© Copyright Ada Kanu 2010

I begin to love this creature,
and to anticipate her birth
as a fresh twist to a knot,
which I do not wish to untie.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft

I gained 80 pounds for my pregnancy so this is like my coming out party.
~ Cindy Margolis

Life is always a rich and steady time when you are waiting for something to happen or to hatch.
~ E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web

Life is magic, the way nature works seems to be quite magical.
~ Jonas Salk

Making a decision to have a child–it’s momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.
~ Elizabeth Stone

Pregnant women! They had that weird frisson, an aura of magic that combined awkwardly with an earthy sense of duty. Mundane, because they were nothing unique on the suburban streets; ethereal because their attention was ever somewhere else. Whatever you said was trivial. And they had that preciousness which they imposed wherever they went, compelling attention, constantly reminding you that they carried the future inside, its contours already drawn, but veiled, private, an inner secret.
~ Ruth Morgan

The most important thing she’d learned over the years was that there was no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.
~ Jill Churchill

There are three reasons for breast-feeding: the milk is always at the right temperature; it comes in attractive containers; and the cat can’t get it.
~ Irena Chalmers

Think of stretch marks as pregnancy service stripes.
~ Joyce Armor

What’s that on the telly?
It’s an angel sent from God…
Growing in my belly…
Like a sweet pea in a pod!
~ Melissa Hatcher

A baby is something you carry inside you for nine months, in your arms for three years and in your heart till the day you die.
~ Mary Mason

A grand adventure is about to begin.
~ Winnie the Pooh

A great joy is coming.
~ Author Unknown

A mother’s joy begins when new life is stirring inside… when a tiny heartbeat is heard for the very first time, and a playful kick reminds her that she is never alone.
~ Author Unknown

All the time we wondered and wondered, who is this person coming/growing/turning/floating/swimming deep, deep inside.
~ Crescent Dragonwagon

Before you were born I carried you under my heart. From the moment you arrived in this world until the moment I leave it, I will always carry you in my heart.
~ Mandy Harrison

Before you were conceived I wanted you
Before you were born I loved you
Before you were here an hour I would die for you
This is the miracle of Mother’s Love.
~ Maureen Hawkins

Everything grows rounder and wider and weirder, and I sit here in the middle of it all and wonder who in the world you will turn out to be.
~ Carrie Fisher

Feeling fat last nine months but the joy of becoming a mom lasts forever.
~ Nikki Dalton



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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves.
~ John Muir

Clouds of insects danced and buzzed in the golden autumn light, and the air was full of the piping of the song-birds. Long, glinting dragonflies shot across the path, or hung tremulous with gauzy wings and gleaming bodies.
~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
~ George Eliot

Everyone must take time to sit and watch the leaves turn.
~ Elizabeth Lawrence

For man, autumn is a time of harvest, of gathering together. For nature, it is a time of sowing, of scattering abroad.
~ Edwin Way Teale

I cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house. So I spend almost all the daylight hours in the open air.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne

In the garden, Autumn is, indeed the crowning glory of the year, bringing us the fruition of months of thought and care and toil. And at no season, safe perhaps in Daffodil time, do we get such superb colour effects as from August to November.
~ Rose G. Kingsley

I’ve never known anyone yet who doesn’t suffer a certain restlessness when autumn rolls around… We’re all eight years old again and anything is possible.
~ Sue Grafton

No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace
As I have seen in one autumnal face.
~ John Donne

October is a symphony of permanence and change.
~ Bonaro W. Overstreet

The foliage has been losing its freshness through the month of August, and here and there a yellow leaf shows itself like the first gray hair amidst the locks of a beauty who has seen one season too many.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

The lands are lit with all the autumn blaze of golden-rod, and everywhere the purple asters nod and bend and wave and flit.
~ Helen Hunt

There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it had not been!
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley

Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all.
~ Stanley Horowitz

Youth is like spring, an over praised season more remarkable for biting winds than genial breezes. Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.
~ Samuel Butler

