Famous Quotes & Sayings

I have a brother commuting to New Castle to work.

Jim Hamilton

My dad was a good man but an emotionally absent father, and so I had to look for that male attention somewhere else, and found it in a brother-in-law. He just happened to be an alcoholic.

Jerry Robinson

So, Im thinking of a name for a villain that has a sense of humor. I thought of The Joker as a name, and as soon as I thought that, I associate it with the playing card, as my family had a tradition of champion playing; my brother was a contract champion bridge player. There were always cards around the house.

Jeffrey Goldberg

I think Fidel [Castro] has a stronger allergy to the market than his brother, but he is not getting in the way of what his brother is implementing.

Jeffrey Jones

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

Jeffrey Kluger

Tamerlan Tsarnaev is telling no tales. The older of the two brothers who committed the Boston Marathon bombings was likely the one who planned the attack, but when he died in a shootout with police just days after the blasts, his thoughts and motivations vanished with him.

Jeffrey Kluger

Some of the most rewarding times my brothers and I have are when all of us get together, and we can see what we've been building genetically and culturally.

Jeffrey Kluger

From the time we're born, our brothers and sisters are our collaborators and coconspirators, our role models and our cautionary tales,

Jeff Healey

Not only did I get to play with these great international musicians, but I also had the opportunity to jam with the local celebrities in Toronto, people like the Walsh Brothers, David Wilcox, Kim Mitchell and the like. It was a great learning experience.

Jesse Schell

New video gaming systems are coming out that track every joint of your body. It's basically going to become a normal thing for us to allow Microsoft to put a three-dimensional camera on top of your television set looking at you, which sounds like a Big Brother scenario if ever I heard one, but, still, it's what we're going to allow.

Jesse Jackson

It is in struggle and service with our brothers and sisters, individually and collectively, that we find the meaning of life.

Jennifer Lawrence

As soon as somebody farts around me, I think it's hilarious. This is something my brothers did that now the boys at work are obsessed with. You cup it, and then you throw it in someone's face and say, ‘Take a bite out of that cheeseburger!'

Jeffrey Pierce

I could forgive my own brother of anything, at the end of the day, because we're brothers. You can't get in between that blood.

Jeff Foxworthy

You might be a redneck if your good deed for the month was hiding your brother for a few days.

Jeff Foxworthy

My wife is like, You finally get your own TV show, you can have any kind of car you want and you get a darned truck. But my brother and I have the same kind of truck now.

Jean Ingelow

And bitter waxed the fray; Brother with brother spake no word When they met in the way.

James A. Michener

I've spent my life trying to be better than I was, and I am a brother to all who share the same aspiration.

James A. Baldwin

If the word integration means anything, this is what it means that we, with love, shall force our brothers to see themselves as they are, to cease fleeing from reality and begin to change it

Christopher Isherwood

But your book is wrong, Mrs. Strunk, says George, when it tells you that Jim is the substitute I found for a real son, a real kid brother, a real husband, a real wife. Jim wasn't a substitute for anything. And there is no substitute for Jim, if you'll forgive my saying so, anywhere.

Hill Harper

I'm not excusing crime or those who bring poison into the community, but I do want brothers and sisters in prison to know someone cares.

Hill Harper

My first two books, Letters to a Young Brother and Letters to a Young Sister, were... distributed pretty widely. Judges in juvenile justice facilities started citing the book as required reading.

Hillary Clinton

While we're talking about votes, Bernie Sanders is one who voted to deregulate swaps and derivatives in 2000, which contributed to the over-leveraging of Lehman Brothers, which was one of the culprits that brought down the economy.

Herbert Hoover

American life is builded ... upon that fundamental philosophy announced by the Savior nineteen centuries ago ... [It] can not survive with the defense of Cain, "Am I my brother's keeper?

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Books are like brothers. I am an only child. Gatsby [is] my imaginary eldest brother.

Eva Longoria

I've always seen actresses who constantly date their leading men or somebody they co-star with, and I've been the opposite. Once I act with you, I feel like you're my brother.

Evan Esar

There is a lot of difference between the man who is not able and his brother who is notable.

Ernie Isley

My first gig was in Philadelphia and I played the drums for my older brothers. That same night, I also played drums for Martha and the Vandellas. Ah, the fond memories of being 14.

Ernie Isley

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.

Ernest Hemingway

It is good that we do not have to try to kill the sun or the moon or the stars. It is enough to live on the sea and kill our true brothers.

Ernest Hemingway

You're awfully dark, brother," he said. "You don't know how dark.

Ernest Hemingway

No catalogue of horrors ever kept men from war. Before the war you always think that it's not you that dies. But you will die, brother, if you go to it long enough.

Erin Hunter

Stormfur... You'll have to go on without me, brother. Save the Clan.

Feisal Abdul Rauf

What's right with America and what's right with Islam have a lot in common. At their highest levels, both worldviews reflect an enlightened recognition that all of humankind shares a common Creator - that we are, indeed, brothers and sisters.