Celebrate your sibling with these thoughtful, funny and inspiring sister quotes
55 Sister Quotes That Perfectly Sum Up Your Relationship
Updated on Apr. 21, 2025
Sister quotes that celebrate your bond
There’s nothing like having a sister. You laugh, cry, fight and share some of your greatest memories. It’s hard to sum up sisterhood in a couple of words, but like our list of brother quotes, this collection of sister quotes does a nice job of capturing the essence of that special—and sometimes complicated—sibling relationship.
Reader’s Digest carefully compiled these inspirational sister quotes, sister bonding quotes and even some funny quotes about sisterhood, so you can send one or all of them to the woman who was probably your first best friend. Go ahead, let her know she’s on your mind.
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The best sister quotes
1. “Sisters are different flowers from the same garden.” —Unknown
2. “You know full well as I do the value of sisters’ affections; there is nothing like it in this world.” —Charlotte Brontë
3. “Be kind to thy sister. Not many may know the depths of true sisterly love.” —Margaret Ann Courtney
4. “Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.” —Margaret Mead
5. “Parents die, daughters grow up and marry out, but sisters are for life.” —Lisa See
6. “My first job is big sister, and I take that very seriously.” —Venus Williams
7. “Sisters may walk on different paths, but they’re never farther than a heartstring.” —Julia Ash
8. “A sister is both your mirror—and your opposite.” —Elizabeth Fishel
9. “Sure, we’re blood. But it’s the sisterly love we share that binds us beyond our genetics.” —Nikki Elizabeth
10. “Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister?” —Alice Walker
11. “Acquaintances were always on their best behavior, but sisters loved each other enough to say anything.” —Lauren Weisberger
12. “Look inside any sister relationship, and you’ll find a wealth of interesting stories.” —Colleen Sell
13. “She’s always there for me when I need her. She’s my best friend. She’s just my everything.” —Ashley Olsen
14. “My sister had taught me to look at the world that way, as a place that glitters, as a place where the calls of the crickets and the crows and the wind are everyday occurrences that also happen to be magic.” —Cynthia Kadohata
15. “Bless you, my darling, and remember you are always in the heart—oh tucked so close there is no chance of escape—of your sister.” —Katherine Mansfield
16. “A sister is a gift to the heart, a friend to the spirit, a golden thread to the meaning of life.” —Isadora James
17. “A sister is like yourself in a different movie, a movie that stars you in a different life.” —Deborah Tannen
18. “The only person I do worry about, that I want to be a good person for, I think is my responsibility, is my sister.” —Britney Spears
19. “But the love of sisters needs no words. It does not depend on memories, or mementos, or proof. It runs as deep as a heartbeat. It is as ever present as a pulse.” ―Lisa Wingate
20. “Sisters share a bond unlike any other—thornier, but also tender, full of possibility.” —Joy McCullough
21. “For there is no friend like a sister / In calm or stormy weather; / To cheer one on the tedious way, / To fetch one if one goes astray, / To lift one if one totters down, / To strengthen whilst one stands.” —Christina Rossetti, “Goblin Market”
22. “Sweet is the voice of a sister in the season of sorrow.” —Benjamin Disraeli
23. “I believe the bond between sisters constitutes one of the deepest connections in a woman’s life.” —Toni McNaron
Sweet sister quotes
24. “We have our own, unspoken language—a look that makes one of us fall on the floor laughing or the slight inflection in our voice that conveys everything.” —Barbara Bush
25. “Sisterhood is powerful. Like volcanoes. Like earthquakes. Like tornadoes. Like love.” —Bonnie Louise Kuchler
26. “”Sisters are a shield against life’s cruel adversity.” ―Nancy Mitford
27. “Friendship between sisters is one of the most satisfying that life can afford. Our sister understands us thoroughly; she does not expect more than we can give.” ―Lily H. Montagu
28. “I could never love anyone as I love my sisters.” —Winona Ryder as Jo March in 1994’s Little Women
29. “Unconditional love: the definition of sister.” —Alicia Cook
30. “She could always talk me into anything. My sister made me a little starstruck.” —Stacie Ramey
31. “Sisterly love is one of the few boons in this life.” —Jane Bowles
32. “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
33. “To have a loving relationship with a sister is not simply to have a buddy or a confidante … it is to have a soul mate for life.” —Victoria Secunda
34. “I do not see as well without her. I do not hear as well without her. I do not feel as well without her. I would be better off without a hand or a leg than without my sister.” —Erin Morgenstern
35. “We’ll always fight, but we’ll always make up as well. That’s what sisters do: We argue, we point out each other’s frailties, mistakes and bad judgment, we flash the insecurities we’ve had since childhood, and then we come back together. Until the next time.” —Lisa See
36. “Smashed in the middle, right between Melissa and Susannah, is where I belong – more than any other spot on the planet. I’m more and more grateful to be the middle Garner Girl, buffered from the world by one big and one little.” —Jennifer Garner
37. “Sisters are very lucky … They get to be best friends. Even in the afterlife, I think they recognize the presence of the other better than anyone else.” ―Emily X.R. Pan
Funny sister quotes
38. “What are sisters for if not to point out the things the rest of the world is too polite to mention.” —Claire Cook, Must Love Dogs: New Leash on Life
39. “I would like more sisters, that the taking out of one, might not leave such stillness.” —Emily Dickinson
40. “Sisters never quite forgive each other for what happened when they were 5.” —Pam Brown
41. “Sisters are reliably good for two things: hating and loving.” —Jessica Knoll, The Favorite Sister
42. “A sister will always notice her sister’s first gray hairs with glee.” —Allison M. Lee
43. “Big sisters are the crab grass in the lawn of life.” —Charles M. Schulz
44. “Is there anything worse than receiving pity from your little sister?” —Louise Miller, The Late Bloomers’ Club
45. “A young lady’s most natural ally is her sister, although sometimes our own relatives are as inscrutable to us as an antipodean.” —Anna Godbersen, Envy
46. “My sisters were the color and noise in my black-and-white boy world—how I pitied my friends who had brothers.” —Rob Sheffield, Talking to Girls About Duran Duran
47. “Nobody fights you like your own sister; nobody else knows the most vulnerable parts of you and will aim for them without mercy.” —Jojo Moyes, The Girl You Left Behind
48. “Siblings: children of the same parents, each of whom is perfectly normal until they get together.” —Sam Levenson
49. “At this point, none of us are sure why we fight. We’re sisters. We need no good reason to fight, even though we have plenty of them.” —Ken Wheaton, Sweet as Cane, Salty as Tears
50. “Don’t talk about my sister; don’t play with me about my sister. If you do, you’ll see another side of me.” —Beyoncé
51. “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
52. “Sisters are a setup. Shot from the same cannon, you’re sent on a blind date for the rest of your lives.” —Helen Fremont
53. “You mess with my sister, you’re messing with me!” —Loretta Livingstone
54. “The bond of sisterhood is eternal so that we can eternally drive each other crazy.” —Lillian Lark
55. “The only person I lie to is my little sister, when I steal her clothes.” —Kendall Jenner
Additional contributions by Charlotte Hilton Andersen and Emma Taubenfeld
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