Brother Quotes

If you are lucky enough to have a brother, then you know just how special and unique your relationship is. You and your brother share a bond that you do not have with anyone else. If you want to show your appreciation, send him some cute brother quotes.

Some of us really get along well with our siblings while some of us tend to fight and bicker with them. Regardless of the kind of brother you have, the quotes below can help you express your thoughts about him.

At the end of the day, whether you fight or not, you know that your brother is special to you for a few reasons. Your brother is family and he was probably your first friend growing up. If you are lucky, then you and your brother might even be best friends.

You know you have an awesome brother if he looks after you and makes sure you don’t get hurt physically and emotionally. If you’re dating, he’ll spot the wrong guy right away because he usually pays more attention to your boyfriend’s actions and words. He also knows how to make you smile and will gladly teach you everything he knows about life. He will support your dreams and your aspirations and will do everything for you. Lastly, your brother will love you unconditionally and will accept you for who you are as a person.

If you have a brother, let him know how much he means to you. You can use these brother quotes that we’re sharing with you as an inspiration or you can write a sweet message with your own words. Whatever it is you do, we hope you and your brother remain close and bonded as the years go by!

Brother Quotes

1. We came into the world like brother and brother; And now let’s go hand in hand, not one before another. – William Shakespeare

2. Because brothers don’t let each other wander in the dark alone. – Jolene Perry

3. When brothers agree, no fortress is so strong as their common life. – Antisthenes

4. After a girl is grown, her little brothers, now her protectors; seem like big brothers. – Terri Guillemets

5. There is a destiny that makes us brothers, no one goes his way alone; all that we send into the lives of others, comes back into our own. – Edwin Markham

6. He who understands you is greater kin to you than your own brother. For even your own kindred neither understand you nor know your true worth. – Kahlil Gibran

7. As we grew up, my brothers acted like they didn’t care, but I always knew they looked out for me and were there. – Catherine Pulsifer

8. Moreover, if your brother shall trespass against you, go and tell him his fault between you and him alone. – Matthew 18:15

9. What strange creatures brothers are. – Jane Austen

10. 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. – Michael Morpurgo

11. I smile because you’re my brother and I laugh because there is nothing you can do about it.

12. My brother is one of my true heroes. Steady and sober where I am impulsive and emotional. – Mark McKinnon

13. Nothing can stop me from loving my brother. – Brandy Norwood

14. There is no success you can celebrate more than the success of a brother. – Diego Luna

15. Never make a companion equal to a brother. – Hesiod

16. 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. – Barry White

17. I grew up with an older brother, and the bond between siblings is unlike anything else, and it can be a real journey to accept what that bond is once you both mature into it. Because it’s not always what you want. It’s not always what you expect. It’s not always what you imagined or hoped. But it’s one of the most important things in the world. – Ben Schnetzer

18. My childhood, I wouldn’t say it was bad. It helped me grow up. I stayed out of trouble. My parents taught me what’s wrong and right, and knowing that I had a little brother following me, I had to make sure I was doing the right thing so he knows what’s right, too. I was in the house nine days out of 10. There wasn’t nothing good outside for me. – Russell Westbrook

19. I always wanted a little brother because I felt like the little brother had to do everything. – Paul Pierce

20. The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out his nose. – Garrison Keillor

21. Half the time when brothers wrestle, it’s just an excuse to hug each other. – James Patterson

22. Brothers are like fat thighs they stick together.

23. There is a little boy inside the man who is my brother. – Anna Quindlen

24. I grew up with six brothers. That’s how I learned to dance, waiting for the bathroom. – Bob Hope

25. I am smiling because you are my brother. I am laughing because there is nothing you can do about it.

26. When brothers fight to the death, a stranger inherits their father’s estate. – African Proverb

27. Brothers don’t hit each other, they just high-five on face.

28. There was a year between school and getting going as an actor when I basically just watched films. Video shops were the new thing, and there was a good one round the corner and me and my brother just watched everything, from the horror to the European art house. – Aidan Gillen

29. There’s a lot of times that both myself and my brother wish, obviously, that we were just completely normal. – Prince Harry

