Sister Quotes
A sister is that person you share childhood memories with that nobody else can connect to or understand in quite the same way. Having a sister means you have a friend for life.
Sisters are always there to annoy you, play with you, cry with you and make you laugh when you are sad. They are always there to inspire you when you feel discouraged.
Read through our collection of sister quotes. Use these quotes to let your sister know how much you love and adore her.
60 Beautiful Quotes & Sayings About Sisters
“What are sisters for if not to point out the things the rest of the world is too polite to mention.” – Claire Cook
“A sister smiles when one tells one’s stories – for she knows where the decoration has been added.” – Chris Montaigne
“Sisters are like cats. They claw each other all the time but still snuggle up and daydream together.” – Unknown
“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
“When traveling life’s journey it’s good to have a sister’s hand to hold on to.” – Unknown
“Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.” – Margaret Mead
“When mom and dad don’t understand, a sister always will.” – Unknown
“Is solace anywhere more comforting than in the arms of a sister?” – Alice Walker
“Sisters are blessed with an extra sense that whispers when the other needs them.” – Unknown
“A sister is our first friend and second mother.” – Sunny Gupta
“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
“You’re not my best friend. You’re my sister, and that’s more.” – Jenny Han
“An older sister is a friend and defender – a listener, conspirator, a counsellor and a sharer of delights. And sorrows too.” – Pam Brown
“You can kid the world, but not your sister.” – Charlotte Gray
“If your sister is in a tearing hurry to go out and cannot catch your eye, she’s wearing your best sweater.” – Pam Brown
“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
“A sister is a friend you don’t have to avoid the truth with.” – Michelle Malm
“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
“Sweet is the voice of a sister in the season of sorrow.” – Benjamin Disraeli
“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
“I would like more sisters, that the taking out of one, might not leave such stillness..” – Emily Dickinson
“When sisters stand shoulder to shoulder, who stands a chance against us?” – Pam Brown
“The best thing about having a sister was that I always had a friend.” – Cali Rae Turner
“How do people make it through life without a sister?” – Sara Corpening
“One’s sister is part of one’s essential self, an eternal presence of ones’ heart, soul and memory.” – Susan Cabil
“A sister is a forever friend.” – Unknown
“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
“It is strange how sisters can be saviors or strangers and sometimes a bit of both.” – Amanda Lovelace
“A sister is a gift to the heart, a friend to the spirit, a golden thread to the meaning of life.” – Isadora James
“Brothers and sisters are one of the constant things in the lives of many people.” – Richard Branson
“An older sister helps one remain half child, half woman.” – Unknown
“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
“Parents die, daughters grow up and marry out, but sisters are for life.” – Lisa Lee
“My sister and I are so close that we finish each other’s sentences and often wonder who’s memories belong to whom.” – Shannon Celebi
“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
“A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves – a special kind of double. ” – Toni Morrison
“Sisters function as safety nets in a chaotic world simply by being there for each other.” – Carol Saline
“Sisters are like flowers in the garden of life.” – Unknown
“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
“We are sisters. We will always be sisters. Our differences may never go away, but neither, for me, will our song.” – Elizabeth Fishel
“A sister is both your mirror – and your opposite.” – Elizabeth Fishel
“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
“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
“So distant but so close. So different but so similar. That’s why I love my sister.” – Maxime Lagacé
“Sisterly love is, of all sentiments, the most abstract. Nature does not grant it any functions.” – Ugo Betti
“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
“A sister is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best thing you can be.” – Unknown
“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
“Friends grow up and move away. But the one thing that’s never lost is your sister.” – Gail Sheeny
“I love the notion of “storm sisters” – soul friends who help us get through life’s most raw and painful transitions.” – Jennifer Grant
“Side by side or miles apart, sisters will always be connected by heart.” – Unknown
“When our hair is white, we’ll still have our sister love.” – Lisa See
“What’s the good of news if you haven’t a sister to share it?” – James DeVries
“There can be no situation in life in which the conversation of my dear sister will not administer some comfort to me.” – Mary Montague
“A toast once heard: “To my big sister, who never found her second Easter egg until I’d found my first”.” – Robert Brault
“There’s nobody in the world that knows me better than my sister.” – Tia Mowry
“You know full well as I do the value of sisters’ affections; there is nothing like it in this world.” – Charlotte Brontë
“You may be as different as the sun and the moon, but the same blood flows through both your hearts. You need her, as she needs you..” – George R.R. Martin
“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
“My sister taught me everything I really need to know, and she was only in sixth grade at the time.” – Linda Sunshine