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Older Sister Quotes

My older sister was at the cusp of new wave, and I had older brothers from my father's first marriage who were rock 'n' roll guys, so I was exposed to a lot of popular culture.
- Paul Thomas Anderson

Blake looked around and gulped. He'd forgotten about the mess on the floor. Chamber pot shards, his
shaving kit, a towel or two...
"I... ah..." It seemed to him that it was far easier
to lie for the sake of national security than it was to his
older sister.
"Is that a bar of soap stuck to the wall?" Penelope asked.
"Um... yes, it appears to be.
- Julia Quinn

And what renders him so unmarriageable?" Eloise asked.
Francesca leveled a serious stare at her older sister. Eloise was mad if she thought she should set her cap for Michael.
"Well?" Eloise prodded.
"He could never remain faithful to one woman," Fran-cesca said, "and I doubt youd be willing to put up with infidelities."
"No," Eloise murmured, "not unless hed be willing to put up with severe bodily injury.
- Julia Quinn

As his older sister, it was my job to lie to him in the name of easing his troubled mind.
- Jennifer Bosworth

I had an older brother who passed away recently, an older sister and a younger brother.
- Steve Case

My older sister encouraged me from early on and bought me one of the first guitars I had. She listened to all of the crappy songs that I wrote when I was 8 years old and encouraged me to keep doing it.
- Tracy Chapman

I have an older sister named Haley and she wanted to be an actress. So I wanted to be an actress. It's really funny the way that some people don't give kids enough credit for like really being driven, and really wanting to do things so badly.
- Hilary Duff

So we dream on. Thus we invent our lives. We give ourselves a sainted mother, we make our father a hero; and someone's older brother and someone's older sister they become our heroes too. We invent what we love and what we fear. There is always a brave lost brother and a little lost sister, too. We dream on and on: the best hotel, the perfect family, the resort life. And our dreams escape us almost as vividly as we can imagine them.
- John Irving

I played with dolls until I was 15. My mother encouraged it because my older sister got married when she was 15, so Mom thought that the longer I stayed with dolls, the better.
- Linda Evans

My major influence was my ten years older sister.
- Willa Ford

How would you feel about life if Death was your older sister?
- Neil Gaiman

I grew up with a fashion-obsessed mother and an older sister, so there was a lot of fashion in my house. The first thing I remember owning was a Pierre Cardin jumpsuit when I was 9 or 10; of course I didn't actually buy it, but I fell in love with it.
- Nina Garcia

I started studying music at the age of five and a half. My older sister was taking piano lessons. When her teacher left our apartment, I would get up on the piano bench and start picking out the notes that were part of my sister's lessons.
- Marvin Hamlisch

I once tried to give him a friendly little "drugs chat". He politely corrected me on every single fact, then said he'd noticed I drank above the recommended guidelines of Red Bull and did I think I might have an addiction? That was the last time I tried to act like the older sister.
- Sophie Kinsella

My mother, grandmother and older sister all cooked, so it was hard to get into the kitchen. So I have no talent for cooking. I was always out in the garage with my dad. I have a tool belt. I'm a repair chick.
- Cheryl Ladd

When I was a kid, I was surrounded by girls: older sisters, older girl cousins just down the street... except for an older boy named Vito who threw rocks. Each year I would wish for a baby brother. It never happened.
- Wally Lamb

That's how it was on Irving Circle and how I was raised: You made the best out of what was within reach, which meant friendships engineered by parents and by the happenstance of housing. I stayed with it because we both had queenly older sisters who rarely condescended to play with us, because Shelley was adopted and I was not, because Shelley had Clue and Life, and I did not
- Elinor Lipman

I have two older sisters; I'm the youngest.
- Elizabeth Perkins

My older sister has entire kingdoms inside of her, and some of them are only accessible at certain seasons, in certain kinds of weather.
- Karen Russell

Sometimes you really dig a girl, the moment you kiss her, And then you get distracted by her older sister.
- John Sebastian

This wasn't a way of getting over a passing crush on your older sister's swain. This was the moon of Jupiter and the sun of Venus aligning in the sky over her head.
- Paullina Simons

I know what you mean. I usually take it out on my older sister. You can lease her for a weekend or something if you need a psychological punching bag. I'll even give you a discount.
- Hayden Thorne

Well, rather than to give you my impression on Los Angeles, per se, my older sister's husband is and American, therefore I have a pretty good idea of the, perhaps the characteristics of Americans in general.
- Nobuo Uematsu

I was lucky I always got along with girls. It was never like a big deal. I had a lot of girls that I was friends with that I wasn't sexual with. I think having two older sisters made me comfortable like that. I just like people, so I can just go up and say whatever.
- Vince Vaughn

My older sister achieved her dream of being an artist. She's an illustrator living in Manhattan.
- Jeannette Walls

My older sister Nikki went to Hampton music school in Virginia, then to another school later in New York.
- Debra Wilson

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