Brother Quotes - Page 20

• A love thought: I love you so much that I could wish I had been born your brother, or had brought you into the world myself.

  Cesare Pavese

  Love You, Wish, World

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.60, Transaction Publishers

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• My Brother starv'd between two Walls,His Children's Cry my Soul appalls

  William Blake

  Children, Wall, Two

  William Blake (2000). “The Selected Poems of William Blake”, p.135, Wordsworth Editions

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• Does religion fill a much needed gap? It is often said that there is a God-shaped gap in the brain which needs to be filled: we have a psychological need for God -- imaginary friend, father, big brother, confessor, confidant -- and the need has to be satisfied whether God really exists or not. But could it be that God clutters up a gap that we'd be better off filling with something else? Science, perhaps? Art? Human friendship? Humanism? Love of this life in the real world, giving no credence to other lives beyond the grave?

  Richard Dawkins

  Art, Father, Real

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• Oh, call my brother back to me!I cannot play alone:The summer comes with flower and bee,-Where is my brother gone?

  Felicia Hemans

  Summer, Grief, Flower

  Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans (1836). “The Poetical Works of Mrs. Felicia Hemans: Complete in One Volume”, p.384

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• You know, I have had a terrible life. I married two men I really didn't like. My only daughter was killed in a car accident. My brother committed suicide. Has my life been a life for anyone to envy?

  Clare Boothe Luce

  Daughter, Suicide, Men

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• Forgiving the men who killed my parents and brother was a process, a journey into deeper and deeper prayer.

  Immaculee Ilibagiza

  Prayer, Journey, Men

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• Your brother doesn't have to be speaker for your voice to be heard in Congress

  Candace Gingrich-Jones

  Voice, Congress, Heard

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• O slavish man! will you not bear with your own brother, who has God for his Father, as being a son from the same stock, and of the same high descent? But if you chance to be placed in some superior station, will you presently set yourself up for a tyrant?

  Epictetus

  Father, Son, Men

  Epictetus (1964). “The Moral Discourses of Epictetus”

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• Not the swart Pariah in some Indian grove, Lone, lean, and hunted by his brother's hate, Hath drunk so deep the cup of bitter fate As that poor wretch who cannot, cannot love: He bears a load which nothing can remove, A killing, withering weight.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Love, Hate, Fate

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (Illustrated)”, p.216, Delphi Classics

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• I know so well what becomes of unmarried women who aren't prepared to occupy a position. I've seen such pitiful cases in the South barely tolerated spinsters living upon the grudging patronage of sister's husband or brother's wife! stuck away in some little mouse-trap of a room encouraged by one in-law to visit another little birdlike women without any nest eating the crust of humility all their life! Is that the future that we've mapped out for ourselves?

  Tennessee Williams

  Husband, Humility, Law

  Tennessee Williams (1996). “The Glass Menagerie”, p.12, Heinemann

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• Everything's a fan. Brother, open up your arms. God is the pivot.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Fans, Arms

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• Our government should work for us, not against us. It should help us, not hurt us. It should ensure opportunity not just for those with the most money and influence, but for every American who's willing to work. That's the promise of America - the idea that we are responsible for ourselves, but that we also rise or fall as one nation; the fundamental belief that I am my brother's keeper; I am my sister's keeper.

  Barack Obama

  Hurt, Fall, Opportunity

  Democratic National Convention Presidential Nomination Acceptance, delivered 28 August 2008, INVESCO Field at Mile High Stadium, Denver, Colorado

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• When I was young, I never bought records because my brother Joseph played saxophone and had a record player. I loved listening to his records: The Dorsey Brothers, Duke Ellington, all the big American jazz bands, and vocalists like Ella Fitzgerald, Ernestine Anderson, and Kitty White, a singer from the US who was a friend of Nina Simone. Nobody in America seems to know about her, but she was quite popular in South Africa.

  Miriam Makeba

  Player, White, America

  "Miriam Makeba: Mama Africa Goes Home". J. Poet, Crawdaddy! Magazine, February 11, 2009.

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• Those [Christians] had left to love on earth were then: brothers and sisters in hatred, whom they called then: brothers and sisters in love.

  Georg Brandes

  Christian, Hatred, Earth

  "An Essay on the Aristocratic Radicalism of Friedrich Nietzsche". Essay by Georg Brandes (1889), as translated in "Friedrich Nietzsche" by A.G. Chater (p. 32), 1914.

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• I think that not being loved by your parents or not having a brother or not being liked at school or even wearing glasses can be a lot worse than having a famous father.

  Kim Wilde

  Father, School, Thinking

  The Face magazine, March 1982.

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• My sister...was an interested and zealous invalid during sixty-five years, tried all the new diseases as fast as they came out, and always enjoyed the newest one more than any that went before; my brother had accumulated forty-two brands of Christianity before he was called away.

  Mark Twain

  Years, Two, Zealous

  "Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. 2". Edited by Benjamin Griffin and Harriet Elinor Smith, p. 393, 2013.

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• A presentation copy...is a copy of a book whoch does not sell, sent you by the author, with his foolish autograph at the beginning of it; for which, if a stranger, he only demands your friendship; if a brother author, he expects from you a book of yours, which does not sell, in return.

  Charles Lamb

  Book, Doe, Demand

  "Last Essays of Elia". Book by Charles Lamb, 1833.

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• A child in its greed for love does not enjoy having to share the affection of its parents with its brothers and sisters; and it notices that the whole of their affection is lavished upon it once more whenever it arouses their anxiety by falling ill. It has now discovered a means of enticing out its parents' love and will make use of that means as soon as it has the necessary psychical material at its disposal for producing an illness.

  Sigmund Freud

  Children, Fall, Mean

  Sigmund Freud (1997). “Dora: An Analysis of a Case of Hysteria”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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• Florida was invented for Addison Mizner's little brother.

  Wilson Mizner

  Florida, Little Brother, Littles

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• There were two brothers called Both and Either; perceiving Either was a good, understanding, busy fellow, and Both a silly fellow and good for little, Philip said, "Either is both, and Both is neither.

  Plutarch

  Silly, Two, Understanding

  Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.195

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• A slave's soul has no worth, my brothers; it lacks strength to tread on this great earth with gallantry and freedom. I pity the poor slaves, they're nought but airy mist, a light breeze scatters them, a fragrance knocks them down; it's only just they crawl on the earth on hands and knees. Today I'll write a hymn to God and pray for this great grace.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Writing, Light, Hands

  Nikos Kazantzakis (1958). “The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel”, New York : Simon and Schuster

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• Look here brother, who you jivin' with that cosmik debris?

  Frank Zappa

  Looks, Debris

  Song: Cosmik Debris

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• It's a myth that if you're liked by only four people it must be good. It might also be very bad: they might be your mother, your brother, your uncle and your aunt.

  David Hockney

  Mother, Uncles, Aunt

  1978 David Hockney.

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• If I go
  Before I'm old
  Oh, brother of mine
  Please don't forget me if I go
  Bartender, please
  Fill my glass for me
  With the wine you gave Jesus that set him free
  After three days in the ground.

  Dave Matthews

  Jesus, Wine, Glasses

  "Song: 'Bartender'". 2002.

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• And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Politics, Dear, Dear Brother

  Geoffrey Chaucer (1966). “The Canterbury Tales”

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