Brother Quotes

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
Khalil Gibran

Faith, Pain, Lonely

I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.
Mahatma Gandhi

Him, Die, Lives

My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight.
John F. Kennedy

Government, Dad, Straight

I figure I'll be champ for about ten years and then I'll let my brother take over - like the Kennedys down in Washington.
Muhammad Ali

Down, Ten, Figure

I like actors very much, but to marry one would be like marrying your brother. You look too much alike in the mirror.
Marilyn Monroe

Mirror, Marry, Alike

The first-born in every family is always dreaming for an imaginary older brother or sister who will look out for them.
Bill Cosby

Family, Older, Sister

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

Mother, Past, Put

Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.
Walt Disney

Time, Business, Mind

I so desperately wanted to be Mr. Somebody. Instead, I was the little brother, included to a point.
Charlie Sheen

Wanted, Point, Somebody

Big Brother is watching you.
George Orwell

I intend to fight and I want to win. But my priorities are basically to be a good Brother and a strong one, and to try to be a good father one day.
Mike Tyson

Good, Strong, Father

Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars.
Victor Hugo

Heart, Father, Friend

If thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother.
Epictetus

Remember, Thy, Wrongs

It's time for the party of big ideas, not the party of Big Brother!
Mitt Romney

Time, Big, Ideas

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
Joseph Addison

Life, Hope, Experience

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

Dad, Mother, Father

Today we know that World War II began not in 1939 or 1941 but in the 1920's and 1930's when those who should have known better persuaded themselves that they were not their brother's keeper.
Hubert H. Humphrey

War, Today, Themselves

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

Younger, African, Centuries

What we talked about will have to remain a secret between him and me. I spoke to him as a brother whom I have pardoned and who has my complete trust.
Pope John Paul II

Trust, Him, Between

The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.
Charles Dickens

Men, Learn, Whole

Nothing can stop me from loving my brother.
Brandy Norwood

Nothing, Stop, Loving

Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Honesty, Dishonesty, Twin

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

Family, Dad, Older

I come here tonight as a sister, blessed with a brother who is my mentor, my protector and my lifelong friend. And I come here as a wife who loves my husband and believes he will be an extraordinary president.
Michelle Obama

Husband, Blessed, Wife

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-Exupery

Men, United, Tie

To steal from a brother or sister is evil. To not steal from the institutions that are the pillars of the Pig Empire is equally immoral.
Abbie Hoffman

Evil, Sister, Pig

Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Crime, Excuse, Uniform

And I come here as a daughter, raised on the South Side of Chicago - by a father who was a blue-collar city worker and a mother who stayed at home with my brother and me.
Michelle Obama

Home, Mother, Father

We cannot be kind to each other here for even an hour. We whisper, and hint, and chuckle and grin at our brother's shame; however you take it we men are a little breed.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Men, Cannot, Here

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