Cousin Quotes

• We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.

  William Ralph Inge

  Animal, Rights, Vegetarianism

  Outspoken Essays: Second Series "The Idea of Progress" (1922)

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• My cousins gay, he went to London only to find out that Big Ben was a clock.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Gay, London, Comedy

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• Cousins are people that are ready made friends, you have laughs with them and remember good times from a young age, you have fights with them but you always know you love each other, they are a better thing than brothers and sisters and friends cause there all pieced together as one.

  Courteney Cox

  Brother, Fighting, People

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• Most of all the other beautiful things in life come by twos and threes, by dozens and hundreds. Plenty of roses, stars, sunsets, rainbows, brothers, and sisters, aunts and cousins, but only one mother in the whole world.

  Kate Douglas Wiggin

  Funny, Family, Mothers Day

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• You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.

  Desmond Tutu

  Inspirational, Family, God

  Address at his enthronement as Anglican archbishop of Cape Town, September 7, 1986.

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• Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.

  H. L. Mencken

  Family, Men, Literature

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.15, Vintage

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• My brother Jim and I spent many wonderful summers working on dairy farms in Wisconsin owned by Mom's cousins, and as members of our local Boy Scout troop.

  Peter Agre

  Summer, Mom, Brother

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• My parents didn't really understand too much about sport. At that time, we were in a Polish community in the inner city of Chicago, and I was the youngest of a bunch of cousins. Polish families are real big, with cousins and aunts and uncles.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Sports, Uncles, Real

  American Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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• I was in television drama, which is a first cousin to the movies, and I trust myself to make the right decisions.

  Lee Child

  Drama, Decision, Television

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  The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.

  Lee Iacocca

  Family, Rocks, Family Love

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• I'm always the cousin that can't make it to the family functions because I'm busy.

  Taraji P. Henson

  Busy, Function

  "Taraji Henson Defies Odds On And Off Screen". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. February 19, 2009.

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• I sustain myself with the love of family.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Family, Togetherness

  Twitter post from May 23, 2013

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• My dad recently reminded me that my grandfather's cousin was Lefty Frizzell.

  Parker Posey

  Dad, Grandfather, Lefties

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. March 12, 2008.

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• A strangely reflective, even melancholy day. Is that because, unlike our cousins in the northern hemisphere, Easter is not associated with the energy and vitality of spring but with the more subdued spirit of autumn.

  Hugh Mackay

  Easter, Spring, Autumn

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• That's a traditional Samoan dance. I was lucky that I was able to fly my cousins, who are professional dancers, up from Hawaii and they were able to be in the movie with me. We had a great time.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Dance, Sports, Lucky

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• No adult in my family would ever tell me anything about who my father was. I knew from an older cousin - only four years older than I am - everything, or what little I could discover about him.

  John Irving

  Father, Years, Adults

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• Zoo animals are ambassadors for their cousins in the wild.

  Jack Hanna

  Zoos, Animal, Ambassadors

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• When I was a kid, I was surrounded by girls: older sisters, older girl cousins just down the street... except for an older boy named Vito who threw rocks. Each year I would wish for a baby brother. It never happened.

  Wally Lamb

  Girl, Baby, Brother

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• Would I lay down my life to save my brother? No, but I would to save two brothers or eight cousins.

  John B. S. Haldane

  Brother, Eight, Two

  "'As long as we study life, it will be read': the Selfish Gene turns 40" by Adam Rutherford, May 29, 2016.

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• Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Friendship, Patience, Real Friends

  Woodrow Wilson, Albert Bushnell Hart (2002). “Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson”, p.258, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• Well, I think it's because I'm an only daughter. I have four brothers, a bunch of guy cousins, and so it's like I was raised amongst men. So I've always gotten along really well with men.

  Alicia Machado

  Daughter, Mother, Brother

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• I have already given two cousins to the war and I stand ready to sacrifice my wife's brother.

  Charles Farrar Browne

  Peace, Brother, War

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• Friends are those rare people who ask how we are, and then wait to hear the answer.

  Ed Cunningham

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• It has to do - I think - with growing up in an apartment, with my aunt and my cousins right next door to me, with the door open, with neighbors walking in and out, with people yelling at each other all the time.

  Larry David

  Growing Up, Aunt, Thinking

  "Angry Middle-Aged Man" by James Kaplan, www.newyorker.com. January 19, 2004.

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• But audio is a component of video, so there's always been that anyway, and although we've never expressed a visual side apart from the Grateful Dead movie, I don't find it that remote, you know what I mean? It's a departure of sorts, but it's like a first cousin.

  Jerry Garcia

  Movie, Grateful, Mean

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