Brothers And Sisters Quotes - Page 4

• I don't like to design single objects. I like my pieces to have a relationship to each other. They can be mother and child, like the Schmoo salt and pepper shakers, or brother and sister like the Birdie salt and peppers, or cousins, like most of my dinnerware sets.

  Eva Zeisel

  Mother, Brother, Cousin

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• Closing my eyes and holding still. It's the end if I get mad or scream. It's close to a prayer. Hate is not for humans. Judgment lies with God. That's what I learned from my Arabic brothers and sisters.

  Kenji Goto

  Brother, Prayer, Hate

  "Kenji Goto tweet of tolerance goes viral in poignant memorial to journalist", www.theguardian.com. February 2, 2015.

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• Crime is a very hard genre to feminise. If you have a female protagonist she is going to be looking after her mum when she gets older; she is going to be worried about her brother and sister; she will be making a living while bringing up kids.

  Denise Mina

  Brother, Kids, Female

  "Murder she wrote - and plenty of it: Denise Mina on her career". Interview with Peter Guttridge, www.theguardian.com. July 28, 2007.

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• As a culture, were so worried about whats going to happen to us 30 years from now that we are not taking care of our brothers and sisters who need help today.

  Francis Chan

  Brother, Years, Today

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• I know we will create a society where there are no rich or poor, no people without work or beauty in their lives, where money itself will disappear, where we shall all be brothers and sisters, where every one will have enough.

  Sylvia Pankhurst

  Brother, Rich Or Poor, People

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• the experience of having brothers and sisters, born of the same parents, sleeping under the same roof, eating at the same table, is an inescapable, delightful and repelling, desired and abhorred part of each child's life.

  Margaret Mead

  Brother, Children, Sleep

  Margaret Mead (1965). “Family”

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• A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all; in good repute, in bad repute, in the face of the world's condemnation, a mother still loves on, and still hopes that her child may turn from his evil ways, and repent; still she remembers the infant smiles that once filled her bosom with rapture, the merry laugh, the joyful shout of his childhood, the opening promise of his youth; and she can never be brought to think him all unworthy.

  Washington Irving

  Mother, Brother, Children

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• Do you know what friendship is... it is to be brother and sister; two souls which touch without mingling, two fingers on one hand.

  Victor Hugo

  Brother, Hands, Two

  Victor Hugo (2015). “Notre-Dame de Paris: Classic French Literature”, p.92, 谷月社

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• There is a lot more hard work to do in the future for the well-being of our sisters and brothers, the people of Thailand.

  Yingluck Shinawatra

  Brother, Hard Work, People

  "Yingluck Shinawatra set to be Thailand's first female premier" by Sara Sidner, www.cnn.com. July 4, 2011.

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• When I moved to L. A. with this little wimpy garage band, the first people we met were the Doors. Then we met Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin. All of the people who died of excess were our big brothers and sisters. So I said to myself: How do you become a legend and enjoy it? The answer is to create a character as legendary as those guys and leave that character on the stage.

  Alice Cooper

  Brother, Character, Doors

  "Alice Cooper: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. January 02, 2009.

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• I believe in sisters marrying brothers, and brothers having their sisters for wives... This is something pertaining to our marriage relation. The whole world will think what an awful thing it is. What an awful thing it would be if the Mormons should just say we believe in marrying brothers and sisters.

  Brigham Young

  Brother, Believe, Thinking

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• We must remember that those mortals we meet in parking lots, offices, elevators, and elsewhere are that portion of mankind God has given us to love and to serve. It will do us little good to speak of the general brotherhood of mankind if we cannot regard those who are all around us as our brothers and sisters.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Brother, Office, Littles

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• Gay brothers and sisters... You must come out. Come out to your relatives... come out to your friends... Come out to your neighbors... to your fellow workers... to the people who work where you eat and shop... break down the myths, destroy the lies and distortions. For your sake. For their sake. For the sake of the youngsters who are becoming scared.

  Harvey Milk

  Brother, Lying, Gay

  "That's What America Is". Harvey Milk's speech given on Gay Freedom Day in San Francisco, June 25, 1978.

