I didn't have a teacher like Sister Mary Ignatius.

Laughter can bring a new perspective.

Then in college I became obsessed with film, and wanted to be part of that.

My father knew the charming side of my mother, and my mother thought that he was attentive and pleasant and was an architect, which was a respectable profession, but I don't think that they actually got to know one another deeply.

Since I also act, sometimes I get over my resentment and commit to the pitch as an acting job.

I grew up wanting to be a writer for theatre.

On the one hand, I'm grateful to be hired and thrilled to be paid.

Since it's based on my parents, it's more emotionally close to me than some of my more surreal plays. And then I like the balance of the comic and the sad. It should play as funny, but you should care about the characters and feel sad for them.

I didn't have a teacher like Sister Mary Ignatius.

When my parents separated, I was very grateful.

My parents didn't really know one another.

I never graduated to being an atheist. I only graduated to being an agnostic.

My biggest problem with organized religion is that God has been imagined as a human being with emotions. I feel if you let go of that, then it's possible to see God as a force, to connect to him or her spiritually.

My sister and I were born in San Francisco. When our parents died, we came down here to live with relatives.

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.

A sister is a little bit of childhood that can never be lost.

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.

My sister said, You're making it hard for all us housewives in Nebraska.

If your sister is in a tearing hurry to go out and cannot catch your eye, she's wearing your best sweater.

My sister and I are opposites in many ways. She is six feet tall, while I'm five feet four.

The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.

I love being a mother. I loved being a daughter, a sister, a wife. I love being a woman with men. I love having given birth.

She is the mother I never had, she is the sister everybody would want. She is the friend that everybody deserves. I don't know a better person.

My brother and sister are both older than I am and were born before my father went off to World War I.

Peter Lucas and I live in Durham but spend a great of time in North Wales, where we have a cottage in the mountains, and in Vermont, USA, with my sister - who is a children's writer married to a poet.

My sister is a nurse and saves people's lives.

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.

I, Lawrence Klein, was born in Omaha, Nebraska, as were my elder brother and younger sister.

The Pleasure Seekers eventually turned into Cradle, when we started writing our own material. My younger sister Nancy was brought in as singer and I kind of stepped aside as main lead singer and concentrated on my instrument.

My sister and I are both diagnosed with second-hand smoke syndromes. We have never smoked, but we grew up with second-hand smoke our entire lives.

Besides, I have a sister who's straight. And I want her to know that I love her and support her.

Badges mean nothing in themselves, but they mark a certain achievement and they are a link between the rich and the poor. For when one girl sees a badge on a sister Scout's arm, if that girl has won the same badge, it at once awakens an interest and sympathy between them.

When I was very young I was the ugly duckling. I had a lot of complexes. My sister was wonderful and I was nothing.

I may have had a crush on Zac, but we are like brother and sister, so nothing would ever happen.

My sister and I said, Dad, are you doing to do anything about that? And he mentioned treatments other people sent him that he'd been working on. So we thought it would be kind of cool to give these guys a real script.

It was around 4 p.m. in the afternoon. I was just taking a nap. Luckily, my sister was home.

It's amazing how coke encompasses everything in your life. Addicts cannot confront life because they only think of their next hit. I ruined life for my parents, my sister and all my friends.

My father's sister never married in order to raise me.

One of my kids was born in 1968. There were going to be political difficulties, but they were never going to have that level of hatred and contempt that my brothers and my sister and myself were exposed to.

What a different world it was when I first sailed for Europe in 1930, with my mother, sister, and brother to spend six months abroad.

While I've lived in L.A. since 1985, I'll always consider Chicago my home town and have much affection for it. My parents and sister still live there so I try to visit as often as I'm able.

I haven't had a stationary home since going with the circus, but since my parents lived in Lafayette about 25 years ago and my sister lives here now, I always claim it as home.

Ah, bless you, Sister, may all your sons be bishops.

My sister wanted to be an actress, but she never made it. She does live in a trailer. She got halfway. She's an actress, she just never gets called to the set.

This show has shown me how to throw a punch. But watching my future sister-in-law go through breast cancer has also shown me how to take one.

I was taking a nose dive somewhere between eleven and twelve because my sister had died and I was practicing something that siblings do which is follow in their footsteps and die as well.

Fidelity is the sister of justice.

My sister sometimes does a Todd Barry tribute act.

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.