growing up; he was on the road a lot. I’d see him every couple years.

Jenny Lewis

I’ve always loved working out. When I was little, my dad used to make me and my sister do 10 press-ups every day before we brushed our teeth in the morning. It was like a boot camp! Then I did a lot of athletics at school and was a dancer.

Fleur East

I remember having a conversation with my sister, saying, ‘What if I don’t make it? What if I’m still waiting tables when I’m 35?’ I was just at the end of my rope. But I’ve been at the end of that rope several times.

Chelsea Handler

My family had a membership to the Riverside Yacht Club where my brother, Sandy, learned to sail, and I competed in local swim races. My sister, Marcia, became a competitive springboard diver, and my brother excelled in water polo.

Dorothy Hamill

I grew up in a difficult environment, but I became a Christian as a teen. My mom and my sister soon became Christians also.

Melody Carlson

I played the guitar in ninth grade. My sister’s friend went on a semester abroad, and she left the guitar at our house for nine months.

David Walton

My sister’s fish tacos are out of control. I’d give her a restaurant if I were a gazillionaire.

Mary-Louise Parker

If the president of the college had asked me what I thought about Dewey McLean, I’d say he’s a weak sister. I thought he’d been knocked out of the ball game and had just disappeared, because nobody invites him to conferences anymore.

Luis Walter Alvarez

Mom spent the time that she was supposed to be a kid actully raising children, her younger brother and younger sister. She was tough as nails and did not suffer fools at all. And the truth was she could not afford to. She spoke the truth, bluntly, directly, and without much varnish. I am her son.

Chris Christie

My family fled Iran in October 1978 as a result of the coming revolution when I was two years old. In the early days, my entire family lived together in a very crowded house, where I shared a room with my sister, cousin, and grandmother, and we would all listen to my grandmother tell stories before bedtime.

Pardis Sabeti

To make my brothers and my sister laugh was the greatest joy to me in my life. I like people who can make fun of themselves a lot.

Gemma Ward

My sister Kim is like Lucille Ball. She’s magical in terms of her performance and her writing.

Marlon Wayans

I was crawling out of the bedroom window with my older sister when I should have still been playing with dolls.

Beth Moore

I’m like your mother, your sister, whatever.

Carol Burnett

I remember the first time I met my wife, Elisa. As a favor to a friend, I had gone to her home to pick up her sister, Frances. Elisa opened the door, and at least for me, it was love at first sight.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

I’m a pretty good drummer. I’m pretty good at guitar, bass and piano. I can play accordion; I’m not virtuoso. I’ve played cello before. My sister played it, and I know how to play it, but I’m not the best. Violin is kind of the same thing.

Brendon Urie

The world’s most competitive man, my dad. Wouldn’t let us win at Monopoly… he wouldn’t cut any slack for his children. My sister’s also very, very competitive but she is more concerned than I am with being liked. So she hides it away. I try to make my competitiveness part of my charm.

Giles Coren

My sister is a nurse and saves people’s lives.

Nicholas Lea

My sister is a good story of resiliency. She had a full ride at UC Davis, but she left school to go to the Philippines – and then she decided to go back to school in her 40s, which surprised me. She went to UC Berkeley, and I think she was one of two African Americans in her class at Haas. She’s really impressive.

Chili Davis

Ladies and gentlemen, my mother thanks you, my father thanks you, my sister thanks you, and I thank you!

George M. Cohan

When I was a child I thought I saw an angel. It had wings and kinda looked like my sister. I opened the door so some light could come into the room, and it sort of faded away. My mother said it was probably my Guardian Angel.

Denzel Washington

Lord, confound this surly sister, blight her brow with blotch and blister, cramp her larynx, lung and liver, in her guts a galling give her.

John Millington Synge

I know that books I have written will still resonate in 50 years – particularly ‘My Sister’s Keeper.’ It has sold three million copies in the States alone. I strongly feel that, as a novelist, you have a platform and the ability to change people’s minds.

Jodi Picoult

I had a sister who was killed in a motorcycle wreck when I was around 4 years old. My parents adopted her son, and so my nephew became my brother. He was three years older than me, so through him, I was exposed to hip-hop.

Big Smo

Actually, Keke is my nickname. When I was little, my sister was about four years old, and she had an imaginary friend named Keke. And she wanted my name to be Keke.

Keke Palmer

Making movies was more a reaction to not being chosen for sports. Other kids were out there playing at whatever; I was off making something blow up and filming it, or making a mould of my sister’s head using alginating plaster.

J. J. Abrams

My older sister was at the cusp of new wave, and I had older brothers from my father’s first marriage who were rock ‘n’ roll guys, so I was exposed to a lot of popular culture.

Paul Thomas Anderson

I was fortunate enough to book a pilot, and we just got picked up for a midseason replacement for ABC. It’s called ‘Romantically Challenged,’ and I’m going to be playing Alyssa Milano’s little sister. The other actor in it is Kyle Bornheimer from ‘Worst Week’ – he’s hilarious.

Kelly Stables

My sister has been there for me through everything.

Brad Goreski

My mother’s sister was killed in a trolley car accident, so I was raised as one of eight with my sister and six male cousins.

Alan King

My own mother, my sister and nearly all the women in my family had full-time jobs as mothers. They were wonderful at it. They drove their children back and forth to soccer, skating lessons, piano lessons, private schools, but I sensed, even in my own mother, a kind of distant dissatisfaction.

Janine di Giovanni

I was born and brought up in Liverpool with my clever little sister Jemma, who is 14 and wants to be a vet. My mum Jane is an administrator and my dad Peter is a taxi driver.

Jennifer Ellison

It was one of the great pleasures of my life to donate the entire sum of the Nobel Prize, in memory of my sister Ruth Blobel, to the restoration of Dresden.

Gunter Blobel

My mother would work 14 hours, and she’d come home, and she’d just get right into cooking… she wanted to make sure my brother, my sister and I had food in our bellies.

Michelle Phan

I’m the ugly sister. I’m the fat one. I’m the transvestite. I have had those mean things said about me at least twice a day for the last five years. It’s horrible, you know? But I can brush that stuff off.

Khloe Kardashian

My major influence was my ten years older sister.

Willa Ford

And now, dear sister, I must leave this house or the retreating army will make me a prisoner in it by filling up the road I am directed to take.

Dolley Madison

You can’t go back to work unless you have a great support network, whatever that is. My mum and dad, sister, and husband are great.

Katherine Kelly

I grew up in a family with two very strong women, my mother and my older sister, and they were big influences on my life. I’ve spent a life loving women, and studying them as much as I can, or am allowed to.

Darren Aronofsky

My grandmother would take me to the cinema quite a lot. She’d take me with her and sometimes she’d sneak my sister in, and then we’d sometimes just sit and watch the movie again.

James McAvoy

For much of my life – my sister and I have talked about this – when we moved, we just thought the world behind us disappeared, and all of the people, they just didn’t exist any more.

Marilyn Nelson

I respect everyone, from the homeless brother and sister on the street to the executive that sits in the highest office named President Barack Obama. I respect everyone – but we over-respect no one.

Mo’Nique

My mother is not a Catholic, but she’s always tried to drag my brother and my sister and I to church from a very young age, and we have always put up a little bit of a rebellion against it.

Sophie Kennedy Clark

I’d say we do reach somewhat of a younger audience, but I think for the most part that younger audience is picking our music up from a brother or sister or even parent, who is turning them onto the band.

Alex Lifeson

There were about 30 children at one stage, running around like savages at a place called Callow Hill, near Monmouth, which was owned by my grandparents. They lived in the big house, but my dad had five brothers and a sister, and they all lived in various houses scattered on the hill.

Saul David

With fashion, my mother was an icon, but she never lived it in the sense that she was never obsessed with fashion. When I was a young girl, my sister wasn’t doing fashion, so I started fashion thinking, ‘I’m going to do something that they haven‘t done yet.’ That was my silly scheme at the time.

Lou Doillon

The death of Mrs. Lincoln was a serious loss to her husband and children. Abraham‘s sister Sarah was only eleven years old, and the tasks and cares of the little household were altogether too heavy for her years and experience.

John George Nicolay

The one thing I really lucked out on is that all through my teenage years, when my sister was a lifeguard and everyone I knew was out in the sun all day – I was in the theater. Everyone called me Casper because I never had a tan, and everyone else was tan all the time. I think that was the luckiest thing of my life.

Jennifer Garner

My sister and I – she’s a musician – we jam all the time. We always play around for giggles with stuff that seem unconventional or stuff that seems funny. A lot of the stuff sometimes is just a response from jam sessions in her room, so she’ll be on the guitar or the keyboard, and we’ll just start singing and doing stuff.

Andra Day

With my father and sister being very depressed for most of their lives, it was incumbent on me to try to make them laugh, in this ridiculous way. They were the wittiest people I knew, but to get a smile from them was like winning the lottery.

Miriam Toews

We opened Panda Inn on June 8, 1973. The whole family – my parents, a brother and sister – all worked at the restaurant for free. We lived in a two-bedroom apartment in San Gabriel and didn’t have any money.

Andrew Cherng

Back in Australia, I did foster care for sick cats for years, and I was always most successful with the animals when I was given two – a brother and sister.

