An Older Brother Quotes

#1. I kind of grew up my whole life as an underdog. I had two older brothers who would beat on me and then let me know I wasn't much compared to them. And it's still like that. Guys like that keep you humble, being around them every day and realizing I'm still the little brother to them.

A. J. Hawk

#2. I had an older brother who was very interested in literature, so I had an early exposure to literature, and and theater. My father sometimes would work in musical comedies.

Francis Ford Coppola

#3. My brother is nine years older than I am. He's a psychology professor, I'm an actor, and so we look at life in two different ways. We thought it would be interesting to come together and take our unique perspectives and share them with everybody else.

Matt Czuchry

#4. I rolled my eyes at his exuberance. "I have an older brother," I said. "He got all the sports knowledge. I learned how to bake cookies.

Monica Alexander

#5. The Scoutmaster guides the boy in the spirit of an older brother.

Baden Powell De Aquino

#6. I am the middle child with an older and younger brother.

Eden Sher

#7. I'm the daughter of two Indian immigrant doctors, and I have an older sister and younger brother, and none of us have pursued medicine as a career. We're all over the artistic side of things.

Aarti Mann

#8. I had an older brother who passed away recently, an older sister and a younger brother.

Steve Case

#9. It's been my experience that only children never learn when to keep their fucking traps shut. An older brother would have beat that out of you.

Adrian McKinty

#10. When I was younger, I had an older brother a year and a half older than me, so we always had each other, and I felt very fortunate in that regard.

Rib Hillis

#11. I do have an older brother! But you know, he and I have always gotten along. We've always had different aspirations.

Jennifer Stone

#12. I was an early reader, reading even before kindergarten, and since we did not have books in my home, my older brother, Alexander, was responsible for our trip every week to the public library to exchange books already read for new ones to be read.

Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

#13. I have an older brother who is an actor as well.

Mads Mikkelsen

#14. I grew up with an older brother who was always stronger and faster and better than me at everything, but I was close enough in age to try and compete, so we had a competitive childhood.

Anthony Browne

#15. I always wanted an older brother. That was my thing. My mom would be like, "What do you want for your birthday?" I'd be like, "I want an older brother."

Emmy Rossum

#16. I have an older brother who's an actor and a grandfather who was an actor.

Ben Lloyd-Hughes

#17. I was born Pauline Matthews and grew up in Bradford as one of three children - I had an older brother, David, and an older sister, Betty. My father Fred worked in the mills as a textile weaving supervisor, and my mother, Mary, was a housewife.

Kiki Dee

#18. I'm seventy-five now. I also have the peculiar luck of having a sister and brother who are fourteen and sixteen years older than me. Their health is not good. It couldn't be at that age. But their spirits are. Both my brother and my sister are an example to me.

Grace Paley

#19. I am commanding you, as an older and wiser brother, to get over here, get on this caterpillar, and ride to the top of this mushroom with me.

Elle Lothlorien

#20. Growing up I played in garage bands and cover bands with my older brother, and he got us a gig opening up for some hippie jam band. I was 15. I felt like such an adult!

Charles Kelley

#21. Kanye West is my older brother, an inspiring guy and someone who keeps pushing my level up further and further.

Estelle

#22. I had an older brother, an older sister and a younger brother, and though I look back fondly on my childhood, I think that when you've got four siblings sharing the same resources and a single kids' bathroom, it's going to get a little tense at times.

Jeff Kinney

#23. Sorry, Ian," Cameron said. He found himself saying that to Ian quite a bit. "I didn't understand."
Ian gave him a faint nod but didn't answer. His look told Cameron that he knew his older brother was an idiot, but he'd learned to put up with it.

Jennifer Ashley

#24. An older brother is older. A big brother looks out for you and smiles when you walk into a room.

Lynda Mullaly Hunt

#25. I had older brothers, and I don't think there's anything worse than an older brother. They pretty much told me the end of everything they got to see before I did.

Joss Whedon

#26. Family doesn't necessarily mean that you have to have a mother, a father, a little brother, and an older sister.

Bindi Irwin

#27. They were all like siblings, Mr. Kapasi thought as they passed a row of date trees. Mr. and Mrs. Das behaved like an older brother and sister, not parents.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#28. The first-born in every family is always dreaming for an imaginary older brother or sister who will look out for them.

Bill Cosby

#29. When I was a kid, I was surrounded by girls: older sisters, older girl cousins just down the street ... except for an older boy named Vito who threw rocks. Each year I would wish for a baby brother. It never happened.

Wally Lamb

#30. I have an older brother who is 21 and attends UC Berkley.

Mila Kunis

#31. I had gone to a talent show - I was interested in American hip-hop music - with my older brother, to another town, and my town was attacked. I went from having an entire family to the next minute not having anything. It was very painful.

Ishmael Beah

#32. I grew up with an older brother, so I'm pretty good at being bashed around.

Carey Mulligan

#33. [My mother] is the greatest hero I'll ever know because she kept us all together, she made sure we all graduated college. She always believed in us no matter what we do. My older brother Joel became an art teacher; my brother Rip ultimately became a television producer and singer and actor himself.

Billy Crystal

#34. I was lucky enough to have an older brother who shared the splatter flicks with me, and I had parents who were cool and involved enough in my life to allow me to see them. I think my folks appreciated that I looked at these movies as a creative outlet ... almost like magic shows, if you will.

Adam Green

#35. In high school, I didn't get the chance to wrestle varsity until my senior year because I had an older brother who was better than me.

Rulon Gardner

#36. Surely, if my parents and older brother were awake now, that would mean that they would have remembered such an important date and, as soon as they saw me, congratulate me on living another year? Adele Rose, Awakening.

Adele Rose

#37. I was picked on because I was timid. I had younger sisters; I couldn't turn to them for help. I didn't have an older brother.

Mark E. Smith

#38. I have three brothers and a sister. One older and three younger. My oldest brother Danny plays Hyde on 'That '70s Show,' and my younger brother Jordan and my sister Allanah act as well, so we're a bit of an acting family.

Christopher Masterson

#39. My older brother Mike is an excellent trumpet player. By the time he was 12, he was playing around Kansas City in classical situations. He was already an amazing talent.

Pat Metheny

#40. Really it was a pretty good talk. About the best I could expect from my sociopath amnesiac jerk of an older brother.

Holly Black

#41. There is no better example of an older brother's love than that exhibited in the life of Hyrum Smith for the Prophet Joseph Smith.

Heber J. Grant

#42. I was an older brother. So I had to do a lot of things first. My father was a self-made man, and he would beat me senseless. But he was a Scotsman, and stubborn. I'm his son, and I'm stubborn, too. I go on being stubborn.

Harry Hay

#43. My parents were divorced and my dad was in the Marines. I lived in California until I was 10 then we moved to Bettendorf, Iowa when I was in the fourth grade. I had an older brother so it made it a little easier to adjust to things.

Robbie Lawler

#44. I've got a really great family round me, two sisters and an older brother and my mum and dad. Everybody's equal.

Nicholas Hoult

#45. That is the tragedy of losing an older brother. He stays still. You keep on and one day become the older one. It's unnatural, that reversal. It's the thing that keeps the family from ever being whole again.

Tiffany McDaniel

#46. My brother and I grew up in a musical family. We have an older sister who sings and plays the piano. Our dad is a musician. Music was always a part of our lives.

Laura Allen