1. I hated Chris, my brother. I would pull his hair and kick him, until one day my father gave him permission to fight back. I’ll be apologizing to him for the rest of my life.

- Stevie Nicks

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

- Robert Mapplethorpe

3. Our brothers and sisters are there with us from the dawn of our personal stories to the inevitable dusk.

- Susan Scarf Merrell

4. 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.

5. 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

6. Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their power, which no subsequent connections can supply.

- Jane Austen

7. 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

8. If you have a brother or sister, tell them you love them every day – that’s the most beautiful thing. I told my sister how much I loved her every day. That’s the only reason I’m OK right now.

- Amaury Nolasco

9. 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 Kellebrew

10. There’s no other love like the love for a brother. There’s no other love like the love from a brother.

- Astrid Alauda

11. 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

12. If you want to know how your girl will treat you after marriage, just listen to her talking to her little brother.

- Sami Levenson

13. Being pretty on the inside means you don’t hit your brother and you eat all your peas – that’s what my grandma taught me.

- Lord Chesterfield

14. 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

15. 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

16. I grew up with a younger brother, so I can get pretty rowdy.

- Sarah Wynter

17. 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

18. All men were made by the Great Spirit Chief. They are all brothers.

- Chief Joseph

19. Mum used to say we were the same soul split in two and walking around on four legs. It seems unnatural being born together and then dying apart.

- Melodie Ramone

20. The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder.

- Jane Austen

21. 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

22. 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

23. She had always wanted a brother. And she had one now. Sebastian. It was like always wanting a puppy and being a hellhound instead.

- Cassandra Clare

24. Never make a companion equal to a brother.

- Hesiod

25. It was nice growing up with someone like you – someone to lean on, someone to count on… someone to tell on!

- Unknown

26. The best way to get a puppy is to beg for a baby brother – and they’ll settle for a puppy every time.

- Winston Pendelton

27. Help your brother’s boat across, and your own will reach the shore.

- Hindu Proverb

28. When I look at each of my brothers, I see two things. First, I see the next place I want to leave a rosy welt. Second, I see a good man who will always be there, no matter how hard life gets for me or him. Then, I get out of the way because I realize he’s coming at me with a wet dish towel.

- Dan Pearce

29. I grew up with six brothers. That’s how I learned to dance – waiting for the bathroom.

- Bob Hope

30. Nothing can stop me from loving my brother.

- Brandy Norwood

31. 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

32. My sister was drowning in the ocean once, and my brother and I dove in and saved her. True story. She owes us her life. It’s great leverage; we abuse it all the time!

- Matt Barr

33. My big brother still thinks he’s a better singer than me.

- Rod Stewart

34. 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

35. 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.

- St. Francis of Assisi

36. The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out his nose.

- Garrison Keillor

37. I can’t work with my brother without laughing.

- Dick van Dyke

38. 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