Jason Gann

It was tough times in Ohio when we lived there. My dad was between unemployed and just selling random knickknacks at a flea market. My mom was a cashier at a Chinese food restaurant. They both had awesome careers back in Taiwan, and they came here for my sister and I.

Chieh Huang

I didn’t go abroad until quite late. A friend drove us to Amalfi, Italy, for his sister’s wedding when I was a teenager. It was exciting driving through Europe.

David Harewood

The picture has made its million back in four months; I have been overwhelmed by letters, hundreds of them, literally, begging me in my next production not to swing over the shallow trash of mother love, father love, sister love, brother love.

Erich von Stroheim

My sister Kathleen – one year older – was the school’s acting legend. Her thing was getting all the parts, even Tiresias. And I wasn’t going to mess with that.

D. B. Sweeney

My sister, who is a wonderful and beautiful actress now, when she was 11 or 12, she would go out and take pictures of the punk parties in the desert. She used to have blue hair, and she got kicked out of Las Vegas Day School for having blue hair.

Charles Bock

Two brothers and a sister, my niece, my nephew… we’re a very small group. We’re very close, very tight-knit. We spend every holiday weekend together.

Cristela Alonzo

I have six brothers and one sister, and I was an ice hockey player when I was younger. I think my dad thought I was going to be in the women’s league for ice hockey. But, I totally fell in love with drama in grade school, and I asked my mom if I could get involved with it.

Nicola Peltz

I was the youngest child and got a lot more freedom than my brother and sister. I used to wander, doing my own thing under the radar, but I didn’t get in bad, bad trouble.

Paul Giamatti

My brothers were my idols. I’ve always looked up to them and was proud to be their baby sister. I felt like they gave me some cool points, too.

Shelley Hennig

The Pleasure Seekers eventually turned into Cradle, when we started writing our own material. My younger sister Nancy was brought in as singer and I kind of stepped aside as main lead singer and concentrated on my instrument.

Suzi Quatro

We’d get these boxes of clothing in the mail, and my mom would say, ‘What makes you think all this is for you? You’ve got a sister right behind you.’ So then I realized, we’re all in this together. We have to help each other.

Ruby Bridges

I did not have a normal life. I’d be training when my sister would be at birthday parties and sleepovers. I finished high school by correspondence, basically working two full-time jobs. The last years were very, very tough. But I was willing to do that. It’s all about sacrifice.

Eugenie Bouchard

Yeah, I started when I was 6 years old. My brother and sister would get all of these presents at Christmas time from the cast and crew of their show and I was jealous. So I decided that I had to become an actor.

Sara Gilbert

My parents were mourning the death of my sister. She was killed in a car accident before I was born, and I didn’t know she existed until I was 13 or 14 years old. I knew I was growing up in a house where people were angry and sad.

Andrew Hudgins

My mum and dad weren’t together when I was born. When I was a teenager, dad brought this girl round: here’s your sister. She was only two years old, and I never saw her again from that day.

Kano

When I moved to L.A. a few years ago, my sister hung out with a couple of people with big followings. I’d hang out with them, too, and eventually was tagged in a picture with Acacia Brinley, who does a lot on YouTube. She got me from, like, 6,000 to 17,000 followers over a couple of days.

Lucky Blue Smith

I think that’s important to women in comedy, that we get a lot of the good lines and you’re not just the girlfriend or the sister.

Sharon Horgan

I’m the daughter of two Indian immigrant doctors, and I have an older sister and younger brother, and none of us have pursued medicine as a career. We’re all over the artistic side of things.

Aarti Mann

What a different world it was when I first sailed for Europe in 1930, with my mother, sister, and brother to spend six months abroad.

Gene Tierney

Muriel, my mother, was my main confidant. She was a teacher of English at Watford grammar school but took a break while my sister Madeleine and I were children. She held court in the kitchen, and we talked about everything.

John Sulston

My sister Gloria asked me to try modeling.

Daniel Wu

No life’s worth more than any other, no sister worth less than any brother.

Michael Franti

My sister and I did not have our own rooms, or even a place to ourselves. In the living room, beyond the two windows, was a little corner where my books were kept, and other thing – my watercolors and so on. Often I had to imagine the things I needed. I learned very early to read amidst noise.

Gunter Grass

It was around 4 p.m. in the afternoon. I was just taking a nap. Luckily, my sister was home.

Sherman Austin

I used to make clothes for my sister’s dolls. I couldn’t care less for the dolls, but I could make the clothes really easily.

Philip Treacy

The happiest moments of my childhood were spent on my grandmother’s front porch in Durham, N.C., or at her sister’s farmhouse in Orange County, where chickens paraded outside the kitchen’s screen door and hams were cured in the smokehouse.

Andre Leon Talley

We’re the kind of family that gets together for Sunday lunch. I see my younger sister all the time.

Kate Winslet

There are some guys you definitely would not want dating your sister – especially hockey players.

Patrick Kane

Everybody has fights with their sister.

Joe Williams

One of my kids was born in 1968. There were going to be political difficulties, but they were never going to have that level of hatred and contempt that my brothers and my sister and myself were exposed to.

Toni Morrison

My way to de-stress is either listening to music or talking to my sister, Kourtney. She’s going to teach me how to meditate, and that should help a lot.

Kendall Jenner

When I was a kid, I was roaming through Glastonbury Festival at eight years old, on my own. I say ‘on my own’, but I was probably with my oldest sister Sarah, and she would have been 13 or 14 at the time, so she’d have been walking us around. But I got to go places and meet people, and was trusted a lot, without a doubt.

Alfie Allen

My sister would say I’m a feeder because I like cooking for people.

Tamara Ecclestone

Peter Lucas and I live in Durham but spend a great of time in North Wales, where we have a cottage in the mountains, and in Vermont, USA, with my sister – who is a children’s writer married to a poet.

Anne Stevenson

I have a sister who is technophobic; she doesn’t even use a computer.

George Takei

My father certainly believed that one could make a living outside of an office, as he did. And that if I didn’t want to work for other people, there wasn’t any reason why I had to. He conveyed that very strongly to my sister and I – that smart people can make their own livings.

Amy Bloom

There’s nobody in the world that knows me better than my sister.

Tia Mowry

I was the big, bossy older sister, full of enthusiasms, mad fantasies, desperate urges to be famous, and anxious to be a saint – a settled sort of saint, not one who might have to suffer or die for her faith.

Maeve Binchy

My sister’s job does not involve music, but she is an amazing singer and songwriter.

Sigrid

My sister and I had resolved never to become teachers because the job seemed to demand so much. My mother always seemed to be working. Our dining room table was cluttered with papers waiting to be read and graded.

Randi Weingarten

I date African-American women. That’s all I date. In my family, it was never discussed – but I love black women. Nothing beats a sister. However, when you see a female like Jennifer Lopez, you have to acknowledge that there are many beautiful Latino women as well.

Stephen A. Smith

This union has been divided in like a civil war – brother against brother – sister against sister. And I’m pulling it together. We’ve already seen evidence of that in New York, in Pennsylvania, in California. The first thing is we have to get on the same page. We have to be united in one cause.

James P. Hoffa

It was a really fun idea to have a fashion label with my sister but I don’t have an awful lot of time for it because my first love and job is to be an actress.

Sienna Miller

100

My beautiful, selfless sister Manuela Testolini-Benet continues to inspire me to be a better woman. Always thinking of others, always doing God‘s work.

Apollonia Kotero

101

My sister keeps me grounded.

Amanda Seyfried

102

My sister is an ER doctor, and my brother is a teacher.

Rami Malek

103

My older sister was into grime, so she got me into it. When I was ten, I begged her to take me to my first house party, where there were decks and a mic. I ended up falling asleep standing up in the corner.

Stormzy

104

Having parents that have been through the wars of films and having a brother and sister who have done it at the highest level, you gain an appreciation. But we’ve always had closeness as a family. That’s our anchor.

Wyatt Russell

105

Got your mama and sister dabbing.

Quavo

106

I always thought I was a little shy, especially compared to my brother and my sister, but I guess I was always the kid doing performances in the front room.

Linda Cardellini

107

Outside of my parents, it’s my older sister, Ngum. She lives with me in Detroit and helps me with my day-to-day stuff. She’s somebody I’ve always looked up to. When she was leaving high school and going to college, I wanted to follow in her footsteps.

Ndamukong Suh

108

When I was in high school in Los Angeles, my mother, who was a speech therapist, agreed to stay over the weekend with one of her clients and his little sister while the parents went away on vacation. She brought me along.

Mona Simpson

109

My sister, brother, and I are 180 degrees different. Having a conversation with them, you have to tread lightly.

Josie Totah

110

I come from a coffee-loving family, and you can always tell when my sister and I have been around, because both of us collect all the dead coffee from everyone’s morning cup, pour it over ice, and drink it. This is a disgusting habit.

Laurie Colwin

111

Dinner ‘conversation’ at the Cohens’ meant my sister, mom, and I relaying in brutal detail the day’s events in a state of amplified hysteria, while my father listened to his own smooth jazz station in his head.

Andy Cohen

112

Every time I go back to the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute to wait for my test results, and I wonder if I’ve relapsed or if I’m doing okay, I don’t think about my company. I’m proud of everything we’ve done, but at the end of the day, it comes back to family. I’m still a wife, a mom, a sister – all of those things.

