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I'm so much more than just Angelina [Jolie's] brother. I'm also Jon Voight's son and Billy Bob Thort...
JAMES HAVEN He who takes care of his deceased brother s estate and of his widow, shall, after raising up a son f...
GURU NANAK Just look at that, what kind of worldly life has arisen with the coming together of these two, jada ...
DADA BHAGWAN He was brother to a liar and brother to an angel, son of a dream and son of a dreamer.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. I have a brother-in-law who lives in Spain.
MICHAEL GOVE My children have no prejudices at all. My own brother-in-law is Jewish!
DOROTHY KILGALLEN My mother adores singing and plays piano. My uncle was a phenomenal pianist. My brother John is a do...
FIONA SHAW Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night,
Brother to Death, in silent darkness born;
Relive ...
SAMUEL DANIEL Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night, Brother to Death, in silent darkness born; Relive my lan...
SAMUEL DANIEL My son, Todd Fisher- he has been such a wonderful son and brother.
DEBBIE REYNOLDS As a writer I have a responsibility. As a father, a union organizer, a leader, a son, brother, uncle...
CARLOS WALLACE If a younger brother begets a son on the wife of the elder, the division must then be made equally, ...
GURU NANAK I have a disgracefully sweet tooth. My younger brother and I, all we care about are puddings. You ca...
DONALD SINDEN I believe in my brother. I believe that my father is watching over this entire situation, giving us ...
KARLA SULLIVAN In Afghanistan, you don't understand yourself solely as an individual. You understand yourself a...
KHALED HOSSEINI If people don't care about us as brother and sister, the movie won't matter,
JUSTIN LONG Well, I'm always introduced as Nat Cole's brother, Ike Cole's brother and Natalie Cole's uncle. So I...
NAT KING COLE Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is ...
VICTOR HUGO If you want a brother to transgress, 'set up law'_ but if you want a brother to excel, 'set up love'...
KIMTO OCHE EMMANUEL Big Government' is a lot less like a 'Big Brother', and a lot more like a mother-in-law.
A.E. SAMAAN I against my brother I and my brother against our cousin, my brother and our cousin against the neig...
ARABIC PROVERB I against my brother I and my brother against our cousin, my brother and our cousin against the ne...
BEDOUIN PROVERB I against my brother I and my brother against our cousin, my brother and our cousin against the neig...
BEDOUIN PROVERB Sometimes being a brother is even better than being a superhero.
BRAD BONEY And my brother-in-law took this great video I just had to share with the world.
LAURA ANDERSON The Penn family, with the loving support of family and longtime friends, buried their youngest son a...
MARA BUXBAUM The wife of an elder brother is for his younger ,brother the wife of a Guru, but the wife of the you...
GURU NANAK Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother's son.
BIBLE Today is really all about Lane. I told a reporter today he has been like my brother.
PHIL HARE As I look at a sea of faces, I see my brother. Each of you have a story about my brother.
BETHANY PARKER My son is in love with Africa , so he has been asking for an African brother or sister .
ANGELINA JOLIE Treat your superior as a father, your equal as a brother, and your inferior as a son.
PROVERB Treat your superior as a father, your equal as a brother, and your inferior as a son.
PERSIAN PROVERB My sister and brother-in-law were very impressed with how the cows were milked.
JOANNE HOYT All I could think about was my own brother. If anybody ever told me I couldn't live with my brother,...
KARLA WHETZEL There were so many things I couldn't do when my brother-in-law was president.
LEE RADZIWILL We're a Muslim family, but we're also very cultured and we have a mixture of different relig...
RIMA FAKIH I was in fashion school, my brother has a law background, and my sister-in-law had worked in product...
ALEXANDER WANG I don’t care who stands against me and my dreams as long as I have a brother who believes in me
DALEEN IRSHAID Take my family - I have two brothers, his brother, a son and daughter, our house and my mother and o...
JEANNETTE ALFONSO In 'Divergent,' the story is about Beatrice Prior, and I play her brother.
ANSEL ELGORT Chris Kyle was a human being, a Texan, Navy SEAL, father, husband, brother, friends to many, and a h...
BRANDON WEBB There's night and day, brother, both sweet things; sun, moon, and stars, brother, all sweet things; ...
GEORGE BORROW I really hope people go back and watch his movies. He was such a fantastic actor. He's not just Sean...
WINONA RYDER I pray to be a good servant to God, a father, a husband, a son, a friend, a brother, an uncle, a goo...
MARK WAHLBERG What kind of country has this become? Decent people can’t do anything without being watched.
DAN GROAT It was like a brother-to-brother relationship. It makes me upset to think about him.
CHAD JACKSON I had a simple goal in life: to be true to my parents and our country as an honorable son, a caring ...
BENIGNO AQUINO III We miss Craig more every day. We loved Craig. He's been a wonderful son, husband, father and brother...
ANDREA MACY When I was a kid, I lived in a poor part of Chicago, and I remember my brother and me using towels a...
MICHAEL PENA Radio was my life growing up. Then, I started in our family band with my uncle, my father, my aunt a...
MEGHAN TRAINOR I love my brother. I miss my brother.
RANDY QUAID My father served 26 years in the Air Force as a pilot and a pioneer in our missile programs. I learn...
