#brother

My favorite Oscar story was a year my brother had been nominated, my whole family went. ↗

— Beau Bridges

#brother #family #favorite #had #nominated

I have already given two cousins to the war and I stand ready to sacrifice my wife's brother. ↗

— Charles Farrar Browne

#brother #cousins #given #i #ready

When I was 14 I would pick up my brother's bass guitar, and I would just pound on it, having no idea how to play it. ↗

— Steve Burns

#brother #guitar #having #how #i

If the Wright Brothers were alive today, Orville would have to lay off Wilbur. ↗

— Robert Crandall

#brothers #lay #off #today #were

Make a wish," said Indigo. Rose made a wish and then asked, "Why?" "That's what I always do. Wish on the moving ones." "Does it matter how fast they move?" "I don't think so." "Can you wish on airplanes, too?" "Oh, yes. ↗

— Hilary McKay

#family #night #stars #wishing #family

I remember that I used to mix with my friends who had brothers and sisters. I was an only child. ↗

— Keith Emerson

#child #friends #had #i #i remember

I wrote the Brotherhood song for no money out of my deep feelings about humanity, and because I was flattered that whatever talents I had, had been recognized. ↗

— Tom Glazer

#because #been #brotherhood #deep #feelings

Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#die #freely #hands #him #his

I was living my own future and my brother's lost one as well. I represented him here just as he represented me there, in some unguessable other place. His move from life to death might resemble my stepping into the kitchen - into its soft nowhere quality and foggy hum. I breathed the dark air. If I had at that moment a sense of calm kindly death while my heart beat and my lungs expanded, he might know a similar sense of life in the middle of his ongoing death. ↗

— Michael Cunningham

#death #glbtq #life #love #death

If the Party could thrust its hand into the past and say of this or that event, it never happened—that, surely, was more terrifying than mere torture and death. ↗

— George Orwell

#censorship #science-fiction #death