Older Brother Quotes

• I had an older brother who was very interested in literature, so I had an early exposure to literature, and and theater. My father sometimes would work in musical comedies.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Brother, Father, Musical

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• I know my family and I would always go up to the mountains just for fun. We always skied. Then, all of a sudden, my brother started snow boarding. Older brother thing, I had to do what he was doing. So I started snow boarding.

  Shaun White

  Brother, Fun, Snow

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• I have an older brother who is 21 and attends UC Berkley.

  Mila Kunis

  Brother

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• People go back to the stuff that doesn't cost a lot of money and the stuff that you don't have to hand money to over and over again. Stuff that you get for free, stuff that your older brother gives you, stuff that you can get out of the local library.

  Black Francis

  Brother, Hands, People

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• Being on a book tour is like being on the seesaw when you're a little kid. The excitement is in having someone to play with, and in rising up in the air, but then you're at the mercy of those holding you down, and if it's your older brother, or Paul Wolfowitz, they leap up, so that you crash down and get hurt.

  Anne Lamott

  Hurt, Brother, Book

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• I have three siblings. My sister makes music. My older brother is a classical conductor, and my younger brother is a mixing engineer.

  Lisa Loeb

  Brother, Sibling, Mixing

  Interview with Marah Eakin, music.avclub.com. July 28, 2011.

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• Never make a companion equal to a brother.

  Hesiod

  Brother, Sibling, Companionship

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• Apparently, one in five people in the world are Chinese. And there are five people in my family, so it must be one of them. It's either my mum or my dad. Or my older brother, Colin. Or my younger brother, Ho-Chan-Chu. But I think it's Colin.

  Tim Vine

  Funny, Brother, Dad

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• I've got a really great family round me, two sisters and an older brother and my mum and dad. Everybody's equal.

  Nicholas Hoult

  Brother, Dad, Two

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• I had a really wonderful upbringing. We were a tight family. It was wonderful to grow up with so many siblings. We were all just a year or two apart, and we were always so supportive of each other. I learned everything from my older brother and sister and taught it to my younger sisters.

  Joaquin Phoenix

  Brother, Growing Up, Sibling

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

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• The first-born in every family is always dreaming for an imaginary older brother or sister who will look out for them.

  Bill Cosby

  Family, Sister, Dream

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• In a relationship you want to treat people the way you want to be treated.

  Bradley Cooper

  People, Want, Way

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• I had an older brother who passed away recently, an older sister and a younger brother.

  Steve Case

  Sister, Brother, Passed Away

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• Treat the world the way you want to be treated.

  Mike Tyson

  Respect, Honesty, Kindness

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Fredo, you're my older brother and I love you. But don't ever take sides against the Family again. Ever.

  Mario Puzo

  Brother, Love You, I Love My Family

  "Fictional character: Michael". "The Godfather", www.imdb.com. 1972.

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• My older brother and myself always played together in bands, but we never knew we would be professional musicians.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Brother, Together, Musician

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• I grew up with an older brother, so I'm pretty good at being bashed around.

  Carey Mulligan

  Brother, Grew Up, Grew

  Source: collider.com

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• Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report written on birds that he'd had three months to write, which was due the next day. We were out at our family cabin in Bolinas, and he was at the kitchen table close to tears, surrounded by binder paper and pencils and unopened books about birds, immobilized by the hugeness of the task ahead. Then my father sat down beside him put his arm around my brother's shoulder, and said, "Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird.

  Anne Lamott

  Brother, Father, Book

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, Anchor

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• There are a lot of things I can take, and a few that I can't. What I can't take is when my older brother, who's everything that I want to be, starts losing faith in things. I saw that look in your eyes last night. I don't ever want to see that look in your eyes again.

  M. Night Shyamalan

  Faith, Brother, Eye

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• Yes, actually I was pretty amazed by the amount of stuff my parents put up with while I was living in their house. They had experienced all that before with older brothers and sisters, so it was fairly strict. The fear-of-God thing was pretty set and I blindly followed it until I reached a certain age. Then I just began questioning my belief system.

  Rozz Williams

  Brother, House, Parent

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• You’ve only had a small glimpse of how insufferable and annoying I can be. As the older brother, it’s my birthright.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Brother, Glimpse, Annoying

  Maria V. Snyder (2012). “Magic Study”, p.285, Harlequin

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• We all need to have heroes, people to admire and look up to. To find a hero, first look to your parents or older brother or sister. Then look to the people who share the same morals and values that you have, and have accomplished the goals that you strive to achieve.

  Robert Cheeke

  Motivational, Brother, Hero

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• The Scoutmaster guides the boy in the spirit of an older brother.

  Baden Powell de Aquino

  Wisdom, Brother, Boys

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• Angelina Jolie’s older brother James Haven, the one she made out with, has a license plate on his SUV that reads Shiloh. Maybe it’s not that weird. After all, he could be the father.

  Chelsea Handler

  Brother, Father, Suvs

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• Even as a small child I never felt that I should have to compete with anyone - even my older brother.

  Dwayne Hickman

  Brother, Children, Should Have

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