A few days ago I walked along the edge of the lake and was treated to the crunch and rustle of leaves with each step I made. The acoustics of this season are different and all sounds, no matter how hushed, are as crisp as autumn air.
~ Eric Sloane

All those golden autumn days the sky was full of wings. Wings beating low over the blue water of Silver Lake, wings beating high in the blue air far above it . . . bearing them all away to the green fields in the South.
~ Laura Ingalls Wilder

Autumn is a second spring where every leaf is a flower.
~ Albert Camus

Autumn is the eternal corrective. It is ripeness and color and a time of maturity; but it is also breadth, and depth, and distance. What man can stand with autumn on a hilltop and fail to see the span of his world and the meaning of the rolling hills that reach to the far horizon?
~ Hal Borland

Autumn, the year’s last, loveliest smile.
~ William Cullen Bryant

Bittersweet October. The mellow, messy, leaf-kicking, perfect pause between the opposing miseries of summer and winter.
~ Carol Bishop Hipps




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I am a sister to a younger brother and can’t tell you the number of times I begged my mom to have another girl, she never listened to me though, but through the years was fortunate to be raised with two of my female cousins whom I can say are like the sisters I never had; to my sisters Regina and Zainab.

Having a sister is like having a best friend you can’t get rid of. You know whatever you do, they’ll still be there.
~ Amy Li


A sister is a little bit of childhood that can never be lost.
~ Marion C. Garretty


Is solace anywhere more comforting than in the arms of a sister.
~ Alice Walker


Big sisters are the crab grass in the lawn of life.
~ Charles M. Schulz


If you don’t understand how a woman could both love her sister dearly and want to wring her neck at the same time, then you were probably an only child.
~ Linda Sunshine


You can kid the world. But not your sister.
~ Charlotte Gray


I would like more sisters, that the taking out of one, might not leave such stillness.
~ Emily Dickinson


Help one another, is part of the religion of sisterhood.
~ Louisa May Alcott


Sisters never quite forgive each other for what happened when they were five.
~ Pam Brown


In thee my soul shall own combined the sister and the friend.
~ Catherine Killigrew


Brothers and sisters are as close as hands and feet.
~ Vietnamese Proverb


A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves - a special kind of double.
~ Toni Morrison


What’s the good of news if you haven’t a sister to share it?
~ Jenny DeVries


Sisters is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.
~ Margaret Mead


Bless you, my darling, and remember you are always in the heart - oh tucked so close there is no chance of escape - of your sister.
~ Katherine Mansfield


A sister smiles when one tells one’s stories - for she knows where the decoration has been added.
~ Chris Montaigne


More than Santa Claus, your sister knows when you’ve been bad and good.
~ Linda Sunshine


If sisters were free to express how they really feel, parents would hear this: “Give me all the attention and all the toys and send Rebecca to live with Grandma.”
~ Linda Sunshine


My sister taught me everything I really need to know, and she was only in sixth grade at the time.
~ Linda Sunshine


I, who have no sisters or brothers, look with some degree of innocent envy on those who may be said to be born to friends.
~ James Boswell


How do people make it through life without a sister?
~ Sara Corpening


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


There can be no situation in life in which the conversation of my dear sister will not administer some comfort to me.
~ Mary Montagu


When sisters stand shoulder to shoulder, who stands a chance against us?
~ Pam Brown


The mildest, drowsiest sister has been known to turn tiger if her sibling is in trouble.
~ Clara Ortega


I know some sisters who only see each other on Mother’s Day and some who will never speak again. But most are like my sister and me… linked by volatile love, best friends who make other best friends ever so slightly less best.
~ Patricia Volk


Sisterly love is, of all sentiments, the most abstract. Nature does not grant it any functions.
~ Ugo Betti


Sisters function as safety nets in a chaotic world simply by being there for each other.
~ Carol Saline


