Sisters have a unique relationship that is unlike any other.
Sisters might be ladies you grew up with or close acquaintances with whom you share a special affinity.
Sisterhood entails having a companion who will be there for you for the rest of your life. If she was there from the start, you and your sister may have shared childhood memories that no one else can relate to or comprehend.
Your sister can either drive you insane or inspire you.
You may be so close that you must speak every day, or you may rarely see each other at large family gatherings. It makes no difference how your sister-relationship looks, even if it isn’t flawless.
Your sisters are priceless, and that will always be true no matter where life takes you. There will always be occasions to express how much your sister means to you and how vital she is.
So, with that in mind, we’ve compiled a collection of the best sister quotes. Why not share your favorite and celebrate your special link together on her birthday, Sisters Day (the first Sunday in August), or the other special day?
100+ Quotes About Sisters to Express Sister Means to You
There’s nobody in the world that knows me better than my sister. – Tia Mowry
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
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
A toast once heard: “To my big sister, who never found her second Easter egg until I’d found my first”.___Robert Brault
A ministering angel shall my sister be.___William Shakespeare
The boughs, without becoming detached from the trunk grow away from it.___Victor Hugo
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
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
There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close it.― Shannon L. Alder
You know full well as I do the value of sisters’ affections; there is nothing like it in this world.___Charlotte Brontë
Sweet is the voice of a sister in the season of sorrow.__Benjamin Disraeli
I would like more sisters, that the taking out of one, might not leave such stillness..___Emily Dickinson
There can be no situation in life in which the conversation of my dear sister will not administer some comfort to me.__Mary Montague
Brothers and sisters are one of the constant things in the lives of many people.__Richard Branson
No matter where we are, we’ll always share the same sky. We can always find each other in the same constellation.― Roshani Chokshi
Sweet, crazy conversations full of half sentences, daydreams and misunderstandings more thrilling than understanding could ever be.― Toni Morrison
What’s the good of news if you haven’t a sister to share it?___James DeVries
When sisters stand shoulder to shoulder, who stands a chance against us? – Pam Brown
Sisterhood and Friendship
Side by side or miles apart, sisters will always be connected by heart. – Unknown
Of two sisters
one is always the watcher,
one the dancer.― Louise Glück
It is strange how sisters can be saviors or strangers and sometimes a bit of both.___Amanda Lovelace
I love the notion of “storm sisters” – soul friends who help us get through life’s most raw and painful transitions.___Jennifer Grant
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
The best thing about having a sister was that I always had a friend. – Cali Rae Turner
So distant but so close. So different but so similar. That’s why I love my sister.___Maxime Lagacé
How do people make it through life without a sister?___Sara Corpening
A coward talks to everyone but YOU.― Shannon L. Alder
Friends grow up and move away. But the one thing that’s never lost is your sister.___Gail Sheeny
When our hair is white, we’ll still have our sister love.___Lisa See
A sister is a gift to the heart, a friend to the spirit, a golden thread to the meaning of life.___Isadora James
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
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
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
Big sisters are the crab grass in the lawn of life.― Charles M. Schulz
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
One’s sister is part of one’s essential self, an eternal presence of ones’ heart, soul and memory.___Susan Cabil
Siblings are the people we practice on, the people who teach us about fairness and cooperation and kindness and caring – quite often the hard way. – Pamela Dugdale
A sister is a forever friend.___Unknown
Our brothers and sisters are there with us from the dawn of our personal stories to the inevitable dusk.___Susan Scarf Merrell
Sisterly love is, of all sentiments, the most abstract. Nature does not grant it any functions.___Ugo Betti
Not only had my brother disappeared, but–and bear with me here–a part of my very being had gone with him. Stories about us could, from them on, be told from only one perspective. Memories could be told but not shared.― John Corey Whaley
No life’s worth more than any other, no sister worth less than any brother.___Michael Franti
A sister is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best thing you can be.___Unknown
More than Santa Claus, your sister knows when you’ve been bad and good!___Unknown
