Never make a companion equal to a brother.
— Hesiod
Professional Older Sister quotations
You keep your past by having sisters.
As you get older, they're the only ones who don't get bored if you talk about your memories.

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

I was the youngest. The yule lamb. The one who always got away without doing the washing up. My sister was four years older, and my brother six years.
I had a really wonderful upbringing. We were a tight family. It was wonderful to grow up with so many siblings. We were all just a year or two apart, and we were always so supportive of each other. I learned everything from my older brother and sister and taught it to my younger sisters.
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.

I had an older brother who passed away recently, an older sister and a younger brother.
Sometimes you really dig a girl, the moment you kiss her, And then you get distracted by her older sister.
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.

An older sister is a friend and defender - a listener, conspirator, a counsellor and a sharer of delights. And sorrows too.
My mom let me kind of run free and be rowdy.
She encouraged it. I'm a youngest child. So I was spazzy and trying to be funny to my older sisters. It's kind of my role in the family - tension reliever. I was funny or annoying, depending on your perspective.
I have two older sisters and one older brother and hold them largely responsible for the trouble I got into growing up. I believe as the youngest child, that is my right.

My older sister has entire kingdoms inside of her, and some of them are only accessible at certain seasons, in certain kinds of weather.
I'm the daughter of two Indian immigrant doctors, and I have an older sister and younger brother, and none of us have pursued medicine as a career. We're all over the artistic side of things.
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.

Daniel, my big brother, is eight years older.
I'm lucky he didn't mind hanging out with his little sister and my younger brother.
I was not a band geek, per say. But me and my two older sisters played instruments, so I would come home and my sister Dana would be playing the clarinet or playing the piano, and I would play the saxophone, my other sister would be singing, my mom would be singing. I was not afraid to be musical. That was not something that I thought was uncool.
I was embarrassed that I even wanted to become an actress because coming from L.
A., with two older sisters in the business and a mom who had been a ballet dancer, it was such a cliche.

Elder sisters never can do younger ones justice!
For the younger sisters, we always look up to the older sisters because they're always ahead of us and they always win.
In 1984, my mom gave birth to my older sister, Teresa.
Due to a complicated delivery, she needed a blood transfusion, and at that moment, my mom had HIV+ blood put into her body.

I was the biggest liar for no reason, and then as I got older, I thought, "Why am I lying to everybody?" I would hear other people lie and be like, "You sound so stupid." So then I would just change my lies. The only person I lie to is my little sister, when I steal her clothes.
It's hard to be responsible, adult and sensible all the time.
How good it is to have a sister whose heart is as young as your own.
I've had to live with women all my life.
I grew up with four older sisters, and I was the baby and the only boy.
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.
Los Angeles is like San Diego's older, uglier sister that has herpes.
Tailor's work--the finishing of men's outside garments--was the "trade" learned most frequently by women in [the 1820s and 1830s],and one or more of my older sisters worked at it; I think it must have been at home, for I somehow or somewhere got the idea, while I was a small child, that the chief end of woman was to make clothing for mankind.
My father was a classical singer of baroque music, and my older sister was in musical theatre, and I thought about doing the same thing but then realised straight acting was for me.
I was brought up by my mother and my two sisters, although they're older than me and fled the nest very young, so I was technically raised as an only child, but I was very much loved.
We older women who know we aren't heroines can offer our younger sisters, at the very least, an honest report of what we have learned and how we have grown.
I grew up in a house full of women. I have two older sisters and my mum who is a very strong woman.
My sister and my brother, of whom I have not spoken before, were considerably older than I; it seemed almost as if we belonged to different generations.
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.
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.
I always went to my sister, because she was older and had the care of me after my mother died.