Brothers And Sisters Quotes - Page 14

• My brothers and sisters hated me because I was an only child.

  Al Yankovic

  Brother, Children, Only Child

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• My mother was the worst kind of stage mother. She would make me and my younger sister and brother little duckling costumes and put us in kiddie shows.

  Renee Fleming

  Mother, Brother, Littles

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• Suppose atomic bombs had reduced the population of the world to one brother and sister; should they let the human race die out?

  Bertrand Russell

  Brother, Race, Population

  Bertrand Russell (2013). “Human Society in Ethics and Politics”, p.47, Routledge

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• I grew up in a family of ten. You had to have, like, a burst appendix to get the floor.... My brothers and sisters are very quick, intense, brilliant, very sarcastic people. And they were always right there with you, right there, missing not one little throat clearing.

  Mary Robison

  Sarcastic, Brother, People

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• Half the walk is but retracing our steps. We should go forth on the shortest walk, perchance, in the spirit of undying adventure, never to return-prepared to send beck our embalmed hearts only as relics to our desolate kingdoms. If you are ready to leave father and mother, brother and sister, and wife and child and friends and never see them again,-if you have paid your debts and made your will, and settled your affairs and are a free man, then you are ready for a walk.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Mother, Brother, Children

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• Growing up, I had a very normal relationship with my brother and sister. But, over time, they became my best friends, and now I hang out with them all the time. I'm very close with them.

  Logan Lerman

  Brother, Growing Up, My Best Friend

  "Get to Know Fall's Hot Guys!". Interview with Neha Gandhi, Slide 5, www.seventeen.com. September 19, 2011.

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• 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

  Brother, Hero, Way

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• All my work, really, is based on my brothers and sisters. I had so many adventures with them and a big part of the work is to recreate those. It's easy for me to be around a lot of people, because I can retreat. I can watch everything.

  Ryan McGinley

  Brother, Adventure, People

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• 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, Brother, Teenager

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

  Jared Polis

  Brother, Native American, Arrivals

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

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• What's right with America and what's right with Islam have a lot in common. At their highest levels, both worldviews reflect an enlightened recognition that all of humankind shares a common Creator - that we are, indeed, brothers and sisters.

  Feisal Abdul Rauf

  Brother, America, Islam

  "Imam Rauf: What's right with Islam" by Feisal Abdul Rauf, www.cnn.com. September 12, 2010.

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• There was a great strain in our family because my father didn't want anything to do with me. He was happy to see my brother and sister, but not me. I don't know why. Maybe it was shame. I don't know. But he never wanted anything to do with me. That rejection was terribly hurtful and it went on for years.

  Carol Vorderman

  Brother, Father, Years

  "Carol Vorderman: My family values". Interview with Nick McGrath, www.theguardian.com. August 19, 2011.

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• I don't like to design single objects. I like my pieces to have a relationship to each other. They can be mother and child, like the Schmoo salt and pepper shakers, or brother and sister like the Birdie salt and peppers, or cousins, like most of my dinnerware sets.

  Eva Zeisel

  Mother, Brother, Cousin

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• Closing my eyes and holding still. It's the end if I get mad or scream. It's close to a prayer. Hate is not for humans. Judgment lies with God. That's what I learned from my Arabic brothers and sisters.

  Kenji Goto

  Brother, Prayer, Hate

  "Kenji Goto tweet of tolerance goes viral in poignant memorial to journalist", www.theguardian.com. February 2, 2015.

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• Today Saint Paul has told us that in Christ we have become God’s adopted children, brothers and sisters in Christ.  This is who we are.  This is our identity.

  Pope Francis

  Brother, Children, Identity

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• The only siblings I have are half-siblings. My nuclear family would have been an extra-suffocating threesome. Instead, I have an interesting brother and sister, in-laws, and darling nephews.

  Jane Smiley

  Brother, Sibling, Sister In Law

  "Divorce! It’s Good for the Children!" by Jane Smiley, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 12, 2010.

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• Gay brothers and sisters... You must come out. Come out to your relatives... come out to your friends... Come out to your neighbors... to your fellow workers... to the people who work where you eat and shop... break down the myths, destroy the lies and distortions. For your sake. For their sake. For the sake of the youngsters who are becoming scared.

  Harvey Milk

  Brother, Lying, Gay

  "That's What America Is". Harvey Milk's speech given on Gay Freedom Day in San Francisco, June 25, 1978.

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• I kind of knew something was going on, and my older brothers and sisters were singing be-boppish kinds of stuff in the living room, and I was listening. I started singing, warmer than a summer night, at seven or eight years old.

  Al Jarreau

  Summer, Brother, Night

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. November 5, 2013.

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• The majority of the men of the North, and of the South and East and West, are not men of principle. If they vote, they do not sendmen to Congress on errands of humanity; but while their brothers and sisters are being scourged and hung for loving liberty,... it is the mismanagement of wood and iron and stone and gold which concerns them.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Brother, Men, Iron

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• As I looked about the world, so much of it impoverished, I became increasingly uncomfortable about having so much while my brothers and sisters were starving. Finally I had to find another way. The turning point came when, in desperation and out of a very deep seeking for a meaningful way of life, I walked all one night through the woods. I came to a moonlit glade and prayed.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Meaningful, Brother, Night

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.7, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• I want to give a shout-out to all my Saudi Arabian brothers and sisters. If you could all please send me some oil for my jet, I would truly appreciate it.

  Puff Daddy

  Brother, Oil, Appreciate

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• We're all conditioned that we shouldn't like our brothers and sisters, that we should be angry and fight. But that's abnormal. A lot of people think that the way Serena and I are with one another is weird. It's not.

  Venus Williams

  Brother, Fighting, Thinking

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• If the Tao could be served up, everyone would serve it up to their lords. If the Tao could be offered, there is no one who would not offer it to their parents. If the Tao could be spoken of, there is no one in the world who would not speak of it to their brothers and sisters. if the Tao could be passed on, there is no one who would not pass it on to their heirs. However, it obviously cannot be so and the reason is as follows. If there is no true centre within to receive it, it cannot remain;if there is no true direction outside to guide it,it cannot be received.

  Zhuangzi

  Brother, Parent, World

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• It is my hope that inter-religious and ecumenical cooperation will demonstrate that men and women do not have to forsake their identity, whether ethnic or religious, in order to live in harmony with their brothers and sisters. If we are honest in presenting our convictions, we will be able to see more clearly what we hold in common.

  Pope Francis

  Religious, Brother, Men

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• Dear Brothers and Sisters, Never resort to war! Never war! Above all, I think of all the children who are robbed of their hope for a better life and a decent future. Killed children, wounded children, mutilated children, orphans, children who play with remnants of war, instead of toys. Children who don't know how to smile. Please stop! I ask you with all my heart. It's time to stop. Stop it please!

  Pope Francis

  Brother, Children, War

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