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Quotes About Relatives

Well, if you don't want your relatives and friends to die, help me spread the news. Let people know about immortality device. That way, your loved ones won't die.
~ Alex Chiu
I don't want anyone being put off going into politics because they fear their personal life, family and relatives will be spread all over the media.
~ Liz Kendall
The house of a childless person is a void, all directions are void to one who has no relatives, the heart of a fool is also void, but to a poverty stricken man all is void.
~ Chanakya
Man has three friends on whose company he relies. First, wealth which goes with him only while good fortune lasts. Second, his relatives; they go only as far as the grave, leave him there. The third friend, his good deeds, go with him beyond the grave.
~ The Talmud
Some relative names are imposed to signify the relative habitudes themselves, as "master" and "servant," "father," and "son," and the like, and these relatives are called predicamental [secundum esse]. But others are imposed to signify the things from which ensue certain habitudes, as the mover and the thing moved, the head and the thing that has a head, and the like: and these relatives are called transcendental [secundum dici].
~ Thomas Aquinas
Most of the people I have really cared about in this world, I have elected to the position. I have a belief that a man's real relatives are scattered throughout the universe, and seldom if ever belong to his immediate kin.
~ Thomas Berger
I have a belief that a man's real relatives are scattered throughout the universe, and seldom if ever belong to his immediate kin.
~ Thomas Berger
I've got loads of nieces and nephews.
~ Karl Pilkington
the regional mental asylum. The SS is in charge. They have built a special crematorium. Those who are not wanted are taken up in a kind of police van.People here call it the whispering coach. The relatives receive the urn. Recently one family here received two urns at once. - We now have pure communism. But communism murders more honestly.
~ Victor Klemperer
If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.
~ Lao Tzu
but he kept berths for at least two others: Álvaro de Mesquita, a relative on his mother's side
~ Laurence Bergreen
One should not inhabit a country where one gets no respect, no opportunity to earn once's livelihood, where one has no friends or relatives, or from where one can not acquire knowledge.
~ Chanakya
doors of our house were—almost cruelly, it seemed to me sometimes—bolted and locked against it. An aunt of my father's, and consequently a great-aunt of mine, of whom I shall have more to relate by and by, was the principal magnate of our family.
~ Charles Dickens
Eat and drink with your relatives; do business with strangers.
~ Greek proverb
The reason there was no name for such distant relatives was because sane people would have no interest in distinguishing them from anyone else. "Once
~ Greg Egan
It isn't necessary to have relatives in Kansas City in order to be unhappy.
~ Groucho Marx
It isn't necessary to have relatives in Kansas City in order to be unhappy.
~ Groucho Marx
Before he loved you, I suffered alongside him Ã¢â'¬Â¦ I was his son before he even met you Ã¢â'¬Â¦ Don't we need to be taken care of, too? "With all that money, the chicken coop [of relatives] gets all mixed up and the family gets warped," Jessica says.
~ Hector Tobar
He had neither companions nor friends, church nor creed. He lived his spiritual life without any communion with others, visiting his relatives at Christmas and escorting them to the cemetery when they died. He performed these two social duties for old dignity's sake but conceded nothing further to the conventions which regulate the civic life.
~ James Joyce
He lived his spiritual life without any communion with others, visiting his relatives at Christmas and escorting them to the cemetery when they died. He performed these two social duties for old dignity's sake but conceded nothing further to the conventions which regulate the civic life.
~ James Joyce
THE MOST FAMILIAR wedding rituals can transform themselves into meaningful traditions when it's your wedding. The tossing of the bouquet, dancing with relatives you haven't seen in years, the achingly embarrassing toasts…I wanted it all, and I loved every minute of this Christmas wedding.
~ James Patterson
My own aunt was Merle Oberon, so movie stardom was not a faraway mystery to me as a child: it was part of the family business.
~ Michael Korda
In the movies, you want a good story and characters that are honest, but you are also looking for a good director who can lead the ship. That's how we look at business. Everybody has a great idea for a start-up, and so do their relatives, and they tell me, 'You gotta build it.' I say, 'I have to believe in it.'
~ Ashton Kutcher
If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.
~ Lao Tzu