Showing posts with label Brother Quotes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Brother Quotes. Show all posts

When brothers agree, no fortre...

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

To the outside world we all gr...

To the outside world we all grow old.  But not to brothers and sisters.  We know each other as we always were.  We know each other's hearts.  We share private family jokes.  We remember family feuds and secrets, family griefs and joys.  We live outside the touch of time.
~Clara Ortega~

There's no other love like the...

There's no other love like the love for a brother.  There's no other love like the love from a brother.
~Astrid Alauda~

The younger brother must help ...

The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder.
~Jane Austen, Mansfield Park~

The mildest, drowsiest sister ...

The mildest, drowsiest sister has been known to turn tiger if her sibling is in trouble.
~Clara Ortega~

The highlight of my childhood ...

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

The best way to get a puppy is...

The best way to get a puppy is to beg for a baby brother - and they'll settle for a puppy every time.
~Winston Pendelton~

Sometimes being a brother is e...

Sometimes being a brother is even better than being a superhero.
~Marc Brown~

Siblings are the people we pra...

Siblings are the people we practice on, the people who teach us about fairness and cooperation and kindness and caring - quite often the hard way.
~Pamela Dugdale~

Sibling relationships - and 80...

Sibling relationships - and 80 percent of Americans have at least one - outlast marriages, survive the death of parents, resurface after quarrels that would sink any friendship. They flourish in a thousand incarnations of closeness and distance, warmth, loyalty and distrust.
~Erica E. Goode, ""The Secret World of Siblings,"" U.S. News & World Report, 10 January 1994~

Our siblings. They resem...

Our siblings.  They resemble us just enough to make all their differences confusing, and no matter what we choose to make of this, we are cast in relation to them our whole lives long.
~Susan Scarf Merrell~

Our siblings push buttons that...

Our siblings push buttons that cast us in roles we felt sure we had let go of long ago - the baby, the peacekeeper, the caretaker, the avoider.... It doesn't seem to matter how much time has elapsed or how far we've traveled.
~Jane Mersky Leder~

Our brothers and sisters are t...

Our brothers and sisters are there with us from the dawn of our personal stories to the inevitable dusk.
~Susan Scarf Merrell~

One can be a brother only in s...

One can be a brother only in something. Where there is no tie that binds men, men are not united but merely lined up.
~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Flight to Arras~

Never make a companion equal t...

Never make a companion equal to a brother.
~Hesiod~

My father used to play with my...

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~

It was nice growing up with so...

It was nice growing up with someone like you - someone to lean on, someone to count on... someone to tell on!
~Author Unknown~

It takes two men to make one b...

It takes two men to make one brother.
~Israel Zangwill~

It snowed last year too: ...

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~

If you want to know how your g...

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