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Quotes About Brothers

This crown of the laughter, the rosary crown: to you, my brothers, I throw this crown! I pronounced laughter holy: you higher men, learn — to laugh!
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
In the struggle with the English mechanistic dumbing down of the world, Hegel and Schopenhauer (along with Goethe) were unanimous—both of these hostile fraternal geniuses in philosophy, who moved away from each other towards opposite poles of the German spirit and, in the process, wronged each other, as only brothers do.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Human society: it is an experiment, this I teach — a long search: but it searches for the commander! — an experiment, oh my brothers! And not a "contract"!
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
and only when you have all denied me will I return to you. Verily, with dierent eyes, my brothers, shall I then seek my lost ones; with a dierent love shall I then love you
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
In the summer, I would play street hockey every day with my cousins and my brothers. And in the winter we'd play on the backyard rink.
~ Joe Thornton
I have a lot of brothers. It's easy for me to do physical stuff. I had to survive. I really love it, and I'd love to do more of it. I want to do action films. I want to go and hang off of wires, and jump off of bridges, and hang on bungee cords. I've always really loved it.
~ Stana Katic
I was still a serving officer when I competed in 'Scrapheap Challenge,' initially as a major and then a lieutenant-colonel when I was joined by my brothers in a team called 'Brothers in Arms.'
~ Dick Strawbridge
Ultimately, mayonnaise and aioli are brothers from the same mother. Both are emulsions of oil and water, which just means that the two incompatible liquids are brought together with the help of a third party stabilizer to create something thicker, creamier, and richer than before.
~ Sohla El-Waylly
Tamerlan Tsarnaev is telling no tales. The older of the two brothers who committed the Boston Marathon bombings was likely the one who planned the attack, but when he died in a shootout with police just days after the blasts, his thoughts and motivations vanished with him.
~ Jeffrey Kluger
One evening in November two brothers were seated in a little café in the Rue de la Roquette discussing murders. The evening papers lay in front of them, and they all contained a lurid account of a shocking affair in the Landes district, where a charcoal-burner had killed his wife and two children with a hatchet.
~ Ruskin Bond
the West they say, 'Never talk to strangers.' In the East they say, 'Always talk to strangers.' It was this stranger who gave us sustenance on the road, just as strangers had given me company on the way to the Pindar Glacier. On the open road there are no strangers. You share the same sky, the same mountain, the same sunshine and shade. On the open road we are all brothers.
~ Ruskin Bond
Half the time when brothers wrestle, it's just an excuse to hug each other.
~ James Patterson
School was great. There were no boys there, which didn't really bother me at the time because I had two brothers, so I was quite pleased not to spend any more time with boys.
~ Jo Brand
I went soft. I saw the shocks of the blows as so many colors, and I thought to myself bitterly, ah, what beautiful colors, yes, colors. Then came the increased wails of my brothers. They too must suffer this, and what mental refuge did they have, these fragile young students, each so well loved and so well taught and groomed for the great world, to find themselves now at the mercy of these demons whose purpose was unknown to me, whose purpose lay beyond anything I could conceive.
~ Anne Rice
I am glad, brothers and sisters, that our church is persecuted precisely for its preferential option for the poor and for trying to become incarnate on behalf of he poor. And I want to say to all the people, to rulers, to the rich and powerful: If you do not become poor, if you do not concern yourselves for the poverty of our people, as though they were your own family, you will not be able to save society." —July 15, 1979
~ Scott Wright
What followed was for him a very entertaining spectacle, with one of Edward's brothers seemingly intent upon the most subtle of seductions and the other barely able to force malmsey past the gorge rising in his throat.
~ Sharon Kay Penman
Hal and Richard show all the good will of Cain and Abel.
~ Sharon Kay Penman
If you ever threaten Vane or his brothers again, I'm going to show you just how human I am. I will don my camouflage, hunt you down, and skin you while you scream. Do you understand me?
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Man, quit hugging me. You are a perv. (Fang) You're such an asshole. (Vane) Daddy said a bad word! (Trace) You tell him, pup. Keep your daddy straight. (Fang)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Should I be offended? (Livia) Please don't be. I pride myself on being socially inept. But the only people I ever intentionally offend are my bevy of brothers. And speaking of, where's Big Bad Angry One? (Zarina)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
As an infant, my oldest brother was taken from my parents and they weren't allowed to raise him. For centuries, my father thought him dead while my mother Ã¢â'¬Â¦ well, both of them really, were imprisoned by different gods. When they were finally reunited, long after my oldest brother was grown, they had my brother Ari right away.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Pandora, meet my brothers, Leonardo and Michelangelo. Like the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles? she couldn't resist asking. Like the Renaissance painters, Leo snapped. He exchanged a snarl with his twin brother. I seriously hate those damned turtles.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
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
Die familie heeft weinig geluk met gooiende vrouwen,' stelde Gilan droog vast. Lydia keek hem niet-begrijpend aan. 'Tja, Cassandra schakelde zijn broer met haar slinger uit, en nou heb jij hem met een pijl doorboord.
~ John Flanagan