1. 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

2. An older sister helps one remain half child, half woman.

- Unknown

3. Brothers and sisters are as close as hands and feet.

- Vietnamese Proverb

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

- Michael Franti

5. It is strange how sisters can be saviors or strangers and sometimes a bit of both.

- Amanda Lovelace

6. We are sisters. We will always be sisters. Our differences may never go away, but neither, for me, will our song.

- Elizabeth Fishel

7. A sister is a forever friend.

- Unknown

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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

12. You’re not my best friend. You’re my sister, and that’s more.

- Jenny Han

13. When traveling life’s journey it’s good to have a sister’s hand to hold on to.

- Unknown

14. You can’t think how I depend on you, and when you’re not there the colour goes out of my life.

- Virginia Woolf

15. What are sisters for if not to point out the things the rest of the world is too polite to mention.

- Claire Cook

16. How do people make it through life without a sister?

- Sara Corpening

17. 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

18. Sisters are like flowers in the garden of life.

- Unknown

19. Friends grow up and move away. But the one thing that’s never lost is your sister.

- Gail Sheeny

20. We didn’t want to admit it then, but we were friends. Best friends.

- Shannon Celebi

21. A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves – a special kind of double.

- Toni Morrison

22. There can be no situation in life in which the conversation of my dear sister will not administer some comfort to me.

- Mary Montague

23. 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

24. 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

25. I would like more sisters, that the taking out of one, might not leave such stillness..

- Emily Dickinson

26. So distant but so close. So different but so similar. That’s why I love my sister.

- Maxime Lagacé

27. 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

28. 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.

- Barbara Alpert

29. Our brothers and sisters are there with us from the dawn of our personal stories to the inevitable dusk.

- Susan Scarf Merrell

30. A toast once heard: “To my big sister, who never found her second Easter egg until I’d found my first”.

- Robert Brault

31. A sister is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best thing you can be.

- Unknown

32. Sisters are like cats. They claw each other all the time but still snuggle up and daydream together.

- Unknown

33. When our hair is white, we’ll still have our sister love.

- Lisa See

34. 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

35. I love the notion of “storm sisters” – soul friends who help us get through life’s most raw and painful transitions.

- Jennifer Grant

36. An older sister is a friend and defender – a listener, conspirator, a counsellor and a sharer of delights. And sorrows too.

- Pam Brown

37. 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

38. Our roots say we’re sisters, our hearts say we’re friends.

- Unknown

39. Brothers and sisters are one of the constant things in the lives of many people.

- Richard Branson

40. Parents die, daughters grow up and marry out, but sisters are for life.

- Lisa Lee

41. My sister taught me everything I really need to know, and she was only in sixth grade at the time.

- Linda Sunshine

42. To have a loving relationship with a sister is not simply to have a buddy or a confident… it is to have a soul mate for life.

- Victoria Secunda

43. You know full well as I do the value of sisters’ affections; there is nothing like it in this world.

- Charlotte Bront?

44. Sisters may share the same mother and father but appear to come from different families.

- Unknown

45. A ministering angel shall my sister be.

- William Shakespeare

46. Elder sisters never can do younger ones justice!

- Charlotte M. Yonge

47. Big sisters are the crab grass in the lawn of life.

- Charlie Brown

48. Your parents leave you too soon and your kids and spouse come along late, but your siblings know you when you are in your most inchoate form.

- Jeffrey Kluger

49. We didn’t want to admit it then, but we were friends. Best friends.

- Shannon Celebi

50. Sisterly love is, of all sentiments, the most abstract. Nature does not grant it any functions.

- Ugo Betti

51. 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

52. I’ve known every love possible, but as the years stretched out, the love I longed for the most is the one I shared with my sister.

- Josephine Angelini

53. If your sister is in a tearing hurry to go out and cannot catch your eye, she’s wearing your best sweater.

- Pam Brown

54. 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

55. We acquire friends and we make enemies, but our sisters come with the territory.

- Evelyn Loeb

56. The greatest gift our parents ever gave us was each other.

- Unknown

57. There is no time like the old time, when you and I were young.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

58. One’s sister is part of one’s essential self, an eternal presence of ones’ heart, soul and memory.

- Susan Cabil

59. A sister is a gift to the heart, a friend to the spirit, a golden thread to the meaning of life.

- Isadora James

60. The boughs, without becoming detached from the trunk grow away from it.

- Victor Hugo

61. 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

62. Bond is stronger than blood. The family grows stronger by bond.

- Itohan Eghide

63. What’s the good of news if you haven’t a sister to share it?

- James DeVries

64. Sisters are blessed with an extra sense that whispers when the other needs them.

- Unknown

65. You’re a big sister?’ I was shocked. She seemed so good-natured and compassionate.

- Natalie Standiford

66. I’m the big sister. I want to make sure she has everything, even if I don’t have anything. I love her too much.

- Venus Williams

67. When mom and dad don’t understand, a sister always will.

- Unknown

68. A sister smiles when one tells one’s stories – for she knows where the decoration has been added.

- Chris Montaigne

69. More than Santa Claus, your sister knows when you’ve been bad and good!

- Unknown

70. Sweet is the voice of a sister in the season of sorrow.

- Benjamin Disraeli

71. A sister is a friend you don’t have to avoid the truth with.

- Michelle Malm

72. Sisters function as safety nets in a chaotic world simply by being there for each other.

- Carol Saline

73. …she’ll go and fall in love, and there’s an end of peace and fun, and cozy times together.

- Louisa May Alcott

74. 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

75. 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