Cousin Quotes - Page 17

• I've been working straight since 2003, so I might just want to take an improv or theater class. That excites me. I can't wait to do different characters - not necessarily the leading chick who gets the guy, but the weird, freaky cousin.

  Fergie

  Character, Class, Guy

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• I had a wonderful family including my aunts, uncles and cousins but they've all gone to heaven.

  Doris Day

  Uncles, Aunt, Heaven

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• All my life I had to fight. I had to fight my daddy. I had to fight my uncles. I had to fight my brothers. Girl, child ain't safe in a family of men, but I ain't never thought I had to fight in my own house. I loves Harpo. God knows I do. But I'll kill him dead before I let him beat me.

  Alice Walker

  Girl, Brother, Uncles

  "The Color Purple". www.npr.org. December 16, 1985.

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• Men don't rape women because their women are ugly," cousin Jostien said, but there was a protest at his words. "That's what my fa said! He says that inside their hearts and spirits they are nothing but little men who need to feel powerful.

  Melina Marchetta

  Powerful, Heart, Men

  Melina Marchetta (2015). “The Complete Lumatere Chronicles”, p.465, Penguin UK

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• The Blushing Pansy," his cousin read aloud, in a tone of abject horror. "Tea shop and confectionery." Bram swore. This was going to be ugly.

  Tessa Dare

  Tea, Ugly, Tone

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• Elizabeth studied the blurry tabloid photo, which showed her cousin Mary Stuart leaving a Paris disco at dawn, drunkenly clinging to the arm of a French tennis pro. The message was very clear. Put passion first and you end up neither loved nor respected.

  Barbara Taylor Bradford

  Love, Passion, Paris

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• The old order, it is good for the old. A farmer wants his son to be afraid of beautiful women, so that he will not leave home too soon, so he tells a story about how one drowned his brother’s cousin’s friend in a lake, not because he was a pig who deserved to be drowned, but because beautiful women are bad, and also witches. And it doesn’t matter that she didn’t ask to be beautiful, or to be born in a lake, or to live forever, or to not know how men breathe until they stop doing it.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Beautiful, Brother, Home

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• Not only are Puerto Ricans citizens by birth, but one would be hard-pressed to find a Puerto Rican without a sister in New York or a son in Chicago, a cousin in Orlando or a daughter in Honolulu or Oklahoma City.

  Luis A. Ferre

  Daughter, New York, Son

  "Luis A. Ferré Dies at 99; Pushed Puerto Rican Statehood" by Douglas Martin, www.nytimes.com. October 22, 2003.

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• I can sit underneath the shed with all my family, my cousins, and everything, and just be like, "Yeah, this is what it's about - just sitting with people you love and hanging out."

  Channing Tatum

  People, Sitting, My Family

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I find it hard to see how my northern cousins could get so worked up about counties created by British imperialists.

  Colm O'Rourke

  British, County, Hard

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• Sleep is cousin-german unto death: Sleep and death differ, no more, than a carcass And a skeleton.

  Thomas Traherne

  Sleep, Skeletons

  A Serious and a Curious Night-Meditation' (published 1903).

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• I don't write about the intimate details of my cousins and aunts and uncles, and my mother and my father because it's not right to, for me.

  Anne Lamott

  Mother, Uncles, Father

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. April 6, 2010.

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• In Afghanistan, you don't understand yourself solely as an individual. You understand yourself as a son, a brother, a cousin to somebody, an uncle to somebody. You are part of something bigger than yourself.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Brother, Uncles, Son

  "Khaled Hosseini: 'If I could go back now, I'd take The Kite Runner apart'". Interview with Hermione Hoby, www.theguardian.com. June 01, 2013.

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• I grew up watching my Dad, Uncles Ciaran Murray and Brendan Murray, and cousin, Aedin Murray, who were all national caliber Gaelic football players in Ireland. I try to watch as much Gaelic football as I can, it is my first love. I bleed Green, White, and Orange. Gaelic football players don’t get paid to play, you play to represent your county that is more important than earning money.

  Patrick Murray

  Football, Uncles, Dad

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• I discovered that our clan included loads of cousins and uncles and aunts and animals of every shape. I was taught that chaos and competition were family values. And I learned that we all loved the sea. Somehow, the sea was about us-our past, our exuberance, our frailty, our longing.

  Timothy Shriver

  Uncles, Past, Animal

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• Thou Shalt Not Covet Thy Cousin‟s Wife. Moses must have forgotten to write that one down

  Julia Quinn

  Writing, Wife, Forgotten

  Julia Quinn (2009). “When He Was Wicked”, p.19, Harper Collins

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• Courage and folly are cousins, or so I’ve heard.

  George R. R. Martin

  Heard, Folly

  George R. R. Martin (2013). “The Wit & Wisdom of Tyrion Lannister”, p.123, Bantam

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• In former days, when there were Whigs instead of Liberals, it was almost a rule of political life that all leading Whigs sould be uncles, brothers-in-law, or cousins to each other. This was pleasant and gave great consistency to the party; but the system has now gone out of vogue.

  Anthony Trollope

  Brother, Uncles, Party

  Anthony Trollope (2011). “Phineas Redux”, p.95, OUP Oxford

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• If it comes to that," retorted Frederica, with spirt, " I am continually shocked by the things you don't scruple to say to me,cousin! You are quite abominable!" He sighed. "Alas, I know it! The reflection gives me sleepless nights.

  Georgette Heyer

  Reflection, Night, Giving

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• Infatuation is not quite the same thing as love; it's more like love's shady second cousin who's always borrowing money and can't hold down a job.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Jobs, Like Love, Infatuation

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.376, A&C Black

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• Boredom is that awful state of inaction when the very medicine ― that is, activity ― which could solve it, is seen as odious. Archery? It is too cold, and besides, the butts need re-covering; the rats have been at the straw. Music? To hear it is tedious; to compose it, too taxing. And so on. Of all the afflictions, boredom is ultimately the most unmanning. Eventually, it transforms you into a great nothing who does nothing ― a cousin to sloth and a brother to melancholy.

  Margaret George

  Brother, Archery, Medicine

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• Gabrielle, Hale?" Kat smacked his shoulder. "It wasn't bad enough that you got me kicked out of school, but you had to use her to help you? Gabrielle!" "I can hear you," her cousin sang beside her. Hale looked at Gabrielle and gestured at Kat. "She's adorable when she's jealous." Kat kicked his shin.

  Ally Carter

  Jealous, School, Adorable

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• Harmony glanced to her left, and my gaze followed hers to the living room, where my aunt had died, my cousin had been restored, and I'd whacked a psychotic grim reaper with a cast-iron skillet. Weirdest. Tuesday. Ever.

  Rachel Vincent

  Aunt, Iron, Tuesday

  Rachel Vincent (2009). “My Soul to Take”, p.273, Harlequin

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• From the industry's point of view, the problem is not that coal companies blast the top off mountains, turning the area into a moonscape and polluting the air and releasing toxic chemical into what's left of the local streams and aquifers. It's that the people who live near the mines are too cozy with their cousins.

  Jeff Goodell

  Aquifers, Air, Views

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• Afghans excel at fighting Afghans. This is what Afghans do, even when they are not being invaded by foreign powers. They fight each other, tribe against tribe, brother against brother, half-brother against half-brother, cousin against cousin, uncle against nephew, father against son.

  Phyllis Chesler

  Brother, Uncles, Father

  Phyllis Chesler (2013). “An American Bride in Kabul: A Memoir”, p.115, St. Martin's Press

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