30. Growing up, my brother and I were begging for attention. – Jeremy London

31. My older brother had a lot of Elvis on vinyl, and really, that was my first introduction to music during the Fifties. – Kiki Dee

32. Growing up, I absolutely loved skateboarding and dirt bike riding with my brother and the neighborhood kids. – Daniella Monet

33. Brothers that say they never fight are most definitely hiding something. – Lemony Snicket

34. What brothers say to tease their sisters has nothing to do with what they really think of them. – Esther Friesner

35. There’s no other love like the love for a brother. There’s no other love like the love from a brother. – Terri Guillemets

36. Maybe one brother is enough.

37. 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. – Zac Efron

38. My brother is my best friend. Usually, when I’m fencing, I can hear his voice. – Erinn Smart

39. I grew up with a younger brother, so I can get pretty rowdy. – Sarah Wynter

40. If you want to know how your girl will treat you after marriage, just listen to her talking to her little brother. – Sam Levenson

41. It takes two men to make one brother. – Israel Zangwill

42. I love Lil Wayne; that’s like my little brother. He’s just the coolest dude on Earth. – Fat Joe

43. I dressed as the Riddler once, when I was little too heavy to do. I would wear tights. My brother was in a hair metal band, and he had Riddler tights made. My brother’s a geek, but he was in a heavy metal band, so I’m a chubby fifteen-year-old, and I borrow his Riddler tights and wear them to school with the package. That wasn’t a good idea. – Christopher McCulloch

44. If a man say, ‘I love God,’ and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen? And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also. – John the Apostle

45. I have a large watch collection, and classic watches are especially important to me. I had a silver Rolex, and I actually gave it to my little brother. He wears it every day. He’s an actor, so whenever he goes to an audition, he can look down, see it, and it gives him confidence. It was a great thing to pass on. – Nate Berkus

46. If we are not our brother’s keeper, at least let us not be his executioner. – Marlon Brando

47. If thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrongdoing, but more than ever that he is thy brother. – Epictetus

48. We are commanded to seek out those who are lost. We are to be our brother’s keeper. – Joseph B. Wirthlin

49. I got to play with my older brother in high school and college, and I played with my younger brother in high school and college, so I kind of get to do everything, so it was really pretty sweet. – Chris Gronkowski

50. I was kind of a bully, even though I’m tiny, 5′ 2″. As a child, I’d boss other kids around and dress my little brother up, just putting on shows, singing and dressing up. – Nicole Beharie

51. My younger brother and I have been writing together, mainly for fun, for years, but we’ve been improvising together since we were kids. Literally. – Ty Burrell

52. I intend to fight and I want to win. But my priorities are basically to be a good Brother and a strong one, and to try to be a good father one day. – Mike Tyson

53. Help your brother’s boat across and your own will reach the shore. – Hindu Proverb

54. Drake’s my little brother; I love him to death, and he’s family oriented. – Birdman

55. My brother is really, really slow. – Usain Bolt

56. I so desperately wanted to be Mr. Somebody. Instead, I was the little brother, included to a point. – Charlie Sheen

57. I’ve always been interested in medicine and was pleased when my brother became a doctor. But after thinking seriously about that field, I realized that what intrigued me was not the science, not the chemistry or biology of medicine, but the narrative – the story of each patient, each illness. – Lois Lowry

58. We cannot be kind to each other here for even an hour. We whisper, and hint, and chuckle and grin at our brother’s shame; however you take it we men are a little breed. – Alfred Lord Tennyson

59. I believe that we must reach our brother, never toning down our fundamental oppositions, but meeting him when he asks to be met, with a reason for the faith that is in us, as well as with a loving sympathy for them as brothers. – Dorothy Day

60. I’d never taken a job purely for money. I felt that would kill me, but I was afraid that I was heading that way. Then, my brother passing away was the final thing that kicked me over. It reminded me that life is short, and you’d better do what you want while you have a chance. – Mark Ruffalo

61. I grew up during the war years in a tiny cottage with no electricity. Water for washing was pumped from a pond. My brother and I had to fetch drinking water from a tap at the end of the lane, and light was from candles, paraffin lamps, and our nightly log fire. – Helen Craig

