- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
Brother Quotes
On brothers, mentorship, and family loyalty.
Some of these quotes are about literal brothers and the private fears or gratitude that come with that bond; others use 'brother' more loosely, for a mentor or a fellow actor's catchphrase about faith. Looking for something shareable? Try Status.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always been very competitive - that runs in our family. I'd always try to beat my brother. I'd race the boys and wanted to beat them. They toughened me up. They didn't treat me like a girl.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the greatest gifts my brother and I received from my mother was her love of literature and language. With their boundless energy, libraries open the door to these worlds and so many others. I urge young and old alike to embrace all that libraries have to offer.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was a great strain in our family because my father didn't want anything to do with me. He was happy to see my brother and sister, but not me. I don't know why. Maybe it was shame. I don't know. But he never wanted anything to do with me. That rejection was terribly hurtful and it went on for years.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
We all have, in my family, what we call the 'Vorderman bottom' - a sticky out, bigger-than-normal, signature, of the rear variety. It's been a family joke all our lives - even my lovely brother has one. I know the lines to all the good singalong big bum songs.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The day I got to Los Angeles after I got traded, Chase Utley was the first guy I saw. He welcomed me. He gave me a big hug. He was, like, 'You. You are my brother.'
- Nobody
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes I played as a goalkeeper with my brother and his friends - they were all older, and nobody wanted to go in goal, so it had to be me!
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up, me and my brother, we were kind of exact opposites. We were completely yin and yang. He was more rough and tumble, and I just wanted to play with my girlfriends.
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first conscious thought of 'I should be like that and not like this' was probably at about six, and I was playing with... I have a twin brother, and we were playing with our twin cousins, who are a boy and a girl.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started boxing because of my brother. And then I came to admire the all-time greats, like Roberto Duran and Muhammad Ali. I'd say I admired Ali more than any fighter in my life.
- Boy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have an older brother, and he was a very active boy, and we were always climbing trees together.
- Computers
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- Nov 07, 2020
Right at the start, when I was about 13 or 14, I only had an Amiga 500 Plus running a bit of tracker software called OctaMED. My brother was big into his computers, and when he moved up to a proper PC, I took charge of the Amiga.
- Painter
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- Nov 07, 2020
All my siblings became artists. One's a novelist, my brother is a painter, my sister was a costume designer.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
My brother was a great favorite with everybody, and his death cast a gloom upon the whole neighborhood.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Me, who's educated classically, I went toward rock music 'cause it was sort of a natural evolution from where I was playing with my brother. But I was always drawn back into classical music.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
As little boys, my brother and I used to spend hours with my grandmother, asking her about the details of how she came to America. She could only give us a smattering of details, but they all found their way into our collective imagination, eventually becoming a part of our own cultural identity and connection to the past.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020