These brother quotes will inspire you. Brother a man or boy in relation to other sons and daughters of his parents; a fellow member; a sibling.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging brother quotes, brother sayings, and brother proverbs.
Best Brother Quotes
- “When brothers agree, no fortress is so strong as their common life.” ~ Antisthenes
- “You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.” ~ Desmond Tutu
- “A Brother may not be a Friend, but a Friend will always be a Brother.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
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“We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
- “Nothing can stop me from loving my brother.” ~ Brandy Norwood
- “He ain’t heavy, he’s my brother.” ~ Neil Diamond
- “Sometimes being a brother is even better than being a superhero.” ~ Marc Brown
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“What strange creatures brothers are!” ~ Jane Austen
- “Brothers don’t necessarily have to say anything to each other – they can sit in a room and be together and just be completely comfortable with each other.” ~ Leonardo DiCaprio
- “My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, ‘You’re tearing up the grass’; ‘We’re not raising grass,’ Dad would reply. ‘We’re raising boys.'” ~ Harmon Killebrew
- “All wars are civil wars because all men are brothers.” ~ Francois Fenelon
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“There is a destiny which makes us brothers; none goes his way alone. All that we send into the lives of others comes back into our own.” ~ Edwin Markham
- “Big Brother is watching you.” ~ George Orwell
- “Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.” ~ Khalil Gibran
- “But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.” ~ Carl Sagan
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“Half the time when brothers wrestle, it’s just an excuse to hug each other.” ~ James Patterson
- “Siblings: children of the same parents, each of whom is perfectly normal until they get together.” ~ Sam Levenson
- “I sought my soul, but my soul I could not see. I sought my God, but my God eluded me. I sought my brother and I found all three.” ~ Unknown
- “We have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers.” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“No life’s worth more than any other, no sister worth less than any brother.” ~ Michael Franti
- “Never make a companion equal to a brother.” ~ Hesiod
- “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 , Love brother quotes
- “Growing up, my brother and I were begging for attention.” ~ Jeremy London
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“I have lost someone I loved as a brother, as a closest friend, and a remarkable human being. We have also lost one of the best damn actors we’ll ever see.” ~ Jack Lemmon
- “Big Brother is on the march. A plan to subject all children to mental health screening is underway, and the pharmaceuticals are gearing up for bigger sales of psychotropic drugs.” ~ Phyllis Schlafly
- “If thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother.” ~ Epictetus
- “Your parents leave you too soon and your kids and spouse come along late, but your siblings know you when you are in your most inchoate form.” ~ Jeffrey Kluger
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“All men were made by the Great Spirit Chief. They are all brothers.” ~ Chief Joseph
- “If you want to know how your girl will treat you after marriage, just listen to her talking to her little brother.” ~ Sam Levenson
- “We know one another’s faults, virtues, catastrophes, mortifications, triumphs, rivalries, desires, and how long we can each hang by our hands to a bar. We have been banded together under pack codes and tribal laws.” ~ Rose Macaulay
- “We came into the world like brother and brother, And now let’s go hand in hand, not one before another.” ~ William Shakespeare
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“Your siblings are the only people in the world who know what it’s like to have been brought up the way you were.” ~ Betsy Z. Cohen
- “The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder.” ~ Jane Austen
- “Let’s go hand in hand, not one before another.” ~ William Shakespeare
- “Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars.” ~ Victor Hugo
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“Your True Nature Is Love. There’s Nothing You Can Do About It.” ~ Byron Katie
- “If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.” ~ Joseph Addison
- “Blessed is the servant who loves his brother as much when he is sick and useless as when he is well and an be of service to him. And blessed is he who loves his brother as well when he is afar off as when he is by his side, and who would say nothing behind his back he might not, in love, say before his face.” ~ Francis of Assisi
- “And bitter waxed the fray; Brother with brother spake no word When they met in the way.” ~ Jean Ingelow
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“The family is one of nature’s masterpieces.” ~ George Santayana
- “When you deal with your brother, be pleasant, but get a witness.” ~ Hesiod
- “Dad made it to Gold Shield Detective, so he always busted Robin, my oldest brother, and me. Always got caught, whatever we were doing.” ~ Kevin Eubanks
- “So the brother in black offers to these United States the source of courage that endures and laughter.” ~ Zora Neale Hurston
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“We had good white friends who advised us against taking the warpath. My friend and brother, Mr. Chapman, told us just how the war would end.” ~ Chief Joseph
- “You are our dearly beloved brothers, and in a certain way, it could be said that you are our elder brothers.” ~ Pope John Paul II
- “I have a brother younger than me. My mother was a librarian, so from her, I got the taste to read.” ~ Shimon Peres
- “Zac Efron is like a brother who’s just goofy and crazy. He plays a lot of practical jokes.” ~ Ashley Tisdale
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“So, my big brother was playing guitar and I figured I’d try it too.” ~ Stevie Ray Vaughan
- “I was a tomboy and I didn’t have a bunch of brothers but I always wanted them and so I sort of adopted a few of my great friends to be my brother.” ~ Olivia Wilde
- “My other brother-in-law died. He was a karate expert, then joined the army. The first time he saluted, he killed himself.” ~ Henny Youngman
- “Everyone is guilty at one time or another of throwing out questions that beg to be ignored, but mothers seem to have a market on the supply. “Do you want a spanking or do you want to go to bed?” Don’t you want to save some of the pizza for your brother?” Wasn’t there any change?” ~ Erma Bombeck
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“Being his real brother I could feel I live in his shadows, but I never have and I do not now. I live in his glow.” ~ Michael Morpurgo
- “…the thing with brothers is, you’re supposed to take turns being the keeper. Sometimes you get to sit down and be the brother who is kept.” ~ Orson Scott Card
- “My big brother still thinks he’s a better singer than me.” ~ Rod Stewart
- “Where’er I roam, whatever realms to see,
My heart untravelled fondly turns to thee;
Still to my brother turns, with ceaseless pain,
And drags at each remove a lengthening chain.” ~ Oliver Goldsmith -
“I think I’m funny because my family, my siblings were funny.” ~ Martin Short
- “At that moment of realization I knew that I had been blind because I had wished not to see; it was only then that I realised, at last, that all these dead men, French and Germans, were brothers, and I was the brother of them all.” ~ Ernst Toller
- “Getting close to books, and spending time by myself, I was obliged to think about things I would never have thought about if I was busy romping around with a brother and sister.” ~ Shelby Foote
- “The most important thing in my father’s life? World peace. Me and my brother. My mom.” ~ Sean Lennon
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“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
- “You know, it comes from my mother’s side of the family. She had seven sisters and one brother, and all of them could play instruments. I suppose I picked it up from that.” ~ Mel Tillis
- “The theater is the only branch of art much cared for by people of wealth; like canasta, it does away with the brother of talk after dinner.” ~ Mary McCarthy
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“Griffin, my brother, 11 months younger, was sometimes the victim of my father’s fury – once Ryan famously knocked out his teeth.” ~ Tatum O’Neal
- “I heard my brother’s voice even though we were apart. I then answered the phone and found him on the line.” ~ Maurice Gibb
- “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
Brother is a male who has the same parents as another or one parent in common with another.
