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Brother Quotes


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


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


"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."


"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."


"I never could get into The Chambers Brothers. They make good records, but I never could get behind it."


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


"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!"


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


"There were times when I had great times with my brothers, pillow fights and things, but I was, used to always cry from loneliness."


"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."


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


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


"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."


"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."


"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."


"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."


"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."


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



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


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


"I don't listen to the radio too much, but usually I listen to Stanley Brothers and Ralph Stanley more than I do anybody!"


"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."



"Our publicist at Warner Brothers is a young guy who has worked so hard for seven years with us and when we saw him backstage he broke down and cried. He couldn't believe it happened. It was seeing him so overcome when we realised how much it really meant."


"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."
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