Cousin Quotes - Page 15

• Moses does not encounter the living God at the mall. He finds Him (or is found by Him) somewhere out in the deserts of Sinai, a long way from the comforts of Egypt... Where did the great prophet Elijah go to recover his strength? To the wild. As did John the Baptist, and his cousin, Jesus, Who is led by the Spirit into the wilderness.

  John Eldredge

  Faith, Jesus, Inspiration

  John Eldredge, Stasi Eldredge (2011). “Captivating Revised and Updated: Unveiling the Mystery of a Woman's Soul”, p.230, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Your main contribution is spray painting your nickname on other people's things. And my cousin, who's a 'gangster', he's like, 'No, Tash, you don't understand; you throw a fat piece up there, that piece is yours.' I'm like, 'No one thinks you own Costco.'

  Natasha Leggero

  Funny, Humor, Thinking

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• My cousin had a baby and I was watching her breastfeed for a couple of bucks, and I'll tell you ladies: it's amazing.

  Dave Attell

  Funny, Baby, Couple

  "Skanks for the Memories". Comedy album, 2003.

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• I learned to fire guns at the age of nine or so, but luckily was not out killing people. We zigzagged the streets to escape those trying to kill us. I guess it would have been a matter of time till I turned around with a gun myself, to go after those coming for us. But I was fortunate. The grenade incident was about an explosion which destroyed a section of my school, from a grenade that me and my cousin detonated by accident. We both lived to tell about it.

  K'naan

  School, Gun, Fire

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I spoke with the crows before leaving for Los Angeles. They were the resident storytellers whose strident and insistent voices added the necessary dissonance for color. They had cousins in California, and gave me their names and addresses, told me to look them up. They warned me, too, what they had heard about attitude there. And they were right. Attitude was thick, hung from the would-be's and has-beens and think-they-ares, so thick that I figured it was the major source of the smog.

  Joy Harjo

  Attitude, Thinking, Color

  Joy Harjo (2004). “How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems 1975-2002”, p.144, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I shared a room with my parents until I was 7, and I lived with my uncles and aunts and my cousins and my grandfather... so the house was always full of people.

  Dichen Lachman

  Uncles, Aunt, People

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• Do research. Feed your talent. Research not only wins the war on cliche, it's the key to victory over fear and it's cousin, depression.

  Robert McKee

  Fear, War, Winning

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• Anybody who has ever owned a dog who barked when strangers came near its owner's property has experienced the essential continuity between animal territoriality and human property. Our domesticated cousins of the wolf know, instinctively, that property is no mere social convention or game, but a critically important evolved mechanism for the avoidance of violence. (This makes them smarter than a good many human political theorists.)

  Eric S. Raymond

  Dog, Animal, Political

  "Homesteading the Noosphere". Essay by Eric S. Raymond, www.catb.org. 1998.

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• my cousin Shirley, who never complains, screamed and screamed when she was having her baby. True, this was just during conception.

  Joan Rivers

  Baby, Complaining, Childbirth

  Joan Rivers (1978). “Having a Baby Can Be a Scream”, Avon Books

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• My cousin Francis and I are in perfect accord - he wants Milan, and so do I.

  Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor

  Perfect, Want, Milan

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• Imagine that you wanted your children to learn the names of all their cousins, aunts and uncles. But you never actually let them meet or play with them. You just showed them pictures of them, and told them to memorize their names. Each day you'd have them recite the names, over and over again. You'd say, "OK, this is a picture of your great-aunt Beatrice. Her husband was your great-uncle Earnie. They had three children, your uncles Harpo, Zeppo, and Gummo. Harpo married your aunt Leonie ... yadda, yadda, yadda."

  Brian X. Foley

  Education, Uncles, Children

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• Deliberate cruelty to our defenceless and beautiful little cousins is surely one of the meanest and most detestable vices of which a human being can be guilty.

  William Ralph Inge

  Beautiful, Animal, Humanity

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• It is equally impossible to forget our Friends, and to make them answer to our ideal. When they say farewell, then indeed we beginto keep them company. How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual Friends, that we may go and meet their ideal cousins.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Friendship, Farewell, Perfection

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.203, Delphi Classics

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• All my cousins steal things. Theyre just a bunch of thieves. My whole family is like that. You put something down for a second, and they steal it. You never see it again.

  Gaby Hoffmann

  Thieves, Stealing, Whole Family

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• I actually enjoy that I never really needed to be hanging out with every celebrity in Hollywood; I just go home and hang out with my cousins, my best friends. I'm not treated like royalty; they love me to death, but they don't treat me like royalty. So it's easy for me; they'll tell me the truth, whether it hurts or not. And I need that; I've always been given that.

  Queen Latifah

  Hurt, Home, My Best Friend

  Source: movieweb.com

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• Miami's not anybody's poor cousin. It's an aspiration to live in this town, not something you have to do to promote yourself like some of the larger cities.

  Iggy Pop

  Cities, Towns, Miami

  "Iggy Pop: 'I was looking for an elegant coma'". Interview with Mark Tutton, edition.cnn.com. July 1, 2009.

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• 50 Cent is a hero to me because he's overcome so many things. He's been shot nine times and lived. I had a cousin got shot once in the ankle. Dead. I had to go to the funeral. I was mad. Man, you ain't hard! You ain't hard!

  Bill Bellamy

  Hero, Men, Mad

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• I can't talk politics with my cousin because he's such a hypocrite. He's against the death penalty and he hanged himself.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Hypocrite, Politics, Death Penalty

  Twitter post from Jan 25, 2010

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• The police pulled me over and asked me if I have anything illegal in my car. I looked at my cousin and I ran.

  Felipe Esparza

  Car, Police, Illegal

  Twitter post from Dec 11, 2013

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• people see so many movies that when they finally see one not so bad as the others, they think it's great. an Academy Award means that you don't stink quite as much as your cousin.

  Charles Bukowski

  Mean, Thinking, Awards

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• In truth, I am a single mother. But I don't feel alone at all in parenting my daughter. Krishna has a whole other side of her family who loves her, too. And so Krishna is parented by me, but also by her grandmother and aunts and cousins and uncles and friends.

  Padma Lakshmi

  Mother, Daughter, Uncles

  "Padma Lakshmi: I Don’t Parent Alone" by Yahoo! Shine interview, celebritybabies.people.com. November 03, 2011.

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• Comedy and horror are cousins; they're related. They both come from storytellers who want to specifically affect the audience and elicit specific reactions during the movie.

  Jason Reitman

  Want, Comedy, Horror

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• We all ought to understand we're on our own. Believing in Santa Claus doesn't do kids any harm for a few years but it isn't smart for them to continue waiting all their lives for him to come down the chimney with something wonderful. Santa Claus and God are cousins.

  Andy Rooney

  Atheist, Smart, Believe

  Andy Rooney (2009). “Sincerely, Andy Rooney”, p.225, Hachette UK

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• We spend so much money on these dresses that are terrible. And what do we get out of it? Nothing - a piece of chicken and a roll in the hay with her hillbilly cousin - no thank you. My family's very close; I can do that at home.

  Chelsea Handler

  Home, Dresses, Hay

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• My aunt and overprivileged cousin only recognize two states of being: glitter and grunge. And if you weren’t glitter, well, that only left one other option.

  Rachel Vincent

  Aunt, Two, Glitter

  Rachel Vincent (2009). “My Soul to Take”, p.30, Harlequin

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