Brother Quotes

My parents' marriage was very rocky. They were always arguing. When they split up when I was in my 20s, my brother and I were both delighted because we knew they weren't good for each other.
Gail Porter

Marriage, Good, Parents

I am extremely close to my brother, Kent, and my sister, Lauren, who have been remarkably understanding about all of my weird sibling tales.
Karen Russell

Sister, Weird, Close

I was a militant smoker, and in my case, I think I particularly used smoking because what I felt was a kind of politically correct big brother assault on smoking.
Joe Eszterhas

Big, Smoking, Used

My grandmother spent her whole life working as a maid, a cook and a babysitter, barely scraping by, but still working hard to give my mother, her only child, a chance in life, so that my mother could give my brother and me an even better one.
Julian Castro

Life, Mother, Hard

I've always thought that a lot of the problems in the world would be solved if a spaceship did arrive, then anyone with one head and two arms and two legs would be your brother! It wouldn't matter where they were from or what they believed or anything. It might be good for us.
Sigourney Weaver

Good, Thought, Two

It's a little bit in the genes because my brother is a journalist and my father was a sports writer.
Patricia Heaton

Sports, Father, Writer

My brother Trev went to the Professional Performing Arts School in New York, and he used to do his monologues and stuff and rehearse in our apartment. So I used to hear him all the time doing these things over and over and over. And when I was a little girl, I used to soak up everything - like anything anyone did, I soaked it up.
Chloe Moretz

Time, School, Girl

My brother Trevor is theatrically trained. I used to watch him when I was younger and I was in love with it. It just seemed really fun to be someone else. So I begged my mom; she was hesitant, but she eventually allowed me. And it turned out well, I guess.
Chloe Moretz

Well, financially it's a little bit better. But it's better than than when I was a teacher. But I kind of - it's allowed me to buy a house. And I've been able to help my mother with some stuff and my brother. So, that's nice.
Clay Aiken

Teacher, Nice, Mother

Crime is a very hard genre to feminise. If you have a female protagonist she is going to be looking after her mum when she gets older; she is going to be worried about her brother and sister; she will be making a living while bringing up kids.
Denise Mina

Hard, Living, After

In the 'Garnethill' trilogy, people always forget that Maureen O'Donnell's dad was a journalist and she did art history at uni and her brother did law, but no-one ever thinks they're middle-class - they're just working class because they speak with accents.
Denise Mina

History, Art, Dad

I was in fashion school, my brother has a law background, and my sister-in-law had worked in production, but none of us had a proper fashion business education.
Alexander Wang

Education, Business, School

My brother's been producing rap music and hip-hop for maybe 10 years.
Tina Yothers

Music, Maybe, Rap

I play mostly guitar, and I played drums in my brother's band for a while growing up.
Darren Criss

Play, Guitar, While

It's part of our nature. As much as I love (brother and guitarist Eddie), if you put us in a room with no one else for 15 minutes, we'd be at each other's throats.
Alex Van Halen

Love, Nature, Put

My father is an anchor and my brother is as well.
Patrick Wilson

Teenagers too often have to deal with loss and death. You had to cope with the untimely death of your brother; how can young people deal with such tragedies?
Andrew Shue

Death, Young, Often

If you like your brother and he's prospering, you'll be pleased for him.
Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

Him, Pleased, Prospering

My mother worked in advertising and my father was a journalist. But they split up when I was three and I grew up in a single-parent family. My mum brought my brother and I up.
Felicity Jones

Family, Mother, Father

Most of my memories of Texas are of mosquitoes, watermelons, crickets, and my brother teasing me.
Robin Wright Penn

Memories, Texas

One day my dad would say, 'OK, if you want to play tennis I can help you out.' And that's how it started. And I had a goal. I wanted to beat my mom first. And my parents and my brother. And that was the ultimate goal.
Caroline Wozniacki

Mom, Dad, Parents

There are a lot of things I can take, and a few that I can't. What I can't take is when my older brother, who's everything that I want to be, starts losing faith in things. I saw that look in your eyes last night. I don't ever want to see that look in your eyes again.
M. Night Shyamalan

Faith, Everything, Night

If I had a big brother who was a year older than me or something, I probably wouldn't have ended up being a filmmaker.
M. Night Shyamalan

Big, Year, Older

When I was 8 years old, my brother was making the noises of the animals I was eating, so I decided to go vegetarian. Then I would give up because I was 8.
Alicia Silverstone

Give, Old, Making

When I was in Beck's world, I felt like the little sister. I'm in the big brother's room with all his friends. You just hang out and keep your mouth shut so they don't realize you're there and kick you out. I like being in situations where I can be an underdog, where I can be in the corner and observe and soak it in.
Feist

Friends, Big, Keep

I just did a picture book called The Wildest Brother on Earth, and you will find both of my children in there.
Cornelia Funke

Children, Book, Find

I had an older brother who passed away recently, an older sister and a younger brother.
Steve Case

Away, Older, Sister

I want to work with a director who becomes my brother, my father, for two months. You give yourself over to that person.
Jean Dujardin

Work, Yourself, Father

Just about this time, when in imagination I was so great a warrior, I had good use in real life for more strength, as I was no longer taken to school by the nurse, but instead had myself to protect my brother, two years my junior.
Georg Brandes

Life, Time, Good

We did a two month tour with Taj Mahal that was really healing and cathartic and a good distraction after my brother passed away. Then I knew I wanted to take a year off, and it was really nice to have that chance to fall apart.
Bonnie Raitt

Good, Nice, Healing

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