Brother Quotes - Page 24

• My mother adores singing and plays piano. My uncle was a phenomenal pianist. My brother John is a double bassist. I used to play the piano, badly, and cello. My brother Peter played violin.

  Fiona Shaw

  Mother, Uncles, Play

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The only bipartisan place in D.C. is Brooks Brothers.

  Tony Hale

  Brooks Brothers, Brooks, Bipartisan

  8 Copy quote

• I've got two brothers and two sisters, so there's five of us and we're all very close, which is cool.

  Theo James

  Two, Five, Two Brothers

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Well, when you're the youngest of five, parents kind of lose interest more and more through the children. I think my eldest brother was under loads of pressure to do something amazing with his life, but by the time I came around they were like, 'Well, let's hope he doesn't kill a guy.'

  Chris O'Dowd

  Children, Thinking, Guy

  "Chris O'Dowd: from The IT Crowd to Hollywood". Interview with Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. May 18, 2012.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I come from a family of all women and one boy, my brother. We're all women and we're all precocious and opinionated and like to have fun and we always had friends in the house and we were always, like, half-naked.

  Jemima Kirke

  Fun, Boys, House

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I most want to be remembered for being as great a mother to James and Lennon as my mum was to me and my brother Jamie.

  Patsy Kensit

  Mother, Want, Lennon

  4 Copy quote

• 'FlashForward' was on the outs when I was approached with 'Happy Endings.' I literally got the script on a Friday, and on Saturday morning I met with David Caspe, Jamie Tarses, and the Russo brothers. I took the role on that Saturday, and on Monday I was doing a table read. It all happened very fast, but it was super exciting.

  Zachary Knighton

  Friday, Monday, Morning

  "Happy Beginnings and 'Happy Endings' for Zachary Knighton". Interview with Jessica Gardner, www.backstage.com. February 23, 2012.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• We're definitely a hodgepodge of influences. Mine, most heavily, would be Southern rock - the Allman Brothers, Lynyrd Skynyrd and stuff like that. Hillary is more from the country side - her mom is Linda Davis, a country singer. Dave, he's a big fan of the Eagles and like that.

  Charles Kelley

  Mom, Country, Rocks

  "Q & A: Charles Kelley of Lady Antebellum". Interview with Jerry Fink, lasvegassun.com. April 22, 2009.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I didn't want to be the archetypal sponging brother-in-law, so I didn't go into acting when I got to the States. I thought, 'No, I'll go to school and then I'll be an English teacher; that'll be fun.' But I was horrible as a teacher. As hard as I tried, I just couldn't inspire those kids to take an interest in Milton and Shakespeare and Donne.

  John Mahoney

  Teacher, Fun, School

  4 Copy quote

• I took the fear of marriage from my parents' relationship, because I didn't want to end up in a relationship like that, whereas my brothers and sisters learnt a lesson from it and made sure they didn't carry it on into their own marriages.

  John Mahoney

  Parent, Lessons, Want

  "Take a chance on me" by Harriet Lane, www.theguardian.com. August 3, 2002.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• My mom and dad put my brother and sister through university and they were very keen for us to have an academic background just to give us a chance.

  Rob James-Collier

  Mom, Dad, Giving

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• I can't remember a time when my mom didn't work. She has forever been on the move: a go-getter. When my brother Adel and I had a paper route as kids, my mom would get up before us at the crack of dawn to drop off the Washington Post at different corners.

  Hoda Kotb

  Mom, Moving, Kids

  "Hoda Kotb on her mom hero". www.today.com. April 25, 2012.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• I have a lot of brothers. It's easy for me to do physical stuff. I had to survive. I really love it, and I'd love to do more of it. I want to do action films. I want to go and hang off of wires, and jump off of bridges, and hang on bungee cords. I've always really loved it.

  Stana Katic

  Bridges, Wire, Want

  "Stana Katic Interview CASTLE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 21, 2010.

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• Um, what I found though about the Christian Brothers is this: that they were certainly muscular.

  Thomas Keneally

  Christian, Found, Christian Brothers

  5 Copy quote

• My brother never got an opportunity to throw a pitch, and I didn't want the same thing to happen to another young kid.

  Pedro Martinez

  Kids, Opportunity, Want

  "Answer Man: Pedro Martinez talks God, Boston and flowers". Interview with David Brown, sports.yahoo.com. September 4, 2009.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Everyone I'm photographing, I feel like I'm remaking a family, in a way. My brothers and sisters are my heroes. So many of my models resemble them.

  Ryan McGinley

  Hero, Way, Feels

  4 Copy quote

• I have a really big family, and pretty much all my work is about my brothers and sisters. I'm the youngest of eight - my mom had seven kids in seven years, and then she had me 11 years later - so I was basically raised by all these teenagers.

  Ryan McGinley

  Mom, Teenager, Kids

  7 Copy quote

• You know, I did records by myself and I always will say the Isley Brothers, and featuring Ronald. I won't, you know, just, I won't try to deviate from the Isley Brothers, because that's what the family dream was all about.

  Ronald Isley

  Dream, Trying, Records

  "'Baby Makin' Music' from the Isley Brothers". "News & Notes" with Ed Gordon, www.npr.org. May 16, 2006.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• My brother is a comic-book writer, and I was always in love with comics.

  Adrianne Palicki

  Book, Comic, Comic Book

  "FNL's Adrianne Palicki on learning to be a badass for Red Dawn and Wonder Woman". The A.V. Club Interview, www.avclub.com. November 21, 2012.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• My brother went on to have a long and sordid career.

  Darrell Issa

  Careers, Long, My Brother

  "Issa's Rags-to-Riches Tale Has Some Ugly Chapters" by Eric Lichtblau, articles.latimes.com. May 23, 1998.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• From the newest arrivals to our Native American brothers and sisters, we are one America.

  Jared Polis

  Native American, Arrivals, America

  Jared Polis' at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 4, 2012.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The white man's God cannot love our people or He would protect them. They seem to be orphans who can look nowhere for help. How then can we be brothers?

  Chief Seattle

  God, Men, White Man

  9 Copy quote

• Growing up with three older brothers and being the youngest and the only girl, my mom always made me tough. She's taught me over the years how to be a strong, independent woman, how to carry yourself in a positive way and anything that my brothers can do, I can do.

  Diana Lopez

  Girl, Mom, Strong

  6 Copy quote

• Whatever struggle happened between brothers, let us forget about it and turn the page forever and live united.

  Muqtada al Sadr

  Struggle, Forever, Pages

  "In Iraq, a popular cleric cranks up anti-U.S. rhetoric" by Jomana Karadsheh and Joe Sterling, www.cnn.com. January 8, 2011.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I've been training super hard at the Lopez Taekwondo Academy in Houston, which belongs to my brother Jean. For me, I think confidence is the biggest thing; it's all mental. I train with the best of the best, including my brother Steven, a five-time world champion who won Olympic gold medals.

  Diana Lopez

  Thinking, Champion, Training

  18 Copy quote