Brother Quotes - Page 34

• No one cares / who is better / who is worse / who has more / who has less. / Content in our connectedness / we are brothers and sisters / after all.

  Adele Faber

  Care, Connectedness, Brothers And Sisters

  Adele Faber, Elaine Mazlish (2012). “Siblings Without Rivalry: How to Help Your Children Live Together So You Can Live Too”, p.228, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Of lunacy,
  Innumerous were the causes; humbled pride,
  Ambition disappointed, riches lost,
  And bodily disease, and sorrow, oft
  By man inflicted on his brother man;
  Sorrow, that, made the reason drunk, and yet
  Left much untasted. So the cup was fill'd.

  Robert Pollok

  Ambition, Pride, Men

  Robert Pollok, James Robert Boyd (1860). “Pollok's Course of Time”, p.304

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• Tis chastity, my brother, chastity; She that has that is clad in complete steel, And, like a quiver'd nymph with arrows keen, May trace huge forests, and unharbour'd heaths, Infamous hills, and sandy perilous wilds; Where, through the sacred rays of chastity, No savage fierce, bandite, or mountaineer, Will dare to soil her virgin purity.

  John Milton

  Arrows, Nymphs, Sacred

  John Milton (1846). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Milton: With Explanatory Notes and a Life of the Author, by H. Stebbing. To which is Prefixed Dr. Channing's Essay on the Poetical Genius of Milton”, p.410

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• God grant me grace my prayers to say:
  O God! preserve my mother dear,
  In strength and health for many a year;
  And O! preserve my father too,
  And may I pay him reverence due;
  And may I my best thoughts employ
  To be my parents' hope and joy;
  And O! preserve my brothers both
  From evil doings, and from sloth,
  And may we always love each other,
  Our friends, our father, and our mother,
  And still, O Lord, to me impart
  An innocent and grateful heart,
  That after my last sleep I may
  Awake to thy eternal day! Amen.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Mother, Prayer, Father

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1880). “The Poetical Works of Samuel T. Coleridge”

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• Other actors dont get asked about their brothers or sisters, so why do I have to always answer questions about having a twin brother? I suppose its interesting for everybody other than me.

  Luke Treadaway

  Interesting, Actors, Answers

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• The butcher with his bloody apron incites bloodshed, murder. Why not? From cutting the throat of a young calf to cutting the throats of our brothers and sisters is but a step. While we ourselves are living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal conditions on the earth?

  Isadora Duncan

  Cutting, Animal, Why Not

  "My Life". Book by Isadora Duncan (Chapter 28), 1927.

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• When brother Brigham and brother Joseph Young went up to see the Prophet, they found him chopping wood; for he was a labouring man, and gained his bread by the sweat of his brow. They made themselves acquainted with him. He received them gladly, invited them to his house, and they rejoiced together in the Gospel of Christ, and their hearts were knitted together in the spirit and bond of union.

  Wilford Woodruff

  Heart, Men, Sweat

  Journal of Discourses 7:100, January 10, 1858.

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• I know I am--that simplest bliss
  The millions of my brothers miss.
  I know the fortune to be born,
  Even to the meanest wretch they scorn.

  Bayard Taylor

  Missing, Bliss, Born

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• Why don't men ... leave off those detestable stiff collars, stocks, and things, that make them all look like choked chickens, and which hide so many handsomely-turned throats, that a body never sees, unless a body is married, or unless a body happens to see a body's brothers while they are shaving.

  Fanny Fern

  Men, Clothes, Looks

  FANNY FERN (1857). “FRESH LEAVES”, p.249

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• We were blood brothers, pals forever. He was my very best friend. Nobody else could see him. I now know he was just pretend.

