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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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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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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I sustain myself with the love of family.

Maya Angelou

Inspirational, Family, Togetherness

Twitter post from May 23, 2013

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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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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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But in the east the sky was pale and through the gray woods came lanterns with wagons and horses, bringing Grandpa and Grandma and aunts and uncles and cousins.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

Easter, Horse, Uncles

Laura Ingalls Wilder (200?). “The little house treasury”

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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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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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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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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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A friend of ours has a hobby doing genealogy, and we found out that we were cousins in the ninth degree, that we had a common ancestor on the Mayflower.

Marion Zimmer Bradley

Hobbies, Degrees, Common

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How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual friends, that we might go and meet their ideal cousins.

Henry David Thoreau

Friendship, Powerful, Real

Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.110, Penguin

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I was eight when he left office. Like, he had an awesome house, you know, and my cousins and I had awesome trips to Camp David and Washington. It was just all like a good time for me.

Lauren Bush

Eight, Office, House

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As a songwriter, I was influenced by David Bowie - a great writer. A class above everybody in so many ways. Lennon and McCartney, of course. Class stuff. David Cousins was my favorite lyricist.

Rick Wakeman

Class, Stuff, Way

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Obviously, I've seen what the press has done to my cousins. I would never let that rule my life, but I'm not the kind of person to rebel or do things. I don't know. I don't let the potential for bad press dictate who I am, but I keep that in mind. How can you not?

Lauren Bush

Who I Am, Mind, Rebel

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I always felt I was living in two worlds. One was the Mexican world, because nearly everybody I knew, relatives and cousins and kids in the neighbourhood, were Mexican. Then school was a different world. It was ethnically mixed.

Gilberto Hernandez

School, Kids, Artist

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I see my friends, my family, my cousins work all day long for very little money, and if I have this problem of not being able to wall on the streets, it's not a big deal.

Olivier Martinez

Wall, Long, Littles

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