62. I have three other siblings, so it’s all very equal – even when I get a little cocky, which I usually do. My brother keeps me in a headlock. He says that I’m not a celebrity in this house. I think I’m really chilled out and grounded. – Millie Bobby Brown

63. When you’re the younger brother, usually it’s not that common that you’re having these experiences that your older brother is in awe of. – Casey Affleck

64. I wish my brother well. We agree to disagree, but he is a good man. He is my brother. – Paul Gosar

65. My brother used to get beaten up all the time because he was very effeminate. – Grace Jones

66. When Yauch died, it was really like losing my older brother. I mean, I have biological older brothers, but growing up, Adam really was my older brother. – Mike D

67. 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

68. My brother is my best friend. – Erinn Smart

69. How could I not love my own brother? I just can’t stand to be with him. – Dave Davies

70. I like dressing like a guy. I love it. When I was modeling I used to do pictures where I would dress up like my little brother. No makeup, and I looked like a boy. – Grace Jones

71. So, my big brother was playing guitar and I figured I’d try it too. – Stevie Ray Vaughan

72. My time off is usually spent working out and getting better at football. When I come home and spend time with my little brother, we’re out on the football field. We’re working out or playing Madden. We’re spending time with each other, but our quality time is football. – Stefon Diggs

73. My little brother can play the guitar; he can sing. He was a worship leader at his church. Me, no talent. – Delilah

74. I’m a little brother. I’ve always been small. People have said I have a Napoleon complex. But I’ve always had to fight for everything that I have. – Chris Paul

75. I have a younger brother. – Freddie Highmore

76. I miss her in my bones. I was her big brother. I was supposed to protect her; I could not. It very nearly destroyed me. – Kelsey Grammer

77. He is my most beloved friend and my bitterest rival, my confidant and my betrayer, my sustainer and my dependent, and scariest of all, my equal. – Gregg Levoy

78. My brother and I were still in high school playing football, and we were both middleweight, and we couldn’t find anyone else to fight in our weight class, so we’d fight each other. I was a stand up fighter, and Ike was a weaving type of fighter, and we fought that way out there at Cy Young’s farm, and we put on quite a show. – Woody Hayes

79. The best advice I got really had nothing to do with singing; it came from my brother, who always told me to stick to my guns and to believe in myself. I think Duane saw my talents and believed in me long before I ever did, and that meant the world to me. – Gregg Allman

80. I’ve been training super hard at the Lopez Taekwondo Academy in Houston, which belongs to my brother Jean. For me, I think confidence is the biggest thing; it’s all mental. I train with the best of the best, including my brother Steven, a five time world champion who won Olympic gold medals. – Diana Lopez

81. I went through a lot of bullying early on. Girls made my life a living hell. We had come to America from a different country. My brother and I had accents. It was very tough. – Nicki Minaj

82. I’m a tomboy now. I always wanted to fit in with my brother’s group, so I climbed trees and played with lead soldiers. But I’m a woman’s woman. I never understood women who don’t have women friends. – Naomi Watts

83. I don’t just wanna be James Franco’s little brother. – Dave Franco

84. Gypsy was the name my brother gave a pet turtle he had. I always thought it was so peculiar. – Joel Hodgson

85. My brother is an electrical engineer and went to computer science grad school at Stanford, and he’d tell me stories about the happy hours he’d organize. – Alec Berg

86. At one time in my life, from the time I was seven until I was about thirteen, I didn’t speak. I only spoke to my brother. The reason I didn’t speak: I had been molested, and I told the name of the molester to my brother who told it to the family. – Maya Angelou

87. My brother Bob doesn’t want to be in government, he promised Dad he’d go straight. – John F. Kennedy

88. The African is my brother but he is my younger brother by several centuries. – Albert Schweitzer

89. Well, my brother says Hello. So, hooray for speech therapy. – Emo Philips

90. My brother Van got the computer first and showed me what it was like to edit video. I definitely credit Van with turning me onto filmmaking. – Casey Neistat

91. If you’re lucky like me, your relationship with your brother has resolved itself on the peaceful side of the fence and has stayed there. But if you’re someone who’s got a family that’s all fractured and finding it hard to relate, that’s a very sad place to be. – Tom Hardy

