Brother Quotes

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  My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, 'You're tearing up the grass'; 'We're not raising grass,' Dad would reply. 'We're raising boys.'

  Harmon Killebrew

  Family, Fathers Day, Mother

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If it wasn't for baseball, I'd be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery. I have the same violent temper my father and older brother had. Both died of injuries from street fights in Baltimore, fights begun by flare-ups of their tempers.

  Babe Ruth

  Baseball, Father, Fighting

  "Baseball as I Have Known It". Book by Fred Lieb, p. 154, 1977.

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• You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.

  Desmond Tutu

  Inspirational, Family, God

  Address at his enthronement as Anglican archbishop of Cape Town, September 7, 1986.

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• A Brother may not be a Friend, but a Friend will always be a Brother.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Best Friend, Good Friend

  Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.36, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Life, Motivational, Respect

  Speech at St. Louis, 22 Mar. 1964, in St Louis Post-Dispatch 23 Mar. 1964

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• Nothing can stop me from loving my brother.

  Brandy Norwood

  Nothing Can Stop Me, Brother Sister, Funny Brother

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• When brothers agree, no fortress is so strong as their common life.

  Antisthenes

  Strong, Sibling, Common

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• The rich brother needs to let the gospel humble him while the poor brother needs to let the gospel affirm him.

  Timothy Keller

  Humble, Needs, Rich

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• Sometimes being a brother is even better than being a superhero.

  Marc Brown

  Life, Sister, Sibling

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• What strange creatures brothers are!

  Jane Austen

  Strange, Creatures

  Jane Austen (1857). “Mansfield Park: a novel”, p.39

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• 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.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Inspirational, Sibling, Say Anything

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• There is a destiny which makes us brothers; none goes his way alone. All that we send into the lives of others comes back into our own.

  Edwin Markham

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  EDWIN MARKHAM (1901). “LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS”

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• Your siblings are the only people in the world who know what it's like to have been brought up the way you were.

  Betsy Z. Cohen

  Sibling, People, Way

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• The family is one of nature's masterpieces.

  George Santayana

  Inspirational, Family, Sibling

  George Santayana, Marianne S. Wokeck, Martin A. Coleman, James Gouinlock (2013). “The Life of Reason or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Society, Volume VII, Book Two”, p.23, MIT Press

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• Half the time when brothers wrestle, it's just an excuse to hug each other.

  James Patterson

  Sibling, Hug, Half

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• We have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Yoga, Learning

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• Brother, thy tail hangs down behind.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Tails, Behinds

  'The Jungle Book' (1894) 'Road Song of the Bandar-Log'

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• Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Faith, Lonely

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• I sought my soul, but my soul I could not see. I sought my God, but my God eluded me. I sought my brother and I found all three.

  Unknown

  Friendship, Sister, Sibling

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.84, Beacon Press

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• ...the thing with brothers is, you're supposed to take turns being the keeper. Sometimes you get to sit down and be the brother who is kept.

  Orson Scott Card

  Inspirational, Down And, Sometimes

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Shadow Quintet”, p.226, Macmillan

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• 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.

  Barry White

  One Direction, Soul, Force

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If you want to know how your girl will treat you after marriage, just listen to her talking to her little brother.

  Sam Levenson

  Inspirational, Girl, Wedding

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• All men were made by the Great Spirit Chief. They are all brothers.

  Chief Joseph

  Native American, Reality, Men

  Lincoln Hall Speech in Washington D.C., January 14, 1879.

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• Big Brother is on the march. A plan to subject all children to mental health screening is underway, and the pharmaceuticals are gearing up for bigger sales of psychotropic drugs.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Children, Drug, March

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

  Epictetus

  Thank You, Cheating, Philosophical

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