Brother Quotes About Love, Trust and Friendship

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Short Brother Quotes and Sayings

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  1. Brothers aren’t simply close; brothers are knit together. Robert Rivers

  2. I've never had a brother I didn't like but, on the other hand, I have only one.
    Byron R. Pulsifer

  3. Brothers and sisters are as close as hands and feet. Vietnamese Proverb

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  4. Sometimes being a brother is even better than being a superhero. Marc Brown

  5. I had a brother who was my saviour, made my childhood bearable. Maurice Sendak

  6. It takes two men to make one brother. Israel Zangwill

  7. 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.

  8. 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

  9. I, who have no sisters or brothers, look with some degree of innocent envy on those who may be said to be born to friends. James Boswell

  10. There is no love like the love for a brother. There is no love like the love from a brother. Astrid Alauda

  11. You are not my friend, you are my brother, my friend. Jaroslaw Jarzabowski

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  12. The bond that binds us is beyond choice. We are brothers. We are brothers in what we share. Ursula K. Le Guin

  13. Never make a companion equal to a brother. Hesiod

  14. A sibling is the lens through which you see your childhood. Ann Hood

  15. Half the time when brothers wrestle, it’s just an excuse to hug each other. James Patterson

  16. When brothers agree, no fortress is so strong as their common life. Antisthenes

  17. If thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother. Epictetus

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  18. Keep on loving one another as brothers and sisters. Hebrews 13:1

  19. Every person whether he is Hindu, Muslim or Buddhist, he is my brother, my sister. Mother Teresa

  20. My brother is worth a thousand of your friend. Cersei Lannister (Game Of Thrones)

  21. As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live. John Paul II

  22. We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools. Martin Luther King Jr

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  23. I believe in the brotherhood of all men, but I don’t believe in wasting brotherhood on anyone who doesn’t want to practice it with me. Brotherhood is a two-way street. Malcolm X

  24. It’s better that we feel something for each other rather than behave like corpses toward one another, the more so because as long as one has no real right to be called a corpse by being legally dead, it smacks of hypocrisy or at least childishness to pose as such. Vincent Van Gogh

  25. 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

  26. Most families had four, five brothers. But because it was just me and Darryl, we had to be twice as strong. Barry White

  27. My brother Bob doesn’t want to be in government – he promised Dad he’d go straight. John F. Kennedy

  28. There’s a lot of times that both myself and my brother wish, obviously, that we were just completely normal. Prince Harry

  29. We came into the world like brother and brother, and now let’s go hand in hand, not one before another. William Shakespeare

  30. Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him. Mahatma Gandhi

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  31. It is our suffering that brings us together. Ursula K. Le Guin

  32. God blesses him who helps his brother. Ahmad Shah Massood

  33. Because I have a brother I’ll always have a friend. Author Unknown

  34. There’s no buddy like a brother. Author Unknown

  35. Brothers make the best friends. Author Unknown

  36. 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

  37. Everything I am, you helped me be. Author Unknown

  38. We’re all just walking each other home. Ram Dass

  39. All men are brothers. Lailah Gifty Akita

  40. Two happy days are seldom brothers. Bulgarian proverb

  41. Silence is a brother of delight. Arabic proverb

  42. Let brotherly love continue. Hebrews 13:1

  43. Maybe one is enough. Swati Avasthi

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  44. Treat your superior as a father, your equal as a brother, and your inferior as a son. Persian Proverb

  45. To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them. Baron de Montesquieu

  46. To the outside world we all grow old. But not to brothers and sisters. We know each other as we always were. We know each other’s hearts. We share private family jokes. We remember family feuds and secrets, family griefs and joys. We live outside the touch of time. Author Unknown

  47. I believe in one thing, that only a life lived for others is a life worth living. Albert Einstein

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  48. Sibling relationships – and 80% of Americans have at least one – outlast marriages, survive the death of parents, resurface after quarrels that would sink any friendship. They flourish in a thousand incarnations of distance and closeness, warmth, loyalty and distrust. Erica E. Goode

  49. 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

  50. 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. Author Unknown

  51. We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects. Herman Melville

  52. Sisters and brothers are the truest, purest forms of love, family and friendship, knowing when to hold you and when to challenge you, but always being a part of you. Carol Ann Albright Eastman

  53. You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them. Desmond Tutu

  54. Grant us brotherhood, not only for this day but for all our years – a brotherhood not of words but of acts and deeds. Stephen Vincent Benet

  55. 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

  56. If you want to do really important things in life and big things in life, you can’t do anything by yourself. And your best teams are your friends and your siblings. Deepak Chopra

