Cousin Quotes - Page 6

• My cousins and I used to play Beatle wives. We all wanted to be married to Paul, but John was O.K. too. None of us wanted Ringo. Or even worse, George.

  Ann Hood

  Play, Wife, Married

  Ann Hood (2009). “Comfort: A Journey Through Grief”, p.66, W. W. Norton & Company

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• People talk about me as if I am the sole inheritor of the Guinness family fortune and worth masses, but I have hundreds of cousins.

  Jasmine Guinness

  People, Fortune, Sole

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• My whole family is spiritual. My grandmother, grand aunt, cousins, they're all preachers and pastors. Spirituality is a part of my family, from generations ago.

  Ziggy Marley

  Spiritual, Grandmother, Aunt

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Elizabeth was counting on Marco to keep cousin Mary occupied until after the board meeting was over. A piece of cheese might catch a mouse, but an afternoon alone with a muscular masseur would ensnare her cousin far more effectively. And afterwards, while Mary lay sated and sleeping upon a massage table, wiser heads could determine the company's future. There were times, Elizabeth thought, when success in business demanded utter ruthlessness.

  Barbara Taylor Bradford

  Sleep, Business Success, Boards

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• I always say that photography's closest cousin is poetry because of the way it sparks your imagination and leaves gaps for the viewer to fill in.

  Alec Soth

  Photography, Imagination, Gaps

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• He's like one of those weird birds in India who dissolve themselves into thin air and nip through space in a sort of disembodied way and assemble the parts again just where they want them. I've got a cousin who's what they call a Theosophist, and he says he's often nearly worked the thing himself, but couldn't quite bring it off, probably owing to having fed in his boyhood on the flesh of animals slain in anger and pie.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Animal, Air, Pie

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• Never dreaming, was I, poor Jack Duluoz, that the soul is dead. That from Heaven grace descends . . . No Doctor Pisspot Poorpail to tell me; no example inside my first and only skin. That love is the heritage, and cousin to death. That the only love can only be the first love, the only death the last, the only life within, and the only word . . . choked forever.

  Jack Kerouac

  Love, Dream, Doctors

  Jack Kerouac (2017). “Maggie Cassidy”, p.22, Penguin UK

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• You have introduced a topic on which our natures are at variance - a topic we should never discuss: the very name of love is an apple of discord between us. If the reality were required, what should we do? How should we feel? My dear cousin, abandon your scheme of marriage - forget it.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Reality, Love Is, Names

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.332, Penguin

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• This isn’t Kirk Cousins’ job to win. Right now this is Kirk Cousins’ job to lose…He’s putting together a profile right now, a resume of these next seven weeks that will make the decision easy for the Redskins: either they sign him to a contract or they’re still looking for the quarterback of the future.

  Bill Cowher

  Jobs, Winning, Decision

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• Kirk Cousins is the future of the Washington Redskins.

  Bill Cowher

  Redskins, Kirk

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• I am very scared of wasps; my cousin was stung in the eye once.

  Missy Elliot

  Eye, Scared, Wasps

  "Missy in action". Interview with Ted Kessler, www.theguardian.com. August 5, 2001.

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• My cousin is gay, in school while other kids were dissecting frog, he was opening flies.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Funny, School, Humor

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• I'm definitely shy, so it was definitely acting for me to drop a trench coat and be in a bikini and try to get my cousins out of trouble by using my body. That was definitely acting.

  Jessica Simpson

  Acting, Trying, Bikinis

  "Dieting Miss Daisy". www.mirror.co.uk. August 23, 2005.

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• The solitude and peace of mind are serving me quite well, not the least of which is due to the excellent and truly enjoyable relationship with my cousin; its stability will be guaranteed by the avoidance of marriage.

  Albert Einstein

  Solitude, Mind, Excellent

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.441, Princeton University Press

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• From her gospel-singing mother Cissy Houston, her legendary pop-diva cousin Dionne Warwick, and her Queen of Soul godmother Aretha Franklin, she [Whitney Houston] inherited gifts for skillfully interpreting lyrics and endowing them with new depth and jeweled nuance.

  Aberjhani

  Mother, Queens, Soul

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• The near cousin of optimism is hope: knowing the steps needed to get to a goal and having the energy to pursue those steps. It is a primal motivating force, and its absence is paralyzing.

  Daniel Goleman

  Knowing, Optimism, Goal

  Daniel Goleman (2011). “Working With Emotional Intelligence”, p.128, Bantam

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• So many times through the course of a season you are defined by your backups. They have three players in [Kirk] Cousins, Niles [Paul] and [Bashaud] Breeland who may be better than the players that they’re replacing.

  Bill Cowher

  Player, May, Three

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• I had a buddy of mine call up the other day, all upset 'cause he slept with his third cousin. And I'm like, Man, if it upsets you that much, quit countin' them!

  Larry the Cable Guy

  Men, Upset, Causes

  "Larry the Cable Guy: Morning Constitutions". Comedy, www.imdb.com. 2007.

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• Never we sleep, a thug doesn't rest,
  Cause a wise man said: it was a cousin of death.

  Big Pun

  Wise, Rap, Sleep

  Song: Who Is a Thug

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• And I'm not sure why I'm infatuated with death,
  My imagination is surely an aggravation of threats...
  Maybe cause I'm a dreamer, and sleep is the cousin of death,
  Really stuck in the scheme of wondering when I'mma rest.

  Kendrick Lamar

  Rap, Sleep, Aggravation

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• One of the paradoxes of our time is that the War on Terror has served mainly to reinforce a collective belief that maintaining the right amount of fear and suspicion will earn one safety. Fear is promoted by the government as a kind of policy. Fear is accepted, even among the best-educated people in this country, even among the professors with whom I work, as a kind of intelligence. And inspiring fear in others is often seen as neighborly and kindly, instead of being regarded as what my cousin recognized it for - a violence.

  Eula Biss

  Country, Fear, War

  "No-man’s-land". www.believermag.com. February, 2008.

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• Watersheds come in families; nested levels of intimacy... As you work upstream toward home, you're more closely related. The big river is like your nation, a little out of hand. The lake is your cousin. The creek is your sister. The pond is her child. And, for better or worse, in sickness and in health, you're married to your sink.

  Michael Parfit

  Children, Home, Lakes

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• Asian Homo erectus died without issue and does not enter our immediate ancestry (for we evolved from African populations); Neanderthal people were collateral cousins, perhaps already living in Europe while we emerged in Africa... In other words, we are an improbable and fragile entity, fortunately successful after precarious beginnings as a small population in Africa, not the predictable end result of a global tendency. We are a thing, an item of history, not an embodiment of general principles.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Successful, Science, Europe

  "Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History".

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• I was like the only diverse kid in my high school, and I'm half-Puerto Rican. But yeah, I have a huge family and tons of cousins in Puerto Rico. We actually hung out with them last summer, and it was awesome. But I wish my grandfather had taught my dad Spanish when he was younger so he could've taught me when I was younger, and sometimes he does, too. It's a shame.

  Aubrey Plaza

  Summer, Dad, Father

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• My cousin Elroy spent seven years as an IBM taper staring at THINK signs on the walls before he finally got a good idea: He quit.

  Edward Abbey

  Wall, Thinking, Years

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.11, RosettaBooks

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