Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charlie Trotter

I got on a Dostoyevsky kick right after college. I started with 'Crime and Punishment,' went on to 'The Possessed' and then 'The Brothers Karamazov' and 'The Idiot.'

Martha Stewart

I grew up in a very modest home. We grew a lot of our food in our backyard. We fished; my brothers hunted.

If they teach their parents and their sister and brothers and whoever else, all the better.

He got in me. I couldn't take it out of the way. He told me, 'We ain't going to win without you.' It's the truth, man. They look at me and I gotta be ready. When I'm down, that's not good. They're all my brothers and I'd do anything for them.

He forgets homework, has to be prodded to do his chores and gets grounded just like other kids. We have to remind him about daily stuff. He's a pain in the butt to his brothers and sister. I don't want him to have to be Super Kid.

He (Morris) is a junior but he's gutsy. He's got three older brothers and I'm sure they knocked him around when he was kid. So he'll go out there and gut it out for us.

Richard Bacon

What do you get when you put two brothers and sisters in a band? A big fat melting pot of talent.

Dorothea Brande

The Wright brothers flew through the smoke screen of impossibility.

Tim Cahill

Men who share misery together are forever brothers

Me and my brothers used to watch it together. That's how we learned to dance.

George H. W. Bush

Mongolia and the United States are standing together as brothers in the cause of freedom.

Shemar Moore

Morris Chestnut helped me learn that. In Brothers he said, Stay away from the funny man. Because for every joke you have, they've got a hundred more.

Michael Franti

My house was filled with music. We had a piano, and my brothers and sisters played instruments. Even though I was around it, I played basketball.

Neither of the Ferdinand brothers are exactly goal machines.

We were brothers off the field, but there was no love lost on it. We fought like cats and dogs. Wes was always trying to strike me out, and meantime, I was always trying to hit a home run off him.

When they went to the state, and came back as a state champion, then we were all sisters and brothers there really.

Kurt Braunohler

My parents got divorced when I was 2, so I have this weird thing where I have 8 brothers and sisters, but I am also an only child.

Marshall Faulk

One of my brothers is fine. I just haven't heard from my (two) other brothers and the rest of my family - aunts, uncles, cousins. I haven't heard from anyone,

Paul Tagliabue

Some of my brothers tell me it would be in the family tradition, because Marco Polo was an Italian and went from Venice to the Orient. That part of the world has been liberated from some of the restrictions of previous societies. Seeing that dynamic would be a good experience to get me ready for the 21st century.

Romeo Miller

I used to see my dad and his brothers rhyming, and I knew I wanted to do that one day. I'm like any other boy, always wanting to follow in his father's footsteps.

Robert Wilson

My mother was a great typist. She said she loved to type because it gave her time to think. She was a secretary for an insurance company. She was a poor girl; she'd grown up in an orphanage, and she went to a business college - and then worked to put her brothers through school.

Zaha Hadid

Of course, my family helped me, my brothers helped me, but after I set up my own office I had to really help myself. Some people seem to think I had an oil well in my garden! It's a nice idea but not true.

Ezra Taft Benson

Your most important friendships should be with your own brothers and sisters and with your father and mother. Love your family. Be loyal to them. Have a genuine concern for your brothers and sisters.

Neon Hitch

I grew up in a bus, traveled with various circuses and freak shows. I was a trapeze artist, and that was my dream. We just traveled the whole world, me and my mom and my little brothers and sisters. It was an adventure.

Kurt Vonnegut

I had no talent for science. What was infinitely worse: all my fraternity brothers were engineers.

We have left the door open for the other brothers who have not yet decided, or who have decided not to join.

Liberty Ross

I have four older siblings and one younger, and all three of my brothers are in the music industry. My dad was really involved in music, too, with the disco, and he also started Radio Caroline and was the one who invented pirate radio, if you like, off on a coast in England on a boat.

Bill Hader

I just did this movie with Kristin Wiig called 'The Skeleton Twins.' That's a straight drama. We play estranged twins, and I end up moving in with her and her husband, played by Luke Wilson. But it's a drama, and the Duplass Brothers produced it and this great guy, Craig Johnson, directed it. And that was great, you know?

Cal Ripken, Jr.

Whether it was Little League or playing with your brothers or sisters, that was always a problem. If I would lose - because I very rarely lost - then everything would go crazy.

Eric Fellner

When you watch a Coen brothers movie, it is always so certain about what it is trying to portray. That is their strength. The minute they write a word, they know how it will look on-screen. They are very purposeful, with no kind of mistakes.

Edward Hoagland

When I was 18 I worked with the Ringling Brothers circus, taking care of menagerie animals. I used to rather deliberately risk my life with the big cats.

My parents always encouraged us to get an education and establish a profession. However, my brothers and I grew up with considerable freedom, whether it was saving or spending our tips from the restaurant or our career choices.

Freddy Rodriguez

When I was a kid, my pop used to take me to the double feature. He would take me - I had two brothers - and we used to go in the early '80s and check out these grindhouse movies - a double feature, sometimes a triple feature.