Family: Brother Quotes

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"So far we have not convinced the Chinese authorities. My own brother was refused a visa on what was probably my last chance of seeing him when he was going around the world on a tour. Scott Nearing was similarly refused"

Anna Louise Strong, Journalist

"Brother Jones is not my product, and I am not responsible for anything he writes or says"

John Harvey Kellogg, Businessman

"My older brother and myself always played together in bands, but we never knew we would be professional musicians"

Wynton Marsalis, Musician

"And like I said, I appreciate my older brothers because they would not allow me to win. They made me learn to play with them, which I think is the most important thing that I learned"

Eddie Murray, Athlete

"I suppose being his twin made me understand Robin that much more easily"

Maurice Gibb, Musician

"I heard my brother's voice even though we were apart. I then answered the phone and found him on the line"

Maurice Gibb, Musician

"My brother's been producing rap music and hip-hop for maybe 10 years"

Tina Yothers, Actress

"Aaron and I will be joined at the hip until the day we die. We have loved and hated each other since the day he was born. He's very much a part of my heart. He's going to broadcasting college now, and he'll do fine. But he came into a world that did not welcome him"

Lynn Johnston, Cartoonist

"My brother was a great audience, and if he liked the picture, he would laugh and laugh and laugh, and he would want to keep the picture. Making people laugh with an image I had created... what power that was!"

Lynn Johnston, Cartoonist

"I went to Amherst because my brother had gone there before me, and he went there because his guidance counselor thought that we would do better there than at a large university like Harvard"

Joseph Stiglitz, Economist

"I think people are going to keep asking me about Macaulay. Some things change and some things don't"

Kieran Culkin, Actor

"I had always thought of Chris as my kid brother, and watching how this kid, as I still thought of him, had affected so many people's lives around the world was incredible"

Margot Kidder, Actress

"There's a lot of interest there in the missions that I fly on and the ones my brother's involved with"

Mark Kelly, Musician

"If I had a day to myself, I would just play video games with my brothers"

Jeremy Lin, Athlete

"I had eight brothers and sisters. Every Christmas my younger brother Bobby would wake up extra early and open everybody's presents - everybody's - so by the time the rest of us got up, all the gifts were shredded, ribbons off, torn open and thrown aside"

Tommy Hilfiger, Designer

"My brother was a great favorite with everybody, and his death cast a gloom upon the whole neighborhood"

Buffalo Bill, Celebrity

"Brian was the oldest, I was in the middle and Carl was the baby. I was the troublemaker. Brian got great grades and Carl got the kind of grades I did. I failed everything. I was too busy fighting and running wild"

Dennis Wilson, Musician

"I performed adequately at school, but in comparison to my older brother, who set the record for the highest cumulative average for our high school, my performance was decidedly mediocre"

Steven Chu, Scientist

"When I came into the WWF, the first thing I really didn't want to have was being Bret Hart's little brother"

Owen Hart, Entertainer

"Growing up, my brother and I were begging for attention"

Jeremy London, Actor

"There are a lot of things I can take, and a few that I can't. What I can't take is when my older brother, who's everything that I want to be, starts losing faith in things. I saw that look in your eyes last night. I don't ever want to see that look in your eyes again"

M. Night Shyamalan, Director

"My brother is an excellent songwriter, and I play guitar and drums"

Jeremy London, Actor

"I think of my brother just out of prison again. He will have spent ten years of the last 30 in prison"

Daniel Berrigan, Clergyman

"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"

Peter Agre, Scientist

"I was 12 when I started playing guitar with my brothers"

Tom Chapin, Musician

"It takes two men to make one brother"

Israel Zangwill, Novelist

"My brother was always in bands and on the road when I was a kid, and he was my inspiration. He never made it with a big band, in fact, he never made a record. Here he is fifty-something years old"

Jimmy Chamberlin, Musician

"If Bret went in there and stunk the place out, then they probably wouldn't have brought the little brother in. So just by being successful himself, it opened the door for me"

Owen Hart, Entertainer

"I have three sisters and I've always wanted a brother, so I was really interested in that notion"

Ryan Phillippe, Actor

"I grew up in a pretty gay world - my brother's gay and he's been married to a man for 20 years, which is like 60 in straight-people years"

Kevin Smith, Director

"My brother and I had a real love-hate relationship with my success. There was some bitterness there that I didn't understand until recently, but I told him that if I ever did a record I wanted him to play on it"

Jimmy Chamberlin, Musician

"I was thrilled one year when I was younger when not only did my brothers get hockey sticks for Christmas - but I did too!"

Nancy Kerrigan, Athlete

"So I developed very early a massive inferiority complex, and I've told the story often about how that inspired me later in life to get involved in other things, because I couldn't out-do my brothers in sports, and it's a very competitive relationship"

George J. Mitchell, Politician

"I spent two years in the Army. And my older brother, who was also a great positive influence on me, encouraged me to think about law school, and I said - well, I didn't have any money"

George J. Mitchell, Politician

"I've seen the Mass For The End Of Time in concert, but my brother's the more musical one, really"

Colin Greenwood, Musician

"He was the average guy. Maurice, I think, reflected every man"

Barry Gibb, Musician

"Maurice would prance into a room, you know, and his presence was immediate"

Barry Gibb, Musician

"It was great being together as a band, but much more difficult being brothers than it was being in a band"

Barry Gibb, Musician

"Everyone knows that if you've got a brother, you're going to fight"

Liam Gallagher, Musician

"I grew up in a big Irish, Catholic family. My dad was a pretty rough guy. So one of my brothers left home when he was 15 and found his way to the gym. It gave me the opportunity to go and spend some time with him and work out in the gym"

Gerry Cooney, Athlete

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