Best Cousin Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: Wealth of Words

“When DNA shows you've worked more than 10 years with your 2nd cousin once removed, you can't help but see its use in family research.”

Shows Work Family Research Dna Cousin Yearss

Author:Jeffrey G. Duarte

“I grin, imagining it. “I can hear your creepy smile right now.” “I don’t have a creepy smile.” “You do when it comes to my cousin.” I frown. “Don’t worry, his smile for you is even creepier.” “All his smiles are creepy.”

Funny Cousin Creepy Smiles Grins Creepy Smiles

Book:This May End Badly

Source: This May End Badly

“Some of us can live without a society but not without a family.”

Source: Wealth of Words

“In united families, they might sleep with half filled stomach but no one sleeps with empty stomach.”

Source: Wealth of Words

“You can take the Indian out of the family, but you cannot take the family out of the Indian.”

Source: Wealth of Words

“To the loyal and to the blood-lovers, in the good families and in the fiery dynasties, life is family and family is life. It is the same people who give advice and their vices to live well who turn out to be the ones who give resource and reason to live long.”

Source: Healology

“In what world did you think you could get away with this?" Jalal seethed. "To my cousin? To my family?" His gleaming hilt continued its punishing onslaught.”

Family Cousin Khalid Jalal Jalal Al Khoury

Book:The Wrath and the Dawn

Source: The Wrath and the Dawn

“The only thing most of us love about most of our family members is that they are related to us.”

Children Parent Family Society Loved Ones Cousin Sibling Family Members Nephew Niece

Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“My dear cousin means the world to me. He is my only ally and I lost him. Deep in my heart I know he didn’t want to blame me but his heart is set on that training and I had been beginning to think that took priority over family. I hope he would see reason but I can't not blame him if he doesn't. Breaking free from this castle is a dream not only held by me. But I can't imagine having to reason with someone who stole your future.”

Reason Dream Future Cousin Ally

Author:Celia McMahon

“Mr. Rivenhall said to Sophy, “If this is your doing—!” “I promise you it is not. If I thought that he had the smallest notion of your hostility, I should say that he had rolled you up, Charles, foot and guns!” He was obliged to laugh. “I doubt if he would have the smallest notion of anything less violent than a blow from a cudgel. How you can tolerate the fellow!” “I told you that I was not at all nice in my ideas. Come, don’t let us talk of him! I have sworn an oath to heaven not to quarrel with you today.” “You amaze me! Why?” “Don’t be such an ape!” she begged. “I want to drive your grays, of course!”

Cousin Banter Ulterior Motive

Book:The Grand Sophy

Source: The Grand Sophy

“Starting a business with brother either ends business or ends brotherhood.”

“Someone told me sleep was the cousin of death and followin' the dollar finds nothin' but stress.”

Sleep Stress Dollars Cousin Don't Stress

Author:Mac Miller

“I did not fire Brian Wilson from the Beach Boys. I cannot fire Brian Wilson from the Beach Boys. I am not his employer. I do not have such authority. And even if I did, I would never fire Brian Wilson from the Beach Boys. I love Brian Wilson. We are partners. He’s my cousin by birth and my brother in music.”

Ifs Boys Fire Brother Birth Authority Partners Beach My Brother Cousin Employers Wilson Brian My Cousin Beach Boys

Author:Mike Love

“I don't like to design single objects. I like my pieces to have a relationship to each other. They can be mother and child, like the Schmoo salt and pepper shakers, or brother and sister like the Birdie salt and peppers, or cousins, like most of my dinnerware sets.”

Children Mother Pieces Design Objects Brother Salt Brothers And Sisters Cousin Peppers Mother And Child Shakers Salt And Pepper

Author:Eva Zeisel

“Most of my cousins are boys, so I'm used to being around boys.”

Used Boys Cousin My Cousin

Author:Michelle Ryan

“Film and TV and stuff like that was something that I wanted to do when I was really, really little; like, I remember I used to do these plays with my cousins. We used to do Michael Jackson performances, and I would be Michael.”

Littles Play Would Be Wanted Remember Film Used Stuff Tvs Performances Cousin My Cousin

Author:Ja Rule

“You named them: hustlers, killers, fiends, ex-cons. I called them: cousins, aunts, pops, moms. To you? Hoodlums, crackheads, gunmens. To me? Just neighbors, classmates, young friends.”

Young Mom Hip Hop Pops Rap Neighbor Killers Exes Cousin Aunt Classmates Young Friends Crackheads

Author:Ka

“Everyone in my family can sing - my momma can sing, my cousins. I was in the third grade and I was that kid who was so bad in school because I could sing.”