92. My brother had a house in Paris. To it came many Western classical musicians. These musicians all made the same point: ‘Indian music,’ they said, ‘is beautiful when we hear it with the dancers. On its own, it is repetitious and monotonous.’ – Ravi Shankar

93. I’m probably a bit of a cheeky grandson like my brother as well. We both tend to take the mickey a bit much. – Prince William

94. My little brother played drums, so we had a drum set over at my house. – Synyster Gates

95. American society to me and my brother was thrilling because, first of all, the food made noise. We were so excited about Rice Krispies and Coca-Cola. We had only silent food in our country, and we loved listening to our lunch and breakfast. – Mike Nichols

96. My brother was always going to go in the direction of football. With me, it was more between school and football. Eventually, it worked out for both of us. We’re pleased to have gone down that path. I’m proud that my parents always supported us, in good and in bad times. You need that. – Granit Xhaka

97. My brother Alan, who was seven years younger than me,  died from leukemia when he was 52. He never knew a day’s good health; I wish I could have given him some of my good health. But he was always so cheerful and sweet. – Brian Blessed

98. It’s such a tragedy that man endures in killing his brother and his own kind, putting him in jail and insane asylums, letting him lay out in the street. – Sun Ra

99. Sometimes being a brother is even better than being a superhero. – Marc Brown

100. A brother is a friend given by Nature. – Jean Baptiste Legouve

101. Brothers don’t necessarily have to say anything to each other – they can sit in a room and be together and just be completely comfortable with each other. – Leonardo DiCaprio

102. A brother shares childhood memories and grown-up dreams.

103. I’ve been blessed to have a brother like you, You’re my pal, my buddy, and my best friend too. And it means a lot having a brother like you.

104. The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder. – Jane Austen

105. It snowed last year too: I made a snowman and my brother knocked it down and I knocked my brother down and then we had tea. – Dylan Thomas

106. Having two older brothers is a healthy reminder that you’re always closer to the bottom than you are to the top. – Andy Roddick

107. Your brother is always the first male friend you will have in your life. -.Ritu Ghatourey

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

109. Not only had my brother disappeared, but, and bear with me here, a part of my very being had gone with him. Stories about us could, from them on, be told from only one perspective. Memories could be told but not shared. – John Corey Whaley

110. I don’t despise you for what you allowed to happen to me. I despise you because when I was released, you refused to be found and I needed you more than anything in my life. Not to mend my broken bones, Arjuro. I needed my brother to mend my broken spirit. – Melina Marchetta

111. I remembered my little brother, Allyn, had appeared so innocent and angelic when he slept similar to Kerrick. It must be a survival tactic. If Allyn hadn’t looked so sweet, we would have killed him while he slept. He had been pure evil when he was awake, similar to Kerrick. – Maria V. Snyder

112. She had always wanted a brother. And she had one now. Sebastian. It was like always wanting a puppy and being a hellhound instead. – Cassandra Clare

113. Truth or lie, he had always chosen the lie, to spare his little brother any unpleasant truth. – Cornelia Funke

114. That’s the function of big brothers, to help their little sisters when their worlds are collapsing. – Susan Beth Pfeffer

115. I get facials. I get a manicure and pedicure every week. I get my haircut, and I oil myself down from head to toe. I got that from my brother. I was so impressed with how high maintenance he was. When he left the room, you could still smell him for an hour. – Bernie Mac

116. I was running super slow. Chris thought I was done. Then one day at the end of February, I woke up and my body felt good. I was just so happy. I was faster than my brother again. I got all my moves back. I told him, ‘Brother, I’m back, and now you’re done.’ – Rob Gronkowski

117. My big brother still thinks he’s a better singer than me. – Rod Stewart

118. I think I have had so much blessing. I’ve had my brother, who was brilliant. I think my family came closest to making a genius when they made my brother, Bailey, was just all of that. He loved me. – Maya Angelou

119. I was a boy with one dream and one dream only: I wanted, no, strike that, I was desperate for a room of my own. You see, in those days I shared a room with my little brother, Jesse, and it wasn’t pretty. He was the Oscar to my Felix: messy, careless, and just a little bit sticky. Exactly, the way a kindergartner is supposed to be. – Nate Berkus