Cousin Quotes - Page 6

• My dear young cousin, if there's one thing I've learned over the eons, it's that you can't give up on your family, no matter how tempting they make it.

  Rick Riordan

  Family, Giving Up, Matter

  "The Sea of Monsters". Book by Rick Riordan, April 1, 2006.

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• God, you Jews are truly exotic." Exotic? She should only know the Greenblatts. Or Mr. and Mrs. Milton Sharpstein, my father's friends. Or for that matter, my cousin Tovah. Exotic? I mean, they're nice, but hardly exotic with their endless bickering over the best way to combat indigestion or how far back to sit from the television set.

  Woody Allen

  Father, Nice, Mean

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• They all broke the rules. They all crossed into forbidden territory. They all tampered with the laws that lay down who should be loved and how. And how much. The laws that make grandmothers grandmothers, uncles uncles, mothers mothers, cousins cousins, jam jam, and jelly jelly. It was a time when uncles became fathers, mothers lovers, and cousins died and had funerals. It was a time when the unthinkable became thinkable and the impossible really happened.

  Arundhati Roy

  Mother, Uncles, 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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• anger and jeaously are first cousins!

  Eric Jerome Dickey

  Firsts

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

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Funny, School, Humor

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The Goldschmidts had joined forces with other Rothschild cousins, the Bischoffsheims, to form a banking partnership which financed the North in the American Civil War.

  David Icke

  War, Rothschild, Banking

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• The Empress is legitimate, my cousin is Republican, Morny is Orleanist, I am a socialist; the only Bonapartist is Persigny, and he is mad.

  Napoleon III

  Mad, Politics, Republican

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• Kirk Cousins is the future of the Washington Redskins.

  Bill Cowher

  Redskins, Kirk

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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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• 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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• 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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• Somehow this literary genre, which most people condemned, acted as a sort of counterbalance to Charles's soul; it was the ballast that prevented him from lurching into the serious or melancholy, unlike Andrew, who had been unable to adopt his cousin's casual attitude to life, and to whom everything seemed so achingly profound, imbed with that absurd solemnity that the transience of of existence conferred upon even the smallest act.

  Félix J. Palma

  Attitude, Literary Genre, People

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• Simplicity is the first cousin of contentment.

  John Stott

  Simplicity, Contentment, Firsts

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• My father's best friend, Georgie Terra, was an Italian guy. The children and the cousins and nieces and nephews were children of the Mafia. Those were the children he grew up with. If you want to go to a safe neighborhood, go to where the Mafia is.

  Louis Gossett, Jr.

  Children, Father, Niece

  "Being Black and 'Difficult' in Hollywood". Interview with Ishmael Reed, www.counterpunch.org. September 24, 2010.

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• ...I just pulled a pretty big job and needed to hide out for awhile." "...Where's all the loot?" "That, as my cousin Nord would say, is where my improvised lie falls apart." Artemis put two and two together and arrived at a very unpleasant four. "You were here to rob me!" "No, I wasn't. How dare you?!

  Eoin Colfer

  Jobs, Lying, Fall

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• Sheep. Looting. Cousins." Lucien cursed and got out of bed.

  Melina Marchetta

  Sheep, Bed, Cursed

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