Kathy Giusti

113

Well, I have a sister that I’m very close with, and that relationship is probably the most intense relationship of my life to date, probably of my life, period.

Zoe Kazan

114

My Dad, a small-town lawyer, was also named Paul. Until we lost him when I was 16, he was a gentle presence in my life. I like to think he’d be proud of me and my sister and brothers, because I’m sure proud of him and of where I come from, Janesville, Wisconsin.

Paul Ryan

115

When I was about 3, my grandfather used to give me and my sister a nickel to sit out on the front porch with him and sing songs.

Tommy Shaw

116

I think the most fun part about working on ‘Good Luck Charlie‘ is spending time with everyone, honestly, because everybody on set is like my brother and sister and mom and dad. They’re so fun to be around, so that’s probably the best part about working there.

Bradley Steven Perry

117

My sister and I truly are best friends.

Solange Knowles

118

I love being a mother. I loved being a daughter, a sister, a wife. I love being a woman with men. I love having given birth.

Jessica Lange

119

It’s true – my mother kicked me out the house at 14. I had to go live with my sister. I had some problems. I was very rebellious as a kid. I don’t even know why or where it came from, but I had a lot of anger. Me and my mom clashed a lot because she didn’t tolerate that, as she shouldn’t from a 14-year-old.

Michael Che

120

My brother and sister had a much worse childhood, I think, because they were older, and they had to deal with a lot more racism because they grew up in the ’70s and I grew up more in the ’80s. So they had to deal with crosses being burned on their lawn and their dogs being poisoned.

Mariah Carey

121

My sister is a mess. I love her to death, but she is a mess.

RJ Mitte

122

My sister, I have a sister who’s 12 years older, she was always the party girl, the outrageous one.

Selma Blair

123

During the Second World War, we lived in a flat on Whitechapel Road in the East End of London. At one point during the blitz, the air-raid sirens went off every night for 30 nights, and each time, my parents would grab my sister and me and take us to the shelter beneath Whitechapel underground station.

Steven Berkoff

124

The original fairy tale was about the youngest sister going into a room in the castle and finding all the bodies of the wives that came before her – she is confronted with truth, thinking about how often we think we know people and we really don’t.

Alice Hoffman

125

Every song brings back memories, like I remember where I wrote all these songs. ‘Universal Heartbeat’ was my apartment in New York City. ‘My Sister’ was at my apartment in Boston. I remember places and I remember what I was thinking when I wrote it.

Juliana Hatfield

126

When I was a kid, we didn’t eat in restaurants much, but a good report card meant my sister or I could choose anyplace in town for a dinner out, and I always picked Benny‘s, a dive bar near the train station, because they had the best nachos around.

Rosecrans Baldwin

127

It’s equally as important to me to be a good friend and a good sister and a good daughter. I’m very close with my family and friends.

Winona Ryder

128

My grandmother was a teacher, my sister was a teacher, my daughter was a teacher and is now a superintendent in northern California, and my son-in-law is a high school principal. I am surrounded.

Loni Anderson

129

I was not expecting my sister to ask me to be her best man. I was so honored.

Brad Goreski

130

I picked up the Puerto Rican accent from my father, and my sister picked up my mother’s very clear, concise, and slow Mexican–Spanish. So, when she does speak, she speaks with diction. She pronounces every word.

Alanna Ubach

131

My sister was an actress when I was a kid – she still is a successful stage actress in Sweden.

Joel Kinnaman

132

When I was in Beck’s world, I felt like the little sister. I’m in the big brother‘s room with all his friends. You just hang out and keep your mouth shut so they don’t realize you’re there and kick you out. I like being in situations where I can be an underdog, where I can be in the corner and observe and soak it in.

Feist

133

There is a page in ‘Diary of a Worm’ in which the worm tells his sister that no matter how much time she spends looking in the mirror, her face will always look just like her rear end. Any girl that grew up with brothers can relate to the merciless teasing.

Doreen Cronin

134

But mathematics is the sister, as well as the servant, of the arts and is touched by the same madness and genius.

Marston Morse

135

I’ve been working on my relationship with my parents and my sister over the years. We have become more close. I think having kids makes you want to keep the gang together.

Tre Cool

136

I got into psychology simply because that’s what my sister did, and I grew up in a family that was very, like, ‘Follow your sister’s footsteps.’ I went to the same school she went to, did the same degree she did… really had no interest in it, to be honest.

Lilly Singh

137

My sister’s a big karaoke person, and she’s never been able to get me to do it.

Sarah Paulson

138

Well, I used to have a sister, but I never got to meet her because she died after two days, I think. So if I got a tattoo, it would probably have to be something to do with my sister. I actually want to get a tattoo when I’m older of something about her.

Chloe Grace Moretz

139

In kindergarten, we had this Irish Catholic headmistress called Sister Leonie, and I remember she would tell us, say, to put the crayons in the box. I remember thinking, ‘Why is everyone finding this so easy? Why should the crayons be in the box?’

Binyavanga Wainaina

140

Most people call my style of dress slovenly, I call it extreme casual. If I didn’t have a mother and a sister for the times I do have to get dressed, I would be absolutely lost.

Joshua Jackson

141

My mother, sister and I watched through the windows as my father gambled.

Tom Berenger

142

My sister, mom and I all wear the same size, so I shop a lot at a boutique called ‘my mother’s closet’ that is right down the hall from my bedroom. She has vintage Comme des Garcons dresses that I feel so elegant wearing.

Zoey Deutch

143

To steal from a brother or sister is evil. To not steal from the institutions that are the pillars of the Pig Empire is equally immoral.

Abbie Hoffman

144

When you grow up without a brother or sister, you tend to see things just through your own eyes. You have friends and everything, but you spend most of your time watching TV or sat in a room making decisions about your life on your own.

Bernard Sumner

145

When I first moved to L.A., I didn’t have a lot of money to join a gym or take classes, so I improvised. My sister and I went to the library and looked over their DVD collection and discovered Neena and Veena, these Egyptian twins who have a whole series of belly dancing routines. We did them all.

AnnaLynne McCord

146

I’m the only member of my family who dared to move away from Birmingham – my brothers and sister are still here, along with my mom.

David Harewood

147

My sister is nine years younger than I am.

Phoebe Dynevor

148

I have a really hard time watching my sister act in anything, but especially anything where it’s a strong emotion.

Danielle Panabaker

149

When I was a kid, I used to pretend to be Bond; I used to make up scenarios and irritate my sister and annoy my mother and father pretending to be someone else, so I kind of was already acting when I was a child. I just didn’t really know it.

Aneurin Barnard

150

When I was growing up I always wanted to be a waitress. My sister opened a restaurant in Mississippi, and I went down there and was a waitress for a few days. Let me tell you, I got it out of my system.

Lacey Chabert

151

Me and my brother just used to fight all the time; then my sister came along, and it was all about the little girl in the house. We’d always eat dinner together as a family.

Greg Rutherford

152

Modeling is always something I’ve really admired because I’ve seen my mum and sister do it.

Georgia May Jagger

153

When I was a young co-ed at Arizona State University, my sister was the president of the College Republicans. I was her secretary.

Rachel Campos-Duffy

154

I had an older brother who passed away recently, an older sister and a younger brother.

Steve Case

155

The most moving scene for me in ‘Pride and Prejudice‘ is the Pemberley music room scene: Elizabeth has just saved Darcy’s sister from embarrassment and confusion, and as the music plays on, Darcy’s look of gratitude becomes a look of love, which we see reciprocated in Elizabeth’s eyes.

Andrew Davies

156

My twin sister, my cousin, and I used to write and perform plays for my family. We raided the closets for costumes and fought over parts. I’m sure I was the bossiest one.

Connie Britton

157

My nickname is The Fonz. My sister Lori nicknamed me it when I was younger and it stuck.

Nicole Appleton

158

My sister Mathilde is an actress, but more like a French Jennifer Aniston. She’s famous just in France. She’s very commercial and does big comedies. So, acting was part of my family, and that’s how I was raised.

Emmanuelle Seigner

159

Once I showed up at my sister’s with a baby rabbit I had bought from some children because its ears were cold. I put the rabbit on a hot water bottle and massaged its ears for quite a while. After all, I knew that all healthy animals had warm ears.

Juliette Gordon Low

160

I was always bossing my sister around.

Vanessa Kirby

161

As a child, I studied violin. My sister, who’s 10 years older, was the actress in the family. I was painfully shy.

J. Smith-Cameron

162

My sister is not a public person, so I don’t think it’s right to discuss her.

Laura Schlessinger

163

Education was something my parents always put a lot of emphasis on. It was naturally in me, and my sister is equally driven. She is a paediatric endocrinologist.

Imran Amed

164

India is my kid sister.

Salman Rushdie

165

Our home had many books due principally to the educational interests of my sister and two brothers, all of whom where serious students engaged in professional studies; my sister became a doctor of medicine and my brothers became lawyers.

Frederick Reines

166

My sister plays piano, and my brother used to be on the drums. My dad sings; he’s got a good voice.

Joseph Parker

167

I’ve got a pretty close bond with everyone in my family. I’ve got a brother and a sister whom I’m very close to, and my parents have always been the world’s best parents.

