M Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with M. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“My brother and I had saved $15,000 by working many years nailing fruit crates together.”
“My brother and I have been able to get on and have been very lucky to do things with our family that other people wouldn't have been able to do. But then again, we've also been able to live a normal life as well.”
“My brother and I have too good a relationship to spoil it by working together.”
“My brother and I laughed a lot as kids. We came up in the middle of the Depression, and neither one of us knew we were poor. We had nothing, but we didn't know it.”
“My brother and I met several times during that weekend trying to figure out what we were each going to do, and we met for breakfast the morning of the sit-in and I had decided that I was going to go get arrested, and he decided that he was going to have the harder job and go tell our parents that I'd been arrested.”
“My brother and I moved out to Hollywood initially to be a band, and where we lived, there was crime all over with my brother and I being the victims sometimes.”
“My brother and I spent countless hours as kids playing with our dad's home camera, we would create little sketches and movies and talk shows. But it wasn't until I was 10 that I started considering that I could do it as a job.”
“My brother and I tortured my mother growing up.”
“My brother and I used to try to derail a train over and over again. We didn't know any better.”
“My brother and I walked outside, and my gaze landed on the wheat field. Its golden glory gave me a sense of home—of family. Only… the family wasn’t quite complete like it was before.”
Source: Kodiak Nobleman and the Bull Rider Mystery
“My brother and I were able to fantasize far more extravagantly about our parents' tastes and desires, their aspirations and their vices, by scanning their bookcases than by snooping in their closest. Their selves were on their shelves.”
“My brother and I were born in an Irish county called Tipperary. We were both very math- and science-inclined in high school. My dad trained as an electrical engineer, and my mom is in microbiology.”
“My brother and I were both good at science, and we were both good at English literature. Either one of us could have gone either way.”
“My brother and I were both teenage writers, and he was, I have to say, better than I was, but he went into science, and I went into writing.”
“My brother and I were meditating before we were 6 years old, having to stare at the wall and chant.”
“My brother and I, we were both relatively good-looking guys growing up, but we had our awkward stages, where we were just hard to look at.”
“My brother and Lauren are very close with me and they are in Sun Valley, so sometimes I need to go there and feel their presence. And there are times I need to see my bro' alone.”
“My brother applied for work, but was told by the company that it had more employees than it needed. My brother said, "Don't worry. The little bit of work I do won't be noticed !!!"”
“My brother, are you aware that you are presently taking the form of a rather large and distinctly emerald-hued bear? Not that it isn't an improvement on your usual excessive good lucks, but...”
Source: Dangerously Charming
“My brother asked me once, 'Are you a misanthrope?' And I said, 'No, I just find people irritating.'”
“My brother asked the birds to forgive him: that sounds senseless, but it is right; for all is like an ocean, all is flowing and blending; a touch in one place sets up movement at the other end of the earth. It may be senseless to beg forgiveness of the birds, but birds would be happier at your side –a little happier, anyway– and children and all animals, if you yourself were nobler than you are now. It’s all like an ocean, I tell you. Then you would pray to the birds too, consumed by an all-embracing love in a sort of transport, and pray that they too will forgive you your sin.”
Source: The Brothers Karamazov
“My brother became so enamored with that film [West Side Story], that he started taking tap-dancing lessons, and I followed him and started tap dancing, and my mother and father started tap dancing - I was in a class with my family, tap dancing!”
“My brother believed in all sorts of mythical creatures: pixies, dragons, werewolves, honest men.”
Source: The Storyteller
“My brother Billy was the joke teller. My brother Jim had a really sharp, cutting wit. And the teller of long stories, that was my brother Ed. As a child, I just absorbed everything they said, and I was always in competition for the laughs.”
“My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight.”
Source: The Wicked Wit of John F. Kennedy
“My brother broke into a toothy grin. "Yay! Your brain works!”
“My brother brought home 'At San Quentin' when I was about 7, and we played it over and over again.”
“My brother Clive thinks I'm dog crazy," she says.
"In this office," I respond, deadpan, "we call it 'dog normal.'"
