Cousin Quotes - Page 18

• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I came from a folk-family background. Although we weren't really the all-singing, all-dancing-around-the-piano folkies or anything like that, there is that idea of singing and playing with your parents and your family and your cousins.

  Teddy Thompson

  Piano, Ideas, Dancing

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• The thing I have to be willing to do is work - I think I'm the one that is going to actually copyright the term "25/8." You ever hear of the term "25/8?" It's the cousin of "24/7." I have to go "25/8."

  Guy Fieri

  Thinking, Copyright, Term

  "A chat with Guy Fieri, Guy Fieri interview, The Next Food Network Star, Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives". Interview with Mike Farley, www.bullz-eye.com. February 20, 2009.

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• I was fifteen, or sixteen. I was in high school. I was spending a summer in California with my second cousins. And I wanted to be a director really bad. I was making a lot of 8mm home movies, since I was twelve, making little dramas and comedies with the neighborhood kids.

  Steven Spielberg

  Summer, Drama, Home

  Source: www.ign.com

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• When I used to go on the Wikipedia page, and I haven't gone on the page in a while, there used to be some guy who was doing my page and he would say that he was my cousin and I was going to be doing projects with him. I don't know who this person is and I don't have a cousin by this name and this person keeps saying that they're doing projects with me. It's so weird.

  Demetri Martin

  Names, Guy, Wikipedia

  Source: www.thefutoncritic.com

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• But we have yet to make peace basic to our education. The most important subject in the world is hardly taught at all. In the spirit of this passage, the editor has taken the liberty of editing Mr. Cousins' language to make it more gender inclusive.

  Norman Cousins

  Peace, Taken, Editing

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• As you may know from my life story, my cousin who was my soul mate went to a public school. And he died of AIDS. Would I and my brother have been able to resist the lure of drugs in the surrounding schools? Who knows.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Brother, School, Soul

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• My mother's sister was killed in a trolley car accident, so I was raised as one of eight with my sister and six male cousins.

  Alan King

  Mother, Eight, Car

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• Sometimes you get a call and an uncle passed away that you really liked, or a cousin or somebody else. So each day becomes a little more precious then the day that preceded it.

  Jamie Farr

  Uncles, Each Day, Littles

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• Queen Victoria, one of our more frumpy Queen's. They're all frumpy aren't they? Because it's a bad idea when cousin's marry.

  Eddie Izzard

  Queens, Ideas, Victoria

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• I was an only child, but I did have a hell of a lot of cousins.

  Desi Arnaz

  Children, Only Child, Hell

  Desi Arnaz (1994). “A Book”

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• Folk caught up in a riot aren't our cousins and sisters, our brothers and uncles. They are part of a big animal with many arms and claws, armed with stones and sticks.

  Tamora Pierce

  Brother, Uncles, Animal

  Tamora Pierce (2012). “Beka Cooper: The Hunt Records”, p.243, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• Words, do not have twins in every language. Sometimes they only have distant cousins, and sometimes they pretend that they are not even related.

  Monique Truong

  Twins, Language, Sometimes

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• Chess is far too complex to be definitively solved with any technology we can conceive of today. However, our looked-down-upon cousin, checkers, or draughts, suffered this fate quite recently thanks to the work of Jonathan Schaeffer at the University of Alberta and his unbeatable program Chinook.

  Garry Kasparov

  Fate, Technology, Chess

  "Garry Kasparov On ‘Chess Metaphors’: The Chess Master And The Computer" by Garry Kasparov, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 24, 2010.

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• The health benefits, both mental and physical, of humor are well documented. A good laugh can diffuse tension, relieve stress, and release endorphins into your system, which act as a natural mood elevator. In Norman Cousin's book, Anatomy of an Illness, Cousin's describes the regimen he followed to overcome a serious debilitating disease he was suffering from. It included large doses of laughter and humor. Published in 1976, his book has been widely accepted by the medical community.

  Cherie Carter-Scott

  Laughter, Stress, Book

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• If George Bush can't get along with Stephen Harper, he can't get along with any world leader. They're ideological cousins, if not twins.

  David Taras

  Leader, World, Twins

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• There's her cousin, an she were not possessed with a fury, exceeds her as much in beauty as the first of May doth the last of December.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, May, Lasts

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Much Ado About Nothing Simplified!: Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling”, p.83, BookCaps Study Guides

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• I hope you will be ready to own publicly, whenever you shall be called to it, that by your great and frequent urgency you prevailed on me to publish a very loose and uncorrect account of my travels, with directions to hire some young gentleman of either university to put them in order, and correct the style, as my cousin Dampier did, by my advice, in his book called "A Voyage round the world."

  Jonathan Swift

  Book, Order, Advice

  Jonathan Swift (2015). “Gulliver's Travels”, p.4, Xist Publishing

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