- Family
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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
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Gymnasium
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm sick of very white teeth and lots of gymnasium practice. I'm bored, you know, send in the next one. I wanted a real man that I could believe was my brother, my father, you know, my next-door neighbor - a real person.
- Football Player
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up as a swimmer. And my brother was a football player and I played football.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
'O Brother, Where Art Thou?' was this role that utterly fell into my lap and changed my life.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I knew some people at my school who were squatters, and my younger brother was a squatter. I knew those guys: those were the people who said the Russians were the good guys and the Americans were bad. But I was the guy who went to the disco.
- Clothes
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- Nov 07, 2020
A deep, black grief gripped Robert Kennedy in the months following his brother's assassination. He lost weight, fell into melancholy silences, wore his brother's clothes, smoked the cigars his brother had liked, and imitated his mannerisms.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
The miser, starving his brother's body, starves also his own soul, and at death shall creep out of his great estate of injustice, poor and naked and miserable.
- Cool
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- Nov 07, 2020
Working with Omarion is pretty amazing. That's like my brother. He's really cool.
- Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
My brother and I spent our childhood in movie theaters screaming. I decided early on that that was the epitome of entertainment. I'm always trying for that same level of adrenaline in my books.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My brother often complains to me about the 'angry Asian male' in the United States. As a female, I haven't encountered this, but Asian-American men are angry. They're angry because, for so many years, they've been neglected as sex symbols. Asian women have it much easier, I think; we're accepted into various circles.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father said writing was a nice hobby. He strongly encouraged my brother and me to become doctors.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mom was in a band for over 30 years, and my brother, sister, and I start taking classical piano lessons when we were three. She's really the reason why I'm still playing piano - she made me practice every day before school and made it a priority even when we didn't necessarily want it to be.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Five-Year-Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was less in pity than in anger that the world was moved by the photograph of little Alan Kurdi, that dead three-year-old Syrian refugee boy whose name we're all remembering now on the first anniversary of his drowning, along with his five-year-old brother Galip and their mother Rehanna.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020