Freddie Stroma

168

I moved to L.A. I wasn’t really sure what I wanted to do, but I really like the entertainment industry. I started to make videos on YouTube to get more comfortable being in front of the camera. The first video I filmed was with my sister.

Rosanna Pansino

169

Can you imagine peaking as a teen? I think if you peak in high school, there’s a problem. That’s what my sister always said: ‘Don’t worry, you’ll peak later.’

Chelsea Handler

170

A couple of fans followed my sister and I all the way to the airport from a live show that we did in Canada. Our driver had to pull over and fake a turn to lose them, but they actually showed up in the airport just before we went through customs.

AJ Michalka

171

At least in the United States, most economic resentment is not directed toward billionaires or high-roller financiers – not even corrupt ones. It’s directed at the guy down the hall who got a bigger raise. It’s directed at the husband of your wife’s sister, because he earns 20 percent more than you do.

Tyler Cowen

172

I’m not like other writers. I’m not hung up on using my own songs. In fact, my sister Bunny always tells me I sing other people’s songs better than my own. She says I loosen up and give the songs a different feel.

El DeBarge

173

I started singing in church with my sister Maria when I was four, and I’ve been pretty much singing ever since. There’s never been anything else for me to do.

Imelda May

174

I didn’t have a teacher like Sister Mary Ignatius.

Christopher Durang

175

I’m used to being around kids. Even when I was growing up in London, I had an older sister, I had a younger sister that I used to look after from time to time.

David Beckham

176

Because my dad died when I was young, and I have a severely disabled sister, I couldn’t really push the envelope at home.

Rory Kinnear

177

I was a very imaginative child, and my parents were very encouraging of that. My sister and I would put on plays; I would write my own stories.

Hannah Kent

178

I showed up in October 1946, part of an early surge that would become a great nationwide baby boom. My sister Kathy was born a year later.

Tim O’Brien

179

I know when I was growing up in New York, whenever I turned on the television, I never saw a face that looked like me. Whenever there was an Asian person on television, it would be a huge event, me calling to my older sister ‘There’s an Asian person on television!’ It was unheard of back then.

Yunjin Kim

180

My brother, a businessman, is the main cook in his home and my sister teaches cookery. Good food and good music were the mainstays of my childhood.

Ainsley Harriott

181

I do have a sister – I have two sisters.

Tayari Jones

182

My poor sister was forced to be in the plays that I would write. We would go to my grandma‘s retirement building and perform ‘Phantom of the Opera.’

Lindy Booth

183

I always sang. I wanted to be in a band with my sister, and I was, at 11. At 12, I started writing seriously, and that was my pacifier all through high school – that and painting.

Cyndi Lauper

184

My first job is big sister and I take that very seriously.

Venus Williams

185

I was born in Corpus Christi, Texas, the youngest of four girls, including my oldest sister, Lisa, who has special needs. My mom was a special education teacher, and my dad worked on the Army base. We weren’t wealthy, but we were determined to succeed.

Eva Longoria

186

I grew up believing my sister was from the planet Neptune and had been sent down to Earth to kill me. I believed this because my sister Emily convinced me of it when I was a toddler. I think she’d seen Invasion of the Body Snatchers and her imagination ran away with her. There’s a part of me that still believes it.

Zooey Deschanel

187

I had a sister who died many years ago, and I believe that she protects me from the sky. She was eight years old. It was a car accident in Argentina. I was five or six, so it was much worse for my parents.

Juan Martin del Potro

188

John D. Rockefeller apparently became more of a tightwad the richer he got. I don’t know if it is true, but one story I read was about one of his sons having to wear his older sister’s clothes in order to save money.

Robert Kiyosaki

189

Every time I was playing basketball, I felt sick to my stomach. I didn’t realize that feeling was having to leave my family – having to leave my sister, who can’t even communicate with me when I’m gone.

Elena Delle Donne

190

Turning the heat up on the red carpet while still looking like a lady isn’t as easy as it sounds. Too much va-va-voom, and a girl can look like she just stepped out of ‘Jersey Shore.’ Too little, and she’ll look like a sister wife.

Derek Blasberg

191

My parents from a very young age raised my sister and I under a pressure to achieve. They’re both attorneys. So good marks, getting through university, there was a huge emphasis and pressure to do well and keep going.

David Schwimmer

192

My sister is totally my dad’s daughter because she loves sports.

Ashley Tisdale

193

It’s really good to have so distinctive a name as an actress. No one ever forgets it. My sister and brother are called Perdita and Rollo. Actually, my family calls me ‘Hollyhocks.’

Honeysuckle Weeks

194

My sister is a lesbian and I want her to have that same feeling. A civil partnership is not the same as marriage. She’s in a serious relationship with a girl I am obsessed with. I would love her to marry her girlfriend because I love her so much.

Vogue Williams

195

Anglo-Saxon kings often used to favour their sister’s son to their own – for at least you could guarantee there was your own blood in your sister’s son!

Kate Williams

196

Everything I know about makeup, I’ve learned from my sister.

Emily Deschanel

197

My sister Tiffany told me years ago, ‘You can never write about me.’ Then she called six months ago and said she wanted to be in a story. She was worried people thought I didn’t like her.

David Sedaris

198

I have three siblings. My sister makes music. My older brother is a classical conductor, and my younger brother is a mixing engineer.

Lisa Loeb

199

I’ve been drawing my whole life. My mom says my sister and I were drawing by age 1. Animation seems a real, natural extension of drawing as a way of telling a story visually.

Jennifer Yuh Nelson

200

I believe strongly in the rights of women… my mother is a woman, my sister is a woman, my daughter is a woman, my wife is a woman.

Abdullah of Saudi Arabia

201

My younger sister retired a few years ago after a 30-year career teaching history and social studies at an inner-city high school.

Judy Woodruff

202

I have a wonderful shelter, which is my family. I have a wonderful relationship with my brother and sister; this makes me feel that I know always where I belong.

Jose Carreras

203

My sister is a masseuse, so we trade – she gives me massages and I give her prepared meals. It’s a great system I’d recommend: Cook or babysit for a friend in exchange for one of her skills.

Giada De Laurentiis

204

I started studying music at the age of five and a half. My older sister was taking piano lessons. When her teacher left our apartment, I would get up on the piano bench and start picking out the notes that were part of my sister’s lessons.

Marvin Hamlisch

205

Well, my sister played trumpet. Can you imagine having a sister blowing the trumpet around the house, Fred? And my brother, he played piano. Everybody was playing some kind of music, so it was natural for me to get into it.

Freddie Hubbard

206

I basically don’t do that well with children, although my sister says I’m a great aunt.

Ann B. Davis

207

Earth as an ecosystem stands out in the all of the universe. There’s no place that we know about that can support life as we know it, not even our sister planet, Mars, where we might set up housekeeping someday, but at great effort and trouble we have to recreate the things we take for granted here.

Sylvia Earle

208

Raw parsley makes me gag. It’s the same for my mum and my sister. Which is funny because apparently parsley was used to suffocate witches, back in the day.

Daisy Lowe

209

My parents decided – because they were not going to teach us anything Jewish at home – to send both me and my sister to a Jewish primary school. So I went to Kerem Primary School in Hampstead Garden Suburb. But, for me, that school really didn’t work that well.

Noreena Hertz

210

I bought a house for my mom, I bought a house for my dad, I bought a house for my sister.

Trey Parker

211

My little sister Kylie puts an amazing outfit together every day, and it just works for her. For me, it’s more like jeans, boots, maybe a jacket. Sometimes I get caught in my sweats.

Kendall Jenner

212

I’m passionate about being true to myself, sending good energy to the people around me, traveling, staying inspired, being a good friend, being a good daughter, being a good sister.

Erin Wasson

213

When my sister and I came along, my father’s political life was completely over. He ran for president the year I was born. So that was the end of it. He had been congressman first, then governor, before all that. So when we came along, he was running the Dayton newspaper.

Anne Cox Chambers

214

‘Yellow Moon’ was a poem. My wife at the time, Joel – she’s dead now – it was our 25th anniversary. She had the chance to go on a cruise with her sister. And I’m home with the kids and looking up, and I saw the big moon, and I just started writing.

Aaron Neville

215

I have a brother and sister; my mother does not care for thought, and father, too busy with his briefs to notice what we do. He buys me many books, but begs me not to read them, because he fears they joggle the mind.

Emily Dickinson

216

A lot of the time, the way it’s portrayed is that I only see women in a sexual way. But I grew up with just my mum and sister, so I respect women a lot.

Harry Styles

217

I had a nutty career. I was living in New York. Then I got to an age where my friends and sister were having children, and I started to think I needed to orient myself towards a world where it could happen.

Lisa Cholodenko

218

I have a really hard time watching my sister act in anything but especially anything where it’s a strong emotion. Whether she’s crying or she’s angry or she’s – whatever emotion she’s feeling I actually think that she’s feeling it and I want to hug her and make it all better.

Kay Panabaker

219

My sister is not my mother, but more than anyone else, she fills that role for me now – like it or not. And indeed, all women I know play that role for somebody – like it or not.

Sandra Tsing Loh

220

I personally think my sister is so stunning without makeup. And she doesn’t wear that much makeup because she has the best skin color.

