“When I was younger, I had an older brother a year and a half older than me, so we always had each other, and I felt very fortunate in that regard.” YearsFeltHalfBrotherRegardFortunateOlder Brother Author:Rib Hillis
“The person that always comes to mind, and it's odd now because we've become pals, is Ben Folds. I've always considered him like a musical older brother, from afar, in the sense that I always felt I had a much better understanding of what he was singing about five years after I was listening to it.” YearsMindPersonsFeltUnderstandingFiveBrotherListeningSingingMusicalOddFive YearsFoldsAfarOlder BrotherPals Author:Jason Sudeikis
“Now Ben Folds is my photography older brother. He was kind enough to give me a photo of his for my 40th birthday.” GivingKindEnoughBrotherPhotographyGive MeFoldsOlder Brother40th Birthday Author:Jason Sudeikis
“I have an older brother and an older sister - and they had the time of their lives at university. They were at Newcastle and Edinburgh. Looking up to them the whole time, I wanted to go to university and live the life they were living, having a blast, and I didn't get in. I didn't get into any of the universities I wanted to go to.” WholeWantedBrotherUniversityLive LifeBlastOlder BrotherEdinburghOlder SisterNewcastle Author:Rose Leslie
“I think I was just lucky to be brought up in a very musical family. My two older brothers were, and still are, very musical and very creative, and music was a big part of my life from a very young age, so it is quite natural for me to become involved in music in the way that I did.” ThinkingWayStillsTwoBigsAgeYoungNaturalCreativeBrotherInvolvedLuckyMusicalYoung AgeOlder Brother Author:Kate Bush
“[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.” KnowsArtMadeMatterTogetherMotherActorsTeacherTelevisionCollegeBrotherHeroNo Matter WhatSingersProducersMy BrotherAlways BelieveRipOlder BrotherArt Teacher Author:Billy Crystal
“Growing up with my brothers has helped me a lot in training. I have learned a lot from them. The moves, their advice and all other stuff. I maybe the youngest, but my older brothers helped me a lot in order to achieve what they have achieved.” MovingOrderStuffGrowing UpGrowingAchieveAdviceBrotherTrainingMy BrotherI Have LearnedOlder Brother Author:Tomoki Kameda
“My parents were divorced and my dad was in the Marines. I lived in California until I was 10 then we moved to Bettendorf, Iowa when I was in the fourth grade. I had an older brother so it made it a little easier to adjust to things.” LittlesMadeParentBrotherDadEasierMovedMy DadMade ItCaliforniaGradesFourthMarineDivorcedIowaOlder BrotherFourth Grade Author:Robbie Lawler
“My first encounter with yoga was in 1969 with my older brother Doug. I was thirteen years old, and he was eighteen. He'd learned about yoga in California on a surfing trip, and when he came back to Houston, Texas, he introduced me to this new stuff he'd learned. I'll always be grateful for that positive influence at an early age.” YearsFirstsAgeStuffInfluenceBrotherYogaGratefulCaliforniaEncountersTexasBe GratefulSurfingEighteenThirteenHoustonOlder BrotherNew StuffPositive InfluenceThirteen Year Olds Author:David F. Swensen
“Jean [Kennedy Smith, JFK's sister] told me she thinks the whole sports angle has been overplayed, that politics was central to him. This nonsense that he only went into politics because his older brother Joe was killed is not true. He was determined he was going to be in politics, but he would have waited his turn.” ThinkingHas BeensWholeTurnsSportsBrotherDeterminedNonsenseAngleOlder Brother Author:Chris Matthews
“Baseball I played literally from the time I can remember. My dad had played, my older brother played, so I always wanted to be like my older brother. That just kind of was a natural thing that I fell into.” KindI CanWantedRememberNaturalBrotherDadBaseballMy DadNatural ThingsOlder Brother Author:Tyler Hoechlin
“When I came to the United States in 1975 I was eleven, and within a few months my voice broke. I recited commercials like a parrot and I got yelled at quite often. My older brother one night said, "You speak so much English when you're not supposed to, that's why your vocal chords shattered. Now you sound like a duck." I thought it was true. I went from this sweet-voiced Vietnamese kid who spoke Vietnamese and French to this craggy-voiced teenager.” SaidStatesKidsNightSpeakSoundVoiceUnitedUnited StatesSweetBrotherMonthsBrokeTeenagerSpokesDucksChordsVocalOne NightElevenShatteredParrotsOlder BrotherVietnamese Author:Andrew Lam
“Outside from with my older brother - and this would have stopped about age 12 - I haven't been in a physical fight in my life. We used to punch each other, but that was little kid punching. You're too scared to hit anybody really.” LittlesKidsAgeUsedFightingHavensBrotherScaredLittle KidOlder BrotherPunching Author:Andy Richter
“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
“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.” KnowsMotherStrongFourBrotherGrewDrugProjectsGrew UpToughYeahNeighborhoodKillersStrong WomenDealerGangstersThugMachoOlder BrotherDrug Dealers Author:Michael Che
