Quotes on Brother

I figure I'll be champ for about ten years and then I'll let my brother take over - like the Kennedys down in Washington.

Author: Muhammad Ali

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

Author: Gregg Allman

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

Author: Joan Ark

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

Author: Tracy Austin

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

Author: Daniel Berrigan

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.

Author: Bono

We all remember where we were and we all remember what we were doing. I had a brother in New York, an uncle, lots of friends in New York. It made me angry, it made me sad; what could I do.

Author: Timothy Bottoms

Big Brother is watching... look busy.

Author: Brandon Boyd

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

Author: Malcolm Boyd

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

Author: Marlon Brando

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.

Author: Beau Bridges

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

Author: Robert Burns

My brother was always in bands and on the road when I was a kid and he was my inspiration. He never made it with a big band, in fact he never made a record. Here he is fifty-something years old.

Author: Jimmy Chamberlin

Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas - that's what my grandma taught me.

Author: Lord Chesterfield

Kissing Macaulay Culkin was like kissing a brother. It was really no big deal.

Author: Anna Chlumsky

I performed adequately at school, but in comparison to my older brother, who set the record for the highest cumulative average for our high school, my performance was decidedly mediocre.

Author: Steven Chu

When my brother-in-law, BIll Clinton, was elected, he had gay friends. That was a coming out.

Author: Kate Clinton

I'm writing new songs for a Broadway version of Tarzan, which is very interesting. I think what I learned from the Brother Bear score side of things, I've brought into the new Tarzan songs. Thinking outside just guitar, bass, drums and keyboards.

Author: Phil Collins

I think probably the one trait that would concern me about brother Bing would be his lack of responsibility.

Author: Bob Crosby

I didn't want people to say his brother Bing sings better than he does.

Author: Bob Crosby

With a modem, anyone can follow the world and report on the world-no middle man, no big brother. I guess this changes everything.

Author: Matt Drudge

If thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother.

Author: Epictetus

Doubt is the brother of shame.

Author: Erik Erikson

I was a militant smoker, and in my case, I think I particularly used smoking because what I felt was a kind of politically correct big brother assault on smoking.

Author: Joe Eszterhas

A brother who recognizes that we have shortcomings, we, in the struggle, have faults, and that he wanted to reconcile differences.

Author: Louis Farrakhan

But if I thought on it, I would like to be remembered as a brother who loved his people and did everything that I knew to fight for them, the liberation of our people.

Author: Louis Farrakhan

I plan to go to college in Southampton, a fishery studies college. Again, my brother was down there about two years ago and he said it was great, so I'm looking forward to that.

Author: Tom Felton

When I go out there, I have no pity on my brother. I'm out there to win.

Author: Joe Frazier

I just did a picture book called The Wildest Brother on Earth, and you will find both of my children in there.

Author: Cornelia Funke

I have a little brother. He's actually living at my house right now. He's going to be 18.

Author: Edward Furlong

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

Author: Liam Gallagher

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

Author: Mohandas Gandhi

I heard my brother's voice even though we were apart. I then answered the phone and found him on the line.

Author: Maurice Gibb

I keep referring to them in the plural but all I'm dealing with is Bob. I don't know where Harvey fits in the equation. He was very present at the beginning, winding his brother up. I don't know where he is now.

Author: Terry Gilliam

Even crushed against his brother in the Tube the average Englishman pretends desperately that he is alone.

Author: Germaine Greer

When I came into the WWF, the first thing I really didn't want to have was being Bret Hart's little brother.

Author: Owen Hart

I'd come from the bottom of the barrel. Just Owen Hart getting out of the shadow of Bret Hart's little brother. Everyone figured, this is a joke, Owen's going to get squashed.

Author: Owen Hart

If Bret went in there and stunk the place out, then they probably wouldn't have brought the little brother in. So just by being successful himself, it opened the door for me.

Author: Owen Hart

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

Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne

My brother and I were meditating before we were 6 years old, having to stare at the wall and chant.

Author: Kristin Hersh

Never make a companion equal to a brother.

Author: Hesiod

When you deal with your brother, be pleasant, but get a witness.

Author: Hesiod

Even as a small child I never felt that I should have to compete with anyone - even my older brother.