Gigi Hadid

221

My sister can walk down the street and just know what’s going on with people. She’ll say, ‘Oh, they’re going through a divorce’ or, ‘Their kid just went off to college’ or, ‘He just got a great job.’

Bryce Dallas Howard

222

In my own family, my mother had my sister when I was 15 and for various reasons, I was extremely involved in raising her.

Rosalind Wiseman

223

Mondays I sleep. I go in at ten, do my lift, watch the game from the day before. Tuesday is off, but I go in, lift, watch film. Then I have French toast with my sister.

Ndamukong Suh

224

My mom was a diabetic. Her sister was a diabetic, so I was already a candidate.

Angie Stone

225

Having artist parents, they knew the importance of exposing me and my sister to all types of music and art and making art part of our every day. it was just always there.

Gretchen Parlato

226

All the awards in the world, you can get into all the nightclubs, they’ll send you the nicest clothes. Nothing better than walking into your dad’s restaurant and seeing a smile on his face and knowing that your mom and dad and your sister are real proud of you.

Lady Gaga

227

When I was 17, my dad was teaching in the States. He hired an A-Team-style van, and we drove all over. My resounding memory of it was that we saw all these wonderful places but that my sister and I were being horrible, sulky teenagers.

Greg Davies

228

Throughout my college years, I’d watch my sister squeal every Christmas as she unwrapped another ‘Buffy’ DVD set. I didn’t know much about the series, but I was filled with that obnoxious self-importance that comes from having decided to be an Academic Who Reads Serious Things.

Marie Rutkoski

229

My character’s kind of grown up with Katniss. The beginning of the story, they’re more or less brother and sister than anything. They’re best friends. They’ve been keeping each other alive. It’s a little frustrating, for the character. As the character, not as me.

Liam Hemsworth

230

Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.

Margaret Mead

231

My look was even more solidified when I started singing in Greenwich Village with my sister Lucy. We wore matching dresses as the Simon Sisters.

Carly Simon

232

All the women close to me – my mother, sister, wife and friends – are strong and independent.

Gautham Menon

233

We lived in a tall, narrow Victorian house, which my parents had bought very cheaply during the war, when everyone thought London was going to be bombed flat. In fact, a V-2 rocket landed a few houses away from ours. I was away with my mother and sister at the time, but my father was in the house.

Stephen Hawking

234

I may have had a crush on Zac, but we are like brother and sister, so nothing would ever happen.

Vanessa Hudgens

235

It’s still a mystery to me, but even though my mother was like an older sister to me, I kind of put her up on a pedestal.

Steven Spielberg

236

Me and my sister made up a game called ‘Milky Cow’. We were on holiday in France when I was 12, and there was a kid who had bovine features, and every time we went past her, we’d say, ‘There’s Milky Cow’.

Greg Davies

237

My mother wanted to name me Jackie or Jacqueline but she got to name my sister and my brother, so my dad and my brother insisted on naming me. And they were big fans of ‘The Little Mermaid.’

Ariel Winter

238

The coolest thing is that my sister and I, you know, we’ve done what a lot of people have not been able to do. Which is to have our own careers, together.

Tia Mowry

239

I’ve been working on my relationship with my parents and my sister over the years.

Tre Cool

240

Ayurveda is a sister philosophy to yoga. It is the science of life or longevity and it teaches about the power and the cycles of nature, as well as the elements.

Christy Turlington

241

I’ll always be the baby in the family. I’m the youngest sister, but growing up with so many boys, it makes you tough. You get teased. There’s no tiptoeing around each other. You say it the way it is; you’re honest.

Nicola Peltz

242

I got so far away from what they told you in acting class: Do something different. Producers kept offering me the ‘Sister Act’ movie, but I said, ‘My fans don’t want to see me in a wimple.’ I literally said, ‘My fans don’t want to see me in a wimple.’

Bette Midler

243

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

John Cornyn

244

My sister is an opera singer. I grew up going to her recitals. This whole time, I’m like, ‘She’s the singer. I’m just strumming along and yelling.’

Benjamin Booker

245

I do have the most adorable little Chihuahua mix. I adopted him about 3 1/2 years ago from Much Love pet adoption, and he has been the love of my life ever since. His name is Beau, or as my sister and I like to call him ‘ mushy mush’ because he truly is just a pile of loving mush that just melts in your arms.

Torrey DeVitto

246

The women I love most are Latina – my sister, mother, and daughter. They’re spontaneous but spend a majority of their time trying to make others happy.

William Levy

247

My mom worked as a pharmacist, but she is one of the best storytellers I know. My sister is a gospel and opera singer and my brother, who passed away, was a writer.

Tunde Adebimpe

248

I came to London when I was 16 and lived with my older sister.

Trinny Woodall

249

I was the little sister that was annoying.

Heidi Klum

250

All my siblings became artists. One’s a novelist, my brother is a painter, my sister was a costume designer.

Caio Fonseca

251

I was the oldest of the children in my family. I had to do a lot of diaper-changing and lunch-making. I was taking my little sister to ballet, picking up my brother, sort of being a super-nanny.

Vin Diesel

252

When I was growing up, my stepmother‘s sister was the chief detective in one of the adjoining towns, so she piqued my interest in crime.

Karin Slaughter

253

One thing that always frustrated me was that, while Benjamin Franklin‘s was the best-known face of the eighteenth century, no one ever took his sister’s likeness.

Jill Lepore

254

I was into all kinds of music as a teen – country music, because my dad was in a band that played country, and whatever my sister and brother were into.

Martina McBride

255

I love kids. I always have. I was an only child until I was 12, and then my sister arrived.

Lorenza Izzo

256

I’m ridiculous in my oversharing; my mom and sister are very open but a little more judicious than me… and my father is a decidedly private person.

Lena Dunham

257

When I was 11, I had an Ugly Sister birthday party. All my idea. Most girls want to be a fairy or a princess, but there I am with beauty spots and fur and fluorescent pink kiss-curls.

Lucy Punch

258

I don’t give up; I go down fighting in everything I do – being a mother, being a wife, being a wrestler, being a Marine, being a sister.

Lacey Evans

259

My mother enjoyed acting as well with my father, who used to direct her in plays at his regiment. My sister is an excellent singer. However, it was only me who decided to pursue acting as a career.

Ajay Mehta

260

Getting close to books, and spending time by myself, I was obliged to think about things I would never have thought about if I was busy romping around with a brother and sister.

Shelby Foote

261

It was very gray, very dreary. Everything was still rationed when I first saw the United States in 1951. I went over to visit my sister who was a war bride.

John Mahoney

262

Family doesn’t necessarily mean that you have to have a mother, a father, a little brother, and an older sister.

Bindi Irwin

263

Ramona was originally an accidental character I added to the Henry Huggins books because I noticed that none of the characters had siblings. I added Ramona as Beazus’ pestering little sister.

Beverly Cleary

264

If I honour my needs first, I will be the best wife, the best mum, the best sister, the best friend. I have to come first, because then everyone benefits.

Gisele Bundchen

265

I’m a big fish eater. Salmon – I love salmon. My sister loves Chinese food and sushi and all that. I’m not as big of a fan, but she likes it so we eat it a lot. So I’m beginning to like it more. I don’t like the raw sushi. I liked the cooked crab and lobster and everything.

Elle Fanning

266

I do not have a family, per se. When I was younger, I grew up in foster care with my brother and sister. It was really a struggle, and knowing that there were people out there with tight-knit families really made my childhood an unfortunate one.

Victor Ortiz

267

If Queen Amezan and Queen Penthesilea could somehow meet in real life, they would recognize each other as sister Amazons. Two tales, two storytellers, two sites far apart in time and place, and yet one common tradition of women who made love and war.

Adrienne Mayor

268

My sister’s great. She’s very bright; she’s very private.

Carrie Brownstein

269

My sister, she’s amazing. She sort of inspired me to take this journey to Latin America.

Jenna Bush

270

Fairy tales were important to me. Aren’t they for any kid? My sister says I spent a good five years of my youth convinced I would grow up to be a princess.

Susannah Grant

271

Madonna and I worked very closely. I was more like the big sister to her.

Maripol

272

I am keenly aware that in writing about my mother, I am writing about my aunts‘ sister, and that in writing about my grandmother, I’m writing about their mother. I know that my honesty about how my view of these people has changed over the years may be painful.

Tracy K. Smith

273

In the summer of 1964, my sister and I went to South Ballston, Virginia, to stay with my aunt and her kids. They passed the civil rights bill that summer; my cousins were so happy because now they could swim in the pool.

Edward P. Jones

274

I am inherently a little brother – that’s just my nature. It has to do with my sister being very strong and wanting to protect me. It’s the natural order of things.

Jake Gyllenhaal

275

On ‘The Guiding Light’ I enjoyed working with Jamie Goodwin and Ellen Parker, who played my sister. I loved working with Jerry Ver Dorn and Jay Hammer. I mean, there’s some great fun people that I’ve really enjoyed.

Kassie DePaiva

276

Language is political. That’s why you and me, my Brother and Sister, that’s why we supposed to choke our natural self into the weird, lying, barbarous, unreal, white speech and writing habits that the schools lay down like holy law.

June Jordan

277

I was the typical little sister who wanted to be just like her older brother. When I was growing up, my brother wrote phenomenal stories, so I wanted to write them, too.

