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“How strange it is that Socrates, after having made the children common, should hinder lovers from carnal intercourse only, but should permit love and familiarities between father and son or between brother and brother, than which nothing can be more unseemly, since even without them love of this sort is improper. How strange, too, to forbid intercourse for no other reason than the violence of the pleasure, as though the relationship of father and son or of brothers with one another made no difference.”

Source: Aristotle's Politics: Writings from the Complete Works: Politics, Economics, Constitution of Athens

“I think that everybody in the world, whatever colour or creed, has a jerk like JR in his or her family somewhere. Whether it is a father, uncle, cousin or brother, everybody can identify with JR and that certainly had something to do with the success of 'Dallas.'”

Thinking World Father Brother Colour Creeds Uncles Cousin Jerk Dallas

Author:Larry Hagman

“The street is as diverse as any other sector, but in peoples' mind it gets appropriated as a black man who's tough. Trying to make it through by staying hard and phallocentric. To me, that is just an impoverished conception of what it is to be a black male. It doesn't do justice to my grandfather, my father, my brother - or just the black men I grew up with.”

Men Trying Mind Hard Father Black Justice Streets Brother Grew Grew Up Tough Males My Brother Staying Conception Diverse Grandfather My Grandfather Black Males

Author:Cornel West

“My dad and all my family were into baseball. His brothers, my mom's brothers, my mom's father. Baseball was just always a part of our family.”

Father Brother Mom Dad My Family Baseball My Dad My Mom Our Family

Author:Mark Teixeira

“For when is the child the ideal child in our eyes and to our hearts? Is it not when with gentle hand he takes his father by the beard, and turns that father's face up to his brothers and sisters to kiss? when even the lovely selfishness of love-seeking has vanished, and the heart is absorbed in loving?”

Heart Children Hands Eye Faces Turns Father Brother Kissing Ideals Seeking Lovely Selfishness Gentle Brothers And Sisters Beard

Book:Unspoken Sermons

Source: Unspoken Sermons

“My favorite memories growing up in North Carolina were hunting and fishing with my father and brothers. There, I developed a deep appreciation for protecting land and waterways. There, I learned outdoorsmanship.”

Father Memories Growing Up Growing Land Brother My Favorite Appreciation Fishing Hunting Carolina North Carolina Hunting And Fishing Father And Brother Favorite Memories

Author:Louis Bacon

“I started boxing when I was eight. Me and my brother Rafael started boxing in amateur tournaments when I was 13. My father was an ex-pro boxer.”

Father Brother Eight My Brother Boxing Exes Tournaments Boxers

Author:Juan Manuel Marquez

“The forgiveness of God is gratuitous liberation from guilt. Paradoxically, the conviction of personal sinfulness becomes the occasion of encounter with the merciful love of the redeeming God. "There will be more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner repenting..." (Luke 15:7). In his brokenness, the repentant prodigal knew an intimacy with his father that his sinless, self-righteous brother would never know.”

Source: The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out

“My parents, grandmother and brother were teachers. My mother taught Latin and French and was the school librarian. My father taught geography and a popular class called Family Living, the precursor to Sociology, which he eventually taught. My grandmother was a beloved one-room school teacher at Knob School, near Sonora in Larue County, Ky.”

School Mother Father Parent Rooms Class Teacher Taught Brother Beloved Grandmother Latin My Grandmother Sociology Librarian Geography County School Teachers Knobs Precursor Geography Teachers

Author:Sam Abell

“Women are different from men in major, major ways. I have found more courage in women than you could ever find in men, and I love men, in terms of father, brother, everyone, disciples, students etc. Yet men have certain powers of compassion that are hard-pressed to be found in a woman to that degree.”

Men Way Different Hard Certain Found Father Term Compassion Students Brother Degrees Majors Etc Disciple

Author:Maya Tiwari

“I went to my father's at night. He spoke of poor John [Boswell's brother] with disgust. I was shocked and said, "He's your son, and God made him." He answered very harshly, "If my sons are idiots, can I help it?”

Ifs Made Said Helping Night Father Poor Son Brother Idiot Spokes My Son Disgusting Shocked Your Son

Author:James Boswell

“Whatever meaning 'Annie's Song' had for me on a personal level, there was also a larger context. It could just as easily have been about love for a brother. Or a father. Or a friend. It could just as easily have been a prayer.”

Love Has Beens Song Father Prayer Levels Brother Friends Annie Brother Love

Author:John Denver

“... it was not very unusual at Washington for a lady to take the arm of a gentleman, who was neither her husband, her father, norher brother. This remarkable relaxation of American decorum has been probably introduced by the foreign legations.”

