Famous Quotes & Sayings

J. K. Rowling

Hagrid, look what I’ve got for relatives!” Harry said furiously. “Look at the Dursleys!” “An excellent point,” said Professor Dumbledore. “My own brother, Aberforth, was prosecuted for practicing inappropriate charms on a goat. It was all over the papers, but did Aberforth hide? No, he did not! He held his head high and went about his business as usual! Of course, I’m not entirely sure he can read, so that may not have been bravery. . . .

Friedrich Nietzsche

O my brothers, am I then cruel? But I say: that which is falling should also be pushed!

David Benoit

I don't want to put my mom under more stress, ... I'm not trying to get out of another tour, but I would like to be as close to my brother as possible.

Ahmed Qurei

comes within the framework of the continuous cooperation, coordination and consultation with our brothers in Syria.

Hulk Hogan

I fear no man, no beast or evil, brother.

Hulk Hogan

The coolest thing, and I have it at home, is a huge Hulk Hogan, normal-sized pinball machine. When people come over they play it for hours. When you hit the bumpers and the bells ring it goes, 'Oh yeah!' The whole time you're playing this machine it's yelling and screaming at you, 'What you gonna do, brother?!' I think that's the coolest.

Humphrey Bogart

(on Warner Brothers) This studio has more suspensions than the Golden Gate Bridge.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Dick Ebersol

He not only got me off of the plane. He ran back into the plane, which had 3- or 4-foot flames all around it, to look for his brother one more time.

Rob Thurman

I am your brother. I was supposed to be your brother before either of us was born. Karmic debt. It appears I was Vlad the Impaler or Genghis Khan in a past life.

Rob Gronkowski

I mean there's a college kid left in everyone. I bet you, too, if you could go back you would for a night or two, so why not? My brother's still in college, my little brother, so it's always good to go back and get a little glimpse of it and to hang out with him for a weekend or two.

Rob Gronkowski

I'd go at anyone. I took all of my brothers' bull. It made me who I am.

Richelle Mead

Fine, I guess it's ok then. Go ahead." "Huh? What's ok?" "It's okay if you marry my brother.

Richelle Mead

Angeline made a few more attempts to break away, but when it became clear she couldn't, those around us began whistling and cheering. A few moments later, that dark and furious look vanished from Angeline's face, replaced by resignation. I eyed her warily, not about to let down my guard. "Fine," she said. "I guess it's okay. Go ahead." "Huh? What's okay?" I demanded. "It's okay if you marry my brother." (Next chapter) "It's not funny!" "You're right,"agreed Sydney, laughing hysterically. "It's not funny. It's hilarious.

Retief Goosen

Well my dad was a pretty good player at one stage and my two older brothers played golf as well. So there were always golf clubs flying around the house.

Ryan McGinley

Everyone I'm photographing, I feel like I'm remaking a family, in a way. My brothers and sisters are my heroes. So many of my models resemble them.

Ryan McGinley

All my work, really, is based on my brothers and sisters. I had so many adventures with them and a big part of the work is to recreate those. It's easy for me to be around a lot of people, because I can retreat. I can watch everything.

Russell Lynes

There is a distinction to be drawn between true collectors and accumulators. Collectors are discriminating; accumulators act at random. The Collyer brothers, who died among the tons of newspapers and trash with which they filled every cubic foot of their house so that they could scarcely move, were a classic example of accumulators, but there are many of us whose houses are filled with all manner of things that we "can't bear to throw away.

Russell Crowe

Brothers, what we do in life........echoes in eternity.

Russell Brand

If you have no brothers and sisters it defines you for life; even when you're thirty you refer to yourself as an only child.

Rose Leslie

I have an older brother and an older sister - and they had the time of their lives at university. They were at Newcastle and Edinburgh. Looking up to them the whole time, I wanted to go to university and live the life they were living, having a blast, and I didn't get in. I didn't get into any of the universities I wanted to go to.

Rose McGowan

I have a lot of brothers and sisters, and each movie has helped pay for tuition. And then I was like, I only have one left in college, so why am I doing this? But now I want to go back to Italy and live on a farm in Tuscany.

Tryon Edwards

Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.

Travis Tritt

A little bit South you've got Macon, Georgia - home of the Allman Brothers, the Marshall Tucker Band and Capricorn Records. And off to west you've got Delta blues. Sprinkle Southern gospel over the top of that, and you're talking about where I came from. I loved all of that music.

Rick Riordan

Percy blinked. “So your brother is a winged horse. But you’re also my half brother, which means all the flying horses in the world are my…You know what? Lets’ forget it.

Rick Riordan

He’d learned years ago it was better not to dwell too much on who was related to whom on the godly side of things. After Tyson the Cyclops adopted him as a brother, Percy decided that that was about as far as he wanted to extend the family.