Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Edwards

Jude comes from a completely medical family - her brothers and sisters are all doctors, her father's a doctor, her mother's a nurse. She just loves real stuff.

Teresa Calcutta

It is Christmas every time you let God love others through you . . . yes, it is Christmas every time you smile at your brother and offer him your hand.

Greg Paulus

I think we caught them off-guard a little bit. It was kind of like an older brother/younger brother kind of thing.

Gordon Felt

It is never easy to relive the events of 9/11, yet I support 'United 93' as a tribute to the heroism of my brother and the 39 other passengers and crew who collectively chose to say 'no' on that fateful day.

King Fahd

I will be father to the young, brother to the elderly

Mohammed Deif

He was shot by our brothers with a 7 mm pistol ... which was the only pistol that we had.

AN Roy

He was shot at by his real brother just at the entrance of his residence.

Chai Vang

He was not a dog to sit there and let him shoot at them, ... I'm glad my brother did it with pride.

Brian Oxman

He was like a brother to all of them. He was a part of their youth, and now that is gone.

Rick Yancey

The monstrous act by definition demands a monster.

Malorie Blackman

I subscribe to the online Urban Dictionary's definition of nerd: 'one whose IQ exceeds his weight'. I'm also keen on the same Urban Dictionary's definition of geek: 'the person you pick on in high school and wind up working for as an adult'. I happily proclaim myself a book nerd/reading geek and proud of it.

Michael Hurst

You've got to keep in mind that Albee says he is working towards a new definition of tragedy,

Francois Girbaud

That is completely the definition of the silhouette, ... We work on the legs for 30 years okay? Our proposition is evolution of what we present the last season. (It) is always a continuation.

John Barrett

It's a national dialogue that a lot of people by definition can't participate in today.

Lauren Gelman

It's going to be an important case, because it will go forward in raising a lot of questions ranging from rules that all journalists should follow when protecting their (sources) to the very definition of what a journalist is in the digital age.

Marshall McLuhan

Language is a form of organized stutter.

Peter McWilliams

Definition of a victim: a person to whom life happens.

Quentin Tarantino

I've never used High Definition video, never, ever, ever, ever, ever. And I never will. I can't stand that crap.

Susan Wyderko

We treat callers as if they were our own mother or a relative.

Linda Lavin

He taught me how to sing, how to belt, what my mother was talking about all those years. I had no idea I had that power in my voice.

Richard K. Morgan

When a man you know to be of sound mind tells you his recently deceased mother has just tried to climb in his bedroom window and eat him, you only have two basic options. You can smell his breath, take his pulse and check his pupils to see if he's ingested anything nasty, or you can believe him.

Richelle Mead

Dimitri: "I also have a feeling your mother's going to have one ugly conversation with me." Rose: "You're about to go face down Strigoi, and my mother's the one you're scared of?" Dimitri: "She's a force to be reckoned with. Where do you think you got it from?" Rose: "It's a wonder you bother with me then." Dimitri: "You're worth it, believe me.

Ryan Kwanten

My mum is about five foot with her hair done. Without it she's about four foot 10.

Roz Chast

My parents were extremely reluctant. When my father was clearly dying, my mother refused to acknowledge it.

Ruben Blades

I was a kid, and I remember my mother singing. She was also a radio soap opera actress, but my mother sang.

Romola Garai

Motherhood so often comes in conflict with women's capacity to express and live their own lives.

Tyler Perry

My mother wasn't strong like my aunt. She was just very passive.

Jayme Braasch

I'd do about anything for her, she is pretty much the sister I have never had.

Willa Ford

My major influence was my ten years older sister.

Washington Irving

A father may turn his back on his child, … . but a mother's love endures through all.

Eric Allin Cornell

Just before my final year of high school, my brother, sister and I moved with my mother to San Francisco.

Jodi Picoult

I have a sister, so I know-that relationship, it's all about fairness: you want your sibling to have exactly what you have-the same amount of toys, the same number of meatballs on your spaghetti, the same share of love. But being a mother is completely different. You want your child to have more than you ever did. You want to build a fire underneath her and watch her soar. It's bigger than words.

Mary Wortley Montagu

There can be no situation in life in which the conversation of my dear sister will not administer some comfort to me.

Pam Brown

Sisters don't need words. They have perfected a language of snarls and smiles and frowns and winks - expressions of shocked surprise and incredulity and disbelief. Sniffs and snorts and gasps and sighs - that can undermine any tale you're telling.

Pam Brown

A younger sister is someone to use as a guinea-pig in trying sledges and experimental go-carts. Someone to send on messages to Mum. But someone who needs you - who comes to you with bumped heads, grazed knees, tales of persecution. Someone who trusts you to defend her. Someone who thinks you know the answers to almost everything.

Katherine Mansfield

Bless you, my darling, and remember you are always in the heart - oh tucked so close there is no chance of escape - of your sister.