Author: Dwayne Hickman

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

Author: Homer

My brother used to say that I wrote faster than he could read. He wrote two books - of poems - better than all mine put together.

Author: Laurence Housman

My responsibility is always and everywhere the same: to see in my brother more even than the personality and manhood that are his. My task is always and everywhere the same: to see Christ himself.

Author: Trevor Huddleston

So the brother in black offers to these United States the source of courage that endures, and laughter.

Author: Zora Hurston

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

Author: Jean Ingelow

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

Author: Jackie Jackson

My feeling toward the animal is that he is our younger brother, and that we are our brother's keeper.

Author: Mary Johnston

Well, my brother was a schizophrenic, so I understood it in a different way from seeing my brother.

Author: Jeffrey Jones

We got into all the trouble you could ever imagine. We figured that if the Jones boys and all the gangsters ran Chicago, we had our own territory now. All the stores, all the crime, we were in charge of everything, my stepbrother and my brother.

Author: Quincy Jones

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

Author: John Keble

Brother Jones is not my product, and I am not responsible for anything he writes or says.

Author: John Kellogg

P.C. is just too Big Brother - telling me how I should act and feel.

Author: Johnny Kelly

There's a lot of interest there in the missions that I fly on and the ones my brother's involved with.

Author: Mark Kelly

If you like your brother and he's prospering, you'll be pleased for him.

Author: Hamad Khalifa

I had always thought of Chris as my kid brother and watching how this kid, as I still thought of him, had affected so many people's lives around the world was incredible.

Author: Margot Kidder

They're saying Arnold will get 95% of the vote. At least according to his brother, Jeb Schwarzenegger.

Author: Craig Kilborn

My children have no prejudices at all. My own brother-in-law is Jewish!

Author: Dorothy Kilgallen

Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high school. When he starts playing jazz it's like going on to college, to a school of higher learning.

Author: B. King

I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law.

Author: Martin King, Jr.

The PRC is the big brother in this relationship, and it has the capacity to be generous to Taiwan on this issue in a manner that might do much to defuse that issue internally in Taiwan.

Author: William Kirby

Big Brother sounded like a silly stunt and that's what it is.

Author: Nigel Kneale

I have an older brother who is 21 and attends UC Berkley.

Author: Mila Kunis

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.

Author: Wally Lamb

I have lost someone I loved as a brother, as a closest friend, and a remarkable human being. We have also lost one of the best damn actors we'll ever see.

Author: Jack Lemon

In the democratic western countries so-called capitalism leads a saturnalia of "freedom," like a bastard brother of reform.

Author: Wyndham Lewis

We were unusually brought up; there was no gender differentiation. I was never thought of as any less than my brother.

Author: Maya Lin

My brother Cody is 19. He wants to stay out of the limelight and become a lawyer. I want him to be an entertainment lawyer, so he can help me out!

Author: Lindsay Lohan

Growing up, my brother and I were begging for attention.

Author: Jeremy London

My brother is an excellent songwriter, and I play guitar and drums.

Author: Jeremy London

My brother had a big band in high school; after that we continued to play together, eventually forming a group called the Jazz Brothers, that recorded for Riverside Records.

Author: Chuck Mangione

I'm definitely the worker. My brother is the jokester.

Author: Taryn Manning

My older brother and myself always played together in bands, but we never knew we would be professional musicians.

Author: Wynton Marsalis

I haven't seen a professional player come out of New York in over 20 years since my brother Patrick came out. Blake spent a few years in Harlem, but he moved to Connecticut when he was a kid.

Author: John McEnroe

And so we were asleep there in San Diego. And our pilot called us. And his brother was on one of the other planes. And when he was leaving the airport, he saw in his rear view mirror that there was an explosion.

Author: Reba McEntire

I headed out to have a breather at the stage door, dressed in my tramp costume. I had my bowler hat between my feet and there were passers-by, and one of them turned back and said, 'Do you need help, brother?' And $1 fell into my hat!

Author: Ian McKellen

My brother and I had saved $15,000 by working many years nailing fruit crates together.

Author: Robert Mondavi

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

Author: Harold Nicholas

Big Brother is watching you.

