An older sister is a friend and defender - a listener, conspirator, a counsellor and a sharer of delights. And sorrows too. — Pam Brown
The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder. — Jane Austen
Oh, brothers! I don't care for brothers. My elder brother won't die, and my younger brothers seem never to do anything else. — Oscar Wilde
A brother is a friend provided by nature. — Legouve Pere
I was the youngest. The yule lamb. The one who always got away without doing the washing up. My sister was four years older, and my brother six years. — Jeremy Irons
Love the older sister, but yearn for the younger sister. — Thai Proverbs
I have three sisters and I've always wanted a brother, so I was really interested in that notion. — Ryan Phillippe
Sometimes being a brother is even better than being a superhero. — Marc Brown
Without my big brother, I probably literally wouldn't be here. — Mikey Way
I was the classic middle child in some ways, the one who could have been a priest in an alternate universe. — Chiwetel Ejiofor
Short Older Brother Quotes
Why do men fight who were born to be brothers? — James Longstreet
Brothers love each other when they are equally rich. — African Proverbs
The first day you meet, you are friends. the next day you meet, you are brothers. — Afghan Proverbs
Brotherhood is an ideal better understood by example than precept! — Paramahansa Yogananda
What strange creatures brothers are! — Jane Austen
Never make a companion equal to a brother. — Hesiod
A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother. — Homer
Treat your superior as a father, your equal as a brother, and your inferior as a son. — Proverbs
A Brother may not be a Friend, but a Friend will always be a Brother. — Benjamin Franklin
A sister is both your mirror - and your opposite. — Elizabeth Fishel
Older Brother Image Quotes
Don't regret growing older. It's a privilege denied to many.
Having An Older Brother Quotes
I have an older brother who is 21 and attends UC Berkley. — Mila Kunis
I'm the daughter of two Indian immigrant doctors, and I have an older sister and younger brother, and none of us have pursued medicine as a career. We're all over the artistic side of things. — Aarti Mann
I had gone to a talent show, I was interested in American hip-hop music, with my older brother, to another town and my town was attacked. I went from having an entire family to the next minute not having anything. It was very painful. — Ishmael
Do not regret growing older. It's a privilege denied to many.
I'm seventy-five now. I also have the peculiar luck of having a sister and brother who are fourteen and sixteen years older than me. Their health is not good. It couldn't be at that age. But their spirits are. Both my brother and my sister are an example to me. — Grace Paley
My brother and I grew up in a musical family. We have an older sister who sings and plays the piano. Our dad is a musician. Music was always a part of our lives. — Laura Allen
I do have an older brother! But you know, he and I have always gotten along. We've always had different aspirations. — Jennifer Stone
Maturity isn't a product of growing older. It's a product of growing wiser.
I was picked on because I was timid. I had younger sisters; I couldn't turn to them for help. I didn't have an older brother. — Mark E. Smith
Happy Birthday Quotes
Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears. — John Lennon
Be happy in the moment, that's enough. Each moment is all we need, not more. — Mother Teresa
We turn not older with years but newer every day.
So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers. — Jorge Luis Borges
Because time itself is like a spiral, something special happens on your birthday each year: The same energy that God invested in you at birth is present once again. — Menachem Mendel Schneerson
Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician. — Dorothy Parker
A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be. — Douglas Pagels
A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path. — Agatha Christie
Happiness is like peeing in your pants. Everyone can see it, but only you can feel the warmth. — Jon Foreman
Being An Older Brother Quotes
My brother is nine years older than I am. He's a psychology professor, I'm an actor, and so we look at life in two different ways. We thought it would be interesting to come together and take our unique perspectives and share them with everybody else. — Matt Czuchry
I grew up in a show business family, so we've always had a great sense of balance, being so close to my parents. I've always known what is and isn't reality. Even my older brothers' early success 10 years ago didn't change me since there was such an age difference. — Andy Gibb
I was an older brother. So I had to do a lot of things first. My father was a self-made man, and he would beat me senseless. But he was a Scotsman, and stubborn. I'm his son, and I'm stubborn, too. I go on being stubborn. — Harry Hay
As you get older you will understand more and more that it's not about what you look like or what you own, it's all about the person you've become.
