Brother

Famous quotes containing the word brother:

    “A brother may not be a friend, but a friend will always be a brother.”
    —Samuel Richardson (1689–1761)

    “I shun father and mother and wife and brother when my genius calls me. I would write on the lintels of the door-post, Whim. I hope that it is somewhat better than whim at last, but we cannot spend the day in explanation.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “I need not say what match I would touch, what system endeavor to blow up; but as I love my life, I would side with the light, and let the dark earth roll from under me, calling my mother and my brother to follow.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)