Sweet is the voice of a sister in the season of sorrow.
~ Benjamin Disraeli


Elder sisters never can do younger ones justice!
~ Charlotte M. Yonge


A sister is a gift to the heart, a friend to the spirit, a golden thread to the meaning of life.
~ Isadora James


To the outside world we all grow old. But not to brothers and sisters. We know each other as we always were. We know each other’s hearts. We share private family jokes. We remember family feuds and secrets, family griefs and joys. We live outside the touch of time.
~ Clara Ortega


The best thing about having a sister was that I always had a friend.
~ Cali Rae Turner


An older sister helps one remain half child, half woman.
~ Unknown




An older sister is a friend and defender - a listener, conspirator, a counselor and a sharer of delights. And sorrows too.
~ Pam Brown


Our brothers and sisters are there with us from the dawn of our personal stories to the inevitable dusk.
~ Susan Scarf Merrell


I don’t believe an accident of birth makes people sisters or brothers. It makes them siblings, gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood is a condition people have to work at.
~ Maya Angelou


A sibling may be the keeper of one’s identity, the only person with the keys to one’s unfettered, more fundamental self.
~ Marian Sandmaier


Our siblings push buttons that cast us in roles we felt sure we had let go of long ago - the baby, the peacekeeper, the caretaker, the avoider…. It doesn’t seem to matter how much time has elapsed or how far we’ve traveled.
~ Jane Mersky Leder


Our siblings. They resemble us just enough to make all their differences confusing, and no matter what we choose to make of this, we are cast in relation to them our whole lives long.
~ Susan Scarf Merrell


Sibling relationships… outlast marriages, survive the death of parents, resurface after quarrels that would sink any friendship. They flourish in a thousand incarnations of closeness and distance, warmth, loyalty and distrust.
~ Erica E. Goode


Siblings are the people we practice on, the people who teach us about fairness and cooperation and kindness and caring - quite often the hard way.
~ Pamela Dugdale


Sisters share the scent and smells - the feel of a common childhood.
~ Pam Brown


Sisters annoy, interfere, criticize. Indulge in monumental sulks, in huffs, in snide remarks. Borrow. Break. Monopolize the bathroom. Are always underfoot. But if catastrophe should strike, sisters are there. Defending you against all comers.
~ Pam Brown


Between sisters, often, the child’s cry never dies down. “Never leave me,” it says; “do not abandon me.”
~ Louise Bernikow


Sisterhood is powerful.
~ Robin Morgan


Sisters don’t need words. They have perfected a language of snarls and smiles and frowns and winks - expressions of shocked surprise and incredulity and disbelief. Sniffs and snorts and gasps and sighs - that can undermine any tale you’re telling.
~ Pam Brown


One of the best things about being an adult is the realization that you can share with your sister and still have plenty for yourself.
~ Betsy Cohen


We know one another’s faults, virtues, catastrophes, mortifications, triumphs, rivalries, desires, and how long we can each hang by our hands to a bar. We have been banded together under pack codes and tribal laws.
~ Rose Macaulay


Sisters may share the same mother and father but appear to come from different families.
~ Author Unknown


We acquire friends and we make enemies, but our sisters come with the territory.
~ Evelyn Loeb


We may look old and wise to the outside world. But to each other, we are still in junior school.
~ Charlotte Gray


Whatever you do they will love you; even if they don’t love you they are connected to you till you die. You can be boring and tedious with sisters, whereas you have to put on a good face with friends.
~ Deborah Moggach


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.
~ Deborah Moggach


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.
~ Pam Brown


Of two sisters one is always the watcher, one the dancer.
~ Louise Glück


She is your mirror, shining back at you with a world of possibilities. She is your witness, who sees you at your worst and best, and loves you anyway. She is your partner in crime, your midnight companion, someone who knows when you are smiling, even in the dark. She is your teacher, your defense attorney, your personal press agent, even your shrink. Some days, she’s the reason you wish you were an only child.
~ Barbara Alpert