Anya's lip twitches. Is that the beginning of a smile? I sense something shifting between us. The line was a joke, but I was also serious. It's important that my patients know they aren't alone in caring deeply for an animal companion. Our dogs see us at our best and at our worst, and love us with unparalleled devotion through it all. We share our lives with them. They know our deepest, darkest secrets, things that sometimes our closest human confidants don't even know. No one should feel ashamed for caring for another being, for feeling heartbroken when a friend is gone. What is more "normal" than love?”
Source: Dog Crazy
“My brother Cody is 19. He wants to stay out of the limelight and become a lawyer. I want him to be an entertainment lawyer, so he can help me out!”
“My brother could not write about trifles. Even in society he became animated only when some serious discussion was engaged in, and he complained of feeling 'a dull pain in the brain'--a physical pain, as he used to say--when he was with people who cared only for small talk.”
Source: Memoirs of a Revolutionist
“My brother Dash hit me on the head with five textbooks in a gym bag.”
“My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that.”
“My brother died five years ago, for instance. I sometimes dream of him; he takes part in my affairs, we are very much interested, and yet all through my dream I quite know and remember that my brother is dead and buried. How is it that I am not surprised that, though he is dead, he is here beside me and working with me? Why is it that my reason fully accepts it?”
Source: The Short Novels of Dostoevsky
“My brother died of cancer two years ago (1998), renal cell carcinoma. He was my only real brother and I didn't know what to do. I'd never been so desperate in my life.”
“My brother doesn't know how to think of anything other than his own responsibilities."
"Perhaps she will teach him-?"
"Perhaps? Possibly? Maybe? Mother, Elin deserves better. Every woman deserves better.”
Source: The Match of the Century
“My brother gave me some good advice. He said, "What do you want to do? Do that because there are no rules when it comes to love. There are absolutely no rules. Do what you want to do." I think that was the most liberating piece of advice, because love really is unpredictable. There's trap doors, all kinds of scary stuff, caves and bears... You never know what's going to happen so you just have to do what you feel is right in the end.”
“My brother got a .22 for his 12th birthday; I got a .22. He got a hunting knife; I got a hunting knife.”
“My brother got shot three times two months ago, and he didn’t get the fever.”
“I bet your family gets shot at a lot, huh?”
Source: The Mane Squeeze
“My brother had a big band in high school; after that we continued to play together, eventually forming a group called the Jazz Brothers, that recorded for Riverside Records.”
“My brother had boxes of comic books. He was really the collector.”
“My brother had just been appointed Secretary of Nevada Territory--an office of such majesty that it concentrated in itself the duties and dignities of Treasurer, Comptroller, Secretary of State, and Acting Governor in the Governor's absence. A salary of eighteen hundred dollars a year and the title of "Mr. Secretary," gave to the great position an air of wild and imposing grandeur. I was young and ignorant, and I envied my brother.”
Source: 10 Books in 1
“My brother has ADD, which is weird because he drives a Ford Focus. I told my brother that joke but he didn't laugh because he got distracted by my shoe strings.”
“My brother has his sword, King Robert has his warhammer and I have my mind...and a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone if it is to keep its edge. That's why I read so much Jon Snow.”
Source: George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons
“My brother has two children now, so I've been playing aunt Renee. They're two and four. It's chaos. Moms out there, kudos to you. The cool thing about being an aunt is like, I can leave. No offense to my big brother Drew, but that is slavery. I dare you to take a shower. You can't do anything unless they let you. It's a dictatorship. They're little dictators in their crib.”
“My brother . . . he used to say we fall through life like water. Just as a river gives itself to the ocean, so too will our paths meet their end. But we will never find ourselves alone. That’s what he always told me. We will reunite at the confluence, in time, for all rivers empty to the sea where they may rest.”
Source: On the Edge of Daylight
“My brother-in-law has admitted that the anonymity makes his job much easier, as it would be difficult to inflict suffering on a person you had to face daily, an outlook that accounts for many things about our sad era, including the current state of the internet.”
Source: State of Paradise
“My brother is a comic-book writer, and I was always in love with comics.”
“My brother is a doctor and he will take care of post-traumatic stress. I think he'll do it for free.”
“My brother is a tax guy, and the way I look at it, it's like he's spending his life saving money for rich people. So I think making strangers laugh, at least having a creative component to your profession, is more manageable for me. I can live with that a lot easier.”
“My brother is an agent, so he is in the business. Is he my agent? No, no, no. That would never work.”