Your Brother Quotes

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

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Best Friend, Brother

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

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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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• Never make a companion equal to a brother.

  Hesiod

  Brother, Sibling, Companionship

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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, Brother, Down And

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

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• If you don't understand how a woman could both love her sister dearly and want to wring her neck at the same time, then you were probably an only child.

  Linda Sunshine

  Sister, Funny Inspirational, Children

  Linda Sunshine (2012). “Mom Loves Me Best: (And Other Lies You Told Your Sister)”, p.20, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Your parents leave you too soon and your kids and spouse come along late, but your siblings know you when you are in your most inchoate form.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Sister, Brother, Sibling

  "Why we can never escape our siblings". Interview with Mandy Van Deven, www.salon.com. September 11, 2011.

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• I think I'm funny because my family, my siblings were funny.

  Martin Short

  Brother, Sibling, Thinking

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• Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.

  Margaret Mead

  Relationship, Family, Sister

  Attributed to Margaret Mead in Ellyn Sanna "Sisters by Birth Friends by Choice: All the Things I Love About You", June 2003.

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• I can't work with my brother without laughing.

  Dick Van Dyke

  Brother, Laughing, I Can

  Interview with Joel Keller, www.avclub.com. June 9, 2011.

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• My big brother still thinks he's a better singer than me.

  Rod Stewart

  Brother, Thinking, Singers

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• Comparison is a death knell to sibling harmony.

  Elizabeth Fishel

  Brother, Sibling, Harmony

  "Forget poignancy, Arsenal prefer to deal in title significance" by Sachin Nakrani, www.theguardian.com. February 12, 2008.

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• The family. We are a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms. . . and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together.

  Erma Bombeck

  Family, Sibling, Character

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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, Brother

  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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• 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

  Brother, Sibling, People

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• Ignore reality, there's nothing you can do about it.

  Natalie Imbruglia

  Sister, Letting Go, Brother

  Song: Don't You Think?, Album: Left of the Middle, 1997

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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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• Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas - that's what my grandma taught me.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Funny, Brother, Sibling

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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, Brother, Sibling

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• Let's go hand in hand, not one before another.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Life, Family

  BookCaps, William Shakespeare (2011). “The Comedy of Errors In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide”, p.171, BookCaps Study Guides

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• It snowed last year too: I made a snowman and my brother knocked it down and I knocked my brother down and then we had tea.

  Dylan Thomas

  Christmas, Brother, Sibling

  Dylan Thomas (1968). “Quite Early One Morning”, p.16, New Directions Publishing

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• The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out of his nose.

  Garrison Keillor

  Inspirational, Brother, Sibling

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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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• Your True Nature Is Love. There's Nothing You Can Do About It.

  Byron Katie

  Sister, Daughter, Brother

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