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“I would rather people understand that there is a very, very fortunate American who was given the opportunity, and was in the right place at the right time to have the moment of a lifetime. My mother was born - her name was Marianne Moon. And she was born in 1903, the year that the Wright Brothers first flew.”

People Years Firsts Moments Mother Opportunity Names Given Born Brother Moon Lifetime Fortunate Right Time Right Place Flew Wright Brothers

Author:Buzz Aldrin

“I started to take a keen interest in food when I was 16 years old. When I was a young teenager my mother always encouraged my brother, my sister and I to get involved in the kitchen - stirring and smelling things so we would understand how things were made.”

Years Made Young Mother Interest Brother Involved Teenager My Brother Kitchen My Sister Get Involved Stirring

Author:Ainsley Harriott

“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

“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

“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

“We're all sons and daughters of God, and therefore in a very literal sense, brothers and sisters. And we ought to treat each other that way.”

Way Mother Son Brother Ought Daughter Treats Brothers And Sisters Literal Son And Daughter Daughter Of God

Author:Gordon B. Hinckley

“I have a lot of older brothers who messed up in different ways in my mother's eyes. So I learned from all of their mistakes.”

Way Different Eye Mother Mistake Brother Different Ways Messed Up Older Brother

Author:Kellan Lutz

“I still come from a very working-class family. My mother's still a cleaner. And my brother is the gas man. And my other brother runs a cab. I have become a stratified, different, exotic beast, even more so than I was when I was a young gay man. I just sort of built on that. Now that I've made several films, I don't even know how to placate them with money like so many people do with their families.”

People Knows Men Made Stills Different Running Film Young Mother Class Know How Brother Gay Built My Brother Beast Gas Working Class Exotic Cleaners Gay Men Cab

Author:Duncan Roy

“I was motivated to join in large part because my family needed the money. I would like to say how patriotic we were, but really what motivated me was the excitement my mother would get in receiving a check for my older brother.”

Mother Brother Needed My Family Checks Excitement Patriotic Motivated Receiving Older Brother

Author:Charles Rangel

“Jesus never tried to hide his loneliness and dependence on other people. He chose his disciples not as servants but as friends. He shared moments of joy and grief with them, and asked for them in times of need. They became his family, his substitute mother and brothers and sisters. They gave up everything for him, as he had given up everything for them. He loved them, plain and simple.”

“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

“I don't think that I could have survived in my family without a naughty sense of humor; yeah, absolutely. I think my brother and I both get our senses of humor from our parents. I mean, my mother was absolutely hilarious and foul. She had the most ridiculously off color sense of humor, so that was sort of what we grew up with.”

Thinking Mean Mother Parent Color Brother Grew Grew Up My Family Yeah Senses My Brother Sense Of Humor Survived Foul Naughty

Author:Rachael MacFarlane

“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

“Female animals defending their young are notoriously ferocious and lack the playful delight in combat which characterizes the mock combats of males of the same species. There seems very little ground for claiming that the mother of young children is more peaceful, more responsible, and more thoughtful for the welfare of the human race than is her husband or brother.”

Humans Children Littles Seems Young Mother Animal Race Brother Husband Female Responsible Species Males Delight Peaceful Welfare Human Race Thoughtful Combat Mock Young Children

Author:Margaret Mead

“I therefore command all my Brothers, those living now and those to come in the future, to venerate the Holy Mother of God, whom we always implore to be our Protectress, to praise her at all times, in all circumstances of life, with all the means in their power and with the greatest devotion and submission.”

Mean Mother Brother Circumstances Holy Praise Devotion Command All Time My Brother Submission

Author:Francis of Assisi

“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

“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.”

“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

“I had a happy childhood in a nice suburban area, pretty idyllic, upper middle class and very, very white. My dad is an attorney. My mother is a housewife. They had five kids in seven years: me, my brother, and three sisters. I'm the oldest. We were all very active. My mother was exhausted.”

“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.”

Years Bigs Care Wanted Beautiful Life Is Used Mother Father House Strong Sides Four Brother South Seven Take Care Nine These Days Ministers Chicago Mama Living On Nine Years

Author:Mr. T

“Both of my parents are music teachers. My mother owns the school that I taught in. My brothers and sisters are musicans. My mom pushed me all the time. She knew that I could do it. She knew more than I did. She thought I would go somewhere. She gave me the job and helped me get equipment, which a lot of parents don't do. Alot of my students had to go out and fight for it.”

