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Brother Quotes


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


"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."


"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!"



"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."


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


"The child gets two confusing messages when a parent tells him which is the right fork to use, and then proceeds to use the wrong one. So does the child who listens to parents bicker and fuss, yet is told to be nice to his brothers and sisters."


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


"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."


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


"There was some scene in The Blues Brothers movie, when they had the chicken wire across the front of the stage, and it was almost like that. They had a big guard rail around the stage, which kept the college kids from getting on... we had some good times."


"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."


"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."


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


"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."


"Brothers don't necessarily have to say anything to each other - they can sit in a room and be together and just be completely comfortable with each other."


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


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


"Everything the Coen brothers do is brilliant."



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



"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."


"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."


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


"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."


"Most families had four, five brothers. But because it was just me and Darryl, we had to be twice as strong."
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