Our cellar home had a kitchen and a combination bedroom and half bath, which meant we had a sink next to the bed. We had no refrigerator, no shower or tub, and no privacy. My parents shared the bedroom with my sister and me. – Lou Holtz
Moving to a new country is always difficult, but the fact my dad and my sister came to live with me was a huge help. That made things easier. – Javier Hernandez
I didn’t realize I was the ‘fat’ sister until I went on TV and the media started saying that about me. – Khloe Kardashian
I’m the ugly sister. I’m the fat one. I’m the transvestite. I have had those mean things said about me at least twice a day for the last five years. It’s horrible, you know? But I can brush that stuff off. – Khloe Kardashian
Until blacks and whites see each other as brother and sister, we will not have parity. It’s very clear. – Maya Angelou
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
Ndamukong started out playing soccer, like his sister before him. She excelled at it, played for Mississippi State, made the Cameroon national team. – Jeanne Marie Laskas
I used to clean my brother and sister’s rooms. And I would go to friends’ houses and clean their rooms, too. – Marie Kondo
Becoming a coach has to be in your blood. There are hundreds and thousands of former athletes out there, but there are maybe only 10 people who want to dedicate their lives by taking on a job as a coach. Not only a master, a coach should also be a brother or sister to his apprentices. – Joe Taslim
I’ve got a really good network that includes friends who all had babies within eight weeks of each other, plus my sister, a lovely part-time nanny and a nursery where Orla goes for half days. – Katherine Kelly
My grandmother was a teacher, my sister was a teacher, my daughter was a teacher and is now a superintendent in northern California, and my son-in-law is a high school principal. I am surrounded. – Loni Anderson
I started out wanting to be an actress. My sister was in this theater company in Brooklyn. I saw her in some plays, and I was immediately obsessed. I started auditioning for plays when I was about 10. – Liz Tuccillo
My position in the family turned out to be a lucky one; I bore neither the brunt of my mother’s newness to parenthood nor the force of her middle-aged traumas, as my younger sister, Ruth, did. – Katharine Graham
Lord, confound this surly sister, blight her brow with blotch and blister, cramp her larynx, lung and liver, in her guts a galling give her. – John Millington Synge
When I was really young. My sister and I would create different characters with our Barbie dolls – I’d be the crazy diva Barbie and she’d be the homeless Barbie. – Jordana Brewster
In my own family, my mother had my sister when I was 15 and for various reasons, I was extremely involved in raising her. – Rosalind Wiseman
Growing up in a Jewish matriarchal world inside the patriarchal paradise of Salt Lake City, Utah, gave me increased perspective on gender issues, as it also did my gay brother and my lesbian sister. Our younger sister is the perfect Jewish-American wife and mother, and is fiercely proud of that fact. – Roseanne Barr
I was born in 1937, in Yakima, Washington, the oldest child of Robert Emerson Lucas and Jane Templeton Lucas. My sister Jenepher was born in 1939 and my brother Peter in 1940. My parents had moved to Yakima from Seattle to open a small restaurant, The Lucas Ice Creamery. – Robert Lucas, Jr.
My family fled Iran in October 1978 as a result of the coming revolution when I was two years old. In the early days, my entire family lived together in a very crowded house, where I shared a room with my sister, cousin, and grandmother, and we would all listen to my grandmother tell stories before bedtime. – Pardis Sabeti
Just to see if I liked vlogging, I uploaded a video of my sister and I cleaning up a river in a canoe for Earth Day. The sound was horrible, and the quality was horrible… But you have to blog what’s interesting to you and not care what anyone thinks. – Rosanna Pansino
My sister and I used to sing at weddings. We would sing ‘When a Man Loves a Woman’ to the bride. We’d do it right before the garter ceremony. – Ryan Gosling
AIDS can destroy a family if you let it, but luckily for my sister and me, Mom taught us to keep going. Don’t give up, be proud of who you are, and never feel sorry for yourself. – Ryan White
My mom and dad put my brother and sister through university and they were very keen for us to have an academic background just to give us a chance. – Rob James-Collier
I feel like I think like a woman because I grew up with my mother and my sister, so I’ve just been programmed to think like a girl. – Ryan Gosling
The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation. – Oscar Wilde
When a kid graduates from being the youngest in a family to being a big brother or sister, there’s an amazing transformation. They have to make a big effort, and when they accept their new position in the family, everybody breathes a sigh of relief. All of a sudden they seem bigger, and they seem smarter, and they feel good about it, too. – Peggy Rathmann
I grew up in Burbank – but not the Burbank of valet parking and TV studios. In the late 1950s, there was a small apartment complex on Elmwood Avenue that rented mostly to families on welfare. I lived there from age 3 to 11 and again from 14 to 18 with my mother, Shirley, and my younger sister, Toni. – Rene Russo
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. – Ryan Lewis