Brothers And Sisters Quotes - Page 15

• The truth is that killing innocent people is always wrong - and no argument or excuse, no matter how deeply believed, can ever make it right. No religion on earth condones the killing of innocent people; no faith tradition tolerates the random killing of our brothers and sisters on this earth.

  Feisal Abdul Rauf

  Brother, Truth, People

  "What's Right with Islam: A New Vision for Muslims and the West". Book by Feisal Abdul Rauf, www.nytimes.com. May 11, 2004.

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• I thank you, dear Brothers, for preaching the love of Christ and exhorting your people to tolerance, respect and love of their brothers and sisters and of all persons. In this way you exercise the prophetic ministry that the Lord has entrusted to the Church, and in particular to the Successors of the Apostles (cf. Pastores Gregis, 26).

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Brother, Exercise, Cfs

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• My father is an intellectual and physical man, which is a rather unusual combination. He's great. As he brought up me and my brothers and sisters, he ingrained in us that your appearance is not your responsibility, other than that you should not be a slob.

  Christopher Reeve

  Brother, Father, Responsibility

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• I want to be alone and work until the day my heads hits the drawing table and I'm dead. Kaput. I feel very much like I want to be with my brother and sister again. They're nowhere. I know they're nowhere and they don't exist, but if nowhere means that's where they are, that's where I want to be.

  Maurice Sendak

  Brother, Mean, Drawing

  "Maurice Sendak's dark visions delighted generations of children" by Esther Addley, www.theguardian.com. May 8, 2012.

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• ...When you can look into the face of human beings and you have enough light to recognize them as your brothers and sisters. Up until then it is night and darkness is still with us. Let us pray for the light. It is the peace the world cannot give.

  Henri Nouwen

  Brother, Night, Light

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• We're all brothers and sisters. It doesn't matter what language you speak or what color your skin is.

  Shay Carl

  Brother, Color, Skins

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• Cousins are people that are ready made friends, you have laughs with them and remember good times from a young age, you have fights with them but you always know you love each other, they are a better thing than brothers and sisters and friends cause there all pieced together as one.

  Courteney Cox

  Cousin, Brother, Fighting

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• We're all sons and daughters of God, and therefore in a very literal sense, brothers and sisters. And we ought to treat each other that way.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Daughter, Mother, Brother

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• I was raised by a lady that was crippled all her life but she did everything for me and she raised me. She washed our clothes, cooked our food, she did everything for us. I don't think I ever heard her complain a day in her life. She taught me responsibility towards my brother and sisters and the community.

  Ernest Gaines

  Brother, Responsibility, Thinking

  Live chat, cnn.com. May 13, 1999.

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• I think about Chilean literature as a family, because I grew up reading the literature of my country. I feel like I have fathers and stepfathers and a lot of brothers and sisters and distant cousins and all that.

  Alejandro Zambra

  Country, Brother, Cousin

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'm an only child. Which is kind of bad, because having a brother or sister is like another form of friendship. That's something I've missed out on, except I know that I couldn't be doing what I am doing now if I had brothers and sisters.

  Natalie Portman

  Brother, Children, Only Child

  "New Again: Natalie Portman". Interview with Ingrid Sischy, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 24, 2016.

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• I have seen miracles in my time, my brothers and sisters. The greatest miracle of all, I believe, is the transformation that comes into the life of a man or a woman who accepts the restored gospel of Jesus Christ and tries to live it in his or her life.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Jesus, Brother, Believe

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• There's a truly unbelievable story in the paper today, that a young brother and sister... have been turned down for adoption by their own grandparents... If that weren't enough, the siblings are now to be adopted by two complete strangers against the wishes of the grandparents... And as if that weren't enough, the two strangers are a gay couple, who have been selected ahead of several heterosexual couples.

  Andrea Leadsom

  Brother, Couple, Sibling

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• I want to learn something from my atheistic brothers and sisters, even though I'm a Christian. I want to learn something from my right-wing brothers and sisters, even though I'm a progressive. I want to learn something from the elderly, even though I'm middle-aged or tilting toward the elderly. I want to learn especially something from the youth. That's why I spend a lot of time in hip-hop studios.

  Cornel West

  Christian, Brother, Wings

  "Cornel West Reconsiders President Obama". "Talk of the Nation" with Tony Cox, www.npr.org. August 2, 2010.

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• All my brothers and sisters have stories about Dad like this. I remember, when my sister was about to beat him in checkers for the first time, he knocked the board over.

  Terry Gross

  Brother, Dad, Boards

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• Take a young man from Gaza living in the most horrendous conditions - most of it imposed by Israel - who straps dynamite around himself and then throws himself into a crowd of Israelis. I've never condoned or agreed with it, but at least it is understandable as the desperate wish of a human being who feels himself being crowded out of life and all of his surroundings, who sees his fellow citizens, other Palestinians, his parents, sisters, and brothers, suffering, being injured, or being killed. He wants to do something, to strike back.

  Edward Said

  Brother, Men, Israel

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• I just simply believe in having purposeful relations, period. That's what its about at the end of the day. However, I do appreciate people that are individualistic, mainly because I'm an impressionable soul and my friends become my big sisters and brothers in a way.

  Aeriel Miranda

  Brother, Believe, People

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• I'm afraid that what most people don't know about me is that I'm very close to my brother and sister, who are 16 and 13, and I think I'm a pretty good big sister to them.

  Naomie Harris

  Brother, Thinking, People

  "“Skyfall”-ing for a Bond Girl - Naomie Harris". Interview with Kam Williams, www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com.

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• People ask me all the time if I'm from a family of writers. The literal short answer is no, but my father and his brothers and sisters and his mother are all people who would sit around with a Tom Collins and tell stories that seemed to get better and better each time they told them.

  Anna Quindlen

  Mother, Brother, Father

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• When I walk up on that shore in Florida, I want millions of those AARP sisters and brothers to look at me and say, 'I'm going to go write that novel I thought it was too late to do. I'm going to go work in Africa on that farm that those people need help at. I'm going to adopt a child. It's not too late, I can still live my dreams.'

  Diana Nyad

  Dream, Brother, Children

  "Diana Nyad making fourth attempt at Cuba-to-Florida swim" by Matt Sloane, www.cnn.com. August 17, 2012.

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• I'm a lot older than my little brothers and sister, so I think I grew up babysitting them.

  Josh Hartnett

  Brother, Thinking, Littles

  "Josh Hartnett Interview - RESURRECTING THE CHAMP". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. August 21, 2007.

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• The Stoic discipline of action, which is connected to the virtue of justice, says that we ought to treat others fairly and we should engage in social and political activity. This is further supported by the Stoic idea of cosmopolitanism, and by the famous "circles of concern" identified by Hierocles, who counseled that we should refer to other people as brothers and sisters, to constantly remind ourselves that we are members of the same human family.

  Massimo Pigliucci

  Brother, Discipline, People

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I left my family, and I left my brother and sister, and I went and lived my dream. I saw everybody, but is it ever enough?

  Joan Jett

  Dream, Brother, Saws

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• There's only one race - it's human. We are all brothers and sisters.

  Jack Kemp

  Brother, Race, Humans

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• My mother was okay with me not playing it safe. She made an agreement with my father that I was going to be raised differently than my brother and sister were. My parents went through the whole sixties rebellion with my brother and sister. But I didn't feel like I had to rebel because I didn't have anyone telling me I couldn't do something. I never went into that parents-as-enemies stage.

  Julie Taymor

  Mother, Brother, Father

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