Strict Sister Quotes & Sayings

A positive goal to strive for when disciplining would be to raise children we not only love, but in whose company we love being. — Magda Gerber

His skin like grey bark, his eyes pale as a winter pool, time and age had worn my father to the bone. In our youth, he'd been a strict master lording over my lessons while tender with the flower of his heart, my sister Anabine. Ana, the lovely, blooming jewel. Zyndel, she of clever wit. — Jamie Wyman

Your life and my life have turned out, and once you get that, life goes on from a position of having turned out. That's called playing the game from win — Werner Erhard

I'm only able to write poetry, for the most part, when I have a Muse, a woman who focuses the world for me. — May Sarton

I have a Viking stove. The color is butter lemon, and I had to wait several months for it, because that color wasn't available and I really wanted butter lemon! But I don't know that it's seriously ever been cooked on. I mean, I make tea every morning. Does that count? — Andy Cohen

When we can't find my sister, we know / she is under the kitchen table, a book in her hand, / a glass of milk and a small bowl of peanuts beside her. / We know we can call Odella's name out loud, / slap the table hard with our hands, / dance around it singing 'She'll Be Coming 'Round the Mountain' / so many times the song makes us sick / and the circling makes us dizzy / and still / my sister will do nothing more / than slowly turn the page. — Jacqueline Woodson

I have no prouder boast to say I am Irish and have been privileged to fight for the Irish people and for Ireland. If I have a duty I will perform it to the full with the unshakable belief that we are a noble race and that chains and bounds have no part in us — Francis Hughes

But he [Depression] just gives me that dark smile, settles into my favorite chair, puts his feet on my table and lights a cigar, filling the place with his awful smoke. Loneliness watches and sighs, then climbs into my bed and pulls the covers over himself, fully dressed, shoes and all. He's going to make me sleep with him again tonight, I just know it. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Balloon: Thing to take meteroric observations and commit suicide with. — Mark Twain

You should try to avoid using the words "should" and "try". — Swami Pranayomama

I have always hated biography, and more especially, autobiography. If biography, the writer invariably finds it necessary to plaster the subject with praises, flattery and adulation and to invest him with all the Christian graces. If autobiography, the same plan is followed, but the writer apologizes for it. — Carolyn Wells

She's not always bad, but she can be so strict. You use her bra once as a sling shot and she holds it against you forever. — Ottilie Weber

The wheel of seasons is broken, says the spring pattern this autumn day, and so am I. — David Mitchell

Oliver," she says. "You can do this." I watch her walk away. When Delilah talks like that, it's easy to remember why I gave up everything I knew in order to be with her. She believes in me, and if someone believes in you wholeheartedly, you start to believe in yourself as well. — Jodi Picoult

Back at the hut, all my sister, they start to cry. "No crying," my aunt says, very strict. "You cry only in your mind."
But later, when everyone else asleep, I hear my aunt, her tears, they fall like rain. — Patricia McCormick

New fashions (of all sorts) come from unexpected places, not from the arbiters of what's correct. — Seth Godin

The shame is in not improving when you have the opportunity! — Bebe Moore Campbell

You can get samosas in any pub in England today, pretty much. So, "Gunga Din" has come back. — Aasif Mandvi