Herman Melville Quotes

I think it is important to remember that there are so many different ways to be sisters.

The theme of sisters - of missing sisters, of needing sisters, the special love that sisters share or the antagonism sisters share - is something that is very close to me.

My brother …

There is something about a guy who has a great relationship with his sisters.

I just really like being with my sister.

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

I'm very close to my sisters.

I think I am a pretty good sister.

I'm insanely close to my sister.

I couldn't ask for anything in the world than to be with my brother.

Sometimes my nieces feel more like the little sisters I never had.

My sister and I are really close. She's my little sister.

I told him, though, that he better be good to you. When you came along, I said I'd share you, but I told him to remember that you're my sister. I loved you first.

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

My relationship with my sister is so central to my life. She's my closest friend, my biggest supporter, and I know she would say the same about me.

It's hard to be responsible, adult and sensible all the time. How good it is to have a sister whose heart is as young as your own.

I 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.

Be nice to your siblings. They are your link to the past and the people most likely to stick with you in the future.

You will not easily get a man to believe that his carnal love for the woman he has made his wife is as high a love as that he feltfor his mother or sister.

You keep your past by having sisters. As you get older, they're the only ones who don't get bored if you talk about your memories.

The desire to be and have a sister is a primitive and profound one that may have everything or nothing to do with the family a woman is born to. It is a desire to know and be known by someone who shares blood and body, history and dreams.

I adore my two older sisters, Erika and Betsy.

I grew up with a sister I was very close with and a mom who was a powerful influence on my life. I was always close with women.

My siblings are my best friends.

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.