Lisa Graff

278

I was always interested in comedy, like when I was 5 years old. I watched ‘I Love Lucy’ and ‘Benny Hill.’ I would always joke around with my sister. My mom was into comedy, too. She would go to the video store and get a couple of movies and some stand-up comedians‘ tapes.

Ron Funches

279

I want to be alone and work until the day my heads hits the drawing table and I’m dead. Kaput. I feel very much like I want to be with my brother and sister again. They’re nowhere. I know they’re nowhere and they don’t exist, but if nowhere means that’s where they are, that’s where I want to be.

Maurice Sendak

280

I am the proud daughter of Indian immigrants who reminded my brothers, my sister and me every single day how blessed we were to live in this country. They loved the fact that only in America, we could be as successful as we wanted to be, and nothing would stand in our way.

Nikki Haley

281

It has not been an easy cross to bear. It has caused considerable confusion. My husband constantly complained about the awkwardness of being married to a woman whom he called Sister.

Sister Parish

282

My sister used to say I had a frail chest and she ‘d beat me up all the time.

Michael Clarke Duncan

283

My sister Jennifer is an Emmy winning journalist and mother of three amazing girls. She brings an exceptional dedication to her job, her family, and her community, and has been a role model of mine for many, many years. I’m extremely proud of her.

Ron Livingston

284

My mother, who grew up in Pennsylvania, literally washed my mouth out with soap once for saying, ‘Shut up!’ to my sister. She would have washed my mouth out with gasoline if she knew how foul my mouth was racially when she wasn’t around.

John Piper

285

When I was younger, I actually had a ghost face mask, and I stood in my sister’s room in the corner for, like, half an hour until she saw in the reflection, me behind her, and she freaked out and started slapping me.

Rory Culkin

286

I have a feeling that I make a very good friend, and I’m a good mother, and a good sister, and a good citizen. I am involved in life itself – all of it. And I have a lot of energy and a lot of nerve.

Maya Angelou

287

I have many valentines. My mom and my sister and my directors. I got calls from all of them. And my friends. I respect what Valentine’s Day stands for because it is about love.

Michelle Trachtenberg

288

My mum’s amazing. She’s the person I admire most, I think, in her sacrifice to me and my sister and her level of emotional sacrifice to people around her. She takes a high level of personal responsibility for the welfare of people around her.

Jon Richardson

289

I do have a sister. I have never written much about sisters before. I am very close to my sister, but, maybe, because we are very close, it never occurred to me to write about her.

Amy Bloom

290

There are mothers who sew for six months to make a fashion collection – someone’s grandmother, someone’s sister. We come in and get paid to walk for 10 minutes at the end. Whenever I think about that, I realise it’s not about me. I was just the one chosen to represent those women and sell the clothes.

Alek Wek

291

In March 1943, my parents, four-year-old sister and I were interned with other foreign civilians at Lunghua camp, a former teacher training college outside Shanghai, where we remained until the end of August 1945.

J. G. Ballard

292

My sister, singer Jessie Ware, and I are always exchanging music. We brainstormed her wedding playlist for months.

Hannah Ware

293

It was natural to see the struggle for dignity for black people in America as a sister struggle of the Jewish struggle. So growing up, it was always a part of my breakfast cereal to think of myself as someone who was part of a larger struggle.

Eugene Jarecki

294

My elder brother and sister were both sporty and academic, and I think, subconsciously, I knew I couldn’t go down that avenue.

Rose Leslie

295

I remember when I was writing ‘The Tin Drum,’ I had the totally misguided idea of giving Oskar Matzerath a sister, and he just wouldn’t have it. There was no space for a sister, yet I had the character of the sister in my head. In fact I used her in later novels, in ‘Cat and Mouse’ and ‘Dog Years,’ Tulla Pokriski.

Gunter Grass

296

My mother likes to say that I was conceived to shop – not just born to shop. My whole life as a child was following her and her sister and friends around on her shopping trips.

Kevin Kwan

297

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

Liza Minnelli

298

Crime is a very hard genre to feminise. If you have a female protagonist she is going to be looking after her mum when she gets older; she is going to be worried about her brother and sister; she will be making a living while bringing up kids.

Denise Mina

299

The ultimate problem confronting me all my life has been the senseless injury to and neglect of my sister.

Philip K. Dick

300

I love art. My sister is an artist and my mother is a painter, so it is very much in the family. I haven’t ever wanted to be a fine artist myself – my sister robbed me of my artistic talent, I think.

Douglas Booth

301

I’m one of seven kids, and I love being around a bunch of siblings because I think it teaches you independence, and it teaches you how to grow up quickly and also just be a good friend and be a good sister.

Abby Huntsman

302

The labor movement is our brother’s keeper! The labor movement is our sister’s keeper!

Tom Perez

303

I’m a huge ‘Vampire Diaries‘ fan. My sister got me into ‘Doctor Who.’ Those are my biggest things.

Mary Mouser

304

With over 3 million women battling breast cancer today, everywhere you turn there is a mother, daughter, sister, or friend who has been affected by breast cancer.

Betsey Johnson

305

When my mother died, my father was in a crisis, my sister was in a crisis, everyone was in a crisis. I went round the night my mother was lying in the kitchen, and I organised everything, from the undertaker to the funeral… I looked after everybody, I sorted it all out and I’ve done so ever since.

Stuart Rose

306

My sister is an amazing champion; she’s the Fearless Champion, and I couldn’t be more proud to be by her side.

Brie Bella

307

My family made big sacrifices but little gestures mean a lot. My sister took me to training when she was pregnant.

Reiss Nelson

308

I appreciate being able to give back to charities I care about such as the American Diabetes Association – my older sister passed away from diabetes – and Figure Skating in Harlem, which teaches young girls about confidence, focus and goal-setting.

Tamara Tunie

309

I used to have two brown-coloured cats, who were brother and sister, called Bonzo and Bonzetta.

Mini Grey

310

When I was young, I told my sister that she had chunky thighs. She slapped me and I cried. She feels bad about it to this day, but I feel worse.

Jon Heder

311

I was okay with school. My sister Kourtney was extremely smart. I always read a little slower.

Kim Kardashian

312

My sister and brother are both writers as well. We are constantly discussing story and plot lines. And I love to discuss story ideas with my husband.

Ruta Sepetys

313

You can’t tell a 6-year-old your sister is going to die.

Barbara Bush

314

Badshah treats me like a younger sister. He is amazing to work with.

Neha Kakkar

315

My sister made certain choices about the life she wanted. Those choices include a steady job, a husband and children. But balance and stability come at a cost. It is harder for her to be spontaneous. It is harder to just up and leave.

Simon Sinek

316

I grew up with a beautiful gold harp sitting in our living room. My older sister played it.

Diane Paulus

317

My first two books, ‘Letters to a Young Brother’ and ‘Letters to a Young Sister,’ were… distributed pretty widely. Judges in juvenile justice facilities started citing the book as required reading.

Hill Harper

318

My mom doesn’t post on Facebook, but she’ll tell anyone within about the first five minutes of meeting them about my sister and I, in whatever way she can.

Maria Bamford

319

A sister is both your mirror – and your opposite.

Elizabeth Fishel

320

My nana was an actress, my mom was an actress, and my sister, too. So because I was surrounded by it, it really came naturally.

Chris Pine

321

I have three brothers and a sister. One older and three younger. My oldest brother Danny plays Hyde on ‘That ’70s Show,’ and my younger brother Jordan and my sister Allanah act as well, so we’re a bit of an acting family.

Christopher Masterson

322

My earliest musical memory is of my older sister playing me Nirvana‘s ‘Nevermind’ on headphones in the back of the car on a road trip.

Mike Posner

323

Even my Mormon sister checks my rankings on Amazon.com.

Chelsea Handler

324

I come from an artistic family. My dad’s an actor, my mother’s an actress, my sister’s an actress. So I kind of grew up in that kind of environment. Oddly enough, I never really knew about my parents’ work. I’ve seen small clips of it, but we never actually spoke about the business.

Portia Doubleday

325

My sister and I are incredibly close, and we created together from childhood through the time we spent in Chicago at the Annoyance Theatre.

Jill Soloway

326

The marshalling of those resources in order to obtain the maximum war effort for Australia, and a maximum degree of help and cooperation for Great Britain and the sister Dominions, is the primary objective of the new Department.

Harold Edward Holt

327

I come from great stock. I didn’t come from money. My parents both worked really hard to keep food on the table and give my sister and me opportunities to play sports and see what we were good at.

Rickie Fowler

328

There was some indecision as to when I was born. My sister said it was 1916. I’d lost my birth certificate.

Michael Gough

329

When I was eight years old, I was always starving. My brother and sister died from starvation.

Chen Guangbiao

330

My mother has only just got over the fact that I will never play Shrek’s sister – because of the Scottish accent, she thought I’d be perfect.

Ashley Jensen

331

I want a family. I see my sister, and she’s on her second baby, and I’m like, ‘That’s success.’ Having a family – I can’t wait for that.

Adrienne Bailon

332

Almost everything in ‘A Day With Wilbur Robinson‘ has some basis in truth. And yes, my sister did pay me to feed her grapes while she talked to her boyfriend on the phone.

