“My father was an army champion boxer... in the British army. And so he loved boxing and talked it up as a sport. But then when my brother and I were beating the crap out of each other, he was always trying to tone it down. But I am a fan of boxing.” TryingFatherSportsFansBrotherArmyBritishChampionToneMy BrotherBoxingCrapAlways TryingBoxersBritish Army Author:Hugh Jackman
“I do want children. I study dads more. I watch what they go through. I admire my father more than I ever did and my brother and my sister.” WantChildrenFatherWatchesStudyBrotherDadAdmireMy BrotherMy Sister Author:Adam Sandler
“Blood doesn't make you family. Hell, an only child can bleed. It's the sharing of pain that makes you family. 'Cause, you can't really love a brother or sister until you know that they're as scarred and broken as you are. And, hey, if you grow up with a father like mine and you aren't at least a little scarred and broken, well then, that's not your father. You were spawned by an entirely different guy.” IfsKnowsWellsChildrenLittlesDifferentPainGuyFatherGrowsCausesHellGrowing UpBloodMinesBrotherBrokenHeyOnly ChildDifferent Guys Author:Christopher Titus
“I grew up around lots of men - my father, my brothers, my uncles - so I wasn't intimidated by them.” MenFatherBrotherGrewGrew UpMy BrotherUnclesIntimidated Author:Dolly Parton
“When I was nine years old, living on the south side of Chicago, my father was a minister and my mother used to scrub floors. I had seven brothers and four sisters. I told my mama, 'One of these days I'm going to be big and strong and buy you a beautiful house.' That's all I've ever wanted to do with my life, is to take care of my mother.” YearsBigsCareWantedBeautifulLife IsUsedMotherFatherHouseStrongSidesFourBrotherSouthSevenTake CareNineThese DaysMinistersChicagoMamaLiving OnNine Years Author:Mr. T
“I'm the only Red in our family! You know my father, my brother, my brother-in-law, my 14-year-old niece and two of my uncles are all City season ticket holders. So I'm gonna say 5-0 to United!” KnowsYearsTwoLawFatherUnitedCitiesBrotherRedSeasonsOur FamilyMy BrotherTicketsUnclesIn-lawsNieceBrother In Law Author:Ian Brown
“The best predictor of a woman's involvement in terrorism, whether it's a secular or religious group, is a relationship with a terrorist: her father, brother, husband or even her son. Terrorism becomes a bit of a family business.” FatherBitsReligiousGroupsSonBrotherHusbandTerrorismTerroristSecularInvolvement Author:Mia Bloom
“Years later, when I asked my father, I said 'Pop, why were you so much harder on me than my younger brothers?' he said, son, you plum wore me out.” YearsSaidFatherSonBrotherHarderPopsPlumsYounger Brother Author:Charles Koch
“My brother's my teacher, my mentor, and we both learnt all the acting basics from our father.” FatherActingTeacherBrotherMy BrotherMentorOur FatherBasics Author:Jeff Bridges
“My family moved - first to Washington, D.C., and then, in the spring of 1975, to Lebanon, where my father worked as a diplomat at the American embassy. My parents were enthusiastic about the move, so my older brother and I felt like we were off to some place kind of cool.” FirstsKindMovingFatherFeltParentBrotherSpringMy FamilyMovedEnthusiasticDiplomatsLebanonOlder BrotherEmbassy Author:Greg Kinnear
“After my parents divorced, my father remarried and my brothers were born when I was twelve and sixteen. I was thunderstruck at these kids. The "baby-ness" of them. Their toes. I had never been around babies before.” KidsFatherParentBornBrotherBabyMy BrotherTwelveToesDivorcedSixteen Author:Leigh Newman
“But when you only speak using generalizations, you run the danger of denying the specific. In recent decades, millions of people have come to us from cultural groups within which women have absolutely no rights. They do not have a voice of their own and they are totally dependent on their fathers, brothers or husbands. That applies to North Africa and that applies to large parts of the Middle East. It isn't always linked to Islam.” PeopleRunningFatherSpeakVoiceMillionsRightsGroupsMiddleDangerBrotherHusbandIslamEastDecadesDependentMiddle EastLinkedGeneralizationNorth Africa Author:Alice Schwarzer
