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Quotes About Relatives

My family is really, really Southern - I had two uncle Bubbas, and grandparents that we called Big Mama and Big Daddy.
~ Laura Lippman
We are born among relatives. Family is defined by loyalty.
~ Dan Groat
God gave us our relatives thank God we can choose our friends.
~ Ethel Watts Mumford
she was also an extremely poor one, and, as he himself had lost his fortune, they went scarcely anywhere, and were the sort of people who were apt to be overlooked except on great occasions, when they had the good fortune to bury or marry a relative.
~ Marcel Proust
cannot say, now that I come to think about it, how many times I heard the word "cousin
~ Marcel Proust
Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.
~ Jacques Delille
Getting together Social gatherings are popular with Italians, and it is common to invite relatives and friends for a meal, even if there is no special occasion. On the weekend, many people visit their relatives or go to a soccer match. Some families like to have Sunday lunch in a restaurant, such as these people in Tuscany.
~ Unknown
Among the scarecrows in this vision he could see members of his own family.
~ Unknown
Billy Almon has all of his in-laws and outlaws here this afternoon.
~ Jerry Coleman
Most of the people in my family were pretty funny. Everyone had a good sense of humor. I came to California right after college, wanting to be a musician.
~ Andy Kindler
I have a theory of relatives, too. Don't hire 'em.
~ Unknown
I have a funny family, but none of them are remotely in show business.
~ Wanda Sykes
Apparently, 1 in 5 people in the world are Chinese. And there are 5 people in my family, so it must be one of them. It's either my mum or my dad. Or my older brother Colin. Or my younger brother Ho-Chan-Chu. But I think it's Colin.
~ Tim Vine
Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.
~ Franklin P Jones
In fact the taboo against killing and eating one's relatives is the most fundamental precondition if people are to live together and cooperate on a daily basis.
~ Marvin Harris
2. You did not make your child spirited. There is a genetic factor to being spirited, but how one's genes are expressed is significantly influenced by life events. You are but one of the many influences in your child's life. Other parents, relatives, siblings, teachers, neighbors, friends, life experiences, and the world at large all play a part. You make a big difference, but not the only difference.
~ Unknown
Love from strangers is better than apathy from relatives.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
The Earth´s sun can look very much alone, yet it has relatives all across this galaxy, stars that were born in the exact same place, but which were now very far away from each other, lighting very different worlds. I was like a sun.
~ Matt Haig
We made a covenant with the Children of Israel, 'Worship none but God and be good to your parents and to relatives and orphans and the needy. And speak kindly to people.g
~ Unknown
A picture began to emerge of a woman who possessed hope and optimism and gumption in spades in spite of wretched relatives and a world that never took much notice of her.
~ Unknown
Most of the time I'm like, 'Why do I have to share a gender with you, you piece of shit?' It's like when you have a bad relative who has the same last name.
~ Meg Wolitzer
God gives us our relatives- thank God we can choose our friends.
~ Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
At the age of six, the criteria for handsome was simply: "Is he not related to me?" and "Have I seen him on television?" That was it. By this standard, Larry Bird, Dick Clark, and Andy Rooney. All handsome guys.
~ Mindy Kaling
Many of the people there were in their twenties and thirties, and I wondered if they were Blanca or the friends of Blanca..There were also people in their forties, fifties, sixties, and seventies, and these people had a chance of being Blanca, too, or the parents of Blanca, or grandparents or even great-grandparents of Blanca, if Blanca was a child. There were a few children running around, sisters of brothers, who could be Blanca or Blanca's grandchild...
~ Miranda July