Brother Quotes

My brother died of cancer two years ago (1998), renal cell carcinoma. He was my only real brother and I didn't know what to do. I'd never been so desperate in my life.

Ironically my brother died in a car accident shortly after Airbag was recorded. He's not an identical twin so I didn't care.

I was the oldest of the children in my family. I had to do a lot of diaper-changing and lunch-making. I was taking my little sister to ballet, picking up my brother, sort of being a super-nanny.

I saw how, when my brother smoked reefer, it made my mother cry. He was 16 at the time. And I saw that she broke down and cried. I never wanted to hurt my mother, so I kept away from drugs.

I was a photographer first.I worked alone. I did it my way as much as I could. I have been sort of courageous about doing things, because I didn't think I should do less than my brothers.

I am brother to dragons, and companion to owls. My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.

In the shadow of the atomic bomb it has become even more apparent that all men are, indeed, brothers.

Esteem incites friendship, but not love; the former is the twin brother of Reverence; the latter is the child of Equality.

Those are the voices of my brothers, darling; I love the company of wolves.

Nobody has ever given a reason why men should be their brother's keepers.

The Righteous Brothers were purely rhythm and blues, black music.

We have blacks and whites, Jews and Arabs, Serbs and Croats, and Filipinos and Vietnamese here. At the end of the day, everyone is each other's brother.

My dear brothers, never forget, when you hear the progress of enlightenment vaunted, that the devil's best trick is to persuade you that he doesn't exist!

After faith comes repentance, or, rather, repentance is faith's twin brother and is born at the same time.

If you put the talent of all my brothers together, they wouldn't add up to the talent that was in my father.

There was a flight from Cleveland to New York City with just two people on board. There hasn't been two people on an airplane since the Wright brothers.

A circus here, a circus there; here today, gone tomorrow. Big Brother watching you. Fear eats the soul.

I've got three brothers; I think all of them are good human beings.

I've always taken pride to be the white guy that can talk to the black people, that can refer to them truly as a brother from a different mother.

I'm Native American, so it's in my blood to always want brothers and friends. I'm a good brotherhood guy.

The poet is a brother speaking to a brother of "a moment of their other lives" - a moment that had been buried beneath the dust of the busy world.

Books are like brothers. I am an only child. Gatsby [is] my imaginary eldest brother.

Be praised, O my Lord by Brother Wind, By air and cloud and every clime To whom Thou givest sustenance unto their kind.

Our children are extensions of ourselves in ways our parents are not, nor our brothers and sisters, nor our spouses.

I am a prelude to better players, O my brothers! An example! Follow my example!

Have Love. Not love alone for one, but man as man they brother call; and scatter like the circling sun thy charities on all.

We're all sons and daughters of God, and therefore in a very literal sense, brothers and sisters. And we ought to treat each other that way.

Poverty and pride are devoted blood brothers until one, always and inevitably, kills the other.

Please, my dear brothers, let your wives and sisters go to the voter registration process. Later, you can control who she votes for, but please, let her go.

James, the brother of the Lord ... was holy from his mother's womb; and he drank no wine nor strong drink, nor did he eat meat.

His brothers were the type; he was the variation.

I got bored," he says. "Besides, you know what's creepier than walking around your dead brothers' apartment? Sitting alone in a hearse in front of his apartment.

I've spent my life trying to be better than I was, and I am a brother to all who share the same aspiration.

I'm so much more than just Angelina [Jolie's] brother. I'm also Jon Voight's son and Billy Bob Thorton's brother-in-law.

My brothers were gone on tour a lot, and I would miss them so much.

In this new world, this day and forever, then, we are not only Thebans - we are all Stepsons. We are all one Sacred Band. If you will have us. And mine will fight by yours, henceforth, as brothers.

Every man's in his own hands, with a little help from his brothers.

I don't believe in director's cuts where you make things longer. The coolest thing was when the Coen brothers did a director's cut of 'Blood Simple,' and they made it shorter.

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

When you have a friend you work with for 15 years, you become like brothers.

But still there are moments when a brother and sister can lay down their instruments of torture for a moment and speak as civilized human beings and Bruno decided to make this one of those moments.

The key word in the church community is relationships, you know brother and sister in Christ.

Envy's a sharper spur than pay: No author ever spar'd a brother; Wits are gamecocks to one another.

O brother man! fold to thy heart thy brother; Where pity dwells, the peace of God is there; To worship rightly is to love each other, Each smile a hymn, each kindly deed a prayer.

Please be slow to judge ‘brothers’ who have a different calling.

Antipater, now undisputed heir, had called down on his head the utter loathing of the nation, for everyone knew that all the slanders directed against his brothers had originated with him.

We have to divide mother love with our brothers and sisters. Our parents can help us cope with the loss of our dream of absolute love. But they cannot make us believe that we haven't lost it.

I had a lot of alone time with no brothers or sisters running around, or anything. I would just sit and imagine things, all the time.

My dear brother, never allow a woman to hold all of the cards.

My mother taught me to always be strong and always work hard. She's been working hard her whole life for me and my brother. I'm a lot like her in that I work hard for what I want. She taught me that.