William Joyce

333

My parents are very competitive, so we are very competitive as kids. But it’s a good kind of competition; it’s not a jealousy. You always want to do your best, and if it can’t be you, you want it to be your brother or your sister, you know what I mean?

Janet Jackson

334

When I was a teenager I didn’t really care about music especially with my sister being so successful, I was able to experience it through her.

Ray J

335

My mom was the picture of the blue-collar mom: Two and three and four jobs to make sure that me and my sister never needed, that was her thing.

Ne-Yo

336

It feels very nice to have a sister around in the same profession.

Shamita Shetty

337

Fame hasn’t really affected me. I have a really close knit group around me, and my sister is always with me, so it’s like a bit of a travelling circus.

Laura Mvula

338

Sister Virginia used to say, ‘You’ll be known by the company you keep.’

Michael Scheuer

339

I have an amazing social-media wing man who manages my Facebook fan site. All my blogs get copied there. My e-mail in-box exploded, and I don’t have that kind of time. My mom and sister have their whole life on Facebook, and I’m not there.

Jason Mraz

340

You must recognize that the way to get the good out of your brother and your sister is not to return evil for evil.

Louis Farrakhan

341

My elder sister used to get the fashion magazines, and I would go through them and find things I liked and buy fabric and copy them. But I hated what I looked like. I mean, I was sooo skinny.

Twiggy

342

When my sister was diagnosed with cancer in 1989, her doctor told her that the cancer had probably been in her system for 10 years. By the time cancer’s diagnosed, it’s usually been around for quite a while.

Marianne Williamson

343

I was born 20 years after my eldest sister. I was the pampered child. That kind of love gives you an almost unbreakable backbone. My mother had three kids before me. She let me be completely free. I just never had anything to beat myself up over.

Christian Louboutin

344

I never listened to the Grateful Dead as a teen; the only exposure I got was what came through the walls when my sister was listening to them.

J. K. Simmons

345

A ship’s engine far away on the water expands the summer-night horizon. Both joy and sorrow swell in the dew‘s magnifying glass. Without really knowing, we divine; our life has a sister ship, following quietly another route. While the sun blazes behind the islands.

Tomas Transtromer

346

Going to the theater is such a joyous experience. My dad would take my sister and me to plays when we were very young, like six or seven years old.

Julia Roberts

347

Tuppence was what my grandmother nicknamed my mother, so she gave it to me. My sister is called Angel, and my brother was going to be called Bubba or Sonny, until they let me and my sister name him Josh.

Tuppence Middleton

348

‘Sister Act’ was my first audition out of school. I was 21 and cast as the understudy. It was non-Equity, so I lived in L.A. on $300 a week. I did that for a month and then came to New York to do a couple of gigs, including ‘Hair’ in the park, before going to London with ‘Sister Act,’ where I played the lead.

Patina Miller

349

I never looked at myself as the fat sister. Sometimes I would beat people to the punch and say, ‘Oh I’m the fat, funny one,’ because that’s what people would say about me. But I never really thought that.

Khloe Kardashian

350

My eldest sister Beth is a doctor who studied at Harvard and Columbia and played basketball for Harvard. She set the athletic and academic standard for the rest of us to follow.

Abby Wambach

351

The day I won an Emmy was also the day my father passed away. I received a call from my sister on the way to the ceremony and had to turn my car around and catch the first flight back to Karachi.

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

352

I owe my mum a sense of family. She has kept our family together. I have two brothers and a sister, and they all live a stone‘s throw away from each other in Liverpool.

David Morrissey

353

When I go to the supermarket, I can see people looking in my cart. So I have to be careful what I buy and when. I send my sister to Costco to pick up the personal items.

Jill Biden

354

I want make more records with my sister. I want to go on the road. I want to tour around the world. I want to continue to make great films and work with incredible directors that I respect and look up to.

AJ Michalka

355

You need a strong family because at the end, they will love you and support you unconditionally. Luckily, I have my dad, mom and sister.

Esha Gupta

356

We have two dogs, Mabel and Wolf, and three cats at home, Charlie, George and Chairman. We have two cats on our farm, Tom and Little Sister, two horses, and two mini horses, Hannah and Tricky. We also have two cows, Holy and Madonna. And those are only the animals we let sleep in our bed.

Ellen DeGeneres

357

I was a bratty little sister. I was the youngest of three, and I often felt as though I didn’t fit in.

Dorothy Hamill

358

The only siblings I have are half-siblings. My nuclear family would have been an extra-suffocating threesome. Instead, I have an interesting brother and sister, in-laws, and darling nephews.

Jane Smiley

359

I got kicked out of a club for sticking up for my sister. And I got into a fight that was basically hair pulling and rolling around on the gym floor. The fights make me sound like a hell-raiser, but I’m not proud of them.

Nadine Velazquez

360

I stopped watching horror movies after I watched ‘Candyman’ when I was – I don’t know, fifteen or something. I remember my sister rented it, ‘Candyman,’ and it really, really scared me. And so it was only after I found myself in a horror film that I really went back and kind of rediscovered the genre.

Fiona Dourif

361

We need to pay attention to each other. We are our brother’s keepers. We are our sister’s keepers.

Trai Byers

362

My older sister encouraged me from early on and bought me one of the first guitars I had. She listened to all of the crappy songs that I wrote when I was 8 years old and encouraged me to keep doing it.

Tracy Chapman

363

I have sister issues and parent issues and all sorts of things.

Kim Kardashian

364

I bossed my middle sister around all the time.

Priscilla Chan

365

My late mother was very clear to my sister and I that we were to be strong women; that we were to be effective; that we were to be heard.

Christine Quinn

366

It’s hard to say when my interest in writing began, or how. My mother read to my sister and me every night, and we always loved playing make-believe games. I had a well-primed imagination. I didn’t start thinking about writing as a serious pursuit, a career I could have, until after college.

Sara Zarr

367

I sang a song at my sister’s wedding. My mother forced me into that, too. But that one felt all right.

Adam Sandler

368

My parents, especially my father, discussed the question of my brothers’ education as a matter of real importance. My education and that of my sister were scarcely discussed at all.

Emmeline Pankhurst

369

My dad actually had business cards made up with my sister’s website and my website and all of our information. And he hands them out to people he meets.

Maria Bamford

370

I think the real heroic teachers are the ones who work with kids, like my mom and my sister do.

David Duchovny

371

I’ll come down the stairs, and my parents and sister will be like, ‘What are you wearing?’

Suki Waterhouse

372

After my parents’ divorce in the early seventies, I grew up with my mother, who wasn’t super educated herself. But there were a lot of kids from the subcontinent in the neighbourhood, many of whom were academic achievers. So my sister and I grew up around them, and both of us did well in school.

Sal Khan

373

I have so many strong opinions on the entertainment industry, but if I’m in a deli somewhere, and someone says they love that Adam Sandler movie where he dresses up as his twin sister – well, I don’t want to make people feel bad for how they feel about things. I’m always courteous, not mean.

Andy Kindler

374

Both my mum and dad were great readers, and we would go every Saturday morning to the library, and my sister and I had a library card when we could pass off something as a signature, and all of us would come with an armful of books.

Geraldine Brooks

375

In 1792, my Sister told me, I was growing out of my senses.

Joanna Southcott

376

My sister sometimes does a Todd Barry tribute act.

Todd Barry

377

I was really surprised when I was told that my grandmother did not come to see me till a month after my birth. I was born seven years after my only sister Chandranshu, and my birth was a big disappointment for her.

Saina Nehwal

378

There are absolutely no problems between me, my dad and my sister. Obviously I grew up with just my mum, but my relationship with my dad is just fine.

Norah Jones

379

My position in the family turned out to be a lucky one; I bore neither the brunt of my mother’s newness to parenthood nor the force of her middle-aged traumas, as my younger sister, Ruth, did.

Katharine Graham

380

I becan acting when River was doing this TV series and they needed two kids for the show, so they got me and my little sister, Summer, to do it. After that I did some really weird guest spots with orangutans and stuff.

Joaquin Phoenix

381

My mom is just someone who’s easy to talk to and hang with. My sister, it’s always cool to be able to help her out with things. My brother is fun when we’re just joking and messing around. And my dad is someone who’s helpful with my music and easy to talk to about that stuff because he understands me in that sense.

David Archuleta

382

I wanted to be a composer before anything else. And my sister was listening to Led Zeppelin in the other room! When I heard that, it was a game-changer.

Steve Vai

383

When I got really sick and needed a stem cell transplant, I was fortunate to have a twin sister as the donor.

Kathy Giusti

384

Sister Hinckley and I are learning that the so-called golden years are laced with lead.

Gordon B. Hinckley

385

I ended up meeting my manager because my sister was a receptionist at a management company. My manager is actually my same manager that I have today. That’s how it started. I worked my way.

Katie Cassidy

386

I have a comic character – my sister said that I’m the victim of every joke I tell.

Maria Bamford

387

I am what I am thanks to my mother, my father, my brother, my sister… because they have given me everything. The education I have is thanks to them.

Ronaldinho

388

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

389

You know, my sister, she does my hair, and she says, ‘Why don’t you try changing your hairstyle?’ And I go, ‘I like it. Why would I change something I like?’

Mike Lindell

390

I was born Gaynor Hopkins, one of seven children. My mum, Elsie, and dad, Glyndwr, always said they had seven children, although my sister Paulene was stillborn.

