Younger Brother Quotes

• I have a younger brother.

  Freddie Highmore

  Brother

  "Freddie Highmore Interview - The Spiderwick Chronicles". Press day interview, collider.com. February 12, 2008.

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• My feeling toward the animal is that he is our younger brother, and that we are our brothers keeper.

  Mary Johnston

  Brother, Animal, Feelings

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• I grew up with a younger brother, so I can get pretty rowdy.

  Sarah Wynter

  Brother, Rowdy, Grew

  Buography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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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• Mom spent the time that she was supposed to be a kid actully raising children, her younger brother and younger sister. She was tough as nails and did not suffer fools at all. And the truth was she could not afford to. She spoke the truth, bluntly, directly, and without much varnish. I am her son.

  Chris Christie

  Mom, Brother, Children

  Speech at the Republican National Convention, www.foxnews.com. August 28, 2012.

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• The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder.

  Jane Austen

  Sister, Brother, Sibling

  Jane Austen (2007). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen”, p.487, Wordsworth Editions

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• I don't believe an accident of birth makes people sisters or brothers. It makes them siblings, gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood is a condition people have to work at.

  Maya Angelou

  Sister, Brother, Sibling

  Maya Angelou, Jeffrey M. Elliot (1989). “Conversations with Maya Angelou”

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• The African is my brother but he is my younger brother by several centuries.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Brother, Century, My Brother

  The Observer, October 23, 1955.

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• As I have discovered by examining my past, I started out as a child. Coincidentally, so did my brother. My mother did not put all her eggs in one basket, so to speak: she gave me a younger brother named Russell, who taught me what was meant by 'survival of the fittest.'

  Bill Cosby

  Funny, Mother, Brother

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• Oh, brothers! I don't care for brothers. My elder brother won't die, and my younger brothers seem never to do anything else.

  Oscar Wilde

  Brother, Care, Funny Brother

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.11, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• No nation is truly free until the animal, man's younger brother is free and happy.

  Sadhu T. L. Vaswani

  Brother, Animal, Men

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• I'm the daughter of two Indian immigrant doctors, and I have an older sister and younger brother, and none of us have pursued medicine as a career. We're all over the artistic side of things.

  Aarti Mann

  Daughter, Mother, Brother

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• Animals are our younger brothers and sisters, also on the ladder of evolution but a few rungs lower. It is an important part of our responsibilities to help them in their ascent, and not to retard their development by cruel exploitation of their helplessness.

  Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding

  Brother, Responsibility, Animal

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• My brothers are both 6 ft. 5 in., and if you have younger brothers who are bigger than you then you have to learn the ancient martial art of sarcasm.

  Nick Moran

  Sarcastic, Brother, Art

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• She can't force us to go to the ball. We're grown men, for Lord's sake!" Will cocked an eyebrow at his younger brother. "You don't think she can force us? We are speaking of the same mother, correct? Small frame, enormous will?

  Sarah MacLean

  Mother, Brother, Men

  Sarah MacLean (2010). “The Season”, p.151, Scholastic Inc.

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• In the early days of the December that my father was to die, my younger brother brought me the news that I was a Jew. I was then a transplanted Englishman in America, married, with one son and, though unconsoled by any religion, a nonbelieving member of two Christian churches. On hearing the tidings, I was pleased to find that I was pleased.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Christian, Brother, Atheist

  Christopher Hitchens (2010). “Hitch 22: A Memoir”, p.317, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• My parents were kind of over protective people. Me and my sister had to play in the backyard all the time. They bought us bikes for Christmas but wouldn't My younger brother will remember that he received a transistor radio for Christmas. I took it apart and it never worked again.

  Stephen Elop

  Christmas, Brother, Play

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• I'm incredibly close to my family. I have two younger brothers; they're both artists and actors, and their work and the way they see the world inspires me.

  Tatiana Maslany

  Brother, Artist, Two

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• My younger brother and I have been writing together, mainly for fun, for years, but we've been improvising together since we were kids. Literally.

  Ty Burrell

  Brother, Fun, Writing

  Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. November 18, 2009.

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• When I was training, I trained with my younger brother Brady. I would wrestle some of my friends, who I had grown up with, which showed me some moves, but it was never a full on match. When I went to competitions, there were other girls, so I always wrestled girls.

  Jaimie Alexander

  Girl, Brother, Moving

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• Only younger brothers will understand me. We're following in the footsteps of older brothers. You are looking up to your brother. You want to do the same things. You want to do as good as he and do it even better.

  Wladimir Klitschko

  Brother, Want, Understand Me

  "'We are brothers in arms but not clones,' says Wladimir Klitschko". Interview with Kevin Mitchell, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2012.

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• Because of the level of my chess game, I was able - even against a weak opponent, such as my younger brothers or the dog - to get myself checkmated in under three minutes. I challenge any computer to do it faster.

  Dave Barry

  Dog, Brother, Games

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• Basically, at some point, one day maybe you can expect to hear some of my music. I haven't really done that yet because my younger brother is a musician and really talented and I want him to come out with his music first.

  Stephen Dorff

  Brother, One Day, Musician

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• Long ago, when Harry had been left alone while the Dursley's went out to enjoy themselves, the hours of solitude had been a rare treat: Pausing only to sneak something tasty from the fridge, he had rushed upstairs to play on Dudley's computer, or put on the television and flicked through the channels to his heart's content. It gave him an odd empty feeling to remember those times; it was like remembering a younger brother whom he had lost.

  J. K. Rowling

  Brother, Life Lesson, Heart

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• The only day I remember of my parents' marriage was the day my dad walked out. As I stood there at five years old, with my older sister and younger brother, I knew that he was gone.

  Ellie Goulding

  Brother, Dad, Years

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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