JIM WEBB I don't throw around the word 'brother' because I'm so, so close to my real-life bro...
JUSSIE SMOLLETT When I moved down here I wasn't making much money, so my brother-in-law suggested I do some iron wor...
BOLIVAR CEVENO This is my brother Darryl, and this is my other brother Darryl.
BOB NEWHART There's a standard acceptance of appropriate dress for schools; however, there's nothing in a writte...
JANICE KARST When my brother-in-law, BIll Clinton, was elected, he had gay friends. That was a coming out.
KATE CLINTON I was running super slow. Chris thought I was done. Then one day at the end of February, I woke up a...
ROB GRONKOWSKI Let me make this plain, Chris Lorenzo, and I also mean his brother Irv, did not launder anyone's mon...
GERALD SHARGEL Let me make this plain, Chris Lorenzo, and I also mean his brother Irv, did not launder anyone's mon...
GERALD LEFCOURT I have three siblings. My sister makes music. My older brother is a classical conductor, and my youn...
LISA LOEB Brother, brother; we are both in the wrong.
JOHN GAY I had an older brother who passed away recently, an older sister and a younger brother.
STEVE CASE My father's a firefighter. He was my whole life. And my brother-in-law and several family member...
BRAD PAISLEY 1984 was alive and well in 2015.
KENNETH EADE My brother and I do trivia quizzes all the time.
RUTH B but the family is fighting back -- brother against brother.
JIM RILEY I'm not 'Will's brother' anymore. Will is my brother. I'm paving the way for all...
NASH GRIER A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
KING SOLOMON A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
{PROVERBS 17:17} A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for
adversity.
BIBLE My brother, he says. My brother is dead.
"And again he asks me to kill him. One more time befor...
DANA REINHARDT I spent two years in the Army. And my older brother, who was also a great positive influence on me, ...
GEORGE J. MITCHELL He's my father married to my sister. That makes me his son and his brother-in-law. That is such ...
RONAN FARROW Now therefore, my son, obey my voice; arise, flee thou to Laban my brother to Haran;
BIBLE Even to this day, when I think about the fact that I'm in this 'Star Wars' world, that I...
JOEL EDGERTON My grandparents bought it about 1937, but the structure was built around 1915 for the sister and bro...
ROBERT FARMER I swallowed the pills and I thought about my brother John and his family.
MICHAEL DILEONARDO A brother is a friend God gave you; a friend is a brother your heart chose for you.
PROVERB I always wanted a little brother because I felt like the little brother had to do everything.
PAUL PIERCE He killed my brother-in-law and tried to kill my sister. I'd like to see him get the death penalty.
BRIAN EILERMAN In high school and college all my friends and my brother wrestled.
VERNE TROYER My grandad was a miner. My father, brother, and uncles all work in industry.
FAYE MARSAY I can't imagine having a conversation about 'Celebrity Big Brother' in Cambridge, Massac...
NIALL FERGUSON I really hope people go back and watch his movies, because he was such a fantastic actor, and he is ...
WINONA RYDER We have all lost a dear, dear brother.
BRADLEY WHITFORD All my brother Eliot and I did as kids was film sketches.
ILANA GLAZER Many things led to this day, for all of us. A forgotten son, a vengeful mother, a brother with a lon...
VICTORIA AVEYARD My brother Billy was the joke teller. My brother Jim had a really sharp, cutting wit. And the teller...
STEPHEN COLBERT The mindset of the Rich;I am solely responsible for my success & its never the duty of my uncle,nor ...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Inside all people there is love, also the need to take care of the other man who is his brother. Ins...
BRYCE COURTENAY The African is my brother but he is my younger brother by several centuries.
ALBERT SCHWEITZER Percy blinked. “So your brother is a winged horse. But you’re also my half brother, which means ...
RICK RIORDAN What differentiates brother most from brother and beast is neither purpose, perspective nor prowess....
GAVIN MILLS I'm excited to join my brother-in-law Ken Thomson every Tuesday night on SiriusXM to recap all o...
ZAKK WYLDE Am I not a man and a brother
JOSIAH WEDGWOOD My brother is a comic-book writer, and I was always in love with comics.
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EDMUND BURKE The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One canno...
EDMUND BURKE Whenever our neighbor's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our...
EDMUND BURKE People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarrelin...
EDMUND BURKE Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society...
EDMUND BURKE Custom reconciles us to everything.
EDMUND BURKE Some degree of novelty must be one of the materials in almost every instrument which works upon the ...
EDMUND BURKE Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist.
EDMUND BURKE When the printing press was developed in the fifteenth century it was said that printed books would ...
JAMES BURKE All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is fo...
EDMUND BURKE Some decent regulated pre-eminence, some preference (not
exclusive appropriation) given to birth, i...
EDMUND BURKE The power of perpetuating our property in our families is one of
the most valuable and interesting ...
EDMUND BURKE People will not look forward to posterity, who never look
backward to their ancestors.
EDMUND BURKE A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not
yet hardened into the bone of manho...
EDMUND BURKE Young man, there is America--which at this day serves for little
more than to amuse you with storie...
EDMUND BURKE Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
EDMUND BURKE Chapter of accidents.
EDMUND BURKE Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way,
ought to give us ground to presume ab...
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