Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mickey Rooney

I came from a poor family. My father was from Glasgow, Scotland; my mother's brothers were brakemen on the railroad. We didn't have anything but mush for breakfast.

Cristela Alonzo

Two brothers and a sister, my niece, my nephew... we're a very small group. We're very close, very tight-knit. We spend every holiday weekend together.

Pierre de Coubertin

If he is knocked out of the competition, he encourages his brothers with his words and presence.

Phil Jackson

When I was young, I was dedicated to become a minister - my brothers and I were formally brought in front of the congregation in a dedication ceremony, where we were dedicated to the future service of God.

Connie Britton

A definite highlight was doing 'The Brothers McMullen.' Shooting that movie was such a joy - and then we wound up winning the Sundance Film Festival. That big-break moment is visceral. It happens once in a decade, maybe once in a lifetime.

Alice Smith

I've come to realize how much it really was a part of my upbringing, the Georgia part. We were away from town. It was just dirt and trees and spouses. And a lot of kids - my cousins, who were all like brothers and sisters to me - just a lot of kids at one time.

Loving God is never separate from loving our brothers and sisters. It's always the same.

Denis O'Hare

I was raised on the brothers Grimm, but my favorite fairy tales in the world are Oscar Wilde's - 'The Nightingale and the Rose,' 'The Selfish Giant.' The latter is probably my all-time favorite.

Derrick Rose

It's tough growing up where I grew up. My family is very small and really tight. Just being around the neighborhood, my brothers were always around. I didn't want to be in any trouble because I knew my mom or brothers would find out. I didn't want to hurt their feelings. I just tried to do everything right.

Patricia MacLachlan

Looking back, I see that I write books about brothers and sisters, about what makes up a family, what works and what is nurturing.

Ben Bernanke

The failure of Lehman Brothers demonstrated that liquidity provision by the Federal Reserve would not be sufficient to stop the crisis; substantial fiscal resources were necessary.

Soledad O'Brien

It is truly not fun to be the family that sticks out in an all-white community. On the other side, I have five brothers and sisters; we all look exactly the same, and we're very, very tight. The lessons about race were not pleasant, but there are things that I loved about my childhood.

Bob Dylan

You know, you're on your brothers coat tails.

Harry Knowles

Geekiness is that feeling of overwhelming passion for that thing in life that you focus on. Whether it be a nephew's first few steps or the timbre in one's voice when discussing the latest Cohen brothers film.

We're not supposed to be sitting inside the church, we're supposed to go out in the community to help our brothers and sisters. To practice what we preach. Hopefully, it energizes people to do it again, go to the Rescue Mission or have other ideas.

Ryan Stiles

I wasn't particularly funny in high school, but I grew up with three older brothers who were quite funny.

Rebecca Ferguson

We have two older brothers and two younger sisters; Sam and I are in the middle, and I've always felt protective and closest to him.

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.

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.

there are still a lot of questions to be addressed, but we will have three identical cloned brothers we are committed to studying through their lifetime.

Meghan Trainor

I was always a little insecure. I had brothers that played football, so I was just a straight-up tomboy for a minute. I didn't know makeup and hair stuff. My friends had to tell me what a straightener was. I didn't know fashion or any of that until the label gave me a stylist.

Kenny Parker from Parker Electric is doing all of the electric. Wolff Brothers Supply Inc., all of the lighting and fans. And Tim Perrin (from Perrin Asphalt-Perrin Concrete) is putting in a new driveway and a turnaround out front.

Kenny is a racer's racer. And racing is what the Wood Brothers are all about.

John Edwards

Jude comes from a completely medical family - her brothers and sisters are all doctors, her father's a doctor, her mother's a nurse. She just loves real stuff.

Hopefully there is enough of a community for our brothers and sisters coming in.

Nhat Hanh

The happiest moments are when we sit down and we feel the presence of our brothers and sisters, lay and monastic, who are practicing walking and sitting mediation.

Keith Stanfield

My two little twin brothers have autism, so I grew up around it and misunderstood it for a long time.

He was shot by our brothers with a 7 mm pistol ... which was the only pistol that we had.

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.