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Quotes About Relatives

Dear old Uncle Skulky, man, is the impossibly mad relative we all have sleeping in our souls.
~ William Kotzwinkle
You know, all my songs are relatives, brothers, sisters, cousins.
~ David Coverdale
Saw him where?" "While I was sitting outside with one of my half aunts." This seemed to satisfy Ronan was well, because he asked, "What's the other half of her?" "God, Ronan," Adam said. "Enough.
~ Maggie Stiefvater
God, the boring relative everyone ignores--no one calls, no one writes--until they need a serious favor.
~ Marisha Pessl
And once again the government has failed to get the kind of cooperation from the relatives that might allow the case of this young boy to end in a civilized manner that is best for him.
~ Peter Jennings
Food for us comes from our relatives, whether they have wings or fins or roots. That is how we consider food. Food has a culture. It has a history. It has a story. It has relationships.
~ Winona LaDuke
The nice thing about having relatives' kids around is that they go home.
~ Cliff Richard
When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them.
~ George Bernard Shaw
I hope someday we can stamp out illiteracy in America. Of course you'll have to kill alot of my relatives to do it.
~ Jeff Foxworthy
Most of my relatives are police marksmen, apart from my grandad who was a bank robber. He died recently, surrounded by his family.
~ Milton Jones
It isn't necessary to have relatives in Kansas City in order to be unhappy.
~ Groucho Marx
Wealth and intelligence should not be categorized as relatives.
~ K.R. Royal
God gives us our relatives – thank God we can choose our friends.
~ Addison Mizner
My mom always said we can't pick our family," he said, "but we can make our own. I've got some relatives I prefer at a distance and some friends I'd give the shirt off my back.
~ Jana Deleon
The family is affected when the relatives and friends can no longer tolerate the consequences of alcoholism and avoid the alcoholic and his/her family. The family is also directly affected by the alcoholic's behavior. Unable, without help, to counteract this, the family members get caught up in the consequences of the illness and become emotionally ill themselves.
~ Janet Geringer Woititz
In wealth, many friends; in poverty, not even relatives.
~ Japanese Proverb
When I came to America from Sweden, Mother and I, we went to Chicago where our relatives lived.
~ Ann-Margret
Whether we find it appealing or not is another question, but personally I like being fourth cousin to a mushroom and having a bonobo as my closest living relative. It makes me feel a part of the world.
~ Richard Fortey
Nothing like watching your relatives fight, I always say.
~ Rick Riordan
1. Good Morning! You're Going to Die 2. The Man with the Metal Bra 3. Don't Accept Rides from Strange Relatives 4. Seriously, the Dude Cannot Drive 5. I've Always Wanted to Destroy a Bridge 6. Make Way for Ducklings, or They Will Smack You Upside the Head 7. You Look Great Without a Nose, Really 8. Mind the Gap, and Also the Hairy Guy with the Ax 9. You Totally Want the Minibar Key 10.
~ Rick Riordan
My nephew is a manipulative, scheming, unscrupulous son of a bitch. And those are his good qualities.
~ Kelley Armstrong
Like Uncle Si says, it's never a good family reunion when you start firing relatives.
~ Willie Robertson
Nikolai Aleksandrovich, in view of the fact that your relatives are continuing their attack on Soviet Russia, the Ural Executive Committee has decided to execute you...
~ Yakov Yurovsky
Movies with interfering in-laws and kids are often presented as comic, the ridicule bringing welcome relief to beleaguered married folks suffering offscreen at the hands of relatives.
~ Jeanine Basinger