I'm a middle child, which is probably why I chose to be an actress. I needed the attention. I've got one older sister and a younger brother. — Nell Hudson
I kind of grew up my whole life as an underdog. I had two older brothers who would beat on me and then let me know I wasn't much compared to them. And it's still like that. Guys like that keep you humble, being around them every day and realizing I'm still the little brother to them. — A. J. Hawk
I always wanted an older brother. That was my thing. My mom would be like, "What do you want for your birthday?" I'd be like, "I want an older brother." — Emmy Rossum
As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself and the other for helping others.
I grew up with an older brother, so I'm pretty good at being bashed around. — Carey Mulligan
My Older Brother Quotes
I had a really wonderful upbringing. We were a tight family. It was wonderful to grow up with so many siblings. We were all just a year or two apart, and we were always so supportive of each other. I learned everything from my older brother and sister and taught it to my younger sisters. — Joaquin Phoenix
I had an older brother who was very interested in literature, so I had an early exposure to literature, and and theater. My father sometimes would work in musical comedies. — Francis Ford Coppola
I know my family and I would always go up to the mountains just for fun. We always skied. Then, all of a sudden, my brother started snow boarding. Older brother thing, I had to do what he was doing. So I started snow boarding. — Shaun White
We must learn to live together as brothers or we will perish together as fools.
My older sister was at the cusp of new wave, and I had older brothers from my father's first marriage who were rock 'n' roll guys, so I was exposed to a lot of popular culture. — Paul Thomas Anderson
I have two older sisters and one older brother and hold them largely responsible for the trouble I got into growing up. I believe as the youngest child, that is my right. — Suzanne Collins
Apparently, one in five people in the world are Chinese. And there are five people in my family, so it must be one of them. It's either my mum or my dad. Or my older brother, Colin. Or my younger brother, Ho-Chan-Chu. But I think it's Colin. — Tim Vine
Do not regret growing older. It is a privilege denied to many
If it wasn't for baseball, I'd be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery. I have the same violent temper my father and older brother had. Both died of injuries from street fights in Baltimore, fights begun by flare-ups of their tempers. — Babe Ruth
Daniel, my big brother, is eight years older. I'm lucky he didn't mind hanging out with his little sister and my younger brother. — Samantha Stosur
Being a kid, by the time I was three years old, my mom was married, divorced and had three kids; she was 19 - so, my brother's just older than my mom. — Diamond Dallas Page
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
Younger Brother Quotes
A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves - a special kind of double. — Toni Morrison
The whole world is a large Niepokalanow where the Father is God, the mother the Immaculata, the elder brother the Lord Jesus in all the tabernacles of the world, and the younger brothers the people. — Maximilian Kolbe
No nation is truly free until the animal, man's younger brother is free and happy. — Sadhu T. L. Vaswani
I had an older brother who passed away recently, an older sister and a younger brother. — Steve Case
I, Lawrence Klein, was born in Omaha, Nebraska, as were my elder brother and younger sister. — Lawrence R. Klein
I, Lawrence Klein, was born in Omaha, Nebraska, as were my elder brother and younger sister. — Lawrence Klein
Harry [Styles] is like a younger brother. We do exercises together then he asks me to prepare a sandwich for the effort. — Liam Payne
I grew up with a younger brother, so I can get pretty rowdy. — Sarah Wynter
I have brothers, and that so-called boyish quality was something that I was deathly self-conscious about when I was younger. — Kristen Stewart
Older Sister Quotes
You keep your past by having sisters. As you get older, they're the only ones who don't get bored if you talk about your memories. — Deborah Moggach
My older sister Nikki went to Hampton music school in Virginia, then to another school later in New York. — Debra Wilson
Sometimes you really dig a girl, the moment you kiss her, And then you get distracted by her older sister. — John Sebastian
I played with dolls until I was 15. My mother encouraged it because my older sister got married when she was 15, so Mom thought that the longer I stayed with dolls, the better. — Linda Evans
My mom let me kind of run free and be rowdy. She encouraged it. I'm a youngest child. So I was spazzy and trying to be funny to my older sisters. It's kind of my role in the family - tension reliever. I was funny or annoying, depending on your perspective. — Andy Samberg