“I'd always wanted to write something about the Korean War because of my heritage. My father lost his brother during the war, and I fictionalized that episode, which was told to me very briefly without much detail.” WritingWarWantedFatherLostBrotherDetailsHeritageEpisodesKoreanKorean War Author:Chang-Rae Lee
“I have been a long-time advocate for a just Arab-Israeli peace and for Palestinian refugees. Today, as you are aware, Turkey, Lebanon, and Jordan and Iraq are being overwhelmed by those fleeing the conflict in Syria, often with nothing but the clothes on their backs. Many are severely tortured - abused women and their traumatized children whose husbands, fathers, and brothers have been killed or permanently disabled.” ChildrenLongHas BeensTodayFatherBrotherHusbandConflictClothesLong TimeIraqPalestinianSyriaRefugeeOverwhelmedTurkeysIsraeliDisabledJordanFleeingLebanonAbused WomenBeing OverwhelmedFather And BrotherPalestinian Refugees Author:Queen Noor of Jordan
“My mom, my father, my little sisters, and my brother - I don't got that much family. I'm not really a family person. I just do my own thing. But I've just been spending time with my mom, especially since the [September motorcycle] accident happened. I drive all the way down there to Georgia just to check up on her. You just get tired of being that person that you thought you were. I don't feel no different. I see the music, because I made it. I don't really see the fame.” WayFeelsLittlesPersonsMadeDifferentFatherMy OwnHappenedBrotherMomFameMusic IsTiredMy MomSpendingAccidentsChecksMade ItMy BrotherSeptemberGeorgiaMotorcycleSpending TimeLittle Sister Author:Fetty Wap
“My whole family is in the arts some way or the other. My father was a cellist in a symphony outside Chicago that was a side-job, he was a scientist. My mother was a dancer in New York. She was next-door neighbors with Dorothy Loudon and they moved to New York together. Mom was a dancer in New York for several years before she got married. My sister was a classical pianist. And my brother was a partier. So it all just seemed to work.” WayYearsArtWholeTogetherJobsMotherNextFatherSidesDoorsNew YorkBrotherMomMarriedScientistMovedNeighborMy BrotherDancerChicagoMy SisterSymphonyPianistWhole FamilyNext Door NeighborsCellists Author:Jason Graae
“I feel like that's a way people can change the way music is - to be guided by someone they believe in and trust. Larson and I really believed in each other. It was like brother/sister, father/daughter, we were laughing and yelling, that's how it is when you make an album! Essentially the trust was there and I got something great.” PeopleWayFeelsBelieveFatherLaughingBrotherMusic IsDaughterAlbumsYellingBrother SisterDaughter To FatherPeople Can Change Author:Laura Bell Bundy
“The family that raised me are awesome people and they are my mother and my father and my brother and my sister. I've never viewed them as these "strangers" that took over. It's never been this crazy, dramatic, Lifetime-movie situation. It's been chill.” PeopleMotherFatherSituationCrazyBrotherLifetimeRaisedStrangerDramaticMy BrotherOver ItMy SisterChill Author:Angel Olsen
“My dad was a good man but an emotionally absent father, and so I had to look for that male attention somewhere else, and found it in a brother-in-law. He just happened to be an alcoholic.” MenLooksLawFoundFatherAttentionHappenedBrotherDadMalesMy DadGood ManAlcoholicsSomewhere ElseAbsentIn-lawsBrother In Law Author:Jim Hamilton
“I loved him [Prince], the world loved him.Now he's at peace with his Father.Rest in power, Prince , my brother.” WorldFatherBrotherMy Brother Author:Chaka Khan
“I had a big family - two older sisters and a younger brother. My family was like moving around a lot so I lived in a lot of small towns. My father was very restless.” TwoBigsMovingFatherBrotherMy FamilyTownsSmall TownRestlessBig FamiliesOlder SisterYounger Brother Author:Jessica Lange