“The desire to be and have a sister is a primitive and profound one that may have everything or nothing to do with the family a woman is born to. It is a desire to know and be known by someone who shares blood and body, history and dreams . . .”
~ Elizabeth Fishel


“My sisters have taught me how to live.”
~ George Wasserstein


“Sisters share the scent and smells… the feel of a common childhood.”
~ Pam Brown


“Sisters is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.”
~ Margaret Meed


“Having a sister is like having a best friend you can’t get rid of. You know whatever you do, they’ll still be there.”
~ Amy Li


“Sisters are for sharing laughter and wiping tears.”
~ Unknown


“How do people make it through life without a sister?”
~ Sara Corpening


“A sister smiles when one tells one’s stories… for she knows where the decoration has been added.”
~ Chris Montaigne


“There can be no situation in life in which the conversation of my dear sister will not administer some comfort to me.”
~ Lady Mary Worley Montagu


“Sisters are connected throughout their lives by a special bond… whether they try to ignore it or not. For better or for worse, sisters remain sisters, until death do them part.”
~ Brigid McConville from “Sisters: Love and Conflict Within The Lifelong Bond”


“One’s Sister is a part of one’s essential self, an eternal presence of one’s heart and soul and memory.”
~ Susan Cabill


“My sister taught me everything I need to know, and she was only in the sixth grade at the time.”
~ Linda Sunshine


“Chance made us Sisters, hearts made us friends.”
~ Unknown


“There is no time like the old time, when you and I were young!”
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes


“No one knows better than a Sister how we grew up, and who our friends, teachers and favorite toys were. No one knows better than she…”
~ Dale V. Atkins


“Sisters — they share the agony and the exhilaration. As youngsters they may share popsicles, chewing gum, hair dryers and bedrooms. When they grow up, they share confidences, careers and children, and some even chat for hours every day.”
~ Roxanne Brown


“Sisters examine each other so they can have a map for how they should behave.”
~ Michael D. Kahn


“A sister is both your mirror — and your opposite.”
~ Elizabeth Fishel


“Sisterhood is powerful.”
~ Robin Morgan


“A sister is a little bit of childhood that can never be lost.”
~ Marion C. Garretty

“Both within the family and without, our sisters hold up our mirrors: our images of who we are and of who we can dare to become.”
~ Elizabeth Fishel


“Your sister is the only creature on earth who shares your heritage, history, environment, DNA, bone structure, and contempt for stupid Aunt Gertie.”
~ Linda Sunshine


“Sisters touch your heart in ways no other could. Sisters share… their hopes, their fears, their love, everything they have. Real friendship springs from their special bonds.”
~ Carrie Bagwell


“If your sister is in a tearing hurry to go out and cannot catch your eye, she’s wearing your best sweater.”
~ Pam Brown


If sisters were free to express how they really feel, parents would hear this: “Give me all the attention and all the toys and send Rebecca to live with Grandma.”
~ Linda Sunshine


“There’s a special kind of freedom sisters enjoy.
Freedom to share innermost thoughts, to ask a favor, to show their true feelings. The freedom to simply be themselves.”
~ Anonymous


“Only a sister can compare the sleek body that now exists with the chubby body hidden underneath. Only a sister knows about former pimples, failing math, and underwear kicked under the bed.”
~ Laura Tracy, from “The Secret Between Us”


“If you don’t understand how a woman could both love her sister dearly and want to wring her neck at the same time, then you were probably an only child.”
~ Linda Sunshine


“Sisters don’t need words. They have perfected a language of snarls and smiles and frowns and winks… expressions of shocked surprise and incredulity and disbelief. Sniffs and snorts and gasps and sighs… that can undermine any tale you’re telling.”
~ Pam Brown


“Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister”
~ Alice Walker


“We are sisters. We will always be sisters.
Our differences may never go away, but neither, for me, will our song.”
~ Elizabeth Fishel