My older sister has entire kingdoms inside of her, and some of them are only accessible at certain seasons, in certain kinds of weather. — Karen Russell
I grew up with a fashion-obsessed mother and an older sister, so there was a lot of fashion in my house. The first thing I remember owning was a Pierre Cardin jumpsuit when I was 9 or 10; of course I didn't actually buy it, but I fell in love with it. — Nina Garcia
I was embarrassed that I even wanted to become an actress because coming from L.A., with two older sisters in the business and a mom who had been a ballet dancer, it was such a cliche. — Elizabeth Olsen
For the younger sisters, we always look up to the older sisters because they're always ahead of us and they always win. — Serena Williams
Older Sibling Quotes
I'd like to start off by saying that every experience no matter what it is, good or bad, you'll learn from it. That's just life. But something I've done I've regretted is probably picking on my siblings growing up, because you appreciate them so much more as you grow older. — Olivia Culpo
My older siblings and I all work in 'the industry'. So obviously we have hectic schedules, but we make it work. — Lily Collins
If a child has an older sibling involved in an addiction, there is a 90 percent chance that he or she will get involved too. — Virgil Miller Newton
Two of my three siblings are older, so I suppose I learned from them and became a very avid reader at a young age, which I think enough cannot be said for what you can discover through literature. — Julia Roberts
Technically I have siblings, but they are quite a bit older than me - I was the accident - so I have the only-child syndrome going on. I'm a little more selfish, a little more independent, a little closed. I do wish I were softer. I wish I were able to form relationships better. — Carrie Underwood
As you get older, you welcome people into your family because siblings get married and have kids. But then people also get divorces and things like that, and sometimes there's an exit from the family. — Justin Hartley
You're surrounded by other people all the time. And you have to take responsibility if you're the eldest or one of the older siblings, and you're constantly communicating in a way that perhaps you aren't if you're in a smaller family. — Harry West
Im the youngest of four, but my closest sibling is 10 years older. I had a lot of imagination. I was running around playing little games by myself. But I never thought I was going to be an actor. — Daniel Breaker
A long time ago, I had an idea to make a book for preschoolers who had older siblings who were going to school. — Lynne Rae Perkins
I was the youngest of the six kids, and to make my older siblings laugh, that was very important. I did a great impression of our dad that made them all laugh, so that gave me a lot of power within the family. — Jim Gaffigan
Little Brother Quotes
I live right in front of my daughter. I have a little house right in front of her because I can stay in touch. It's like a little commune, and it's very nice, because you can be close. I can see my granddaughter. I live very close to my brother, too, and my son. We're a very close family. — Debbie Reynolds
Ever since there have been men, man has given himself over to too little joy. That alone, my brothers, is our original sin. I should believe only in a God who understood how to dance. — Henri Matisse
When brothers agree, no fortress is so strong as their common life. — Antisthenes
There is a little boy inside the man who is my brother... Oh, how I hated that little boy. And how I love him too. — Anna Quindlen
Our country is like a sick child, now it's up to all of us to take care of it, we have to suffer a little now, we have to have a little pain, assume our responsibility and all as brothers to bring forward that child. — Nayib Bukele
Your True Nature Is Love. There's Nothing You Can Do About It. — Byron Katie
Ignore reality, there's nothing you can do about it. — Natalie Imbruglia
Life is a disease, brother, and death begins already at birth. Every breath, every heartbeat, is a moment of dying - a little shove toward the end. — Erich Maria Remarque
If you want to know how your girl will treat you after marriage, just listen to her talking to her little brother. — Sam Levenson
It snowed last year too: I made a snowman and my brother knocked it down and I knocked my brother down and then we had tea. — Dylan Thomas
Younger Sister Quotes
I was the eldest daughter with these four beautiful younger sisters with ringlets and pretty faces, and I used to dress them up in Victorian clothes and take them out for the day and pretend they were mine. — Sadie Frost
I want to do something where I play Judi Dench's younger sister or daughter. — Dawn French
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
