Brother Quotes

Everyone knows that if you've got a brother, you're going to fight.

Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.

My brother and I had a really privileged relationship with my parents... They treated us like adults.

Would I lay down my life to save my brother? No, but I would to save two brothers or eight cousins.

Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.

A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

Today we know that World War II began not in 1939 or 1941 but in the 1920's and 1930's when those who should have known better persuaded themselves that they were not their brother's keeper.

Proclaim human equality as loudly as you like, Witless will serve his brother.

And bitter waxed the fray; Brother with brother spake no word When they met in the way.

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.

My brother went on to have a long and sordid career.

I know my brother. Michael, he's not that kind of person. He doesn't do that. That's all a lie on him.

There is nothing to be compared to this, 'cause we lost our brother, our hero. The world is mourning. We are mourning. The fans are mourning. It is unreal. Unbelievable.

I never had a cool older brother or sister to turn me on to cool music. I had to discover it for myself.

I was a nut for Dostoevsky. You can tell a lot from what people read between those ages. My brother was a Steinbeck freak and now he lives in a little village in New Hampshire and he's a baker.

As fire kindled by fire, so is the poet's mind kindled by contact with a brother poet.

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.

My brother never had me to dinner in his life.

My parents would have loved it if my brother or I had become a doctor or lawyer.

Instead of becoming an engineer like my brother, I moved to New York to be an actor.

I take golf trips with my brother or with friends. We usually go to Pebble or Bandon Dunes. One year we went to Hawaii.

Unlike my grandfather or my brother, I've actually been able to make some money at a racetrack.

I copied my brother. He was a natural dancer. Graceful. People always asked did we study ballet. We never did.

I realized how important it was to know something about aviation, and it was something I was interested in, so I followed my brother's footsteps and obtained my pilot's license.

My brother knows more about film sets than I do, because he works at New York Film Academy.

The more I worked on 'Half Brother,' the more it seemed to me the story was really about love in all its possible forms - how and why we decide to bestow it, or withdraw it; how we decide what is more worthy of being loved, and what is less. We are masters of conditional love.

Big Brother is watching you.

My brother is a comic-book writer, and I was always in love with comics.

Well, my brother says Hello. So, hooray for speech therapy.

I love my brother. I miss my brother.

Well, I mean, you have an emotion, you want to express it. You don't just look in the camera and do it. You want to hide from the embarrassment of your brother saying you're not allowed to come into my town.

It's such a tragedy that man endures in killing his brother and his own kind, putting him in jail and insane asylums, letting him lay out in the street.

It's time for the party of big ideas, not the party of Big Brother!

One can be a brother only in something. Where there is no tie that binds men, men are not united but merely lined up.

One of the problems with a candidate like Bob Kennedy, and his brother before him, was that people assumed they didn't need contributions.

My sisters are stronger and my brother's bigger than me.

The African is my brother but he is my younger brother by several centuries.

I so desperately wanted to be Mr. Somebody. Instead, I was the little brother, included to a point.

My father's family came from Virginia and Philadelphia. He wasn't a brother who talked a lot. He was a workingman, a quiet, blue-collar dude.

It was so inspiring for me to watch tennis growing up. I thought I was really good playing, until my brother told me I wasn't!

The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth, and the Native American shared this elemental ethic: The land was alive to his loving touch, and he, its son, was brother to all creatures.

I think if I could have a boyfriend like my brothers I'd be really happy. But without the brother thing.

Apparently, one in five people in the world are Chinese. And there are five people in my family, so it must be one of them. It's either my mum or my dad. Or my older brother, Colin. Or my younger brother, Ho-Chan-Chu. But I think it's Colin.

My childhood definitely revolved around my relationship with my brother. I wanted to be different. I wanted to find my way of being as intriguing and interesting as he was.

The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It's inflammatory.

My brother's been producing rap music and hip-hop for maybe 10 years.

My brother was a lifeguard in a car wash.

It takes two men to make one brother.

I had many boxing matches with my brother in the backyard when we were younger, and I guess while other people abhor boxing for its brutality, I also have to admire anyone who climbs into the ring to face up to what could be the ultimate defeat.

When I was training, I trained with my younger brother Brady. I would wrestle some of my friends, who I had grown up with, which showed me some moves, but it was never a full on match. When I went to competitions, there were other girls, so I always wrestled girls.

Clapton asked my brother to play on his record. I thought that was the most wonderful thing in the world.

Although raised on the farm - my grandfather was an unsuccessful fundamentalist preacher turned farmer - my father and his brother both became professors.

I had a really normal childhood except I acted. It was like, my brother played soccer, and I was on television sometimes.

My brother Mark still lives in the house we grew up in.

My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that.

Comic books and The Chronicles of Narnia. My mother used to read those to me and my twin brother growing up.

I'm definitely lucky to have been included in some of the perks of my brother's connections in the fashion world. It's helpful considering I'm still like a five-year-old when it comes to shopping.

My brother Jeff is now my agent at Advantage International in Washington, D.C.

Hypocrite reader my fellow my brother!

I was kind of a bully, even though I'm tiny, 5' 2". As a child, I'd boss other kids around and dress my little brother up, just putting on shows, singing and dressing up.

I think of my brother just out of prison again. He will have spent ten years of the last 30 in prison.

If you age with somebody, you go through so many roles - you're lovers, friends, enemies, colleagues, strangers; you're brother and sister. That's what intimacy is, if you're with your soulmate.

My brother is really, really slow.

Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become the conscience of the free market if it's to have any meaning in this world - and stop being its apologist.

There's a schizoid streak within the family anyway so I dare say that I'm affected by that. The majority of the people in my family have been in some kind of mental institution, as for my brother he doesn't want to leave. He likes it very much.

Big Brother is watching... look busy.

I find Jesus my confidant and companion, brother and savior; our relationship is intimate, vulnerable, demanding yet comfortable and reassuring.

If we are not our brother's keeper, at least let us not be his executioner.

I liked back in the sixties where you'd turn on the radio and go 'Oh that's Hendrix, that's Creedence Clearwater, that's The Doors, there's The Grass Roots, The Monkees, there's Big Brother.' You could just instantly hear it and tell. But in the eighties and nineties there's no way you could do that.

Well, my brother started acting before I did.

Steve and I saw eye to eye on the story and I got the part, but I think in the beginning it was due to my brother's instigation. So I owe him for that.

My favorite Oscar story was a year my brother had been nominated, my whole family went.

My main teachers were my father and my mother and my brother.

I'd pull my little brother on our motorcycle on an inner tube behind it. We would go fishing, we would hunt some, growing up.

I was always very aware of drummers. My oldest brother Henry was a drummer, and he drummed on everything in the house from the kitchen sink to stovepipes. He was the first drummer in the Gil Evans Orchestra, so you've got to know how great he was.

Mental illness can happen to anybody. You can be a dustman, a politician, a Tesco worker... anyone. It could be your dad, your brother or your aunt.

Being a son, brother, uncle and brother-in-law is all I care about.

Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!