Has Beens Father Brother Arms Morality Husband Gentleman Remarkable Unusual Relaxation Decorum

Author:Frances Trollope

“Operation Peter Pan spanned from 1960-62 whereby over 14,000 children were sent away from their families in Cuba, some never to reunite again. Pan Am flights took the children to Miami FL, 'Never-Never Land', and the children became known as the 'Peter Pans.' I wrote this song for my daughter, and it is sung for all the daughters and mothers, fathers and brothers who felt this pain of separation all because of governments and their politics.”

“[Barack Obama] will touch you on the shoulder and, you know - in that big brother or father figure kind of way. And you really do feel sort of shepherded by him.”

Knows Way Feels Kind Bigs Father Figures Brother Shoulders Barack Father Figure

Author:Jordan Peele

“Fathers, sons, brothers, men everywhere: Your legacy will not perish if you take your partner's surname, or she keeps hers.”

Ifs Men Father Son Brother Partners Legacy Father Son Surnames

Author:Zoe Saldana

“They are our brothers, these freedom fighters.... They are the moral equal of our Founding Fathers and the brave men and women of the French Resistance. We cannot turn away from them, for the struggle here is not right versus left; it is right versus wrong.”

Men Turns Father Left Moral Struggle Brother Equal Men And Women Brave Resistance Fighter Founding Versus Our Founding Fathers Brave Man Freedom Fighter

Book:Speaking my mind: selected speeches

Source: Speaking my mind: selected speeches

“Mama wrote a letter to my father saying' I want to work with you' and she ended the letter saying' in Italian I can only say ti amo( I love you)' and of course the press used that to say women are sexual predators, in 1949 they made a first film together,' Stromboli', and they fell in love and my mother became pregnant with my brother Roberto before she could obtain a divorce.”

Want Love Firsts Made I Can Together Film Used Mother Courses Father Love You Brother Letters Presses Divorce My Brother Italian Pregnant Mama Predator

Author:Isabella Rossellini

“I love God, Jesus Christ, my three children, mother, father, brother, sisters, family in general, my pets, my students, and true friends.”

Children Mother Three Father Jesus Christ Students Brother Jesus Christ God Love Pet True Friend Brother Sister I Love God

Author:Ana Monnar

“My sense of humor was a tool for me getting past my mother and father separating, my older brother having cerebral palsy, and the bullies in the schoolyard. I had to make them laugh to keep them off my ass. I brought that to my professional career.”

Past Mother Father Careers Laughing Brother Tools Ass Sense Of Humor Bully Mother And Father Separating Cerebral Older Brother Professional Career Cerebral Palsy

Author:Tracy Morgan

“Nothing's really changed for me over the years. I like telling stories about people with problems. I can't really put it much simpler than that. Relationships are interesting to me. Not just between men and women but fathers and sons, brothers and sisters and friends.”

People Men Years I Can Stories Problem Father Interesting Changed Son Brother Men And Women Brothers And Sisters Telling Stories Father And Son Sisters And Friends

Author:Steve Buscemi

“There is a core of loneliness. It's partly existential. Secondly, I was raised a loner. My parents were not there. My father was asked to leave because he couldn't metabolize ethanol. Actually, my mother ran away with us when I was 2 months old and my brother was 5. Real dramatic stuff: down the fire escape, through backyards. So, I sort of raised myself. I was alone a lot and I invented myself - I lived through the radio and through my imagination.”

Real Mother Father Stuff Parent Imagination Fire Loneliness Brother Months Raised Radio Core Ran Dramatic My Brother Existential My Imagination Loner Backyards Ethanol Fire Escapes

Author:George Carlin

“My brother (Bruno Mars) is as smart as he is because a lot of things he's doing, creativity wise, our Dad used to do. Things my father used to do visually and musically. I see a lot of my father's influence in both of us.”

Used Father Creativity Wise Influence Brother Dad Smart My Brother Mars

Author:Eric Hernandez

“My father's a keen sportsman, and so is my mother. My mother's brothers all played international rugby for Samoa. That's where I got my dreams from.”

Dream Mother Father Brother International Rugby Sportsman Samoa

Author:Filo Tiatia

“The Holy Spirit acts mystically through the spiritual father, and then when you go out from your spiritual father, the soul feels her renewal. But if you leave your spiritual father in a state of confusion, this means that you did not confess purely and did not forgive your brother all of his sins from your heart.”