[To her younger sister on using drugs:] If you do that stuff, you're dancing with the devil, because you never know when you're going to cross the line and not be able to get back. — Demi Lovato
I remember, once, my sister used to tell me that they found me in the trash-can when I was younger, so one time I pushed my sister into a trash-can - I put it over her head and pushed her down the street. And then after that, we been close ever since. — Vince Staples
I feel like I'm really blessed and lucky that I have a very good social life outside of the gym, and I have a really amazing family. My parents are so supportive. I have a younger brother and two younger sisters, and they're really awesome. So I feel like I get the best of both worlds. — Aly Raisman
Animals are our younger brothers and sisters, also on the ladder of evolution but a few rungs lower. It is an important part of our responsibilities to help them in their ascent, and not to retard their development by cruel exploitation of their helplessness. — Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding
I was born in a middle class Muslim family, in a small town called Myonenningh in a northern part of Bangladesh in 1962. My father is a qualified physician; my mother is a housewife. I have two elder brothers and one younger sister. All of them received a liberal education in schools and colleges. — Taslima Nasrin
A successful home is based on the love and helpfulness of children just as it is based on loving parents handling their responsibilities. ... Be eager to forgive when problems arise at home. Help with your younger brothers and sisters when needed. You are their hero. — Hugh W. Pinnock
My dad used to take my younger sister Whitney and I to the firing range, and he'd stand behind us as we shot. We were tiny, tiny girls, only about ten years old at the time, so the recoil when we pulled the trigger would send us flying backwards. But he'd stand behind us and make sure we were safe. — Amber Heard
Younger Siblings Quotes
My number one piece of advice is: you should learn how to program. — Mark Zuckerberg
We can't understand when we're pregnant, or when our siblings are expecting, how profound it is to have a shared history with a younger generation: blood, genes, humor. It means we were actually here, on Earth, for a time - like the Egyptians with their pyramids, only with children. — Anne Lamott
All of my friends who have younger siblings who are going to college or high school - my number one piece of advice is: You should learn how to program. — Mark Zuckerberg
My parents were liberal intellectuals but even they expected me to stay at home and look after my younger siblings and do the housework. — Sara Paretsky
Max cuffed his brother good-naturedly on the ear as River slid in past him and bent to kiss Sophia on the cheek. “Hello, are you sure you’re with the right brother?” Sophia had never had a younger sibling. But this man with his laughing eyes and bright smile... “Are you making me an offer? — Nalini Singh
I'm not prepared for Rue's family. Her parents, whose faces are still fresh with sorrow. Her fiver younger siblings, who resemble her so closely. The slight builds, the luminous brown eyes. They form a flock of small dark birds. — Suzanne Collins
There is a belief that children drop out of school because they're needed by their families to work, or the little girls are needed to take care of younger siblings. It turns out that's not really true. — Nicholas Negroponte
When you live in a small house with five younger siblings, it's actually far more sensible- and much quicker- to cry alone. — Caitlin Moran
I don't understand how people learn to live in the world if they haven't had siblings. Everything I learned about negotiation, territoriality, coexistence, dislike, inbred differences and love despite knowledge I learned from my four younger siblings. — Anna Quindlen
This is just one of those annoying and unjust differences between you and your younger sibling...I was probably fifteen before I could go to a friend's house without giving mom an FBI dossier on the people; Bex can practically hitchhike on the freeway with a mere "Have fun, honey. — Deb Caletti
People go back to the stuff that doesn't cost a lot of money and the stuff that you don't have to hand money to over and over again. Stuff that you get for free, stuff that your older brother gives you, stuff that you can get out of the local library. — Black Francis
People go back to the stuff that doesn't cost a lot of money and the stuff that you don't have to hand money to over and over again. Stuff that you get for free, stuff that your older brother gives you, stuff that you can get out of the local library. — Frank Black
When I have a kid, I want to buy one of those strollers for twins. Then put the kid in and run around, looking frantic. When he gets older, I'd tell him he used to have a brother, but he didn't obey. — Steven Wright
