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

  Mila Kunis

  Brother

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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

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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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• 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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• I was raised in Boston by three older brothers and a very strong and empowering single mom.

  Eliza Dushku

  Mom, Strong, Brother

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• In high school, I didn't get the chance to wrestle varsity until my senior year because I had an older brother who was better than me.

  Rulon Gardner

  Senior, Sports, Brother

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• In high school I had a boyfriend who was super into rap, so I was into Too $hort and Wu-Tang for a little while. And my best friend's older brother would sometimes drive us home in this pimped-out truck, and he'd play all his dirty rap music. We thought we were really cool.

  Kirsten Dunst

  Brother, Rap, Dirty

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• Weirdly, I was still trying to be the older brother, and trying to get him [Tom Berninger] to try to be more like me a little bit. Or not be more like me but... I was frustrated that he sometimes let things stop him in his life, and he let the wind get knocked out of his sails a few times.

  Matt Berninger

  Brother, Wind, Frustrated

  "Matt and Tom Berninger: 'I don't have anything good on the National and I just have myself really drunk'". Interview with David Daley, www.salon.com. April 27, 2014.

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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, Brother, Food

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

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