Author: George Orwell

I don't want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn't getting the attention, but it was like no one was really into me anyway. I wasn't really a priority.

Author: Jack Osbourne

Most of my memories of Texas are of mosquitoes, watermelons, crickets, and my brother teasing me.

Author: Robin Penn

Foreman told Ray to plead guilty and he'd then give his brother $500, if Ray didn't cause any problems at the guilty plea hearing, and he could take that $500 and hire a lawyer to set aside the plea. Foreman actually put that in writing.

Author: William Pepper

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

Author: Emo Philips

I have three sisters and I've always wanted a brother, so I was really interested in that notion.

Author: Ryan Phillippe

There's no such thing, you know, as picking out the best woman: it's only a question of comparative badness, brother.

Author: Plautus

I always performed when I was a child. My parents got very annoyed, because my brother and I had our little bedrooms upstairs, and I would plaster the house with posters with arrows pointing upstairs.

Author: Franka Potente

My wife used to tell me one of my best qualities was that my feet don't smell, but I remember my brother's did when we were kids.

Author: Jack Prelutsky

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.

Author: Anthony Quinn

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.

Author: Sun Ra

In the order I was in, each brother takes five vows, one of which is teaching the poor gratuitously. As a young person I was seized by this idea of social justice and I wanted very much to follow my vow of teaching the poor gratuitously.

Author: Godfrey Reggio

After Lock, Stock, all these really nasty small town characters came knocking at my door trying to tell me stories, and somehow I ended up with this guy whose brother was feeding people to pigs, and that's what he did to get rid of people.

Author: Guy Ritchie

Ireland and England are like two sisters; I would have them embrace like one brother.

Author: Boyle Roche

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

Author: Pierre Salinger

If you are in a band like my brother, Rudolf, who is in the Scorpions, then you have a kind of umbrella and you cover each other. You have five people to discuss things with and you are all in the same boat, and therefore make much wiser choices.

Author: Michael Schenker

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

Author: Albert Schweitzer

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

Author: Charlie Sheen

Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder.

Author: Percy Shelley

I had sort of exhausted all the avenues playing in Detroit. So again, through the stewardship of my brother, I ended up in California and went to the Musicians Institute in L.A. I wanted to get better as a player.

Author: Chad Smith

A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

Author: King Solomon

The soundtrack of O Brother is the most publicity I've gotten. I don't feel that I have lost any of my old fans, but I have gained new ones.

Author: Ralph Stanley

At first it was my brother's songwriting and I was just doing what everyone told me.

Author: Gwen Stefani

I went to Amherst because my brother had gone there before me, and he went there because his guidance counselor thought that we would do better there than at a large university like Harvard.

Author: Joseph Stiglitz

My brother and Lauren are very close with me and they are in Sun Valley, so sometimes I need to go there and feel their presence. And there are times I need to see my bro' alone.

Author: Picabo Street

So far we have not convinced the Chinese authorities. My own brother was refused a visa on what was probably my last chance of seeing him when he was going around the world on a tour. Scott Nearing was similarly refused.

Author: Anna Strong

Zac Efron is like a brother who's just goofy and crazy. He plays a lot of practical jokes.

Author: Ashley Tisdale

In high school and college all my friends and my brother wrestled.

Author: Verne Troyer

I have a brother who's a psychologist. He says three-quarters of the world are born feeling that they will be affected by the world; one quarter are born knowing that they will affect the world.

Author: Kathleen Turner

So, my big brother was playing guitar and I figured I'd try it too.

Author: Stevie Vaughan

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

Author: Patricia Velasquez

No one could understand the bond between me and my brother. I struggled to understand the forces that drove his soul in one direction and mine in another.

Author: Barry White

I was a tomboy and I didn't have a bunch of brothers but I always wanted them and so I sort of adopted a few of my great friends to be my brother.

Author: Olivia Wilde

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

Author: Tennessee Williams

Of private differences personal to himself, my brother had none.

Author: John Wise

I didn't set out to be famous; if I'd wanted that, I would have gone on Big Brother.

Author: Sam Worthington

I confess that in 1901 I said to my brother Orville that man would not fly for fifty years.

Author: Wilbur Wright