“My brother never got an opportunity to throw a pitch, and I didn't want the same thing to happen to another young kid.” WantHappensKidsYoungOpportunityBrotherMy Brother Author:Pedro Martinez
“I learned hard lessons in life; I had to because I had so much happen: My mother died my sophomore year in high school. The next year, same day, my brother dropped dead. Two years after that, I got married because my girlfriend got pregnant. The year after my wedding, my father - who I had only recently met - died.” YearsTwoHardHappensSchoolMotherNextFatherBrotherLessonsMetsMarriedHigh SchoolDiedGirlfriendMy BrotherTwo YearsLife LessonPregnantNext YearMy GirlfriendSophomoreMother DiedHard LessonsSophomore Year Book:I Ain't Scared of You: Bernie Mac on How Life Is Source: I Ain't Scared of You: Bernie Mac on How Life Is
“When I'm following what a character does in a book I don't have to think about my own life. Where I am. Why I'm here. My moms and my brother and my old man. I can just think about the character's life and try and figure out what's gonna happen. Plus when you're in a group home you pretty much can't go anywhere, right? But when you read books you almost feel like you're out there in the world. Like you're going on this adventure right with the main character. At least, that's the way I do it. It's actually not that bad. Even if it is mad nerdy.” IfsThinkingMenWorldWayFeelsTryingDoeI CanBookCharacterHomeHappensMy OwnGroupsFiguresAdventureBrotherLike YouMomMadFollowingMy MomMy BrotherPlusOld ManMy Own LifeMain CharactersNerdy Author:Matt de la Pena
“If I send the ball home, I know what will happen to it. My twin brothers will take it out on the lot, like any 20-cent rocket.” IfsKnowsHomeHappensBrotherBaseballBallsCentsTwinsRocketsTwin Brother Author:Mickey Mantle
“Why don't men ... leave off those detestable stiff collars, stocks, and things, that make them all look like choked chickens, and which hide so many handsomely-turned throats, that a body never sees, unless a body is married, or unless a body happens to see a body's brothers while they are shaving.” MenLooksBodyHappensBrotherMarriedClothesChickensThroatCollarsShaving Book:FRESH LEAVES Source: FRESH LEAVES
“I don't exercise. I'm skinny fat. I worry about being too skinny. You should see my brother, he's, like, emaciated. We both just happen to be really skinny.” ShouldHappensWorryBrotherExerciseFatsMy BrotherSkinny Author:Kristen Stewart
“As a culture, were so worried about whats going to happen to us 30 years from now that we are not taking care of our brothers and sisters who need help today.” NeedsYearsHelpingHappensCareTodayCultureBrotherWorriedBrothers And SistersNeed Help Author:Francis Chan
“The museum in D.C. is really a narrative museum - the nature of a people and how you represent that story. Whereas the Studio Museum is really a contemporary art museum that happens to be about the diaspora and a particular body of contemporary artists ignored by the mainstream. The Studio Museum has championed that and brought into the mainstream. So the museums are like brothers, but different.” PeopleArtDifferentStoriesBodyHappensArtistParticularBrotherStudiosContemporaryNarrativeMuseumsMainstreamIgnoredContemporary ArtDiaspora Author:David Adjaye
“God is present in everything. In the universe in creation, in me and all that happens to me, in my brothers and sisters, in the church - everywhere.” GodHappensUniverseChurchReligiousCreationBrotherAfrican AmericanMy BrotherBrothers And SistersSisterGreatness Of GodGod Within Us Author:Thea Bowman
“It's exciting to me that Ride Along is a movie that has two African American leads, but it's even more exciting to me that it's not a movie about two African American leads. They just happen to be African American. It's a universal story. It's a story about a guy in love with a girl, and he's gotta get the approval of the overbearing, mean brother. That's a universal theme.” MeanTwoStoriesHappensGuyGirlBrotherUniversalExcitingAfrican AmericanThemeApprovalOverbearingUniversal Themes Author:Will Packer