Kids School My Family Thirds Grades Cousin My Cousin Momma Third Grade My Momma

Author:Ester Dean

“I have 52 first cousins. My mom and dad were the only two to move to North America, so I've got deep family there, but I'm a California kid.”

Firsts Two Kids America Moving Mom Dad My Mom California Cousin North America Mom And Dad

Author:Donal Logue

“They say sleep is the cousin of death, guess we related... Cause I'm the most slept on, and the most hated.”

Causes Sleep Hip Hop Rap Hated Related Cousin

Author:Jayceon Terrell Taylor

“But audio is a component of video, so there's always been that anyway, and although we've never expressed a visual side apart from the Grateful Dead movie, I don't find it that remote, you know what I mean? It's a departure of sorts, but it's like a first cousin.”

Knows Firsts Mean Actors Sides Grateful Video Movie Visuals Components Cousin Departure My Cousin Audio

Author:Jerry Garcia

“My wife is from Laurel, Mississippi, and she has a lot of relatives down in Louisiana, Baton Rouge, and Shreveport, Louisiana. We go down there a lot. We got married in New Orleans. She has a cousin who introduced me to swamp pop, which is sort of zydeco/Cajun music with a little uptempo pop swing. Now I'm a big zydeco fan, I'm a big swamp-music fan.”

Littles Bigs Wife Fans Married Pops My Wife Swings Cousin New Orleans Mississippi Louisiana Swamps Laurels Rouge Baton Music Fans Cajuns Baton Rouge

Author:Charlie Day

“When I was a child, our whole family cooked. All my cousins cooked. All my aunts and uncles cooked. It was part of our heritage.”

Children Whole Cooking Heritage Uncles Cousin Aunt Whole Family My Cousin Aunts And Uncles

Author:Mario Batali

“While my cousins were gang-banging, I was trying to learn what the Internet was about.”

Trying Internet Cousin Gang My Cousin Banging

Author:Theophilus London

“I have a cousin called Flirta D who was big in the grime world, which made me really cool at school. 'Flirta D's your cousin?' 'Yeah, buddy.' 'He must be a millionaire!'”

World Made Bigs School Yeah Cousin Buddy Millionaire Really Cool Grime Your Cousin

Author:Sampha

“From the industry's point of view, the problem is not that coal companies blast the top off mountains, turning the area into a moonscape and polluting the air and releasing toxic chemical into what's left of the local streams and aquifers. It's that the people who live near the mines are too cozy with their cousins.”

People Problem Left Views Company Air Mines Industry Mountain Areas Point Of View Locals Streams Chemicals Toxic Coal Cousin Blast Cozy Toxic Chemicals Aquifers

Author:Jeff Goodell

“I find it hard to see how my northern cousins could get so worked up about counties created by British imperialists.”

Hard British Cousin County

Author:Colm O'Rourke

“In Afghanistan, you don't understand yourself solely as an individual. You understand yourself as a son, a brother, a cousin to somebody, an uncle to somebody. You are part of something bigger than yourself.”

Individual Son Brother Bigger Afghanistan Uncles Cousin Something Bigger Than Yourself

Author:Khaled Hosseini

“I don't write about the intimate details of my cousins and aunts and uncles, and my mother and my father because it's not right to, for me.”

Writing Mother Father Details Intimate Uncles Cousin Aunt My Cousin Aunts And Uncles

Author:Anne Lamott

“I can sit underneath the shed with all my family, my cousins, and everything, and just be like, "Yeah, this is what it's about - just sitting with people you love and hanging out."”

People I Can Sitting My Family Yeah Hanging Out Shed Cousin My Cousin

Author:Channing Tatum

“It was difficult knowing one of your cousins had lost his life.”

Lost Difficult Knowing Cousin Your Cousin

Author:Steven Gerrard

“I grew up watching my Dad, Uncles Ciaran Murray and Brendan Murray, and cousin, Aedin Murray, who were all national caliber Gaelic football players in Ireland. I try to watch as much Gaelic football as I can, it is my first love. I bleed Green, White, and Orange. Gaelic football players don’t get paid to play, you play to represent your county that is more important than earning money.”

“I discovered that our clan included loads of cousins and uncles and aunts and animals of every shape. I was taught that chaos and competition were family values. And I learned that we all loved the sea. Somehow, the sea was about us-our past, our exuberance, our frailty, our longing.”

Past Values Animal Sea Taught Shapes Longing Competition Chaos Load Our Past Uncles Cousin Aunt Frailty Family Values Clans Exuberance

Author:Timothy Shriver

“In former days, when there were Whigs instead of Liberals, it was almost a rule of political life that all leading Whigs sould be uncles, brothers-in-law, or cousins to each other. This was pleasant and gave great consistency to the party; but the system has now gone out of vogue.”

Law Political Party Gone Brother Former Pleasant Consistency Uncles Cousin In-laws Vogue Political Life Brother In Law

Book:Phineas Redux

Source: Phineas Redux

“Sleep is cousin-german unto death: Sleep and death differ, no more, than a carcass And a skeleton.”

Sleep Cousin Skeletons

Author:Thomas Traherne

“When we are inclined to boast of our position [as Christians] we should remember that we are but Gentiles, while the Jews are of the lineage of Christ. We are aliens and in-laws; they are blood relatives, cousins, and brothers of our Lord. Therefore, if one is to boast of flesh and blood the Jews are actually nearer to Christ than we are.”

Ifs Should Christian Remember Law Christ Lord Blood Position Brother Jew Flesh Aliens Boast Cousin Our Lord In-laws Flesh And Blood Lineage Gentiles Blood Relatives

Book:The Christian in society

Source: The Christian in society

“I don't really have time [to babysit my twin cousins]. And, well, I actually have my own babysitter sometimes.”

Wells Sometimes My Own Twins Cousin Babysitter

Author:Emma Roberts

“Anybody who has ever owned a dog who barked when strangers came near its owner's property has experienced the essential continuity between animal territoriality and human property. Our domesticated cousins of the wolf know, instinctively, that property is no mere social convention or game, but a critically important evolved mechanism for the avoidance of violence. (This makes them smarter than a good many human political theorists.)”

Humans Political Animal Dog Essentials Property Stranger Owners Good Man Smarter Cousin Continuity Theorists

Author:Eric S. Raymond

“I spoke with the crows before leaving for Los Angeles. They were the resident storytellers whose strident and insistent voices added the necessary dissonance for color. They had cousins in California, and gave me their names and addresses, told me to look them up. They warned me, too, what they had heard about attitude there. And they were right. Attitude was thick, hung from the would-be's and has-beens and think-they-ares, so thick that I figured it was the major source of the smog.”

Source: How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems 1975-2002

“Yet the stones remain less real to those who cannot name them, or read the mute syllables graven in silica. To see a red stone is less than seeing it as jasper metamorphic quartz, cousin to the flint the Kiowa carved as arrowheads. To name is to know and remember.”

Knows Real Remember Names Seeing Red Stones Cousin Mute Syllables Quartz

Book:99 Poems: New & Selected

Source: 99 Poems: New & Selected

“Courage to be who you are is the cousin of loving the Divine, yourself and others.”

Divine Ethics Who You Are Cousin Be Who You Are

Author:Robert V. Taylor

“Bassett was a member of parliament and a cousin on my father's side of the family. My father delivered him and it became plain in later days that he must have dropped him.”

Father Sides Members Cousin Parliament Members Of Parliament

Book:My life

Source: My life

“Not only are Puerto Ricans citizens by birth, but one would be hard-pressed to find a Puerto Rican without a sister in New York or a son in Chicago, a cousin in Orlando or a daughter in Honolulu or Oklahoma City.”

Hard Would Be Cities New York Son Birth Citizens Daughter Chicago Cousin Oklahoma Orlando Honolulu Oklahoma City

Author:Luis A. Ferre

“I was in the land of fakes and frauds and phonies-I felt like saying “Howdy cousin,” to everybody who walked by.”

Felt Land Fake Fraud Cousin Phony

Author:Gary Reilly

“A flower is your cousin...Sometimes a person has got to take a life, like a chicken's or a hog's when you need it...But nobody is so hungry they need to kill a flower. Cherokee great-grandmother”

Needs Persons Sometimes Flower Plant Hungry Grandmother Chickens Cousin Hog Great Grandmother Cherokee Your Cousin

Author:Barbara Kingsolver

“Acting as a profession came to me by chance: in 1946, after the war, I was having lunch with my cousin, who was the Italian ambassador, and he asked, 'What are you going to do now you're out of uniform?' I said, 'I'm pretty inventive, and I can imitate people,' and he said, 'Have you thought about being an actor?'”

People Inspirational Said I Can War Actors Chance Acting Profession Italian Lunch Uniforms Cousin Ambassadors My Cousin

Author:Christopher Lee

“Do you have a brother or cousin in Ivory Coast, because I don't have the money to bring you to Porto.”

Football Brother Managers Soccer Coast Cousin Chairman Ivory Porto

Author:Jose Mourinho

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