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
Brothers and sisters are as close as hands and feet.___Vietnamese Proverb
…she’ll go and fall in love, and there’s an end of peace and fun, and cozy times together.__Louisa May Alcott
The anguish I always feel when she’s in pain wells up in my chest and threatens to register on my face.― Suzanne Collins
May, I love you with everything I am. For so long, I just wanted to be like you. But I had to figure out that I am someone too, and now I can carry you, your heart with mine, everywhere I go.― Ava Dellaira
Little Sister Quotes
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
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
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
A sister is a friend you don’t have to avoid the truth with.___Michelle Malm
I don’t feel the need to explain my actions to her. I don’t clarify, I don’t doubt, I don’t worry. I don’t tell her everything, not anymore, but I tell her more than anyone else, by far. I tell her as much as I can.― Gillian Flynn
In a way, I was incrediibly proud of her (not that I had any intention of letting it show while I was beating the crap out of her).― Meg Cabot
You can’t think how I depend on you, and when you’re not there the colour goes out of my life.__Virginia Woolf
But what Mom never told me is that along the way, you find sisters, and they find you. Girls are cool that way.― Adriana Trigiani
What are sisters for if not to point out the things the rest of the world is too polite to mention.___Claire Cook
You can kid the world, but not your sister. – Charlotte Gray
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
If your sister is in a tearing hurry to go out and cannot catch your eye, she’s wearing your best sweater.___Pam Brown
Quotes about Sisters
The greatest gift our parents ever gave us was each other.___Unknown
Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship. – Margaret Mead
There is no time like the old time, when you and I were young.___Oliver Wendell Holmes
Parents die, daughters grow up and marry out, but sisters are for life.__Lisa Lee
Our roots say we’re sisters, our hearts say we’re friends.___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
Your tears are never invisible—there is always an insecure woman that lights up when you point them out.― Shannon L. Alder
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
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 acquire friends and we make enemies, but our sisters come with the territory.___Evelyn Loeb
Sisters may share the same mother and father but appear to come from different families.__Unknown
A sister smiles when one tells one’s stories – for she knows where the decoration has been added.___Chris Montaigne
Of two sisters one is always the watcher, one the dancer. – Elizabeth Glück
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
Sisters are like cats. They claw each other all the time but still snuggle up and daydream together.___Unknown
When traveling life’s journey it’s good to have a sister’s hand to hold on to.___Unknown
We didn’t want to admit it then, but we were friends. Best friends.__Shannon Celebi
We are angels just like the rest of our brothers and sisters.― Jay Woodman
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
Bond is stronger than blood. The family grows stronger by bond.___Itohan Eghide
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
Sisters are like flowers in the garden of life.___Unknown
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
Big Sister Quotes
A sister is our first friend and second mother. – Sunny Gupta
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
You’re a big sister?’ I was shocked. She seemed so good-natured and compassionate.___Natalie Standiford
Elder sisters never can do younger ones justice!___Charlotte M. Yonge
A sister is both your mirror – and your opposite. – Elizabeth Fishel
An older sister helps one remain half child, half woman.__Unknown
An older sister is a friend and defender – a listener, conspirator, a counsellor and a sharer of delights. And sorrows too.___Pam Brown
My sister taught me everything I really need to know, and she was only in sixth grade at the time.__Linda Sunshine
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
Big sisters are the crab grass in the lawn of life.___Charlie Brown
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
When mom and dad don’t understand, a sister always will.___Unknown
A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves – a special kind of double.___Toni Morrison
Is solace anywhere more comforting than in the arms of a sister? – Alice Walker
Sisters function as safety nets in a chaotic world simply by being there for each other.__Carol Saline
Sisters are blessed with an extra sense that whispers when the other needs them.___Unknown
We are sisters. We will always be sisters. Our differences may never go away, but neither, for me, will our song.__Elizabeth Fishel
We didn’t want to admit it then, but we were friends. Best friends.___Shannon Celebi
You’re not my best friend. You’re my sister, and that’s more.__Jenny Han