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• The time has come to listen to the frightened moans of our fellow brothers and sisters and indeed the earth itself is in pain.

  Marlo Morgan

  Brother, Pain, Earth

  Marlo Morgan (1991). “Mutant message down under”, Bookpeople

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• I think that I was raised by two of the best people ever. My mother and father are just the definition of hard work, like what hard work brings to you. Theyve taught me and my brothers and sisters to set your goals high and to give everything to reach them.

  Josie Loren

  Mother, Brother, Father

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Its really good to have so distinctive a name as an actress. No one ever forgets it. My sister and brother are called Perdita and Rollo. Actually, my family calls me Hollyhocks.

  Honeysuckle Weeks

  Brother, Names, Actresses

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• I grew up in a very small house with five brothers and sisters and my parents, all with one little bathroom. And from as early as I can remember, seven, eight years old, I was listening to music to get a way from it all. Then the discovery of all this amazing stuff that became more than just getting away from it, it became a part of my DNA.

  John Varvatos

  Brother, Eight, Dna

  "The GQ+A: John Varvatos on His New Book 'John Varvatos: Rock in Fashion'". Interview with Scott Christian, www.gq.com. October 17, 2013.

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• What's right with America and what's right with Islam have a lot in common. At their highest levels, both worldviews reflect an enlightened recognition that all of humankind shares a common Creator - that we are, indeed, brothers and sisters.

  Feisal Abdul Rauf

  Brother, America, Islam

  "Imam Rauf: What's right with Islam" by Feisal Abdul Rauf, www.cnn.com. September 12, 2010.

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• You must be strong, dear brothers and sisters. You must be strong with the strength that comes from faith.

  Pope John Paul II

  Strong, Brother, Catholic

  Pope John Paul II (1979). “Pilgrim to Poland”

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• Perhaps we can bring the day when children will learn from their earliest days that being fully man and fully woman means to give one's life to the liberation of the brother [and sister] who suffers. It is up to each one of us. It won't happen unless we decide to use our lives to show the way.

  Cesar Chavez

  Brother, Children, Mean

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• In 1980 we declared the globe free of smallpox. It was the largest campaign in United Nations history until the Iraq war. A hundred and fifty thousand people from all over the world, doctors of every race, religion, culture and nation, who fought side by side, brothers and sisters, with each other, not against each other, in a common cause to make the world better.

  Larry Brilliant

  Brother, War, Doctors

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• “When ye are in the service of your fellow beings ye are only in the service of your God.” Focusing on serving our brothers and sisters can guide us to make divine decisions in our daily lives and prepares us to value and love what the Lord loves. In so doing, we witness by our very lives that we are His disciples. When we are engaged in His work, we feel His Spirit with us. We grow in testimony, faith, trust, and love.

  Ronald A. Rasband

  Brother, Decision, And Love

  "The Joyful Burden of Discipleship". Ronald A. Rasband's Address at the General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, www.lds.org. April 2014.

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• Don't get mad at me cause I call something a 'nothing thing'. I mean it's nothing in terms of the majority of people.... I'm not that concerned with my son. I'm more concerned with all people. I look at all people as brothers and sisters. I have no priority for members of the family.

  Jacque Fresco

  Brother, Mean, Son

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• Those who are living the principle of honesty know that the Lord does bless them. Theirs is the precious right to hold their heads in the sunlight of truth, unashamed before any man. Brothers and sisters, the Lord requires his people to be honest. May we desire with all our hearts to be honest in all our relationships and in all the things that we do.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Brother, Honesty, Heart

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• I got a burlap sack, put a brick in the middle, and filled it with rags, corncobs, some Spanish moss, and sand. I hung that sack off the branch of an oak tree. I'd wrap my hands with a necktie of my daddy's and punch at it. My mom gave me an hour a day. My brothers and sisters said, "Nah." I said, "You'll see."

  Joe Frazier

  Mom, Brother, Hands

  "Joe Frazier: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. November 7, 2011.

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