Life Celebration Quotes
Brotherhood as Friendship
Growing Up Together
Benjamin Franklin
A brother may not be a friend, but a friend will always be a brother.
Catherine Pulsifer
Dear big brother, you may be part of my family, but I will always consider you a friend.
Cersei Lannister (Game Of Thrones)
My brother is worth a thousand of your friend.
Croatian proverb
A good friend is worth more than a bad brother.
Erinn Smart
My brother is my best friend.
Gregg Levoy
He is my most beloved friend and my bitterest rival, my confidant and my betrayer, my sustainer
and my dependent, and scariest of all, my equal.
Jaroslaw Jarzabowski
You are not my friend, you are my brother, my friend.
Jean Baptiste Legouve
A brother is a friend given by Nature.
Suzie Huitt
Brother and sister, together as friends, ready to face whatever life sends. Joy and laughter or tears and strife, holding hands tightly as we dance through life.
Victor Hugo
Do you know what friendship is… it is to be brother and sister; two souls which touch without mingling, two fingers on one hand.
African proverb
He who has brothers has more than riches can buy.
Ahmad Shah Massood
God blesses him who helps his brother.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
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.
Antisthenes
When brothers agree, no fortress is so strong as their common life.
Edwin Markham
The crest and crowning of all good, life’s final star, is brotherhood.
Edwin Markham
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.
Lailah Gifty Akita
True brothers are never blood-related. But born of the spirit.
Malcolm X
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.
Michael Morpurgo
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.
Stephen Vincent Benet
Grant us brotherhood, not only for this day but for all our years – a brotherhood not of words but of acts and deeds.
African proverb
A sin against a brother or sister is an offence against the gods.
Astrid Alauda
There is no love like the love for a brother. There is no love like the love from a brother.
Brandy Norwood
Nothing can stop me from loving my brother.
David Levithan
Will you be there for him if he needs you? Of course. Should you love him without question? Absolutely.
Desmond Tutu
You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.
John 3:17
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?
Marlon Brando
If we are not our brother’s keeper, at least let us not be his executioner.
Maxime Lagacé
Respect among brothers is the purest form of love.
Terri Guillemets
There’s no other love like the love for a brother. There’s no other love like the love from a brother.
African proverb
If your brother is rich it doesn’t mean you’re rich.
Cassandra Clare
She had always wanted a brother. And she had one now. Sebastian. It was like always wanting a puppy and being a hellhound instead.
Charlotte Gray
We may look old and wise to the outside world. But to each other, we are still in junior school.
Corsican proverb
I can get another husband but never another brother.
Dan Pearce
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 dishtowel.
Dylan Thomas
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.
Eric Hoffer
There is always a chance that he who sets himself up as his brother’s keeper will end up by being his jail-keeper.
Garrison Keillor
The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out his nose.
Harmon Kellebrew
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”.
Hesiod
When you deal with your brother, be pleasant, but get a witness.
James Patterson
Half the time when brothers wrestle, it’s just an excuse to hug each other.
Jane Austen
What strange creatures brothers are!
Why not share this as a heartwarming gift?
Lemony Snicket
Brothers that say they never fight are most definitely hiding something.
Sam Levenson
Brothers are children of the same parents, each of whom is perfectly normal until they get together.
Shelia Sweeny Higgingson
Baby brothers are small. Baby brothers are cute. But they can be a pain, and that is the truth.
Winston Pendelton
The best way to get a puppy is to beg for a baby brother and they’ll settle for a puppy every time.
Arabic proverb
You need a brother, without one you’re like a person rushing to battle without a weapon.
Arabic proverb
Your brother is who gives you a honest advice.
Chloe Moretz
The best thing about having four big brothers is you always have someone to do something for you.
Deepak Chopra
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.
Leonardo DiCaprio
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.
Mikey Way
Without my big brother I probably literally wouldn’t be here.
Proverbs 17:17
A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for a difficult time.
Sally Painter
My brothers are like oil and vinegar, but they have always been there for me. In that way, they are exactly alike!
Unknown
How do people make it through life without a brother?
Kate Summers
Thank you for always being there, for always being the one person I could talk with. You are the most amazing big brother a person
could have.
Marian Sandmaier
A sibling may be the keeper of one’s identity, the only person with the keys to one’s unfettered, more fundamental self.
Robert Rivers
Brothers aren’t simply close; brothers are knit together.
Robert Rivers
Brother, may it inspire
you to know when I need a daily boost, I remember the days of yesterday and the laughter we had as children.
Sam Dawn
I placed you in my heart since you were born. You are the best gift ever that I’ve gotten from our parents. I’m so lucky to have you as my younger brother.
Unknown
Everything I am, you helped me be.
Unknown
A brother is a friend God gave you; A friend is a brother your heart chose.
Ursula K. Le Guin
The bond that binds us is beyond choice. We are brothers. We are brothers in what we share.
Vietnamese Proverb
Brothers and sisters are as close as hands and feet.
African proverb
It is better to host a good stranger than a bad brother.
Ann Hood
A sibling is the lens through which you see your childhood.
Chief Joseph
All men were made by the Great Spirit Chief. They are all brothers.
Ekonda proverb
A trial between brothers has no winners or losers.
Epictetus
If thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother.
Hesiod
Never make a companion equal to a brother.
Hindu proverb
Help your brother’s boat across, and your own will reach the shore.
Israel Zangwill
It takes two men to make one brother.
Kahlil Gibran
He who understands you is greater kin to you than your own brother. For even your own kindred neither understand you nor know your true worth.
Marlon Brando
If we are not our brother’s keeper, at least let us not be his executioner.
Matthew 18:15
Moreover if your brother shall trespass against you, go and tell him his fault between you and him alone.
Maxime Lagacé
He will make you cry but also make you laugh. He will make you scream but also dream.
Maya Angelou
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.
Portuguese proverb
Three brothers, three fortresses.
Russian proverb
Good brotherhood is the best wealth.
Thomas Carlyle
The mystical bond of brotherhood makes all men brothers.
Jolene Perry
Because brothers don’t let each other wander in the dark alone.
Marc Brown
Sometimes being a brother is even better than being a superhero.
Maurice Sendak
I had a brother who was my savior, made my childhood bearable.
Maxime Lagacé
Your brother is your alter ego, your friend and sometimes your hero.
Maxime Lagacé
Some have more than one example to look up to. Others have only their brother.
Unknown
Some people don’t believe in heroes. But they haven’t met my brother.
Clara Ortega
To the outside world we all grow old. But not to brothers and sisters.
David Leads
Young brothers will often be each other’s best friends. They will laugh together, get into trouble together, and create memories that
will last a lifetime.
Maxime Lagacé
Nobody remembers their childhood exactly but I remember you were there for me.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr
There is no time like the old time, when you and I were young!
Rachel Weisz
The happiest days of my youth were when my brother and I would run through the woods and feel quite safe.
Sarah Wynter
I grew up with a younger brother, so I can get pretty rowdy.
Unknown
A brother shares childhood memories and grown-up dreams.
Byron Pulsifer
Once a brother, always a brother, no matter the distance, no matter the difference and no matter the issue.
Jeffrey Kluger
Your parents leave you too soon and your kids and spouse come along late, but your siblings know you when you when you are in your most inchoate form.
Jeffrey Kluger
From the time we’re born, our brothers and sisters are our collaborators and co-conspirators, our role models and our cautionary tales.
Richard Bach
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life.
Susan Scarf Merrell
Our brothers and sisters are there with us from the dawn of our personal stories to the inevitable dusk.
Trey Parker
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 there’s always somebody there, somebody that’s family.
Unknown
Brothers are what best friends can never be.