Ifs Inspirational Feels Heart Mean Soul States Christian Spiritual Spirit Father Religious Sin Brother Holy Forgiving Confusion Holy Spirit Orthodox Renewal Your Brother

Author:Silouan the Athonite

“What is perfection in love? Love your enemies in such a way that you would desire to make them your brothers ... For so did He love, Who hanging on the Cross, said "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do." (Luke 23:34)”

Knows Way Inspirational Said Christian Desire Father Religious Enemy Love You Brother Crosses Perfection Forgiving Orthodox Luke Your Brother Hanging On Love Your Enemies

Author:Saint Augustine

“We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change.”

Ifs Life Inspirational Wanted School Father Women Change Inspiring Teacher Taught Brother Inspirational Life Blame Faults Bad Ass Your Brother

Author:Katharine Hepburn

“My family suffered very major losses during the Second World War, that's true. In my father's family, there were five brothers. I think four of them died. On my mother's side the picture was pretty much the same. Russia has suffered great losses. And of course we can't forget that.”

Thinking World War Mother Courses Father Sides Loss Forget Five Four Brother Majors My Family Died Russia War Of The Worlds Second World War Great Loss

Author:Vladimir Putin

“It does not require great art, or magnificently trained eloquence, to prove that Christians should tolerate each other. I, however, am going further: I say that we should regard all men as our brothers. What? The Turk my brother? The Chinaman my brother? The Jew? The Siam? Yes, without doubt; are we not all children of the same father and creatures of the same God?”

Men Should Children Doe Art Christian Father Doubt Brother Prove Creatures Regard Jew My Brother Tolerate Great Art Eloquence

Book:Candide

Source: Candide

“Our Southern brethren have done grievously, they have rebelled and have attacked their father's house and their loyal brothers. They must be punished and brought back, but this necessity breaks my heart.”

Heart War Done Father House Break Brother My Heart Civil War Southern Loyal Brethren Breaking My Heart

Author:Robert Anderson

“In one family, all goes by two and two. If a member of it has any interest, he or she will confide it to some one other; but the rest know nothing. In another family, all feel what touches one; nothing is kept dark from the father and mother, brothers and sisters--all share. This family habit is by far the better, it strengthens the tie between the members, and makes the home one home.”

Ifs Knows Feels Two Home Mother Father Interest Dark Share Brother Habit Members Ties Brothers And Sisters

Book:Notes of Thought

Source: Notes of Thought

“There are things we could do like let Brad Dourif play Charles Lee Ray's brother or father , something like that, but I think any of those options would've been squarely in the horror-comedy realm.”

Thinking Play Father Comedy Brother Horror Realms Rays Brad

Author:David Kirschner

“I'm completely surrounded, not only my father, but also my three brothers, and Sergio, my husband, all four of them work in film. Some are writers, or directors, or cinematographers, all of them. I'm surrounded by men that make films, so much that at some point I felt there was no more room in the family for another filmmaker.For many years I was only working as novelist or writing screenplays for others to direct.”

Men Writing Years Film Three Father Felt Rooms Four Brother Directors Husband Direct Novelists Filmmaker My Husband Screenplays Cinematographers Three Brothers

Author:Lucia Puenzo

“I grew up in the Southwest Bronx. Father an accountant, mother a schoolteacher. Brother was six years older, which explains why I gobbled crystal meth at 12, smoked hashish at 13, and was shooting smack at 17, which explains how I got Hepatitis C, which was the basis of my first book, which was a humor book about dying.”

Years Firsts Book Mother Father Dying Brother Grew Six Grew Up Bases Shooting Crystals Accountants Smack Bronx Hashish Crystal Meth Hepatitis Hepatitis C

Author:Dave Barry

“My father was a man of great charity towards the poor, and compassion for the sick, and also for servants; so much so, that he never could be persuaded to keep slaves, for he pitied them so much: and a slave belonging to one of his brothers being once in his house, was treated by him with as much tenderness as his own children.”

Men Children Father House Poor Compassion Brother Sick Slave Charity Treated Servant Belonging Tenderness

Book:The life of Saint Teresa of Jesus

Source: The life of Saint Teresa of Jesus

“After about midday my dad sent cars from his private collection for us. We were told to get in. We had almost lost contact with my father and brothers because things had got out of hand. I saw with my own eyes the [Iraqi] army withdrawing and the terrified faces of the Iraqi soldiers who, unfortunately, were running away and looking around them. Missiles were falling on my left and my right - they were not more than fifty or one hundred metres away. We moved in small cars. I had a gun between my feet just in case.”