“For my father the one calamity was that my brother and sister and I never learned to swim. My father, who was very macho, was a strong swimmer and was terribly disappointed to have children who didn't swim. Once when my mother was sitting in a beach chair - I can still see the big umbrella - she called to my father, "Throw them in! Throw them in! They'll swim!" So he did. Then he looked down, and there were the three Sendak children lying perfectly still underwater, not fighting for life!” ChildrenStillsI CanBigsLyingMotherFightingThreeFatherStrongBrotherSittingDown AndBeachMy BrotherChairsSwimDisappointedBrothers And SistersCalamityUmbrellaMachoSwimmerUnderwater Author:Maurice Sendak
“I loved working with my brother [Beau] and my father [Lloyd] whenever that happened. I had a wonderful experience making "The Fabulous Baker Boys," which I felt was a great movie, too.” FatherFeltBoysWonderfulHappenedBrotherMy BrotherFabulousBakersWonderful Experience Author:Jeff Bridges
“I think about Chilean literature as a family, because I grew up reading the literature of my country. I feel like I have fathers and stepfathers and a lot of brothers and sisters and distant cousins and all that.” ThinkingFeelsCountryReadingFatherLiteratureBrotherGrewGrew UpBrothers And SistersCousinStepfathersChileans Author:Alejandro Zambra
“My mother, father and brothers (I was the youngest of three boys), were all very sarcastic and we were a complete Irish-Catholic family. We didn't talk about our feelings ever, and if we did, we were yelling about them - there was no in-between. That's just carried over so many ways in my life and sabotaged relationships, sabotaged creative stuff.” IfsWayFeelingsMotherThreeFatherStuffBoysCreativeBrotherCatholicSarcasticYellingCatholic FamilyFather And BrotherVery Sarcastic Author:Anthony Green
“I have a cousin, a second cousin, who lives in L.A., and she was with me while I was getting ready. She was talking about her father and his brothers. And I remember my mother's tales of how competitive they were with each other and how they would play for blood, you know. And I thought - I'm an only child, and I don't know what that's like. I have to figure out the Southern thing.” KnowsChildrenPlayRememberMotherFatherTalkingBloodFiguresReadyBrotherTalesSouthernCousinOnly Child Author:Cynthia Nixon
“My father was really good at having me stand on my own two feet, both financially and philosophically. His whole parenting philosophy was to give my brother and me the skills to be grown-ups and the curiosity to ask the right questions.” GivingTwoPhilosophyWholeAsksFatherMy OwnFeetBrotherSkillsCuriosityMy BrotherRight Questions Author:Gwyneth Paltrow
“As a female in a home with a whole bunch of brothers and being very close to my father, without a mother and later having a hostile relationship with my stepmother, there were all kinds of Freudian issues rising from possessing a female body that I had to negotiate with no guidance, and I did this negotiation almost instinctually.” KindWholeHomeBodyMotherFatherIssuesBrotherFemaleBunchAll KindsGuidanceRisingNegotiationHostilePossessingFemale BodyStepmothers Author:Shirley Geok-lin Lim
“I did not write about that kind of insecurity and anxiety between myself and my brothers, because my father was the dominant male figure as I was growing up in that home.” WritingKindHomeFatherGrowing UpGrowingFiguresBrotherAnxietyMalesMy BrotherInsecurityDominant Author:Shirley Geok-lin Lim
“I know you were surprised when, after the fall of Dacca, Pakistani and Indian officers shook hands. But do you realize that, up until 1965, in our army and the Pakistani one you could come across generals who were brothers? Blood brothers, sons of the same father and the same mother.” KnowsHandsMotherFallFatherRealizingBloodSonBrotherArmyIndianOfficersBlood Brothers Author:Indira Gandhi
“Brothers, Fathers and Sisters - all of us in the Missionaries of Charity are doing the same. All of us have been created by God to love and to be loved. We are involved in this work. When you do that, there is joy, unity and love.” Has BeensJoyFatherBrotherInvolvedAnd LoveUnityCharity Author:Mother Teresa