Bonnie Tyler

391

I went out for a film where they wanted seven brothers and one sister, so I was there for half a day while they were waiting for ‘Archie‘ to read for a boy… I’ve had drivers come to pick me up in England looking for a blond, blue-eyed Scottish boy.

Archie Panjabi

392

I come from a family of educators. My sister is a college teacher. My dad is a college teacher, but first a junior high teacher.

J. K. Simmons

393

My family is everything. I am what I am thanks to my mother, my father, my brother, my sister… because they have given me everything. The education I have is thanks to them.

Ronaldinho

394

When I was really little, I was on a Pop Warner squad. I did it for a year. My dad was a Pop Warner football coach. I did it because my best friend was also on this cheer squad, and of course I looked up to my sister who was a cheerleader, so I wanted to cheer.

Ashley Tisdale

395

If you look at ‘The X-Files‘ generally, we did 202 episodes. About 80% of them are not ‘mythology‘ episodes, which tend to be the epic episodes. They deal with the big conspiracies, the search for Mulder’s sister. They deal with what I would call the ‘saga‘ of ‘The X-Files.’

Chris Carter

396

It’s great working with my sister, because we are very close as a family – my brother, my sister and myself. We have a great relationship.

Penelope Cruz

397

When I was really young. My sister and I would create different characters with our Barbie dolls – I’d be the crazy diva Barbie and she’d be the homeless Barbie.

Jordana Brewster

398

My parents, products of the Great Depression, were successful people, but lived in a state of constant fear that my sister and I, and they, would sink into the kind of economic insecurity that their generation knew so well.

Ben Stein

399

I couldn’t really relate much to my younger sister, because she was born in 1992, and I was born in 1986. And then my older sister, we just didn’t get on that much. Although we bonded over hating our stepdad.

Ellie Goulding

400

I wasn’t a good-looking child. I got screwed out of the genetic deal. My sister looks like a model. I think that’s why I’m a comic. I’m deeply insecure, since I was always feeling ugly. I wasn’t a healthy child. I had poor self-esteem. That’s why I need people’s approval.

Nikki Glaser

401

I started walking at night with my sister in law which has been amazing. It really does something for you. It just kind of clears the mind, it just makes you feel better, things start to tighten a little bit.

Ashley Scott

402

I think that when I was child, acting was mostly just a hobby for me. It was something that my parents encouraged me to think of the way that my brothers thought of their cross-country classes, or my little sister to dance classes and art classes, and it was something like that for me.

Mara Wilson

403

My sister had been praying for me since I was born: my sister, Stephanie, my namesake. That’s what she is to me; my namesake – Stephanie, Stephon. Stephanie – that’s my daughter’s name. I kept it in the family.

Stephon Marbury

404

No matter if my dad had to work, or my sister was gone until 7, or I had basketball practice until 8, we always ate together. I think that’s a big part of the Hispanic family, the culture. That is key to our existence, really.

Diana Taurasi

405

My sister Liza and I have never felt that we were in competition.

Lorna Luft

406

I basically drew my own family. My father’s name is Homer. My mother’s name is Margaret. I have a sister Lisa and another sister Maggie, so I drew all of them. I was going to name the main character Matt, but I didn’t think it would go over well in a pitch meeting, so I changed the name to Bart.

Matt Groening

407

Probably my sister was the only one to tell me that I was good singer until ‘America’s Got Talent.’

Grace VanderWaal

408

When I was nine, I was diagnosed with an irregular heartbeat and was prescribed beta blockers, which had the side effect of turning my skin green. Looking like Shrek’s little sister at school wasn’t the easiest thing.

Jessie J

409

I called up and said, ‘Dad, I won a MacArthur.’ My father goes: ‘I always thought your sister would win that,’ and I said, ‘Dad, just say congratulations and keep your private thoughts private.’ At that point he laughed, then burst into tears, and it was obvious that he was so happy and proud.

Bonnie Bassler

410

‘Black Beauty,’ by Anna Sewell, remains a star-dusted memory because my mom read it aloud to my sister and me at night for months. I was no more than 7.

Scott Turow

411

My sister and I cooked a lot together; my sister was a very healthy vegetarian. She was always a real good teacher for me about organics, recycling, composting -whenever you hear me talk about it, it’s usually because of my sister’s influence.

Guy Fieri

412

My sister and I were born in San Francisco. When our parents died, we came down here to live with relatives.

Freddy Fender

413

I don’t have any tattoos – I live vicariously through my sister, Langley, who has many. If I can’t stick to one ensemble, I don’t think I could stick to one tattoo.

Dree Hemingway

414

I was born late – what my mother calls the last kick of a dying horse. There’s three of us children, but I’m 13 or 14 years younger than my brother and sister.

Paul O’Grady

415

We arrived the way most emigrant families did. My father came first, and the rest of us – my mother, my sister and me – followed a year later.

Chang-Rae Lee

416

My older sister, Amy Jo, and I – we are the first generation of my family to stay on at school and do any exams at all.

Pete Doherty

417

My brother said ‘I want to start acting,’ and me and my sister just said, ‘Oh we’ll try it, we’ll see.’ It was just one of those things – we were just like, ‘Oh, we’ll see what happens.’

Willow Shields

418

A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.

Chanakya

419

My parents and my sister died… very close together, and after that, I lost quite a bit of my sense of humor. Most of it I think has kind of come back, but I know there was a time when I didn’t think things were funny anymore. I kind of think they’re funny again.

Thomas McGuane

420

My sister and I both benefited hugely from the great security that our parents had given us, and then we went off and squandered it all rushing around in showbiz.

Tom Hollander

421

I like everything perfect. Everything has to be neat. My sister is 5, and she’s more messy than I am. I make my bed every morning, everything’s perfect. My shoes are all arranged. It’s sad. I’m a little like Ray, a little bit.

Dakota Fanning

422

I’m a huge romantic but I’ve been unlucky in love. My mum and dad have been together since my mum was 18 and the problem with that is that me and my sister are always looking for my dad. And he doesn’t exist because, well, Dad’s Dad!

Kym Marsh

423

We didn’t like the idea of Dixie Chick action figures. I mean that’s just the kiss of death for a group. How could a hip teenager enjoy the Dixie Chicks while their little sister is playing with a Martie doll in the other room?

Martie Maguire

424

My sister has kids, including two in baby seats, and she drives a minivan. I had to climb over the car seats to get into the back seat, and it seemed ridiculous to have to do gymnastics to get in and out of the car.

Franz von Holzhausen

425

I want to make as much money as I possibly can so that when my day comes, my mother and sister is fine. My close friends are fine. They don’t have to worry about anything ever again.

Tyler, The Creator

426

As a brother and sister, our tastes were pretty different growing up. He liked a lot of early hip hop. My dad didn’t understand it and would try to talk him out of it.

Taryn Manning

427

Twisted Sister plays 20, 25 shows a year. But if the band had their druthers, they’d be out playing all the time.

Dee Snider

428

I am from a woman’s family. My great-grandmother had three daughters and a son. My grandmother had two daughters, and my mother had two daughters. My sister had a daughter and then finally a son. You should have seen my father with the son. He could not believe that finally there was a boy in the family.

Chantal Akerman

429

My sister and I had jointly heard the narration of ‘Revolver Rani’ in Tigmanshu Dhulia’s office. After hearing the narration, my sister was very scared and adamant that I should not do this film, as my character was twisted, neurotic, violent and abusive.

Kangana Ran

aut

430

I just found out last week – my sister told me – that my father had some Beatles records. So I must have heard them quite a bit, but it never registered, really. Now I listen to them with new ears.

Sheryl Lee

431

I grew up being very interested in Greek mythology because my mum read to my sister and I.

Isabel Lucas

432

It wasn’t until I came to New York and started to see the African American community, but also the Ethiopian community here, and started to eat the food, started to understand the music. I said, you know, I got to go and understand the culture. So me and my sister went.

Marcus Samuelsson

433

I have three brothers and one sister, and I’m the third child. Sometimes people say, ‘It’s only natural you would become a writer – your parents were English professors.’ But my four siblings were brought up in the exact same household, and no one else became a writer or an English professor.

Antonya Nelson

434

So many people that I’ve wanted to work with have died. I was so crazy in love with Amy Winehouse. When she died, I felt like I lost my sister all over again. I couldn’t stop crying for weeks and weeks! It was horrible! She was so wonderful and so talented.

Beth Hart

435

My sister has three kids so I’ve spent a lot of time around children and I’ve always really liked them and wanted my own. It’s cool because you think all babies are the same but they aren’t at all. They all have such different personalities. It’s crazy.

Bode Miller

436

People always ask you, ‘Are you like brother and sister? Are you like a married couple?’ It’s really original and it can’t really be explained.

Scott Moir

437

I grew up seeing my sister in the studio. I would go to recording sessions and take notes.

Solange Knowles

438

I remember being a kid and trying to do make-up and being so bad at it – but my sister Kylie was so good. It came so naturally to her. For me, it was never natural.

Kendall Jenner

439

Fidelity is the sister of justice.

Horace

440

I want to do something where I play Judi Dench’s younger sister or daughter.

Dawn French

Search

Quick Access

Sister Quotes