Family: Brother Quotes

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"My brother Larry. He taught me how hard work and dedication to the game was the only way to make it. He's taken care of all my business activities for me and my family for many years, and I thank him for that"

Robin Yount, Athlete

"My mother adores singing and plays piano. My uncle was a phenomenal pianist. My brother John is a double bassist. I used to play the piano, badly, and cello. My brother Peter played violin"

Fiona Shaw, Actress

"I always performed when I was a child. My parents got very annoyed, because my brother and I had our little bedrooms upstairs, and I would plaster the house with posters with arrows pointing upstairs"

Franka Potente, Actress

"No, I don't want to talk about River. I have nothing to say about it that I would want to be public"

Joaquin Phoenix, Actor

"My mom had gotten a Super 8 camera to make home movies with, and my brother and me got our hands on it and ran with it"

Lev Yilmaz, Artist

"There is a healthy fraternal rivalry, but nothing serious and we both have been looking for a project to do together. I guess he may direct me in a project some day"

Mackenzie Astin, Actor

"My brother Leon started it all. He played the piano. In school they made me leader of the orchestra because I played the violin, but I followed Leon and the boys in his jazz band around"

Louis Prima, Entertainer

"I was myself brought up with my brother, whose name was Matthias, for he was my own brother, by both father and mother; and I made mighty proficiency in the improvements of my learning, and appeared to have both a great memory and understanding"

Flavius Josephus, Historian

"I keep referring to them in the plural, but all I'm dealing with is Bob. I don't know where Harvey fits in the equation. He was very present at the beginning, winding his brother up. I don't know where he is now"

Terry Gilliam, Director

"And bitter waxed the fray; brother with brother spake no word when they met in the way"

Jean Ingelow, Poet

"I have an older brother who is 21 and attends UC Berkley"

Mila Kunis, Actress

"As for my brothers, of whom I had three, I know not how they were bred"

Margaret Cavendish, Writer

"And Big Night, I think by the end the brothers find that balance, when they touch each other on the shoulder over breakfast and it's understood that what should never have driven them apart almost drove them apart. I think that's a true moment"

Tony Shalhoub, Actor

"My brothers can be a little out of control sometimes and so somebody has to be able to keep them focused"

Keenen Ivory Wayans, Comedian

"I think we brothers realised his loss more and more as we grew older. We actually grew closer after his death"

Raj Kapoor, Actor

"I didn't want people to say his brother Bing sings better than he does"

Bob Crosby, Musician

"Well, my brother was a schizophrenic, so I understood it in a different way from seeing my brother"

Jeffrey Jones, Actor

"I think probably the one trait that would concern me about brother Bing would be his lack of responsibility"

Bob Crosby, Musician

"The education of my brother and myself was of paramount importance to my parents, and in addition to their strong encouragement, they were prepared to make any sacrifice to further our intellectual development"

Jerome Isaac Friedman, Physicist

"My older brother Mike is an excellent trumpet player. By the time he was 12, he was playing around Kansas City in classical situations. He was already an amazing talent"

Pat Metheny, Musician

"Luckily I have a brother who looks after my administration and my money, because I'm a total spendthrift"

Soundarya, Actress

"My brother used to say that I wrote faster than he could read. He wrote two books - of poems - better than all mine put together"

Laurence Housman, Playwright

"For the last half of my life, I have had the doubtful benefit of a brother whose literary reputation is much greater than my own"

Laurence Housman, Playwright

"Anyway, our family went into complete crisis mode. I have two older brothers, and we rallied as a family"

Kathy Mattea, Musician

"My brother had a big band in high school; after that we continued to play together, eventually forming a group called the Jazz Brothers, that recorded for Riverside Records"

Chuck Mangione, Musician

"Basically, at some point, one day maybe you can expect to hear some of my music. I haven't really done that yet because my younger brother is a musician and really talented and I want him to come out with his music first"

Stephen Dorff, Actor

"I remember hearing the song when I was 12 or 14 in - it must have been in Chicago, 'cause we didn't have a radio on the farm, and it was during the Second World War. I had three brothers in that war who went overseas"

Abbey Lincoln, Musician

"A brother who recognizes that we have shortcomings, we, in the struggle, have faults, and that he wanted to reconcile differences"

Louis Farrakhan, Activist

"There was living in the palace at this time a brother of the great Germanicus, and consequently an uncle of the late emperor, whose name was Claudius Caesar"

Frederic William Farrar, Theologian

"My first introduction to chemistry came at a quite early age through my mother's elder brother"

Geoffrey Wilkinson, Scientist

"My brother never had me to dinner in his life"

Burt Lancaster, Actor

"Having two older brothers is a healthy reminder that you're always closer to the bottom than you are to the top"

Andy Roddick, Athlete

"My birth neither shook the German Empire nor caused much of an upheaval in the home. It pleased mother, caused father a certain amount of pride, and my elder brother the usual fraternal jealousy of a hitherto only son"

Conrad Veidt, Actor

"I don't want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn't getting the attention, but it was like no one was really into me anyway. I wasn't really a priority"

Jack Osbourne, Celebrity

"The poor child was the drudge of the household, and was always in the wrong. He was, however, the most bright and discreet of all the brothers; and if he spoke little, he heard and thought the more"

Charles Perrault, Author

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