  Dan Barker

  Blood, Forever, Religion

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• He should have known better because, early in his learnings under his brother Mahmoud, he had discovered that long human words (the longer the better) were easy, unmistakable, and rarely changed their meanings, but short words were slippery, unpredictable changing their meanings without any pattern. Or so he seemed to grok. Short human words were never like a short Martian word - such as grok which forever meant exactly the same thing. Short human words were like trying to lift water with a knife. And this had been a very short word.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Should Have, Knives, Long

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• I wonder if I love the communal act of eating so much because throughout my childhood, with four older brothers and a mom who worked in the restaurant business, I spent a lot of time fending for myself, eating alone - and recognizing how eating together made all the difference.

  Thomas Keller

  Mom, Food, Eating Together

  Thomas Keller (2016). “Bouchon”, p.2, Artisan Books

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• I don't care if the Koch brothers or Soros spend their money to promote one candidate or another. I care about members of Congress spending 30%-70% of their time raising money from .05% of us. Change the way we fund elections and you change the corruption.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Care, Way, Election

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. July 2, 2013.

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• All I liked to do when I was a kid was draw. My childhood was like my adult life: drawing pictures with my brother, putting the comics up on the glass window, and tracing the characters onto tracing paper or drawing paper and then coloring them. That and making things was all we ever did.

  Maurice Sendak

  Character, Kids, Glasses

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• Man is all symmetry
  Full of proportions, one limb to another,
  And all to all the world besides;
  Each part may call the farthest, brother;
  For head with foot hath private amity
  And both with moons and tides.

  George Herbert

  Men, Moon, Feet

  George Herbert, “Man”

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• 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.

  Amy Tan

  Family, Mother, Children

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club”, p.89, Penguin

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• For me it's not possible to forget, and I don't understand people who, when the love is ended, can bury the other person in hatred or oblivion. For me, a man I have loved becomes a kind of brother.

  Jeanne Moreau

  Forgiveness, Love Is, Men

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

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• Everything but truth becomes loathed in a sick-room ... Let the nurse avow that the medicine is nauseous. Let the physician declare that the treatment will be painful. Let sister, or brother, or friend, tell me that I must never look to be well. When the time approaches that I am to die, let me be told that I am to die, and when.

  Harriet Martineau

  Truth, Medicine, Nurse

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• The outrage was on the scale of God. My younger brother was immortal and they hadn't noticed. Immortality had been concealed in my brother's body while he was alive, and we hadn't noticed that it dwelt there. Now my brother's body was dead, and immortality with it. ... And the error, the outrage, filled the whole universe.

  Marguerite Duras

  Death, Grief, Errors

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• My idea of success was to be a boy - possibly because my brothers, Leon and Arthur, were my father's pride and joy, whereas he had to be introduced to me several times before he got it firmly planted in his mind that I was part of the family.

  Lucille Kallen

  Father, Pride, Boys

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• Women, more than men, are bound by tradition and authority. What the father, the brother, the doctor, and the minister have said has been received undoubtingly. Until women throw off this reverence for authority they will not develop.

  Maria Mitchell

  Father, Men, Doctors

  Maria Mitchell (1896). “Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals”

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• I know we will create a society where there are no rich or poor, no people without work or beauty in their lives, where money itself will disappear, where we shall all be brothers and sisters, where every one will have enough.

  Sylvia Pankhurst

  Rich Or Poor, People, Enough

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• My older brother had a lot of Elvis on vinyl, and really, that was my first introduction to music during the Fifties.

  Kiki Dee

  Firsts, Vinyl, Introduction

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• [On Regis Philbin:] He's like everybody's kid brother with his hand in the cookie jar and his foot in his mouth. You love him, but you can't take him anywhere.

  Kathie Lee Gifford

  Kids, Hands, Feet

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• As towards most other things of which we have but little personal experience (foreigners, or socialists, or aristocrats, as the case may be), there is a degree of vague ill-will towards what is called Thinking. ... I am tempted to believe that much of the mischief thus laid at the door of that poor unknown quantity Thinking is really due to its ubiquitous twin-brother Talking.

  Vernon Lee

  Believe, Thinking, Ill Will

  Vernon Lee (1904). “Hortus Vitae: Essays on the Gardening of Life”

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