Older Brother Quotes

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

Family, Brother, Older

Apparently, one in five people in the world are Chinese. And there are five people in my family, so it must be one of them. It's either my mum or my dad. Or my older brother, Colin. Or my younger brother, Ho-Chan-Chu. But I think it's Colin.
Tim Vine

Family, Dad, Brother

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.
Joaquin Phoenix

Family, Everything, Two

I know my family and I would always go up to the mountains just for fun. We always skied. Then, all of a sudden, my brother started snow boarding. Older brother thing, I had to do what he was doing. So I started snow boarding.
Shaun White

Family, Fun, Snow

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.
Anne Lamott

Hurt, Someone, Book

I had an older brother who was very interested in literature, so I had an early exposure to literature, and and theater. My father sometimes would work in musical comedies.
Francis Ford Coppola

Work, Father, Sometimes

My mom always said I was the peacemaker in the family. My older brother, Eric, was the leader, the creative one. I was just his puppet.
Gwen Stefani

Family, Mom, Leader

You know, I endeavor to be more like my older brother. He's very magnetic. He's actually very much like 'Castle' in that people are attracted to him, and just want to be near him. You want to know where my brother is in a crowded room? He's the guy with the crowd around him.
Nathan Fillion

Him, Around, Brother

My older brother was into Creedence Clearwater Revival and ZZ Top, and my sister was into pop radio. So somewhere along the line, I got into Ozzy Osbourne, REO Speedwagon, Heart, Pat Benetar, Journey.
Martina McBride

Heart, Brother, Older

My family moved - first to Washington, D.C., and then, in the spring of 1975, to Lebanon, where my father worked as a diplomat at the American embassy. My parents were enthusiastic about the move, so my older brother and I felt like we were off to some place kind of cool.
Greg Kinnear

Family, Cool, Father

My older brother and myself always played together in bands, but we never knew we would be professional musicians.
Wynton Marsalis

Together, Brother, Older

I have three siblings. My sister makes music. My older brother is a classical conductor, and my younger brother is a mixing engineer.
Lisa Loeb

Music, Makes, Brother

I've got a really great family round me, two sisters and an older brother and my mum and dad. Everybody's equal.
Nicholas Hoult

Family, Great, Dad

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

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

Away, Brother, Older

If I tried to shout over my older brother, my mother told me keep quiet. If I tried to shout over my little sister, my father told me to shut up. I found the best way to be heard was to lower my voice and actually speak when I had something to say.
Peter Welch

Best, Mother, Father

People go back to the stuff that doesn't cost a lot of money and the stuff that you don't have to hand money to over and over again. Stuff that you get for free, stuff that your older brother gives you, stuff that you can get out of the local library.
Frank Black

Money, Free, Again

I spent two years in the Army. And my older brother, who was also a great positive influence on me, encouraged me to think about law school, and I said - well, I didn't have any money.
George J. Mitchell

Money, Great, Positive

I remember when I was a little boy my father didn't love me; he couldn't. He loved my older brother but he couldn't love me somehow, at least not in a way I could understand it.
Keith Miller

Love, Father, Remember

My older brother Mike is an excellent trumpet player. By the time he was 12, he was playing around Kansas City in classical situations. He was already an amazing talent.
Pat Metheny

Time, Amazing, Around

I performed adequately at school, but in comparison to my older brother, who set the record for the highest cumulative average for our high school, my performance was decidedly mediocre.
Steven Chu

School, Brother, High

I have an older brother who is 21 and attends UC Berkley.
Mila Kunis

Brother, Older, Attends

Even as a small child I never felt that I should have to compete with anyone - even my older brother.
Dwayne Hickman

Small, Child, Brother

Growing up I played in garage bands and cover bands with my older brother, and he got us a gig opening up for some hippie jam band. I was 15. I felt like such an adult!
Charles Kelley

Brother, Older, Growing

I never had a cool older brother or sister to turn me on to cool music. I had to discover it for myself.
Tony Kanal

Music, Cool, Brother

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