Browsing Topic Best Brothers And Sisters Quotes

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

God is present in everything. In the universe in creation, in me and all that happens to me, in my brothers and sisters, in the church – everywhere.

We know enough to reject the stereotype that people in the Midwest do not care about their brothers and sisters.

In one family, all goes by two and two. If a member of it has any interest, he or she will confide it to some one other; but the rest know nothing. In another family, all feel what touches one; nothing is kept dark from the father and mother, brothers and sisters–all share. This family habit is by far the better, it strengthens the tie between the members, and makes the home one home.

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.

Don’t get mad at me cause I call something a ‘nothing thing’. I mean it’s nothing in terms of the majority of people…. I’m not that concerned with my son. I’m more concerned with all people. I look at all people as brothers and sisters. I have no priority for members of the family.

Our children are extensions of ourselves in ways our parents are not, nor our brothers and sisters, nor our spouses.

I look and there’s our boy from Vietnam and our daughter from Ethiopia, and our girl was born in Namibia, and our son is from Cambodia, and they’re brothers and sisters, man. They’re brothers and sisters and it’s a sight for elation.

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

I believe in sisters marrying brothers, and brothers having their sisters for wives… This is something pertaining to our marriage relation. The whole world will think what an awful thing it is. What an awful thing it would be if the Mormons should just say we believe in marrying brothers and sisters.

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

It is now our generation’s task to carry on what those pioneers began. For our journey is not complete until our wives, our mothers and daughters can earn a living equal to their efforts. Our journey is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law – for if we are truly created equal, then surely the love we commit to one another must be equal as well.

Love cannot exists as a duty; to tell a child that it ought to love its parents and its brother and sisters is utterly useless, if not worse.

My poor family. I try to protect them from my work. My parents are very religious, and my brother and sister are very normal. We have an understanding, I think, that what I do isn’t quite down their alley.

We have forgotten to be our brothers and sisters keepers. And we have forgotten that the Number 1 goal is to love one another.

I don’t think it’s necessary to feel guilty. Because I know that I’m still doing the work that is going to help more sisters and brothers to challenge the whole criminal justice system, and I’m trying to use whatever knowledge I was able to acquire to continue to do the work in our communities that will move us forward.

Your siblings are the only people in the world who know what it’s like to have been brought up the way you were.

Boys are found everywhere – on top of, underneath, inside of, climbing on, swinging from, running around or jumping to. Mothers love them, little girls hate them, older sisters and brothers tolerate them, adults ignore them and Heaven protects them. A boy is Truth with dirt on its face, Beauty with a cut on its finger, Wisdom with bubble gum in its hair and the Hope of the future with a frog in its pocket.

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.

For many years, our Messianic Jewish brothers and sisters have paid a great price. Other Jews have rejected them, and the Christian church would require they walk away from their traditions to fit into the Gentile culture. We must face these past wrongs.

The pursuit of otherness, the sense that we are somehow different than our brothers and sisters, no matter where we find them, allows for all the other great evils: racism, sexism, homophobia, violence against gay people and against women.

I kind of knew something was going on, and my older brothers and sisters were singing be-boppish kinds of stuff in the living room, and I was listening. I started singing, warmer than a summer night, at seven or eight years old.

I tried to take solace in Holiday, our dog. I missed him in a way I hadn’t yet let myself miss my mother and father, my sister and brother. That way of missing would mean that I had accepted that I would never be with them again; it might sound silly but I didn’t believe it, would not believe it.

Suppose atomic bombs had reduced the population of the world to one brother and sister; should they let the human race die out?

How many boys like him were out there in the ether, holding on to their big brothers and sisters who were still alive? How many husbands were floating between life and death, clinging to their wives in this world? And how may millions and millions of people were there in the world like Charlie who wouldn’t let go of their loved ones when they’re gone?

Brothers and sisters: Now is not the time for thinking small, now is not the time for the same-old, same-old establishment politics and stale inside-the-Beltway ideas.

A Brother may not be a Friend, but a Friend will always be a Brother.

I think about Chilean literature as a family, because I grew up reading the literature of my country. I feel like I have fathers and stepfathers and a lot of brothers and sisters and distant cousins and all that.

If God is thy father, human beings are thy brothers and sisters.

I think we need to insist on a certain responsibility, which people have – particularly those who have made it into the ranks of the middle class because as [ Martin Luther] King said many years ago in a sense they have climbed out of the masses on the shoulders of their sisters and brothers and therefore, they do have some responsibility.

Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister.

When I moved to L. A. with this little wimpy garage band, the first people we met were the Doors. Then we met Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin. All of the people who died of excess were our big brothers and sisters. So I said to myself: How do you become a legend and enjoy it? The answer is to create a character as legendary as those guys and leave that character on the stage.

I think there is a modern temper. The authority figures we revered in the past are all up for grabs – they’re gone. We are groping for meaning in a world where some of our gods have died. We’re asking ourselves, ‘Who is our true brother and sister, where is our true home?’ The modern tempter is our struggle to lead meaningful lives, and even if we don’t believe in religion, we can reach down and hold on to our core values for guidance.

Our journey is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law.

Boundaries, and countries, if we don’t have that we are all brothers and sisters, we can all have love and joy and compassion for each other: the world would be much more beautiful.