Cousin Quotes - Page 3

• Friend of my bosom, thou more than a brother, Why wert thou not born in my father's dwelling?

  Charles Lamb

  Brother, Father, Dwelling

  Charles Lamb, “The Old FaMILIar Faces”

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• I was glad to hear of that determination as I detest the practice of cousins marrying or any marriage between persons in which there can be traced the most distant relationship. I go for the improvement instead of the deterioration of our race.

  Ezra Cornell

  Determination, Race, Practice

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• I want you to know that you are not alone in your being alone.

  Stephen Fry

  Want, Knows, Not Alone

  "From Nicole Scherzinger beating bulimia to David Beckham's OCD - stars and mental health struggles" by Francesca Cookney, www.mirror.co.uk. July 2, 2014.

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• When I was a kid, we never had a videogame in my house. But my cousin did, and each time I went to her house I was able to play 'Tetris' and 'Mario.' Those were the only two games I played as a child.

  Olga Kurylenko

  Children, Kids, Games

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• Everyone has an idea that they think would be a great movie. Everyone has a cousin who they think you should work with.

  Zach Braff

  Thinking, Ideas, Would Be

  "'I've won the indie film lottery'". Interview with Patrick Barkham, www.theguardian.com. November 11, 2004.

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• So finally, I can feel a sort of pride in all my family - Mum, Lynn, Corin, Tasha, my cousin Gemma - because, I think how wonderful that this troop of gypsies can carry on telling stories.

  Joely Richardson

  Pride, Thinking, Stories

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Christianity nowadays is like a big household where many cousins live under the same roof. They all belong to the same clan, but at times they have very different ideas about how to run their family affairs.

  Maria Franziska von Trapp

  Running, Ideas, Different

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• My cousin cleaned out a shotgun for me and let me carry it around the house, because he said, 'Anybody who knows anything about guns is going to know in a second if someone has held a gun before.' I didn't want to be that person. I wanted to be practiced.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Gun, House, Want

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• I lost relatives to AIDS, a couple of my closest cousins. I lost friends to AIDS, high-school friends who never even made it to their 21st birthdays in the '80s. When it's that close to you, you can't really deny it, and you can't run from it.

  Queen Latifah

  Running, Couple, School

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• I was so inspired by Dr. King that in 1956 with my brothers and sisters and first cousins, I was only 16 years old, we went down to the public library trying to check out some books and we were told by the librarian that the library was for whites only and not for colors! It was a public library! I never went back to that public library until July 5th, 1998, by this time I'm in the Congress, for a book signing of my book "Walking with the Wind"

  John Lewis

  Brother, Kings, Book

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• Win, lose or draw, you're all my cousins and I love you.

  Chill Wills

  I Love You, Winning, Draws

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You know, all my songs are relatives, brothers, sisters, cousins.

  David Coverdale

  Sister, Music, Song

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• A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

  Walter Winchell

  Friendship, Sympathy, True Friend

  Walter Winchell (1975). “Winchell exclusive: "things that happened to me--and me to them”

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• My cousin Malcolm Lee is also a filmmaker.

  Spike Lee

  Filmmaker, My Cousin

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• Most redoubted lord and right sovereign cousin, may the Almighty Lord have you in his keeping.

  Owain Glyndwr

  May, Sovereign, Lord

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• My little cousin tells me I look like Magneto so I guess that's who I should probably play.

  Robert Pattinson

  Play, Looks, Littles

  "Robert Pattinson Wants to Play X-Men Villian". Interview with Frank Boyle, www.ok.co.uk. December 12, 2009.

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• My parents were second cousins. That is enough to explain all of my peculiarities.

  Sargent Shriver

  Parent, Enough

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• He's just, your cousin, ay, abhorrently, He'd wash his hands in blood, to keep them clean.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Blood, Hands, Clean

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)”, p.1158, Delphi Classics

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• Again the Cousin's whistle! Go, my Love.

  Robert Browning

  My Cousin

  Robert Browning (2013). “MEN AND WOMEN Songs of love and life”, p.79, Lulu.com

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• We've had cloning in the South for years. It's called cousins.

  Robin Williams

  Funny, Years, Cloning

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• Improvisation is almost like the retarded cousin in the comedy world. We've been trying forever to get improvisation on TV. It's just like stand-up. It's best when it's just left alone. It doesn't translate always on TV. It's best live.

  Amy Poehler

  Forever, Trying, World

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• When I was in kindergarten, I had one line in a little play. I said, I am Patrick Potato and this is my cousin, Mrs. Tomato, and I heard laughter. I wanted to be an actress from that moment on.

  Doris Roberts

  Happiness, Laughter, Play

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• Yes, but I - you know, it's been such a long time, I'm sure that I've got cousins and uncles that I've never met before, you know, that I've left behind.

  Rafael Palmeiro

  Sports, Uncles, Long

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• My wife and I are affiliated with a temple here in Los Angeles. We feel very close to the congregation and to the rabbi, who happens to be my wife's cousin and who I admire greatly. I talk to him regularly but I consider myself more spiritual than religious.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Spiritual, Religious, Inspiration

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I've got cousins galore, Mexicans just spread all their seeds and the women just pop them out

  Jessica Alba

  Pops, Spread, Seeds

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