Best family & brother Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“My mother imparted her daily truths so she could help my older brothers and me rise above our circumstances. We lived in San Francisco's Chinatown. Like most of the other Chinese children who played in the back alleys of restaurants and curio shops, I didn't think we were poor. My bowl was always full, three five-course meals every day, beginning with a soup full of mysterious things I didn't want to know the names of.”

Source: The Joy Luck Club

“A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.”

Friendship Family Brother Dear Sympathy Real Friends Sympathetic My Sympathy Friendship Over Sympathy For A Friend

Book:The odyssey

Source: The odyssey

“I grew up with six brothers. That's how I learned to dance - waiting for the bathroom.”

“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.”

“I love my family. I came home the other days. My brother's passed-out on the couch, holding an empty bottle of sleeping pills. So I called the paramedics, and they pumped his stomach, and I think he's learned his lesson: you know, never to take my last two sleeping pills.”

Thinking Knows Two Home Lasts Sleep Family Brother Lessons My Family Empty My Brother Bottles Stomach Pills Couches Love My Family I Love My Family Paramedics Sleeping Pills Empty Bottles

Author:Emo Philips

“We define our family, our 'ohana, very broadly. It may have be begun with our parents and brothers and sisters, but it now includes hundreds of people who give us the support necessary for our creative endeavors.”

People Giving May Parent Family Support Creative Brother Our Family Endeavor Brothers And Sisters

Author:Robert Cazimero

“The family is one of nature's masterpieces.”

Source: The Life of Reason or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Society, Volume VII, Book Two

“You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.”

Author:Desmond Tutu

“I can indeed hardly see how anyone ought to wish Christianity to be true for if so the plain language of the text seems to show that the men who do not believe, and this would include my father, brother and almost all of my friends, will be everlastingly punished. And this is a damnable doctrine.”

Source: Autobiographies

“Siblings: children of the same parents, each of whom is perfectly normal until they get together.”

Source: Everything But Money: A Life of Riches

“Most of all the other beautiful things in life come by twos and threes, by dozens and hundreds. Plenty of roses, stars, sunsets, rainbows, brothers, and sisters, aunts and cousins, but only one mother in the whole world.”

“I think people that have a brother or sister don't realize how lucky they are. Sure, they fight a lot, but to know that there's always somebody there, somebody that's family.”

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Author:Trey Parker

“The dog of your boyhood teaches you a great deal about friendship, and love, and death: Old Skip was my brother. They had buried him under our elm tree, they said-yet this wasn't totally true. For he really lay buried in my heart.”

“Let's go hand in hand, not one before another.”

Source: The Comedy of Errors In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide

“The first-born in every family is always dreaming for an imaginary older brother or sister who will look out for them.”

Firsts Looks Dream Born Family Brother Imaginary Sister Older Brother Older Sister Other Sister

Author:Bill Cosby

“All my family, my blood, is mixed up now. They don't even all know each other. I just hope they don't never hate or fight each other, not knowin who they are. Cause all these people livin are brothers and sisters and cousins. All these beautiful different colors! We!... We the human Family. God says so! FAMILY!”

“Our children are extensions of ourselves in ways our parents are not, nor our brothers and sisters, nor our spouses.”

Way Children Parent Family Brother Our Children Extensions Spouse Brothers And Sisters

Author:Fred Rogers

“For me to sit here and give all kinds of excuses to make it right, I can't do. But what I want to ask everyone out there, everyone that has a child, everyone that has a brother, a sister: if your child or family member was abducted today, if a mad man came in, a terrorist came in, abducted your family member or your child and if I said to you I can bring your child home...does it matter how I bring them home?”

“When you deal with your brother, be pleasant, but get a witness.”

Literature Deals Family Brother Witness Pleasant Your Brother

Book:My Brother's Killer

Source: My Brother's Killer

“Handsome brother with a smooth goatee, makes me wonder why he act so ugly.”

Wonder Family Brother Ugly Smooth Handsome

Author:LL Cool J

“I was looking for a father, he was gone. I hung around with the thugs, and even though they sold drugs, they showed a young brother love.”

Young Father Family Gone Brother Drug Hung Family Love Thug Brother Love Young Brother

Author:Tupac Shakur

“I've made love to my mother, killed my father, and my brother. What am I to do?”

Made Mother Father Family Brother My Brother

Author:Lou Reed

“I don't feel the need to explain my actions to her. I don't clarify, I don't doubt, I don't worry. I don't tell her everything, not anymore, but I tell her more than anyone else, by far. I tell her as much as I can.”

Love Family Trust Brother Loyalty Unconditional Love Twins Sisters Family Relationships Sister Family Love Siblings Brothers Sibling Relationships Sibling Bond

Book:Gone Girl

Source: Gone Girl

“It's a commonly expressed and rather nice, romantic notion that we are all "sisters" and "brothers." Let's be real. Fact is, we might be better served to accept that we are all siblings. Siblings fight, pull each other's hair, steal stuff, and accuse each other indiscriminately. But siblings also know the undeniable fact that they are the same blood, share the same origins, and are family. Even when they hate each other. And that tends to put all things in perspective.”

Family Brother Metaphor Brotherhood Sisters Sister Siblings Brothers Fraternity

Book:The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

Source: The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

“The only reason that some people aren’t ashamed of their parents and/or siblings is because they know that we know that they did not choose them.”

“The fact that you have just buried your parent or parents and/or sibling or siblings does not make you less likely to die today.”

“I remember our childhood days when life was easy and math problems hard. Mom would help us with our homework and dad was not at home but at work. After our chores, we’d go to the old fort museum with clips in our hair and pure joy in our hearts. You, sister, wore the bangles that you, brother, got as a prize from the Dentist. “Why the bangles?” the Dentist asked, surprised, for boys picked the stickers of cars instead. “They’re for my sisters,” you said. Mom would treat us to a bottle of Coke, a few sips each. Then, we’d buy the sweet smelling bread from the same white van and hand-in-hand, we’d walk to our small flat above the restaurant. I remember our childhood days. Do you remember them too?”

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