“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
“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
“I'm not really sure why so much people still listen us. I think we live in an era when people get attached to stuff, and it means something. Then I think a lot of people heard about it over the years - like somebody's older brother might tell them, you know, because we're from his era, and he might be like, "You need to listen to this; this is what it's all about," you know what I mean? I don't know, man, it's hard to say. But it makes us feel special.” PeopleThinkingMenMeanSpecialBrotherLike YouOlder Brother Author:Ishmael Butler
“Jack Kerouac seems to have been preoccupied with the question of duality from a very young age. He seemed to feel that there was more than one person inside him. Indeed he would veer from friendly, open and so on to someone who was angry. In a way, there was a swing also between his American self and what he later called his Franco-American older brother. There was a swing between the deeply introverted part of himself and the person he became out in the world, having to act in an extroverted way.” WorldAgeBrotherFriendlyDualityOlder BrotherIntroverted Author:Joyce Johnson
“I'm four and a half years older than my sister - it's an interesting age difference. Growing up it feels like a big rift. Then you get older and you realize it's not. But for a while there, we really didn't have much to do with each other - mostly because I should have been a better older brother. I'm making up for lost time. I want that in print so she can read it.” AgeRealizingInterestingGrowing UpBrotherPrintMy SisterMaking UpOlder BrotherLost Time Author:Peter Vack
“It's the same when you listen to any kind of successful athlete. My older brother has a useful name for them - he calls them lottery ticket careers. I are engaged in what he calls these lottery ticket careers. On the one hand it's very, very unlikely that you're ever going to hit it. On the other hand if you do hit it, you really hit it. You have to be engaged with it, though, maybe you're entire life. And if you never actually do hit it? You kind of jovially lie yourself along the way and recognize that it may produce things outside the hitting it kinds of goods, I suppose.” KindLyingSuccessfulBrotherAthleteLotteryOlder BrotherLottery Ticket Author:Clancy Martin
“The idea of legitimacy is something I suppose I deal with in my fiction, and in part it's probably a response to my upbringing. When I was growing up I was the middle child, pathologically shy, in a family with a very loud and opinionated older brother, and I felt as if I never had the right to speak. As a result, I simply didn't speak very much.” ChildrenSpeakGrowing UpBrotherResponseShyUpbringingOlder Brother Author:Lauren Groff
“Being on a book tour is like being on the seesaw when you're a little kid. The excitement is in having someone to play with, and in rising up in the air, but then you're at the mercy of those holding you down, and if it's your older brother, or Paul Wolfowitz, they leap up, so that you crash down and get hurt.” IfsLittlesBookPlayKidsHurtAirBrotherMercyDown AndExcitementRisingLeapCrashLittle KidOlder BrotherUp In The AirRising UpSeesaw Author:Anne Lamott
“I have three siblings. My sister makes music. My older brother is a classical conductor, and my younger brother is a mixing engineer.” ThreeBrotherMy SisterEngineersSiblingMixingConductorOlder BrotherYounger BrotherYoung BrotherThree Siblings Author:Lisa Loeb
“I love playing the bad guy getting away with stuff. I was that kid who learned from my older brothers who got away with everything by smiling.” KidsGuyStuffBrotherGet AwayBad GuysOlder Brother Author:Kellan Lutz
“I had so many older brothers who beat up on me, so I'm a tough kid. I love mixed martial arts, weapons training, guns, knives, driving fast cars and motorcycles.” ArtKidsCarBrotherWeaponsBeatsTrainingGunToughDrivingMartial ArtsKnivesMotorcycleOlder BrotherFast CarMixed Martial ArtsDriving Fast Author:Kellan Lutz
“I was the youngest and only girl in a family of two older brothers.” TwoGirlBrotherOlder Brother Author:Marlee Matlin
“I had a really wonderful upbringing. We were a tight family. It was wonderful to grow up with so many siblings. We were all just a year or two apart, and we were always so supportive of each other. I learned everything from my older brother and sister and taught it to my younger sisters.” YearsTwoGrowsGrowing UpWonderfulTaughtBrotherBrothers And SistersSupportiveSiblingUpbringingOlder BrotherYounger SisterTight Family Author:Joaquin Phoenix
“I was more like a middle child. My youngest brother was the baby, so he got all the attention that the baby gets. And my older brothers were getting into so much trouble that I was left in the middle, doing plays. I was up to no good, but my mother didn't know it!” KnowsChildrenPlayMotherLeftAttentionTroubleMiddleBrotherBabyOlder BrotherMiddle Child Author:John C. Reilly
“Having two older brothers is a healthy reminder that you're always closer to the bottom than you are to the top.” InspirationalTwoSportsBrotherHealthyBottomRemindersOlder Brother Author:Andy Roddick