Younger Brother Quotes

• I have a younger brother.

  Freddie Highmore

  Brother

  "Freddie Highmore Interview - The Spiderwick Chronicles". Press day interview, collider.com. February 12, 2008.

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• My feeling toward the animal is that he is our younger brother, and that we are our brothers keeper.

  Mary Johnston

  Brother, Animal, Feelings

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• I grew up with a younger brother, so I can get pretty rowdy.

  Sarah Wynter

  Brother, Rowdy, Grew

  Buography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Apparently, one in five people in the world are Chinese. And there are five people in my family, so it must be one of them. It's either my mum or my dad. Or my older brother, Colin. Or my younger brother, Ho-Chan-Chu. But I think it's Colin.

  Tim Vine

  Funny, Brother, Dad

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• Mom spent the time that she was supposed to be a kid actully raising children, her younger brother and younger sister. She was tough as nails and did not suffer fools at all. And the truth was she could not afford to. She spoke the truth, bluntly, directly, and without much varnish. I am her son.

  Chris Christie

  Mom, Brother, Children

  Speech at the Republican National Convention, www.foxnews.com. August 28, 2012.

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• The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder.

  Jane Austen

  Sister, Brother, Sibling

  Jane Austen (2007). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen”, p.487, Wordsworth Editions

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• I don't believe an accident of birth makes people sisters or brothers. It makes them siblings, gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood is a condition people have to work at.

  Maya Angelou

  Sister, Brother, Sibling

  Maya Angelou, Jeffrey M. Elliot (1989). “Conversations with Maya Angelou”

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• As I have discovered by examining my past, I started out as a child. Coincidentally, so did my brother. My mother did not put all her eggs in one basket, so to speak: she gave me a younger brother named Russell, who taught me what was meant by 'survival of the fittest.'

  Bill Cosby

  Funny, Mother, Brother

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• The African is my brother but he is my younger brother by several centuries.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Brother, Century, My Brother

  The Observer, October 23, 1955.

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• Oh, brothers! I don't care for brothers. My elder brother won't die, and my younger brothers seem never to do anything else.

  Oscar Wilde

  Brother, Care, Funny Brother

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.11, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• No nation is truly free until the animal, man's younger brother is free and happy.

  Sadhu T. L. Vaswani

  Brother, Animal, Men

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• I'm the daughter of two Indian immigrant doctors, and I have an older sister and younger brother, and none of us have pursued medicine as a career. We're all over the artistic side of things.

  Aarti Mann

  Daughter, Mother, Brother

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• Animals are our younger brothers and sisters, also on the ladder of evolution but a few rungs lower. It is an important part of our responsibilities to help them in their ascent, and not to retard their development by cruel exploitation of their helplessness.

  Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding

  Brother, Responsibility, Animal

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• My brothers are both 6 ft. 5 in., and if you have younger brothers who are bigger than you then you have to learn the ancient martial art of sarcasm.

  Nick Moran

  Sarcastic, Brother, Art

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• She can't force us to go to the ball. We're grown men, for Lord's sake!" Will cocked an eyebrow at his younger brother. "You don't think she can force us? We are speaking of the same mother, correct? Small frame, enormous will?

  Sarah MacLean

  Mother, Brother, Men

  Sarah MacLean (2010). “The Season”, p.151, Scholastic Inc.

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• The younger brother hath the more wit.

  John Ray

  Brother, Wit

  John Ray, John Belfour (1813). “A complete collection of English proverbs: also, the most celebrated proverbs of the Scotch, Italian, French, Spanish, and other languages”, p.70

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• Claude Wheeler opened his eyes before the sun was up and vigorously shook his younger brother, who lay in the other half of the same bed.

  Willa Cather

  Brother, Book, Eye

  Willa Cather (2013). “The Best of Willa Cather”, p.661, Simon and Schuster

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• Sleep is death's younger brother, and so like him, that I never dare trust him without my prayers.

  Thomas Browne

  Brother, Prayer, Sleep

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• The critic is beneath the maker, but is his needed friend. The critic is not a base caviler, but the younger brother of genius. Next to invention is the power of interpreting invention; next to beauty the power of appreciating beauty. And of making others appreciate it.

  Margaret Fuller

  Brother, Appreciate, Genius

  Margaret Fuller (1973). “The Writings of Margaret Fuller”, Augustus m Kelley Pubs

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• The outrage was on the scale of God. My younger brother was immortal and they hadn't noticed. Immortality had been concealed in my brother's body while he was alive, and we hadn't noticed that it dwelt there. Now my brother's body was dead, and immortality with it. ... And the error, the outrage, filled the whole universe.

  Marguerite Duras

  Death, Brother, Grief

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• I am none of those nonsensical fools that can whine and make romantic love--I leave that to younger brothers. Let my estate speakfor me.

  Sarah Fielding

  Marriage, Brother, Romantic Love

  Sarah Fielding (1904). “The Adventures of David Simple: Containing an Account of His Travels Through the Cities of London and Westminster in the Search of a Real Friend”

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• Our audience is young and vibrant; we retain our previous following; we are three generations into it. Unlike other bands that are very demographically specific, who they appeal to and who their fans are, we're the antithesis of that. If you see your younger brother or a parent of yours or a neighbor at most rock concerts, that's not cool but with us and kids, it's a tribal gathering. Whether it's kids or neighbors - they're all part of a secret society.

  Paul Stanley

  Brother, Kids, Rocks

  "Kiss: Miley Cyrus is 'being treated unfairly'". Interview with Daniel D'Addario, www.salon.com. September 12, 2013.

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• I have a disgracefully sweet tooth. My younger brother and I, all we care about are puddings. You can keep your smoked salmon and caviar.

  Donald Sinden

  Sweet, Brother, Salmon

  "Pieces of me: Donald Sinden", www.theguardian.com. February 4, 2009.

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• I am the middle child with an older and younger brother.

  Eden Sher

  Brother, Children, Middle Child

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My dad was a particularly polite kind of guy, very courteous. So when we got on a bus, he would always encourage me and my younger brother to get up and offer our seat to an old lady. I grew up kind of liking that, thinking, y'know, that's a nice thing, that's a courtesy.

  Paul McCartney

  Brother, Dad, Nice

  Source: www.avclub.com

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