“The best thing about having a sister was that I always had a friend.”
~ Cali Rae Turner


“Husbands come and go; children come and eventually they go. Friends grow up and move away. But the one thing that’s never lost is your sister.”
~ Gail Sheeny, from “Sisters”


“Loving a sister is an unconditional narcissistic and complicated devotion that approximates a Mother’s love…. Sisters are inescapably connected, shaped by the same two parents, the same trove of memory and experience.”
~ Roxanne Brown


“To have a loving relationship with a sister is not simply to have a buddy or a confident — it is to have a soulmate for life.”
~ Victoria Secunda


“You can’t think how I depend on you, and when you’re not there the color goes out of my life.”
~ Virginia Woolf — to her sister


“There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.”
~ Iris Murdoch


“We are more than just acquaintances… it’s as if we are cut from the same fabric. Even though we appear to be sewn in a different pattern, we have a common thread that won’t be broken-by people or years or distance.”
~ Unknown


“She is your mirror, shining back at you with a world of possibilities. She is your witness, who sees you at your worst and best, and loves you anyway. She is your partner in crime, your midnight companion, someone who knows when you are smiling, even in the dark. She is your teacher, your defense attorney, your personal press agent, even your shrink. Some days, she’s the reason you wish you were an only child.”
~ Barbara Alpert


“Like branches on a tree we grow in different directions yet our roots remain as one. Each of our lives will always be a special part of the other.”
~ Unknown

“Sisters are for sharing laughter and wiping tears.”
~ Unknown

“There can be no situation in life in which the conversation of my dear sister will not administer some comfort to me.”
~ Lady Mary Worley Montagu

“Chance made us Sisters, hearts made us friends.”
~ Unknown

“There is no time like the old time, when you and I were young!”
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

“There’s a special kind of freedom sisters enjoy. Freedom to share innermost thoughts, to ask a favor, to show their true feelings. The freedom to simply be themselves.”
~ Unknown

“Husbands come and go; children come and eventually they go. Friends grow up and move away. But the one thing that’s never lost is your sister.”
~ Gail Sheeny

“Having a sister is like having a best friend you can’t get rid of. You know whatever you do, they’ll still be there.”
~ Amy Li

“Big sisters are the crab grass in the lawn of life. ”
~ Charles M. Schultz

“I would like more sisters, that the taking out of one, might not leave such stillness.”
~ Emily Dickinson

“Help one another, is part of the religion of sisterhood.”
~ Louisa May Alcott


“Sisters is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.”
~ Margaret Mead

“A sister smiles when one tells one’s stories - for she knows where the decoration has been added.”
~ Chris Montaigne

“Sweet is the voice of a sister in the season of sorrow.”
~ Benjamin Disraeli

“I don’t believe an accident of birth makes people sisters or brothers. It makes them siblings, gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood is a condition people have to work at.”
~ Maya Angelou

“One of the best things about being an adult is the realization that you can share with your sister and still have plenty for yourself.
Betsy Cohen

“An older sister is a friend and defender - a listener, conspirator, a counsellor and a sharer of delights. And sorrows too.”
Pam Brown

“Our siblings. They resemble us just enough to make all their differences confusing, and no matter what we choose to make of this, we are cast in relation to them our whole lives long.”

Susan Scarf Merrell

“A sister is a little bit of childhood that can never be lost.”
Marion C. Garretty

“A sister is a gift to the heart, a friend to the spirit, a golden thread to the meaning of life.”
Isadora James

“You should never look down on a sister except to pick her up.”
Author Unknown

“If you don’t understand how a woman could both love her sister dearly and want to wring her neck at the same time, then you were probably an only child.”
Linda Sunshine

“To have a loving relationship with a sister is not simply to have a buddy or a confident — it is to have a soulmate for life.”
Victoria Secunda

“Sisters share the scent and smells - the feel of a common childhood.”
Pam Brown
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