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Quotes About Brother

In practice it is death that works so seductively behind the image of its brother, sleep
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Behind thy thoughts and feelings, my brother, there is a mighty lord, an unknown sage—it is called Self; it dwelleth in thy body, it is thy body. There
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
I spent a lot of winters in my childhood flying kites with my brother, with my cousins, with friends in the neighborhood. It's what we did in the winter. Schools close down. There was not much to do.
~ Khaled Hosseini
If you are in a band like my brother, Rudolf, who is in the Scorpions, then you have a kind of umbrella and you cover each other. You have five people to discuss things with and you are all in the same boat, and therefore make much wiser choices.
~ Michael Schenker
Life is very sweet, brother; who would wish to die?
~ George Borrow
I remember I was, like, 6 years old when I found out that I was having a little brother, and I was wishing and wishing for a sister. When my mom came out and my dad, and they're like, 'It's a boy,' Spencer, my twin brother, is cheering and jumping up and down, and then I burst into tears. I was so sad. I was crying.
~ Peyton List
Three years into getting 'The Witch' financed, I was hanging out with my brother and he was like, 'I'm working on this script. It's a ghost story in a lighthouse.' I thought, 'Damn, that's a really good idea, I wish I'd had it.'
~ Robert Eggers
There's a schizoid streak within the family anyway so I dare say that I'm affected by that. The majority of the people in my family have been in some kind of mental institution, as for my brother he doesn't want to leave. He likes it very much.
~ David Bowie
I'm a twin, but only I emerged live from the womb. The fact that I was originally one half of a duo gave rise to a theory, much propounded in newspaper profiles, that my life has been one desperate effort to compensate for that stillborn brother.
~ David Jason
The facts are simply that my brother was born in the United States at the Kapiolani Hospital for Women and Children in 1961. His birth certificate has been authenticated by a number of sources.
~ Maya Soetoro-Ng
Influenced by him, and probably even more so by my brother Theodore (a year older than me), I soon became interested in biology and developed a respect for the importance of science and the scientific method.
~ Frederick Sanger
My older brother is a distinguished theoretical physicist, a fellow of the Royal Society.
~ Roger Penrose
Thirteen was my brother's number.
~ Brandon Ingram
Your brother lost his leg in a tragic bass fishing accident.
~ Roy Firestone
Brother, thy tail hangs down behind.
~ Rudyard Kipling
When Beethoven made sharp response to a letter from his brother Karl, who embellished his signature with the phrase "land-owner," the composer added "brain-owner" to his own autograph.
~ Russell Sherman
That's all she cared about—protecting her brother, who was probably some fop with a lame sword hand and a fear of pistols!
~ Sabrina Jeffries
Darling, you have a brother fond of holding a gun on me, a sister who can shoot anything that moves, two other brothers who've repeatedly threatened to thrash me, and a grandmother who buys off constables. Do you really think I'm fool enough to antagonize them by committing adultery?
~ Sabrina Jeffries
No man can deliver his brother, nor make agreement unto God for him," I replied: "it cost more to redeem their souls—it cost the blood of an incarnate God, perfect and sinless in Himself, to redeem us from the bondage of the evil one:—let Him plead for you.
~ Anne Bronte
I have already told you, Mr. Monk, I have no idea where my brother is. Not that I would necessarily tell you if I did. Your wife is an excellent nurse. She has rare experience in certain areas that are useful to us, and if she chose to go with him, and has not informed you, then that is her own concern.
~ Anne Perry
He saw the face of his brother on Thanksgiving night, saw Jim's sad weary eyes, and his heart broke, as if his brother were more important than God himself, or God himself was speaking through Jim as he might speak through anyone put in our inevitable or accidental path, anyone who threatened to call us back to ourselves, who looked at us with eyes that reflected a heart as broken as our own, as fragile, as disappointed.
~ Anne Rice
Here I was, rushing off to save my little brother from pirates, only to find that he fancies being a pirate himself!
~ Sharon Kay Penman
So that's it then. You're just going to be mean to me. (Artemis) Mean to you? Mean? Fuck you, Artemis! I was butchered on the floor by your brother while you watched it happen. Then, when I was finally happy someplace, gods forbid, you tricked me into drinking your blood to bind me to you. And you think I'm mean? Bitch, please, you haven't seen mean yet. (Acheron)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Dude! Put a bell on. You don't walk up on a brother like that and scare the crap out of him. (Nick) Sorry. Didn't realize you scared like a little girl. (Acheron)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon