Brothers And Sisters Quotes - Page 4

• Every praying person, every person who has an encounter with God, must have a passionate concern for his or her brother and sister, his or her neighbor. To treat any of these as if he were less than the child of God is to deny the validity of one's spiritual existence.

  Desmond Tutu

  Spiritual, Brother, Children

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• When I meet people from other cultures I know that they too want happiness and do not want suffering, this allows me to see them as brothers and sisters.

  Dalai Lama

  Happiness, Brother, Laughter

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• Politics is too partisan, and sometimes patriotism is cast aside. Patriotism is honor and love of your country and your brothers and sisters. With politics I get the impression that it's all about what's good for the party and not necessarily what's good for the country.

  Ricardo Montalban

  Country, Brother, Party

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• My husband and I had to raise five of my younger brothers and sisters. They lived with us. We sent them to school.

  Dolly Parton

  Brother, Husband, School

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• My mother was born on a tiny farm in County Mayo. She was meant to stay at home and look after the farm while her brother and sister got an education. However, she came to England on a visit and never went back.

  Julie Walters

  Mother, Brother, Home

  "My family values" by Hilary Whitney, www.theguardian.com. July 24, 2009.

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• Jeremiah Wright is one of the greatest prophetic preachers that black America has produced. What I find striking is that many white brothers and sisters miss the fact that there would be no black church if the white church wasn't political and racist in refusing to worship with us.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Brother, White, America

  "Professor checks out new landscape 'after King'". Interview with Arienne Thompson, www.usatoday.com. April 3, 2008.

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• Parents, brothers and sisters, grandparents, aunts and uncles are made more powerful guides and rescuers by the bonds of love that are the very nature of a family.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Brother, Uncles, Powerful

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• The Red Poppy The great thing is not having a mind. Feelings: oh, I have those; they govern me. I have a lord in heaven called the sun, and open for him, showing him the fire of my own heart, fire like his presence. What could such glory be if not a heart? Oh my brothers and sisters, were you like me once, long ago, before you were human? Did you permit yourselves to open once, who would never open again? Because in truth I am speaking now the way you do. I speak because I am shattered.

  Louise Glück

  Brother, Heart, Fire

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• Do you know why the big brother is born first? It’s to protect the little brothers and sisters that come after him. A brother telling his sister, "I’ll kill you"... You never, ever say something like that.

  Tite Kubo

  Brother, Bleach, Littles

  "Bleach". Manga by Tite Kubo, 2001 - 2016.

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• All peoples and nations are of one family, the children of one Father, and should be to one another as brothers and sisters.

  Bahá'u'lláh

  Brother, Children, Father

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• We must not falter nor weary in well-doing. We must lengthen our stride. Not only is our own eternal welfare at stake, but also the eternal welfare of many of our brothers and sisters who are not now members of this, the true Church. I thrill to the words of the Prophet Joseph Smith in a letter that he sent to the Church from Nauvoo on September 6, 1842: 'Shall we not go on in so great a cause? Go forward. … Courage … and on, on to the victory!

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Brother, Lds, Victory

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• On the off chance that you have children, don't clean up at all. As children, my brother and sister and I loved waking up early and playing cocktail party with the leftover debris

  Amy Sedaris

  Brother, Children, Women

  "Refined meets irreverent". Interview with Craig Nakano, articles.latimes.com. November 09, 2006.

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• I wept like a child. It was not because I was overcome at having survived my ordeal, though I was. Nor was it the presence of my brothers and sisters, though that too was very moving. I was weeping because ....fill in the blank with whatever/whoever helped you survive... had left me so unceremoniously.

  Yann Martel

  Brother, Children, Moving

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• The sisters and brothers that you meet give you the materials which your character uses to build itself. It is said that some people are born great, others achieve it, some have it thrust upon them. In truth, the ways in which your character is built have to do with all three of those. Those around you, those you choose, and those who choose you.

  Maya Angelou

  Brother, Character, People

  "America's Renaissance Woman". The Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org. January 22, 1997.

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• People think six is a great many, when it's children. ...they don't mind six pairs of boots, or six pounds of apples, or six oranges, especially in equations, but they seem to think that you ought not to have five brothers and sisters.

  E. Nesbit

  Brother, Children, Thinking

  E. Nesbit (2013). “Delphi Complete Novels of E. Nesbit”, p.77, Delphi Classics

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• Brother and Sister So & So are not your standard; Jesus is.

  Joyce Meyer

  Motivational, Jesus, Brother

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• Why would the God of the universe want to be submitted to me?' Because we want you to join us in our circle of relationship. I don't want slaves to my will; I want brothers and sisters who will share life with me.

  William P. Young

  Brother, Circles, Want

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• I think human consciousness, is a tragic misstep in evolution. We became too self-aware, nature created an aspect of nature separate from itself, we are creatures that should not exist by natural law. We are things that labor under the illusion of having a self; an accretion of sensory, experience and feeling, programmed with total assurance that we are each somebody, when in fact everybody is nobody. Maybe the honorable thing for our species to do is deny our programming, stop reproducing, walk hand in hand into extinction, one last midnight - brothers and sisters opting out of a raw deal.

  Unknown

  Brother, Thinking, Feelings

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• Whether you believe in God or not does not matter so much, whether you believe in Buddha or not does not matter so much; as a Buddhist, whether you believe in reincarnation or not does not matter so much. You must lead a good life. And a good life does not mean just good food, good clothes, good shelter. These are not sufficient. A good motivation is what is needed: compassion, without dogmatism, without complicated philosophy; just understanding that others are human brothers and sisters and respecting their rights and human dignity.

  Dalai Lama

  Spiritual, Brother, Buddhist

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• Do you know what friendship is?' he asked. 'Yes,' replied the gypsy; 'it is to be brother and sister; two souls which touch without mingling, two fingers on one hand.' 'And love?' pursued Gringoire. 'Oh! love!' said she, and her voice trembled, and her eye beamed. 'That is to be two and to be but one. A man and a woman mingled into one angel. It is heaven.

  Victor Hugo

  Brother, Eye, Angel

  Victor Hugo (2010). “The Works of Victor Hugo”, p.404, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Sometimes I couldn't help thinking that the unluckiest thing about being the thirteenth child was having all those older brothers and sisters telling me what to do.

  Patricia C. Wrede

  Brother, Children, Thinking

  Patricia C. Wrede (2012). “The Far West”, p.26, Scholastic Inc.

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• I will be my undoing, If I become my obsession. I will forget the ones I love, If I do not serve them. I will war with others, If I refuse to see them. Therefore, I choose to turn away From my reflection, To rely not on myself But on my brothers and sisters, To project always outward Until I disappear [And only God remains.]

  Veronica Roth

  Brother, War, Reflection

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• If you have no brothers and sisters it defines you for life; even when you're thirty you refer to yourself as an only child.

  Russell Brand

  Brother, Children, Only Child

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• Hug your children...Kiss your mothers and fathers, your brothers and sisters. Tell them how much you love them, every day. Because every day is the last day. Every light casts a shadow. And only the gods know when the darkness will find us.

  Seth Grahame-Smith

  Mother, Brother, Children

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• Victory in defeat, there is none higher. She didn't give up, Ben; she's still trying to lift that stone after it has crushed her. She's a father working while cancer eats away his insides, to bring home one more pay check. She's a twelve-year-old trying to mother her brothers and sisters because mama had to go to Heaven. She's a switchboard operator sticking to her post while smoke chokes her and fire cuts off her escape. She's all the unsung heroes who couldn't make it but never quit.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Mother, Brother, Giving Up

  Robert A. Heinlein (1983). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, Berkley

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