35 Quotes About Brothers

Special bonds exist with our siblings. These quotes about brothers highlight the memories and experiences we share with those closest to us.

“A brother shares childhood memories and grown-up dreams.”

“A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.”

“A sibling may be the keeper of one’s identity, the only person with the keys to one’s unfettered, more fundamental self.”

“A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.”

“After a girl is grown, her little brothers — now her protectors — seem like big brothers.”

“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.”

“Brothers and sisters are as close as hands and feet.”

“Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.”

“Everyone knows that if you’ve got a brother, you’re going to fight.”

“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. ”

“I had a simple goal in life: to be true to my parents and our country as an honorable son, a caring brother, and a good citizen.”

“I have a wonderful shelter, which is my family. I have a wonderful relationship with my brother and sister; this makes me feel that I know always where I belong.”

“I wish I could say I see my little brother more. We used to fight all the time but now that I don’t see him very often I cherish the time I have with him.”

“I, who have no sisters or brothers, look with some degree of innocent envy on those who may be said to be born to friends.”

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

“My brother is my best friend. Usually, when I’m fencing, I can hear his voice.”

“My brother is one of my true heroes. Steady and sober where I am impulsive and emotional.”

“My family is everything. I am what I am thanks to my mother, my father, my brother, my sister… because they have given me everything. The education I have is thanks to them.”

“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!”

“Never make a companion equal to a brother.”

“No life’s worth more than any other, no sister worth less than any brother.”

“No one could understand the bond between me and my brother. I struggled to understand the forces that drove his soul in one direction and mine in another.”

“Oh, brothers! I don’t care for brothers. My elder brother won’t die, and my younger brothers seem never to do anything else.”

“One can be a brother only in something. Where there is no tie that binds men, men are not united but merely lined up.”

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

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

“Sometimes being a brother is even better than being a superhero.”

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

“The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“When brothers agree, no fortress is so strong as their common life.”

The great thing about siblings is the ability to share and make up for each other’s strengths and weaknesses.