  57. Will you be there for him if he needs you? Of course. Should you love him without question? Absolutely. David Levithan

  58. We should all lend a helping hand to those in need as we are all brothers and sisters. Catherine Pulsifer

  59. A brother is a friend given by Nature. Jean Baptiste Legouve

  60. Brothers and sisters are as close as hands and feet. Vietnamese Proverb

  61. As we grew up, my brothers acted like they didn't care, but I always knew they looked out for me and were there! Catherine Pulsifer

  62. Our brothers and sisters are there with us from the dawn of our personal stories to the inevitable dusk. Susan Scarf Merrell

  63. My little brother, will you ever grow up....I hope not! Catherine Pulsifer

  64. Help your brother's boat across, and your own will reach the shore. Proverb

  65. A brother is a friend God gave you; a friend is a brother your heart chose for you. Proverb

  66. To the outside world we all grow old. But not to brothers and sisters. We know each other as we always were. We know each other's hearts. We share private family jokes. We remember family feuds and secrets, family griefs and joys. We live outside the touch of time. Clara Ortega

  67. I think people that have a brother or sister don't realize how lucky they are. Sure, they fight a lot, but to know that ther's always somebody there, somebody that's family. Trey Parker and Matt Stone

  68. When brothers agree, no fortress is so strong as their common life. Antisthenes

  69. If I could pick the best brother, I would pick you! Catherine Pulsifer

  70. You're my best buddy, my favorite friend, We'll always be pals, from now until the end! Author Unknown

  71. Siblings are the people we practice on, the people who teach us about fairness and cooperation and kindness and caring - quite often the hard way. Pamela Dugdale

  72. 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

  73. My brother, someone who I know I can always depend on! Catherine Pulsifer

  74. Never make a companion equal to a brother. Hesiod

  75. He aint heavy, he's my brother. Neil Diamond

  76. I, who have no sisters or brothers, look with some degree of innocent envy on those who may be said to be born to friends. James Boswell

  77. It was nice growing up with someone like you - someone to lean on, someone to count on... someone to tell on! Author Unknown

  78. I don't believe an accident of birth makes people sisters or brothers. It makes them siblings, gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood is a condition people have to work at. Maya Angelou

  79. Friends come and go, but you my dear brother, are always there! Catherine Pulsifer

  80. There's no other love like the love for a brother. There's no other love like the love from a brother. Astrid Alauda

  81. 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. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

  82. Sometimes being a brother is even better than being a superhero. Marc Brown

  83. My parents, my sister and brothers are always there for me no matter what is happening in my life. Catherine Pulsifer, People in our Lives

  84. A trial between brothers has no winners or losers. Ekonda proverb

  85. I am smiling because you are my brother. I am laughing because there is nothing you can do about. Unknown Author

  86. My father wants me to be like my brother, but I can’t be. Robert Mapplethorpe

  87. Do you recognize all of your brothers or sisters? You should. They are all around. They're standing in front of you, beside you, and behind you. They are also the ones wearing tattered clothes sitting on the streets of every city with a cup in their hands waiting patiently for you to help. Do you see them now? Byron R. Pulsifer

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  88. A sibling may be the keeper of one’s identity, the only person with the keys to one’s unfettered, more fundamental self. Marian Sandmaier

  89. None of you believes until he wishes for his brother what he wishes for himself. Prophet Muhammad

  90. One can be a brother only in something. Where there is no tie that binds men, men are not united but merely lined up. Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  91. We don’t need holy wars. What we need is tolerance and brotherhood and simple humanity. Arlen Specter

  92. There is always a chance that he who sets himself up as his brother’s keeper will end up by being his jail-keeper. Eric Hoffer

  93. Three brothers, three fortresses. Portuguese proverb

  94. Sleep is the brother of death. Chinese proverb

  95. Brotherhood is the very price and condition of man’s survival. Carlos P. Romulo

  96. When you deal with your brother, be pleasant, but get a witness. Hesiod

  97. If we are not our brother’s keeper, at least let us not be his executioner. Marlon Brando

  98. 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

  99. We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers. Booker T. Washington

  100. Until blacks and whites see each other as brother and sister, we will not have parity. It’s very clear. Maya Angelou

  101. But if anyone has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God’s love abide in him? 1 John 3:17

  102. A brother is like gold and a friend is like diamond. If gold cracks you can melt it and make it just like it was before. If a diamond cracks, it can never be like it was before. Ali Ibn Abi Talib

  103. Brothers and sisters are each other's cherished connection to the past. Gregory E. Lang, Brothers and Sisters

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