I was a tomboy who liked to play rough just like my two older brothers. That's probably why I liked the athletic part of skating - especially the jumping! — Nancy Kerrigan
You should see his older brother,” said Jem. “Makes Gabriel look sweeter than gingerbread. Hates Will even more thanGabriel, too, if that’s possible. — Cassandra Clare
I remember when I was a little boy my father didn't love me; he couldn't. He loved my older brother but he couldn't love me somehow, at least not in a way I could understand it. — Keith Miller
It's hard to be responsible, adult and sensible all the time. How good it is to have a sister whose heart is as young as your own. — Pam Brown
I remember when I was 6 years old and my brother used to go seek out guys that were 13 to come over and play football against me while he was the 'permanent quarterback.' I didn't know exactly what the age difference was, but I was already playing against older guys. — Junior Seau
Being on a book tour is like being on the seesaw when you're a little kid. The excitement is in having someone to play with, and in rising up in the air, but then you're at the mercy of those holding you down, and if it's your older brother, or Paul Wolfowitz, they leap up, so that you crash down and get hurt. — Anne Lamott
Fredo, you're my older brother and I love you. But don't ever take sides against the Family again. Ever. — Mario Puzo
I was motivated to join in large part because my family needed the money. I would like to say how patriotic we were, but really what motivated me was the excitement my mother would get in receiving a check for my older brother. — Charles Rangel
Half voluntarily, half Winston's older brother [William] would take me in, saying, "Daddy, I think you oughta do this." And I'd say, "I think you're right, maybe I do need it." Sometimes a week later I'd leave the place; sometimes I'd stick it out for a month. — William Eggleston
Weirdly, I was still trying to be the older brother, and trying to get him [Tom Berninger] to try to be more like me a little bit. Or not be more like me but... I was frustrated that he sometimes let things stop him in his life, and he let the wind get knocked out of his sails a few times. — Matt Berninger
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
We have a number of brothers left in the prisons, about 15 of them. And for the most part, they're in bad condition. Most of us are getting older, you know. I believe all of them is 60 years or older. They've been in prison for long periods of time. Many of them should have never been in prison at all. They were framed and illegally convicted. — Sekou Odinga
Baseball I played literally from the time I can remember. My dad had played, my older brother played, so I always wanted to be like my older brother. That just kind of was a natural thing that I fell into. — Tyler Hoechlin
Now Ben Folds is my photography older brother. He was kind enough to give me a photo of his for my 40th birthday. — Jason Sudeikis
I got into rapping by being a victim of circumstances; it was a hard situation with my brother. Mainly my older brother got hit with a life sentence, so he kind of inspired me. — Trae tha Truth
My older brother had a lot of Elvis on vinyl, and really, that was my first introduction to music during the Fifties. — Kiki Dee
My sister and my brother, of whom I have not spoken before, were considerably older than I; it seemed almost as if we belonged to different generations. — Pierre Loti
The older I get the more I can see
How much he loved my mother and my brother and me
And he did the best that he could
And I only hope when I have my own family
That everyday I see a little more of my father in me. — Keith Urban
Jazz is a beautiful woman whose older brother is a policeman. — Sid Caesar
Growing up with three older brothers and being the youngest and the only girl, my mom always made me tough. She's taught me over the years how to be a strong, independent woman, how to carry yourself in a positive way and anything that my brothers can do, I can do. — Diana Lopez
When I was a kid, I was surrounded by girls: older sisters, older girl cousins just down the street... except for an older boy named Vito who threw rocks. Each year I would wish for a baby brother. It never happened. — Wally Lamb
I literally didn't know my father. My mother had been a secretary, and after she and my father split, she went back to work for an advertising executive. So my older brother and I were "latch-door kids." We went home for lunch and after school by ourselves. — George Carlin
My first encounter with yoga was in 1969 with my older brother Doug. I was thirteen years old, and he was eighteen. He'd learned about yoga in California on a surfing trip, and when he came back to Houston, Texas, he introduced me to this new stuff he'd learned. I'll always be grateful for that positive influence at an early age. — David F. Swensen
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