Older Brother Quotes - Page 3

• It was a very hard life. As I got older, the family was depending very much on me. My two older brothers got married, so they had their own families depending on them. I had seven people relying on me, so I worked in a grocery store.

  Martin Lel

  Brother, Two, People

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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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• 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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• I have two older brothers and they were a huge part of life; we were very close. We used to run around and get into trouble. That’s what I came from - that exploring nature.

  Jonny Weston

  Running, Brother, Two

  "Chasing Mavericks: Newcomer Jonny Weston on Bringing Surf Legend Jay Moriarity Back to Life". Interview with Greg Archer, www.huffingtonpost.com. Ocotber 24, 2012.

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• Now Ben Folds is my photography older brother. He was kind enough to give me a photo of his for my 40th birthday.

  Jason Sudeikis

  Photography, Brother, Giving

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• The person that always comes to mind, and it's odd now because we've become pals, is Ben Folds. I've always considered him like a musical older brother, from afar, in the sense that I always felt I had a much better understanding of what he was singing about five years after I was listening to it.

  Jason Sudeikis

  Brother, Years, Understanding

  "#ManCrushMonday: Jason Sudeikis". Interview with Romy Oltuski, www.harpersbazaar.com. February 29, 2016.

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• When I was younger, I had an older brother a year and a half older than me, so we always had each other, and I felt very fortunate in that regard.

  Rib Hillis

  Brother, Years, Half

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• I was an older brother. So I had to do a lot of things first. My father was a self-made man, and he would beat me senseless. But he was a Scotsman, and stubborn. I'm his son, and I'm stubborn, too. I go on being stubborn.

  Harry Hay

  Brother, Father, Son

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• My older brother was the guitar player in the neighborhood band. My parents were the cool ones that had the basement for rehearsal. Rather than hang with my peers after school, I wanted to just listen to the band. More than that, I wanted to play.

  Jill Sobule

  Brother, School, Player

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I had older brothers who would pick on me, and injustice always boiled my blood.

  Michelle Rodriguez

  Brother, Blood, Injustice

  Interview with Milla Jovovich, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 12, 2015.

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• My older brother was involved in the folk movement. We would gather every weekend in Washington Park. The folk songs were so important to my reality.

  Anne Waldman

  Song, Brother, Weekend

  Source: logosjournal.com

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• I have a lot of older brothers who messed up in different ways in my mother's eyes. So I learned from all of their mistakes.

  Kellan Lutz

  Mother, Brother, Mistake

  Interview with Mark Jacobs, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 19, 2010.

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• Half voluntarily, half Winston's older brother [William] would take me in, saying, "Daddy, I think you oughta do this." And I'd say, "I think you're right, maybe I do need it." Sometimes a week later I'd leave the place; sometimes I'd stick it out for a month.

  William Eggleston

  Brother, Thinking, Daddy

  Interview with Harmony Korine, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 21, 2008.

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• I was motivated to join in large part because my family needed the money. I would like to say how patriotic we were, but really what motivated me was the excitement my mother would get in receiving a check for my older brother.

  Charles Rangel

  Mother, Brother, Patriotic

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• I grew up with classical music blasting in my parents' living room and my older brother's practicing saxophone in his room listening to jazz... a beautiful chaos.

  Josephine de La Baume

  Beautiful, Brother, Parent

  "Josephine de la Baume on Mark & "Dreamcore" Style". Interview with Lauren Houssin, www.elle.com. May 16, 2011.

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• I always wanted an older brother. That was my thing. My mom would be like, "What do you want for your birthday?" I'd be like, "I want an older brother."

  Emmy Rossum

  Mom, Brother, Would Be

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I have a friend who says the best boyfriends are ones with intimidating, good-looking older brothers. The boyfriends try harder because they're so insecure. Maybe I'm the female equivalent.

  Beth Orton

  Brother, Insecure, Trying

  Interview with Hector de la Manzana, believermag.com. March 1, 2003.

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• My family moved - first to Washington, D.C., and then, in the spring of 1975, to Lebanon, where my father worked as a diplomat at the American embassy. My parents were enthusiastic about the move, so my older brother and I felt like we were off to some place kind of cool.

  Greg Kinnear

  Brother, Father, Spring

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• John Paul II called us Jews the older brothers of Christians. He represented humanity, dialogue and reconciliation, and he laid the foundation for religions to work together.

  Moshe Katsav

  Christian, Brother, Humanity

  "Nothing Can Be Compared to the Massacre of 6 Million Jews". Spiegel Online Interview, www.spiegel.de. April 25, 2005.

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• I have an older brother and an older sister - and they had the time of their lives at university. They were at Newcastle and Edinburgh. Looking up to them the whole time, I wanted to go to university and live the life they were living, having a blast, and I didn't get in. I didn't get into any of the universities I wanted to go to.

  Rose Leslie

  Brother, Live Life, Edinburgh

  Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 22, 2015.

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• I think I was just lucky to be brought up in a very musical family. My two older brothers were, and still are, very musical and very creative, and music was a big part of my life from a very young age, so it is quite natural for me to become involved in music in the way that I did.

  Kate Bush

  Brother, Thinking, Two

  Interview with Dimitri Ehrlich, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 23, 2011.

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• [My mother] is the greatest hero I'll ever know because she kept us all together, she made sure we all graduated college. She always believed in us no matter what we do. My older brother Joel became an art teacher; my brother Rip ultimately became a television producer and singer and actor himself.

  Billy Crystal

  Mother, Teacher, Art

  "Billy Crystal Finds Fun In Growing Old (But Still Can't Find His Keys)". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 29, 2013.

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• I'm four and a half years older than my sister - it's an interesting age difference. Growing up it feels like a big rift. Then you get older and you realize it's not. But for a while there, we really didn't have much to do with each other - mostly because I should have been a better older brother. I'm making up for lost time. I want that in print so she can read it.

  Peter Vack

  Brother, Growing Up, Interesting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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