School Jobs Mother Fighting Parent Teacher Students Taught Brother Mom My Mom My Brother Equipment Brothers And Sisters Music Teacher

Author:Randy Rhoads

“My brother wasn't loved by my mother in the same way that I was.”

Way Mother Brother My Brother

Author:Sean Hannity

“I grew up not understanding what was true and what was not true. It gave me a sense of unreality. I was told that this man [mom's lover] was not my mother's lover - when he was. I was told he was there as a male babysitter for my brother so that he would learn sports and other manly things.”

Men Mother Sports Understanding Brother Grew Mom Lovers Grew Up Males My Brother Manly Unreality Babysitter

Author:Carly Simon

“One of my brothers in my adopted family converted to Islam and I love him with all my heart. I have Muslim women who understand my pain and they give me lots of love and support. But what Black Americans never think about is that the African version of Islam is totally different from American Islam. They've never seen mothers doused in gasoline and set on fire for ’religious' reasons. So they don't know what I'm talking about.”

Thinking Knows Giving Heart Different Reason Pain Mother Black Religious Talking Support Fire Brother My Heart Give Me Islam Versions My Brother Adopted I Love Him Gasoline Muslim Women

Author:Kola Boof

“If you say, "Woo, woo, woo!" to me, I'll say it back. I love it. "Woo, woo, woo" is something that my character used to say. It's something that my mother used to say to my brother and me when we were kids. When words would fail her, she'd just go, "Oh, woo, woo, woo." It's compassion. It's a combination of "I see you, I feel you, I acknowledge you, I got your back."”

Ifs Feels Character Kids Used Mother Compassion Failing Brother Combination Acknowledge My Brother Got Your Back Acknowledge You

Author:Kim Coles

“Eleanor Roosevelt never thought that she was attractive. She never thought that she was really sufficiently appealing. And I think her whole life was a response to her effort to get her mother to pay attention to her, to love her, and to love her as much as she loved her brothers.”

Thinking Whole Mother Effort Pay Attention Brother Response Whole Life Pay Attention Attractive Eleanor

Author:Blanche Wiesen Cook

“And in her [Eleanor Roosevelt] letters, she writes the most, you know, fanciful letters: when we are together, and when we are reunited, and you know, I will be your surrogate wife. Of course she doesn't use that word, but I will be the mother to my brothers, and I will be your primary love.”

Knows Writing Use Together Mother Courses Wife Brother Letters Primaries My Brother Eleanor Surrogates Reunited

Author:Blanche Wiesen Cook

“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.”

“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.”

People Mother Father Situation Crazy Brother Lifetime Raised Stranger Dramatic My Brother Over It My Sister Chill

Author:Angel Olsen

“[My mother] is the greatest hero I'll ever know because she kept us all together, she made sure we all graduated college. She always believed in us no matter what we do. My older brother Joel became an art teacher; my brother Rip ultimately became a television producer and singer and actor himself.”

Knows Art Made Matter Together Mother Actors Teacher Television College Brother Hero No Matter What Singers Producers My Brother Always Believe Rip Older Brother Art Teacher

Author:Billy Crystal

“My parents deeply and truly loved each other, and if my mother hadn't died they would have been together forever. They were together for as much of forever as was given to them. They really loved my brother and me and were very good to us. It gave the model of how to have a happy marriage and family, but it also set the bar very high.”

Ifs Has Beens Together Mother Given Parent Forever Brother Models Died Very Good Bars My Brother Happy Marriage Marriage And Family Together Forever

Author:Andrew Solomon

“I would like to say, historically, from the very beginning, our people have time and again expressed the need for people to live in harmony with the creator, the mother earth, fellow man, and respect our brother's vision. In the past and the present, we have been respon-sible for the greatest gains; cultivated foods and medicines; democratic government, and many other areas of concern.”

People Men Needs Has Beens Government Earth Past Mother Vision Brother Gains Areas Concern Harmony Fellows Medicine Democratic Creator Fellow Man Mother Earth Democratic Government

Author:Leonard Peltier

“My mother's brother was killed while clearing mines in 1945. Those are things that mark your childhood and they help explain why we are so devoted to European unity.”

Helping Mother Childhood Mines Brother Mark Unity Your Children Devoted Clearing

Author:Martin Schulz

“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!”

“There was a lot of tension between my dad and his mother and brothers. Sometimes when I was over there, I remember thinking, "I don't want to get shot."”

