What's the good of news if you haven't a sister to share it? -Jenny DeVries
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.
She is your partner in crime, your midnight companion, someone who knows when you are smiling, even in the dark. She is your teacher, your defense attorney, your personal press agent, even your shrink. Some days, she's the reason you wish you were an only child. -Barbara Alpert
We may look old and wise to the outside world. But to each other, we are still in junior school. -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
Like branches on a tree we grow in different directions yet our roots remain as one. Each of our lives will always be a special part of the other. -Author Unknown
The best thing about having a sister was that I always had a friend." -Cali Rae Turner
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
To have a loving relationship with a sister is not simply to have a buddy or a confident -- it is to have a soulmate for life. -Victoria Secunda
My sister taught me everything I need to know, and she was only in the sixth grade at the time. -Linda Sunshine
"A sister is a little bit of childhood that can never be lost."
-Marion C. Garretty
"Women opened the windows of my eyes and the doors of my spirit.
Had it not been for the woman-mother, the woman-sister, and the woman-friend,
I would have been sleeping among those who seek the tranquility of the world with their snoring."
- Kahlil Gibran
What sets sisters apart from brothers and also from friends is a very intimate meshing of heart, soul and the mystical cords of memory. -Carol Saline
Big sisters are the crab grass in the lawn of life. -Charles M. Schulz
Sisters is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship. -Margaret Mead
The mildest, drowsiest sister has been known to turn tiger if her sibling is in trouble. -Clara Ortega
A sister is a gift to the heart, a friend to the spirit, a golden thread to the meaning of life. -Isadora James
Help your brothers boat across, and you will reach the shore. ~Hindu proverb
Brothers and sisters are as close as hands and feet. ~Vietnamese Proverb
The family is one of nature's masterpieces. ~George Santayana
Help one another is part of the religion of sisterhood. ~Louisa May Alcott
A brother is a friend given by Nature. ~Legouve
Lord help the mister that comes between me and my sister... ~Irving Berlin
You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you,
as you are to them. ~Desmond Tutu
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
Sweet is the voice of a sister in the season of sorrow. ~Benjamin Disraeli
How do people make it through life without a sister? ~Sara Corpening
There is a little boy inside the man who is my brother ...
Oh, how I hated that little boy. And how I love him too.
~Anna Quindlan
Boys are found everywhere on top of, underneath, inside of, climbing on,
swinging from, running around or jumping to. Mothers love them, little girls hate them,
older sisters and brothers tolerate them, adults ignore them and Heaven protects them.
~Alan Beck
Call it a clan, call it a network,
call it a tribe, call it a family.
Whatever you call it, whoever you are,
you need one. ~Jane Howard
I sought my soul, but my soul I could not see.
I sought my God, but my God eluded me.
I sought my brother and I found all three.
~Author Unknown
To the outside world we all grow old.
But not to brothers and sisters. We know each other as we
always were. We know each other's hearts.
We share private family jokes. We remember family feuds
and secrets, family griefs and joys.
We live outside the touch of time. ~Clara Ortega
The best and most beautiful
things in the world cannot be seen or even touched.
They must be felt within the heart. ~Helen Keller
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.
~Maya Angelou
Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. ~Elizabeth Stone
The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new. ~Rajneesh
Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly. ~Ambrose Bierce
Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials. ~Meryl Streep
God could not be everywhere, so he created mothers. ~Jewish Proverb
Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother. ~Oprah Winfrey
Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs in my field, since the payment is pure love.
~Mildred B. Vermont
A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after. ~Peter De Vries
One of the very few reasons I had any respect for my mother when I was thirteen was because she would reach into the sink with her bare hands - bare hands - and pick up that lethal gunk and drop it into the garbage. To top that, I saw her reach into the wet garbage bag and fish around in there looking for a lost teaspoon. Bare hands - a kind of mad courage. ~Robert Fulghum
My mom is literally a part of me. You can't say that about many people except relatives, and organ donors. ~Carrie Latet
A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie. ~Tenneva Jordan
Most of all the other beautiful things in life come by twos and threes, by dozens and hundreds. Plenty of roses, stars, sunsets, rainbows, brothers and sisters, aunts and cousins, comrades and friends - but only one mother in the whole world. ~Kate Douglas Wiggin
I cannot forget my mother. [S]he is my bridge. When I needed to get across, she steadied herself long enough for me to run across safely. ~Renita Weems
A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them. ~Victor Hugo
Any mother could perform the jobs of several air traffic controllers with ease. ~Lisa Alther
A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts. ~Washington Irving
Spread the diaper in the position of the diamond with you at bat. Then fold second base down to home and set the baby on the pitcher's mound. Put first base and third together, bring up home plate and pin the three together. Of course, in case of rain, you gotta call the game and start all over again. ~Jimmy Piersal, on how to diaper a baby, 1968
My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. Clarence B. Kelland 1881-1964
My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, "You're tearing up the grass." "We're not raising grass," Dad would reply. "We're raising boys." ~Harmon Killebrew
If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm. ~Bruce Barton
People who say they sleep like a baby usually don't have one.
~Leo J. Burke
The last of the human freedoms—to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.” ~ Victor Frankl
The child’s foot still doesn’t know it’s a foot, it wants to be a butterfly or apple.
–Pablo Neruda
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you. – Emerson
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin. -Shakespeare
To become a real boy, you must prove yourself brave, truthful, and unselfish.
–from Pinocchio
Know you what it is to be a child? It is to be something very different from the man of today. It is to have a spirit yet streaming from the waters of baptism; it is to believe in love, to believe in loveliness, to believe in belief; it is to be so little that the elves can reach to whisper in your ear; it is to turn pumpkins into coaches, and mice into horses, lowness into loftiness, and nothing into everything, for each child has its fairy godmother in its soul. –Percy Bysshe Shelley
Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth. We are happy when we are growing. --Willliam Butler Yeats Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree. ~Martin Luther King Jr.
“Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened.
Happiness never decreases by being shared.” ~Buddha
“What we think, we become.” ~Buddha
Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship. ~Buddha
Education is much more than a matter of imparting the knowledge and skills by which narrow goals are achieved. It is also about opening the child's eyes to the needs and rights of others. ~Dalai Lama
Connection with gardens, even small ones, even potted plants, can become windows to the inner life. The simple act of stopping and looking at the beauty around us can be prayer. ~Patricia R. Barret
In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true. ~Buddha
Don't be afraid that your life will end, be afraid that it will never begin. ~anonymous
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly. ~Buddha
We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world. ~Buddha
What we think, we become. ~Buddha
Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart give yourself to it. ~Buddha
“If anything is worth doing, do it with all your heart.” ~Buddha
"We must make our lives as we sew, stitch by stitch."
~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore