Quotes About Cousins

I like to sing with my cousins. We're in a church choir.

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.

Our older cousins would help us out. We'd get babysat a lot by some of mum's sisters. They took care of us. But my success in martial arts, getting to be a champion, is down to my mum.

It was like a brother-sister type relationship with all of my cousins. Growing up we were always hanging out together. We all kind of looked after each other like brothers and sisters when we went to school and stuff.

Ireland was an idyllic place for us as children. We had all these cousins and all this green countryside. Given what I've written about rural Ireland, my memories of it are all blue skies and endless play.

Our very lives depend on him." The little cousins

Quien más quien menos, mis cuatro primos carnales se dedican a la filosofía. Leen libros, discuten entre ellos y son admirados a distancia por el resto de la familia

Grammar snobs are a distinct breed from their gentle cousins: word nerds and grammar geeks. The difference is bloodlust.

Later when he thought about it he realized that these very cousins could have gotten him laid if only he'd bothered to hang out with them. But you can't regret the life you didn't lead.)

In Ireland, I have 50-something cousins. My dad is one of six or seven and it's my second home. I am so proud to be from there.

in some sense, it was the tyranny of cousins that allowed Indians to resist the tyranny of tyrants.

She inspected him lying on the deck, and he raised a fist in a gesture of solidarity. "Radiant the Lopen," Rysn said, ". . . um, what do you call a Thaylen who can't walk?" "Not sure, gancha." "Names. From afar." He grinned widely. "Of course," Rysn added. "I'd never stand for that sort of thing." The Lopen about died from laughing. He called to his cousin again, translating the jokes. This time Huio chuckled.

You really think you can buy some rope without drawing attention?" Lopen lounged back against the wall. "My cousin's never failed me." "How many cousins do you have, anyway?" Earless Jaks asked. "A man can never have enough cousins," Lopen said.

As a young man Mannix was disgusted to see his cousin John Cagney take off his cap to Robert Sanders. 'I always do that to my superiors,' Cagney explained. 'Well, my advice to you is to go about bald-headed,' Daniel retorted.8

Friendship is first, Friendship last. But it is equally impossible to forget our Friends, and to make them answer to our ideal. When they say farewell, then indeed we begin to keep them company. How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual Friends, that we may go and meet their ideal cousins. I would that I were worthy to be any man's Friend.

One is that people, on the whole, had better not marry their cousins. Another is that people in an advanced stage of pulmonary disorder had better not marry at all.

It's a fun uphill struggle, making health insurance as a comedian, actor, and author. But it's hard to explain to people how I make a living. In New York, most people know enough creative types that I make some sense. But when I'm talking to someone like my suburban cousins or my mom's friends, it doesn't always go smoothly.

I grew up in Yorkshire, and once or twice a year, we'd travel over the Pennines to see my cousins in Cheshire.

A lot of my family members were performers, and my cousins are comedians and actresses. From a very young age, movies were really important. They were given a lot of value.

My mother's sister married a man from Barbados, and my cousins were raised in Barbados. So we traveled down there, they came up every summer for camp, and I started paying attention to their music. And that was the first place I ever remember hearing reggae and liking it.

Charles Darwin and I and you broke off from the family tree from chimpanzees about five million years ago. They're still our closest genetic kin. We share 98.8 percent of the genes. We share more genes with them than zebras do with horses. And we're also their closest cousin. They have more genetic relation to us than to gorillas.

We Brits feel no resentment about 'losing' our American colonies. We're quite fond of independent Americans, and see them as distant cousins who can't spell our language properly. We've cooperated with America pretty amicably on projects like liberating Europe and inventing pop music. And we have no desire whatsoever to try and govern Texas.

Domesticated species don't command our respect the way their wild cousins often do. Evolution may reward interdependence, but our thinking selves continue to prize self-reliance.

As a child, I was raised with my grandmother, alongside all my cousins, and the kitchen was always full.