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  • My older brother and myself always played together in bands, but we never knew we would be professional musicians. -- Wynton Marsalis
  • The first-born in every family is always dreaming for an imaginary older brother or sister who will look out for them. -- Bill Cosby
  • I know my family and I would always go up to the mountains just for fun. We always skied. Then, all of a sudden, my brother started snow boarding. Older brother thing, I had to do what he was doing. So I started snow boarding. -- Shaun White
  • Apparently, one in five people in the world are Chinese. And there are five people in my family, so it must be one of them. It's either my mum or my dad. Or my older brother, Colin. Or my younger brother, Ho-Chan-Chu. But I think it's Colin. -- Tim Vine
  • I had a really wonderful upbringing. We were a tight family. It was wonderful to grow up with so many siblings. We were all just a year or two apart, and we were always so supportive of each other. I learned everything from my older brother and sister and taught it to my younger sisters. -- Joaquin Phoenix
  • I have an older brother who is 21 and attends UC Berkley. -- Mila Kunis
  • I had older brothers who would pick on me, and injustice always boiled my blood. -- Michelle Rodriguez
  • I had an older brother who passed away recently, an older sister and a younger brother. -- Steve Case
  • Fredo you're my older brother and I love you. But don't ever take sides against the family... -- Mario Puzo
  • 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
  • I have a lot of older brothers who messed up in different ways in my mother's eyes. So I learned from all of their mistakes. -- Kellan Lutz
  • John Paul II called us Jews the older brothers of Christians. He represented humanity, dialogue and reconciliation, and he laid the foundation for religions to work together. -- Moshe Katsav
  • I have a friend who says the best boyfriends are ones with intimidating, good-looking older brothers. The boyfriends try harder because they're so insecure. Maybe I'm the female equivalent. -- Beth Orton
  • 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
  • I started in Martial Arts with my father when I was 4 yrs old. I guess I started because my two older brothers and mom trained so it was what our whole family did for fun. -- Duke Roufus
  • I kind of knew something was going on, and my older brothers and sisters were singing be-boppish kinds of stuff in the living room, and I was listening. I started singing, warmer than a summer night, at seven or eight years old. -- Al Jarreau
  • What sparked my interest in the combat sports in general was my older brother. I guess older brothers are supposed to pick on their young brothers, but mine took it to a whole new level. He broke my collarbone, broke my rib, and knocked my teeth out. -- Jake Hecht
  • Half voluntarily, half Winston's older brother [William] would take me in, saying, "Daddy, I think you oughta do this." And I'd say, "I think you're right, maybe I do need it." Sometimes a week later I'd leave the place; sometimes I'd stick it out for a month. -- William Eggleston
  • People go back to the stuff that doesn't cost a lot of money and the stuff that you don't have to hand money to over and over again. Stuff that you get for free, stuff that your older brother gives you, stuff that you can get out of the local library. -- Black Francis
  • I have three older brothers, and we all have different combinations of parents. My father was the best man at my mom's first wedding! And my brother's mother - my dad's first wife - is the sister to my mom's first husband's second wife. So my brothers are both stepcousins and stepbrothers. It's very '70s rock. -- Inara George
  • 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
  • My older brother always tells me I changed as a person when I saw 'Ace Ventura.' Because when I saw 'Ace Ventura', I became obsessed. I watched the movie as many times as I had to - back then, you couldn't go on the Internet and find the script - so I watched it as many times as I could to write my own script of 'Ace Ventura.' -- Eliza Coupe
  • I have three siblings. My sister makes music. My older brother is a classical conductor, and my younger brother is a mixing engineer. -- Lisa Loeb
  • 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
  • I performed adequately at school, but in comparison to my older brother, who set the record for the highest cumulative average for our high school, my performance was decidedly mediocre. -- Steven Chu
  • 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
  • My older brother was into Creedence Clearwater Revival and ZZ Top, and my sister was into pop radio. So somewhere along the line, I got into Ozzy Osbourne, REO Speedwagon, Heart, Pat Benetar, Journey. -- Martina McBride
  • 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
  • I spent two years in the Army. And my older brother, who was also a great positive influence on me, encouraged me to think about law school, and I said - well, I didn't have any money. -- George J. Mitchell
  • 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
  • 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
  • People go back to the stuff that doesn't cost a lot of money and the stuff that you don't have to hand money to over and over again. Stuff that you get for free, stuff that your older brother gives you, stuff that you can get out of the local library. -- Black Francis
  • In high school I had a boyfriend who was super into rap, so I was into Too $hort and Wu-Tang for a little while. And my best friend's older brother would sometimes drive us home in this pimped-out truck, and he'd play all his dirty rap music. We thought we were really cool. -- Kirsten Dunst
  • If I tried to shout over my older brother, my mother told me keep quiet. If I tried to shout over my little sister, my father told me to shut up. I found the best way to be heard was to lower my voice and actually speak when I had something to say. -- Peter Welch
  • My parents separated before I was 1 year old. I moved in with my aunt and uncle when I was in fourth grade. I was, like, 8 or 9 years old. I was getting in a lot of trouble when I was in Southern California. My older sisters were in gangs. My older brother was in gangs. -- Troy Polamalu
  • You know, I endeavor to be more like my older brother. He's very magnetic. He's actually very much like 'Castle' in that people are attracted to him, and just want to be near him. You want to know where my brother is in a crowded room? He's the guy with the crowd around him. -- Nathan Fillion
  • I've always had this interest in sibling relationships because I don't have any siblings. I'm completely a product of the one-child policy in China, so I always kind of wished that I had an older brother or a younger brother or sister just to have that bond, so I find myself constantly writing about that relationship. -- Marie Lu
