Brothers Quotes

• It's no surprise to me or the other Isley brothers that I can sing, because I used to sing all the time in practice. The surprise is that somebody else likes it.

  

  Ernie Isley The Isley Brothers
  • Practice
  • Surprise
  • Sing

• I had very strict parents. My two brothers were power and freedom. I was powerlessness and seclusion.

  

  Monica Vitti
  • Power
  • Strict
  • Powerlessness

• Bass players and drummers are brothers in the basement cooking up the groove that makes people move.

  

  John Densmore The Doors
  • Players
  • Basement
  • Drummers

• When brothers agree, no fortress is so strong as their common life.

  

  Antisthenes
  • Life
  • Strong
  • Fortress

• The first Monopoly game I played with my brothers, I hated losing so much, I just had to beat them.

  

  Drew Carey
  • Game
  • Beat
  • Hated

• I grew up in a household where both my brothers had Type 1 Diabetes, so I was raised eating healthy food with healthy ingredients.

  

  Harley Pasternak
  • Household
  • Healthy food
  • Type 1 Diabetes

• Tolerance to my mind has been greatly overrated . . . . I take as much pleasure in detesting the good brothers and sisters of the [Anti-Saloon] League as they have in hating me.

  

  Westbrook Pegler
  • Pleasure
  • Tolerance
  • Overrated

• Everybody nowadays rhymes, but out of the people that really, really do it well, it's still a small community of artists. We all tend to be in the same circles - people like my Wu-Tang brothers, or Black Thought from The Roots.

  

  MF DOOM
  • Community
  • Thought
  • Artists

• I am like a chameleon, influenced by whatever's going on. If Elvis can do it, I can do it. If the Everly Brothers can do it, me and Paul can. Same with Dylan.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Elvis
  • Dylan
  • Paul

• Growing up, for me, it was in a musical family, so my mum and her brothers and sisters always sang. Every time I tried to join their group when I was little, they were like, 'Ah, darling, you're not too good - just sit back and watch us.'

  

  Dinah Jane Fifth Harmony
  • Growing Up
  • Watch
  • Little

• I am none of those nonsensical fools that can whine and make romantic love – I leave that to younger brothers. Let my estate speakfor me.

  

  Sarah Fielding
  • Romantic
  • Fools
  • Nonsensical

• Couldn't we end this interview with what I really want to say? That what the world really needs is a real feeling of kinship -- everybody: stars, laborers, Negroes, Jews, Arabs. We are all brothers. If we could end this article saying just that, we'd get down to what we should all be talking about. Please don't make me a joke. End the interview with what I believe.

  

  Marilyn Monroe
  • Feeling
  • I Believe
  • Joke

• Cold silence has a tendency to atrophy any sense of compassion between supposed lovers, between supposed brothers.

  

  James Herbert Keenan Children of the Anachronistic Dynasty
  • Silence
  • Lovers
  • Brothers

• My dad had a board, and my older brothers windsurfed. I just wanted to do what my brothers did. I was seven, I think, and I was like, 'Can I go, can I go, can I go?,' and I've never turned back.

  

  Nick Dempsey
  • Want
  • Brothers
  • Windsurfing

• Brothers and Sisters, I bid you beware Of giving your heart to a dog to tear.

  

  Rudyard Kipling
  • Heart
  • Brothers
  • Sisters

• I don't think it's necessary to feel guilty. Because I know that I'm still doing the work that is going to help more sisters and brothers to challenge the whole criminal justice system, and I'm trying to use whatever knowledge I was able to acquire to continue to do the work in our communities that will move us forward.

  

  Angela Davis
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Help

• “Regardless of our Colour, Race and Religion – We are Brothers “

  

  Hypatia
  • Religion
  • Brothers
  • Regardless

• Cover them over with beautiful flowers, Deck them with garlands, those brothers of ours, Lying so silent by night and by day Sleeping the years of their manhood away. Give them the meed they have won in the past; Give them the honors their future forcast; Give them the chaplets they won in the strife; Give them the laurels they lost with their life.

  

  Will Carleton
  • Life
  • Give
  • Won

• Cruel is the strife of brothers.

  

  Aristotle
  • Brothers
  • Cruel
  • Strife

• We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change.

  

  Katharine Hepburn
  • School
  • Father
  • Sister

• I have brothers and was a tomboy, if that's still a designation. It wasn't a stretch for me to think and write as a 13-year-old boy - it is freeing.

  

  Louise Erdrich
  • Boy
  • Brothers
  • Designation

• Yet tell me, my brothers: if a goal for humanity is still lacking, is there not still lacking--humanity itself?

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Humanity
  • Brothers
  • Lacking

• What brothers say to tease their sisters has nothing to do with what they really think of them.

  

  Esther M. Friesner
  • Brothers
  • Sisters
  • Tease

• I've always loved the Marx brothers and Charlie Chaplin.

  

  Ethan Slater
  • Loved
  • Brothers
  • Charlie Chaplin

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