“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!” StoriesFilmMotherFatherSidesClassBrotherLessonsMy FamilyDancingWestMy BrotherMother And FatherEnamoredWest SideTap DancingWest Side Story Author:Marisa Tomei
“I grew up having great awareness of who I was in regards to racial identity and socio-economic status. This caused me great frustration until I was about 19 years old at Tuskegee University. My brother became a Christian along with my father and they shared the Gospel with me on occasion.” YearsChristianFatherEconomicAwarenessIdentityBrotherGrewGrew UpRegardUniversityOccasionsMy BrotherFrustrationRacial IdentityEconomic Status Author:Sho Baraka
“When my brother, Todd [Fisher], was born my father was already with Elizabeth [Taylor]. I was 19 or 20 when I first spent a block of time with him.” FirstsFatherBornBrotherBlockMy Brother Author:Carrie Fisher
“George was the easy part. As for Michael, I had always liked the name, and my father's brother is named Michael. I thought it was a good idea because there are a lot of Greeks in England with the second name of Michael; as a child I had a Greek friend whose second name was Michael. It was like getting the name that I wanted without having to get rid of the Greek element.” ChildrenIdeasWantedFatherNamesEasyBrotherElementsEnglandGreekGood Ideas Author:George Michael
“This is our problem, our dilemma, yes? We cannot celebrate and declare ourselves to belong to the victorious nations because our brothers and our fathers and grandfathers died in this battle [in Normandy], yes. I understand that the Americans and the British and French celebrate one of the greatest and most important military victories in history. And I understand this. I don't see a reasonable place for the Germans. We watch everything on the television with compassion and sympathy.” ImportantProblemFatherNationsCompassionWatchesMilitaryTelevisionBrotherVictoryBattleDiedBritishCelebrateReasonableGrandfatherOur FatherDilemmaFather DiedNormandyFathers And GrandfathersGrandfather Died Author:Manfred Rommel
“People ask me all the time if I'm from a family of writers. The literal short answer is no, but my father and his brothers and sisters and his mother are all people who would sit around with a Tom Collins and tell stories that seemed to get better and better each time they told them.” PeopleIfsStoriesMotherAsksFatherAnswersBrotherAsk MeGet BetterTomsBrothers And SistersLiteral Author:Anna Quindlen
“I literally didn't know my father. My mother had been a secretary, and after she and my father split, she went back to work for an advertising executive. So my older brother and I were "latch-door kids." We went home for lunch and after school by ourselves.” KnowsHomeKidsSchoolMotherFatherDoorsBrotherAdvertisingExecutivesLunchSplitsSecretaryBack To WorkOlder BrotherAfter SchoolLatches Author:George Carlin
“My mother was okay with me not playing it safe. She made an agreement with my father that I was going to be raised differently than my brother and sister were. My parents went through the whole sixties rebellion with my brother and sister. But I didn't feel like I had to rebel because I didn't have anyone telling me I couldn't do something. I never went into that parents-as-enemies stage.” FeelsMadeWholeMotherFatherParentEnemyStageBrotherSafeOkayRaisedMy BrotherAgreementRebellionRebelSixtyBrothers And SistersPlaying It Safe Author:Julie Taymor
“My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight.” WantGovernmentPoliticalFatherPoliticsBrotherDadMy BrotherBob Book:The Wicked Wit of John F. Kennedy Source: The Wicked Wit of John F. Kennedy
“Not having a father helping you grow into manhood and teaching you those things about how to be a man hurts. It hurt my brothers because their fathers weren't involved in their lives.” MenHelpingFatherGrowsHurtTeachingBrotherInvolvedMy BrotherIt HurtsManhoodBe A Man Author:John Starks