  • There are a lot of things I can take, and a few that I can't. What I can't take is when my older brother, who's everything that I want to be, starts losing faith in things. I saw that look in your eyes last night. I don't ever want to see that look in your eyes again. -- M. Night Shyamalan
  • I'm a forgiver. I might not forget, but I forgive. My mother, father and older brother always told me: 'Don't hold grudges. If you do that, you don't lower yourself down to your adversary. Just treat people the way you want to be treated.' I honestly think that's why I was able to survive and have some success. -- Monte Irvin
  • It's an experience I'd like to add to the chorus, that these blue-collar, macho men, like my older brother, had the capacity to say: 'I don't care, I love you anyway.' There are young kids thinking: 'I'll never come out because it's too hard in our communities.' But I'm saying maybe your story can be similar to mine. -- Colman Domingo
  • Being on a book tour is like being on the seesaw when you're a little kid. The excitement is in having someone to play with, and in rising up in the air, but then you're at the mercy of those holding you down, and if it's your older brother, or Paul Wolfowitz, they leap up, so that you crash down and get hurt. -- Anne Lamott
  • My older brother was a musical prodigy, and he got a scholarship to the Bronx House Music School. We moved to the Bronx when I was 4 to be close to his music school. Then I got a music scholarship myself, at the age of 6, but that was for a school down in Greenwich Village. I had to take the elevated train and then the subway to get there. -- Mildred S. Dresselhaus
  • As a kid, I was growing up in an era of celebration of the Civil War centennial, with a lot of 'Lost Cause' emphasis on the Confederacy. I used to play Civil War soldiers with my brothers as a child, and my older brother always insisted that he got to be Lee, and I got be Grant. I never knew that Grant won until quite some time had passed. -- Drew Gilpin Faust
  • I am the middle child with an older and younger brother. -- Eden Sher
  • Jazz is a beautiful woman whose older brother is a policeman. -- Sid Caesar
  • I have an older brother who is an actor as well. -- Mads Mikkelsen
  • The Scoutmaster guides the boy in the spirit of an older brother. -- Baden Powell de Aquino
  • My brother, who was older, was the gifted one, much more talented than I. -- Maurice Sendak
  • As the younger brother, I think you always have crushes on your older brothers girlfriends. -- Liam Hemsworth
  • As the younger brother, I think you always have crushes on your older brother's girlfriends. -- Liam Hemsworth
  • My older brother took me to Woody Allen double features when I was still teething. -- Doug Liman
  • I grew up with an older brother, so I'm pretty good at being bashed around. -- Carey Mulligan
  • I have an older brother who's an actor and a grandfather who was an actor. -- Ben Lloyd-Hughes
  • Joey, my older brother, had his own TV show in the '50s, along with Cathy Callahan. -- William Devane
  • My older sister is bossy, my brother is a stirrer and me - well, I am perfect! -- Jenny Eclair
  • Kanye West is my older brother, an inspiring guy and someone who keeps pushing my level up further and further. -- Estelle
  • Family doesn't necessarily mean that you have to have a mother, a father, a little brother, and an older sister. -- Bindi Irwin
  • I do have an older brother! But you know, he and I have always gotten along. We've always had different aspirations. -- Jennifer Stone
  • Even as a small child I never felt that I should have to compete with anyone - even my older brother. -- Dwayne Hickman
  • My older brother was cool, so I was suddenly cool by association. And I totally dusted all my old math friends. -- David Spade
  • You've only had a small glimpse of how insufferable and annoying I can be. As the older brother, it's my birthright. -- Maria V. Snyder
  • My older brother had a lot of Elvis on vinyl, and really, that was my first introduction to music during the Fifties. -- Kiki Dee
  • My brother and sister are both older than I am and were born before my father went off to World War I. -- Douglass North
  • Now Ben Folds is my photography older brother. He was kind enough to give me a photo of his for my 40th birthday. -- Jason Sudeikis
  • My brother and sister were much older. They were planned. I was not planned for. I was called the mistake, amongst other things. -- Penny Marshall
  • Daniel, my big brother, is eight years older. I'm lucky he didn't mind hanging out with his little sister and my younger brother. -- Samantha Stosur
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  • If I had a big brother who was a year older than me or something, I probably wouldn't have ended up being a filmmaker. -- M. Night Shyamalan
  • 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
  • My older brother was involved in the folk movement. We would gather every weekend in Washington Park. The folk songs were so important to my reality. -- Anne Waldman
  • My mom always said I was the peacemaker in the family. My older brother, Eric, was the leader, the creative one. I was just his puppet. -- Gwen Stefani
  • 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
  • My sister and my brother, of whom I have not spoken before, were considerably older than I; it seemed almost as if we belonged to different generations. -- Pierre Loti
  • I grew up with classical music blasting in my parents' living room and my older brother's practicing saxophone in his room listening to jazz... a beautiful chaos. -- Josephine de La Baume
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  • I'm very close in age to my older brother, and we had a field at the end of the road where we could run around, climb trees, play football. -- James Bay
  • I was the youngest. The yule lamb. The one who always got away without doing the washing up. My sister was four years older, and my brother six years. -- Jeremy Irons
  • 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
  • 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
  • My older brother's really good at making fun of me for just being a workaholic and never taking time for myself. Even when we go on vacation, I'm always working. -- Nikki Reed
  • 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
  • I have two older sisters and one older brother and hold them largely responsible for the trouble I got into growing up. I believe as the youngest child, that is my right. -- Suzanne Collins
  • I got into rapping by being a victim of circumstances; it was a hard situation with my brother. Mainly my older brother got hit with a life sentence, so he kind of inspired me. -- Trae tha Truth
  • 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
  • My dad, who plays guitar and piano and was in cover bands, along with my older brother, Matt, taught me guitar and stuff. I started writing acoustic songs and playing by myself in 7th grade. -- Conor Oberst
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