Thinking Want Sometimes Remember Mother Brother Dad Shots My Dad Tension

Author:Scott McClanahan

“When you've got a mother who's given birth to eight children, you know, often without any kind of medical intervention - just she gave birth to one of my brothers sort of on the bedroom floor in front of all of us -you know, you see that women are fairly capable.”

Knows Kind Children Mother Given Fronts Brother Birth Capable Eight Medical My Brother Bedroom Intervention

Author:Caitlin Moran

“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.”

Ifs Way Feelings Mother Three Father Stuff Boys Creative Brother Catholic Sarcastic Yelling Catholic Family Father And Brother Very 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.”

Knows Children Play Remember Mother Father Talking Blood Figures Ready Brother Tales Southern Cousin Only Child

Author:Cynthia Nixon

“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.”

Kind Whole Home Body Mother Father Issues Brother Female Bunch All Kinds Guidance Rising Negotiation Hostile Possessing Female Body Stepmothers

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.”

Knows Hands Mother Fall Father Realizing Blood Son Brother Army Indian Officers Blood Brothers

Author:Indira Gandhi

“[My mother] was the oldest of two sisters and two brothers, and she grew up with her brothers, who were about her age. She grew up, to the age of ten, like a wild colt, and then all of a sudden that was over. They had forced on her her 'woman's destiny' by saying, 'This isn't done, this isn't good, this isn't worthy of a lady.'”

Two Done Age Mother Destiny Brother Grew Ten Grew Up Worthy Two Brothers Two Sisters Colts

Author:Indira Gandhi

“At a certain point the family moved to Jaipur, where no woman could avoid the doli or purdah. They kept her in the house from morning to night, either cooking or doing nothing. [My mother] hated doing nothing, she hated to cook. So she became pale and ill, and far from being concerned about her health, my grandfather said, 'Who's going to marry her now?' So my grandmother waited for my grandfather to go out, and then she dressed my mother as a man and let her go out riding with her brothers.”

Men Said Mother Night Certain House Morning Brother Concerned Cooking Moved Ill Cooks Hated Grandmother Riding Grandfather Pale My Grandmother Doing Nothing My Grandfather Let Her Go Purdah

Author:Indira Gandhi

“[My mother] worked at thrift stores and she didn't have a high school education. She sacrificed everything she had for me and my brothers. I never went without. She showed me that she could put food on the table, buy us Jordans, we had the best clothes and she worked two-three odd jobs.”

Two School Jobs Mother Three Brother Clothes High School Tables Stores Odd My Brother Jordan Thrift School Education Odd Jobs

Author:Cory Hardrict

“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!”

Stories Film Mother Father Sides Class Brother Lessons My Family Dancing West My Brother Mother And Father Enamored West Side Tap Dancing West Side Story

Author:Marisa Tomei

“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.”

People Ifs Stories Mother Asks Father Answers Brother Ask Me Get Better Toms Brothers And Sisters Literal

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.”

Knows Home Kids School Mother Father Doors Brother Advertising Executives Lunch Splits Secretary Back To Work Older Brother After School Latches

Author:George Carlin

“I grew up in the projects with four older brothers. And there were tough, macho gangsters, drug dealers, killers, and thugs all in my neighborhood. And they were afraid of my mother. So, yeah, I know some strong women.”

Knows Mother Strong Four Brother Grew Drug Projects Grew Up Tough Yeah Neighborhood Killers Strong Women Dealer Gangsters Thug Macho Older Brother Drug Dealers

Author:Michael Che

“One of the greatest gifts my brother and I received from my mother was her love of literature and language. With their boundless energy, libraries open the door to these worlds and so many others. I urge young and old alike to embrace all that libraries have to offer.”

World Young Mother Literature Energy Language Doors Brother Offers Embrace Library My Brother Urges Boundless Greatest Gifts Young And Old

Author:Caroline Kennedy

“I always knew about as a kid, knew that that particular injury at [my grandfather's] finger had been caused in that disaster that killed his brother-in-law, my grandmother's brother. And he never talked about his own brother's death to me. My mother told me about that and told me about the impact on her family. And that's part of what you hear in the first verse of "Miner's Prayer."”

Firsts Kids Law Mother Prayer Particular Brother Impact Fingers Disaster Injury Grandmother Grandfather Verses My Grandmother My Grandfather In-laws Miners Brother In Law

Author:Dwight Yoakam

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