“My father announced early on that he didn't want his sons to be "country club bums." And for a number of reasons, I bore the brunt of that - I have an older brother and two younger brothers. So he had me work in all my spare time. I started out picking dandelions, shoveling stalls, milking cows, building a fence - whatever dirty job was out there. That's a big deal, because you learn things working that you don't learn in school.” WantTwoCountryReasonBigsSchoolJobsFatherDealsNumbersBuildingSonBrotherClubsDirtyCowsBoresSparesFenceBig DealOlder BrotherSpare TimeDandelionsYounger BrotherCountry ClubsDirty JobsMilking Cows Author:Charles Koch
“My father had a couple of Mitch Miller records and a Spike Jones record, and that was it. My older brother had two or three Elvis Presley singles, and that was about it. The rest of it I did on my own.” TwoThreeFatherMy OwnRecordsBrotherCoupleSinglesOlder Brother Author:George Thorogood
“I am not anti-man. I am married to a man... I have a father and a brother... I love men. But there is something really lacking when Cake is nominated. How does Julianne Moore win for Best Actress but her film isn't nominated for Best Screenplay? How does Gone Girl become such a critically-acclaimed and box-office hit but its scriptwriter, Gillian Flynn, isn't nominated for Best screenplay. It's disgusting!” MenFilmGirlFatherWinningBrotherMarriedDisgusting Author:Nia Vardalos
“The truth is, my father stopped bothering me after Stigmata, because I got to play a priest. That fulfilled his dream. The cop thing was a little overdone to him because my brother was already a police officer.” DreamFatherBrotherTruth IsPoliceBotherMy BrotherCopPolice Officer Author:Enrico Colantoni
“My personal story is that my father was a heroin addict and a heroin dealer and has been in and out of prison my entire life, he's been arrested sixty times. I also have an older brother addicted to crack cocaine who's been in and out of prison so it was really important for me to tell a story that shows the humanity and the journey of a man getting of our prison and trying to re-acclimate into society. It's apart of our community that we have stereotypes and ideas about but we don't actually know much about it, unless we know someone personally.” MenTryingImportantHumanityFatherCommunityJourneyBrotherPrisonSixtyStereotypeAddictCocaineHeroinDealerOlder Brother Author:Daniel Beaty
“Prince Harry is a great guy, very competitive; he's been playing polo all his life. Riding is in his blood. His grandmother loves horses, his grandfather played polo, his father played polo, his brother plays polo, so it's in his blood. He likes to play hard, we joke about it and it's great.” GuyFatherBrotherJokesHorseGrandmotherGrandfatherGreat Guy Author:Nacho Figueras
“I try to pay as little attention as possible to people who are not part of my team. What counts for me is what my father says, because he is my coach. I listen to my brother and my fitness coach. I don't care about anyone else.” PeopleTryingCareFatherAttentionTeamBrotherCoachesMy Brother Author:Alexander Zverev
“For me, there is nothing better than being able to work with my dad every day. But, I know that isn't God's plan for everyone. Fathers, trust God and be a great example for your sons. Even if I didn't work with my dad, the example he set in his personal and public life - as my dad and as a husband, a brother, and a son - is a major part of the reason I am who I am today. Inspire them, encourage them, and guide them. Do everything you can to instill the right values and a strong faith that can carry them through even the toughest times.” ReasonTodayValuesFatherStrongInspireSonBrotherDadHusbandMy DadTrust In GodI Am Who I Am Author:Jay Sekulow
“My earliest memories are of my brother, pointing the home video camera at me and saying, "C'mon, Ange, give us a show!" Neither of my parents ever said, "Be quiet! Stop talking!" I remember my father looking me in the eye and asking, "What are you thinking? What are you feeling?" That's what I do in my job now - I say. "OK, how do I feel about this?" And I immediately know, because that's how I grew up.” ThinkingGivingFeelingsHomeEyeRememberFatherParentMemoriesBrotherQuietMy BrotherPointing Author:Angelina Jolie