“It happens every millennium. Now more than ever, man threatens to destroy himself with his own technology, and all the ideas contained within Big Brother exist within Little Brother. We're all watching ourselves. We are our own oppressors. This is a time when an idea like God is needed more than ever. For me, I've found that God exists within yourself and what you create. The only thing we've got to look forward to is saving ourselves” MenLooksLittlesIdeasBigsHappensFoundTechnologyBrotherNeededSavingOppressorsGod ExistsMillenniumLittle Brother Author:Marilyn Manson
“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.” MenMindHappensFatherBrotherHusbandRememberedGood ManGood FriendInfamyGood FatherGood Husband Author:Ronald Biggs
“When you see a condemned man on his way to the gallows, it moves you to pity. If you could do something to free him, you would do it. Well, brothers and sisters, when I see a person in mortal sin, I see someone drawing nearer with every step to the gallows of hell. And seeing him in this unhappy state, I happen to know the way to free him: that he be converted to God, ask God's pardon, and make a good confession. Woe betide me if he does not.” IfsKnowsMenWayWellsPersonsDoeStatesHappensMovingAsksSinStepsHellSeeingBrotherDrawingUnhappyPityMortalsConfessionWoeBrothers And SistersPardonEvery StepGallowsMortal SinClaret Author:Anthony Mary Claret
“Dean [Winchester] is piling on Sam [Winchester], somewhat, for this. What happens is that these brothers start to discover more about what they've done, in the past year, and those tables might turn, in terms of who has to answer for what. I think everybody will get their licks in. No one is going to be a beaten dog for too long.” ThinkingYearsLongDoneMightHappensPastTurnsTermAnswersDogBrotherTablesBeatenDean Author:Jeremy Carver
“The absence of marriages will result in all kinds of financial burdens that gay people wouldn't face if they could get married. If my brother gets hit by a car tomorrow, my sister-in-law will go on living materially in the same way that she does now. If the same thing happens to me, a great deal of what I have will go off to the taxman. That's because of one of, as you doubtless know, eleven hundred federal laws that favor marriage.” PeopleIfsKnowsWayKindDoeHappensFacesLawResultsDealsCarBrotherGoes OnTomorrowGayMarriedHundredFinancialBurdenAbsenceFavorsThings HappenAll KindsMy BrotherMy SisterElevenIn-lawsGay PeopleSister In LawFinancial Burden Author:Andrew Solomon
“We [Cleveland Browns] are from the same segments of America that everyone else is from. We have the same diversity, the same mix, so we don't run away from issues amongst each other, because we're brothers and we have to build that bond because we're always on the quest to be world champions. That's always our quest, and if you don't have that bond, it's not going to happen. So I guess every locker room is different, but our locker room I think is more than fine.” IfsThinkingWorldDifferentHappensRunningAmericaRoomsIssuesBrotherFineDiversityChampionRunning AwayQuestsLockersClevelandLocker RoomWorld ChampionsCleveland Browns Author:Andrew Hawkins
“I lost my brother when I was 22. He was only 24. I was always the kind of person to live on the edge, but after that, it made me feel like I could really die. It can really happen. Before then, I never thought it could happen to me or my family.” FeelsKindPersonsMadeHappensDiesLostBrotherMy FamilyEdgesMy Brother Author:Queen Latifah
“I have lunch with my friend who works for a theatrical agent and her and I were sitting there eating lunch on Sunset Boulevard and a woman who was a theatrical agent drove by and saw me and jumped out of the car and ran up and handed me her card. I had no idea this happens or would happen and I didn't know what to expect out of it. And my brother said alright you better call her and I said alright, why not? So that's pretty much how we got our first agent and then we started taking acting classes.” KnowsFirstsSaidIdeasHappensActingClassSawsCarBrotherEatingSittingMy FriendsCardsAgentsNo IdeaRanMy BrotherSunsetWhy NotLunchAlrightTheatricalActing ClassesBoulevardSunset BoulevardEating Lunch Author:George Stults