“I have three older brothers, and we all have different combinations of parents. My father was the best man at my mom's first wedding! And my brother's mother - my dad's first wife - is the sister to my mom's first husband's second wife. So my brothers are both stepcousins and stepbrothers. It's very '70s rock.”

Men Firsts Different Mother Three Father Parent Wife Rocks Brother Mom Dad Husband My Dad My Mom Combination My Brother Older Brother

Author:Inara George

“I think everyone's had a brother or a father or a cousin, uncle or grandfather who's had health issues because they've neglected things. I think that's almost been part of Australian culture, which is why I think Movember is really important. We need to change that outlook.”

Thinking Needs Important Culture Father Issues Brother Grandfather Uncles Outlook Cousin Neglected Australian Need A Change Health Issues Australian Culture

Author:James Magnussen

“I'll tell thee what it says; it calls me villain, a treacherous husband, a cruel father, a false brother; one lost to nature and her charities; or to say all in one short word, it calls me - Gamester.”

Father Lost Brother Husband Charity Thee Gambling Call Me Villain Treacherous Short Words

Author:George Edward Moore

“I started in Martial Arts with my father when I was 4 years old. I guess I started because my two older brothers and mom trained so it was what our whole family did for fun.”

Art Two Whole Father Fun Brother Mom Martial Arts Whole Family Older Brother

Author:Duke Roufus

“I hated farm work. I always got stuck with the jobs my father and brother didn't want to do.”

Want Jobs Father Brother Stuck Hated Farms Father And Brother

Author:Travis Hafner

“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.”

Love Heart Father Heaven Stars Rooms Son Brother Lovers Affection

Author:Victor Hugo

“I feel terrible for a Palestinian child who dies. But, if it's your father, your brother or your uncle who was firing those rockets into Israel, whose fault is it really? Do you really expect the Israelis not to retaliate?”

Ifs Feels Children Dies Father Brother Terrible Faults Israel Palestinian Uncles Rockets Your Brother Firing

Author:Bill Maher

“My mother was an ex-nun, and my father was a Franciscan brother, so I grew up believing in Jesus the way anyone would believe in Mom's first husband.”

Way Firsts Believe Mother Father Jesus Brother Grew Mom Husband Grew Up Exes Nun Franciscans

Author:John Fugelsang

“Liberalism in various guises - feminism, the sexual revolution, gay activism - has been at war with marriage and family for several decades now. And when do-gooders look around at the wreckage of human lives caused by disintegrating families, they call for government to act as father, mother, brother, and sister.”

Source: Do-Gooders: How Liberals Hurt Those They Claim to Help and the Rest of Us

“I had a cookie business there, with my brother, when we were growing up, called the Chip Yard, and that became the inspiration for the banana stand. My father said that he wanted us to develop a work ethic, so we'd sit there selling cookies, all day.”

Said Inspiration Wanted Father Growing Up Growing Brother Ethics Selling My Brother Yards Work Ethic Chips Cookies Bananas

Author:Mitchell Hurwitz

“I would like to be remembered as a good father. A good husband. A good brother. A good friend. A good man. But that is simply not going to happen. Like it or not, I have reached the point of infamy when I am going to be remembered simply as 'Ronnie Biggs', whatever or whoever he is in your mind.”

Men Mind Happens Father Brother Husband Remembered Good Man Good Friend Infamy Good Father Good Husband

Author:Ronald Biggs

“A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all.”

“When I was 11, I moved to Los Angeles to live with my father and stepmother and my half brothers. I became really close to my stepmother, and I am still very close to my brothers. My stepmother is the actress Shirley Jones, who was in The Partridge Family alongside me, so we worked together for years.”

Years Stills Together Father Half Brother Moved Actresses My Brother Los Angeles Stepmothers

Author:David Cassidy

“The Zen Master warns: 'If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him!' This admonition points up that no meaning that comes from outside of ourselves is real. The Buddhahood of each of us has already been obtained. We need only recognize it. Philosophy, religion, patriotism, all are empty idols. The only meaning in our lives is what we each bring to them. Killing the Buddha on the road means destroying the hope that anything outside of ourselves can be out master. No one is any bigger than anyone else. There are no mothers or fathers for grown-ups, only sisters and brothers.”

Source: IF YOU MEET THE BUDDHA ON THE ROAD KILL HIM THE PILGRIMAGE OF PSYCHOTHERAPY PATIENTS

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