Quotes About Brotherhood

I think of Torg as a friend, a brother. My desire to punch Val in the head is more like a hobby.

My brother Jim and I spent many wonderful summers working on dairy farms in Wisconsin owned by Mom's cousins, and as members of our local Boy Scout troop.

We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we have to like each other. It may be the very recognition of all men as our brothers that accounts for the sibling rivalry, and even enmity, we have toward so many of them.

So in the course of time, Cain brought some of the fruit of the soil as an offering to the LORD,

Then Cain said to his brother Abel, “Let us go out to the field.” And while they were in the field, Cain rose up against his brother Abel and killed him.

And the LORD said to Cain, “Where is your brother Abel?” “I do not know!” he answered. “Am I my brotherís keeper?”

And his brotherís name was Jubal; he was the father of all who play the harp and flute.

And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his fatherís nakedness and told his two brothers outside.

he said, “Cursed be Canaan! A servant of servants shall he be to his brothers.”

So Abram said to Lot, “Please let there be no contention between you and me, or between your herdsmen and my herdsmen. After all, we are brothers.

He will be a wild donkey of a man, and his hand will be against everyone, and everyoneís hand against him; he will live in hostility toward all his brothers.”

Uz the firstborn, his brother Buz, Kemuel (the father of Aram),

One day, while Jacob was cooking some stew, Esau came in from the field and was famished.

He said to Jacob, “Let me eat some of that red stew, for I am famished.” (That is why he was also called Edom.)

“First sell me your birthright,” Jacob replied.

Jacob answered his mother Rebekah, “Look, my brother Esau is a hairy man, but I am smooth-skinned.

Isaac did not recognize him, because his hands were hairy like those of his brother Esau; so he blessed him.

May peoples serve you and nations bow down to you. May you be the master of your brothers, and may the sons of your mother bow down to you. May those who curse you be cursed, and those who bless you be blessed.”

As soon as Isaac had finished blessing him and Jacob had left his fatherís presence, his brother Esau returned from the hunt.

Esau held a grudge against Jacob because of the blessing his father had given him. And Esau said in his heart, “The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then I will kill my brother Jacob.”

When the words of her older son Esau were relayed to Rebekah, she sent for her younger son Jacob and told him, “Look, your brother Esau is consoling himself by plotting to kill you.

So now, my son, obey my voice and flee at once to my brother Laban in Haran.

Stay with him for a while, until your brotherís fury subsides—

until your brotherís rage against you wanes and he forgets what you have done to him. Then I will send for you and bring you back from there. Why should I lose both of you in one day?”