Cousin Quotes - Page 5

• What do I look like, the ghost whisperer? They're loony. I'd have better luck talking to my cousin Alfonso's Chihuahua. At least Tía Juana knows Spanish." "Your cousin's Chihuahua is named Tía Juana?

  Darynda Jones

  Talking, Luck, Looks

  Darynda Jones (2015). “The Charley Davidson Series”, p.517, St. Martin's Press

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• Appearances are not held to be a clue to the truth,' said his cousin. 'But we seem to have no other.

  Ivy Compton-Burnett

  Happiness, Clue, Appearance

  Ivy Compton-Burnett (1972). “Manservant and maidservant”

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• My cousin's a fool, and thou art another.

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Sassy, Fool

  William Shakespeare, George Steevens (1829). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: Accurately Printed from the Text of the Corrected Copy Left”, p.130

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• I know that I was conscious of all the aspects of the war, having had cousins who were in the army, who would send me notes and memorabilia. I began to collect things that they would send me.

  Paul Smith

  War, Army, Conscious

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• Many genetically "altered" fish escape from the confines of the crowded floating concentration camps to mingle and mate with their wild fish cousins, causing horrible and irreversible damage to wild species.

  Sharon Gannon

  Floating, Damage, Mates

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

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• My parents hated me. All I ever heard was, "Why can't you be like your cousin Shelia? Why can't you be like your cousin Shelia?" Shelia had died at birth.

  Joan Rivers

  Parenting, Motherhood, Birth

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• One of the stories that dominates our family literature was the fact that my maternal grandfather contracted for - I don't know under what terms - but, for a large section of the old slave plantation. He established himself - sisters and brothers, cousins, etc. on fifty- and sixty-acre plots.

  Ella Baker

  Brother, Grandfather, Plot

  Source: www.crmvet.org

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• Mice and any rodentia. Guinea pigs. Even rabbits, I can't stand. Rabbits are cousins to rats. It's a class thing. If you had to grow up with rats scampering in your backyard, because the city services were cut in half and the population in your neighborhood doubled, then that also is going to mean that the flora and fauna are going to grow as well. So that's a part of it. That's why I can't go to Hindu countries where they respect rats and mice, and I can't go camping.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Country, Growing Up, Mean

  Source: quod.lib.umich.edu

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• Trying to be like my uncle, because I was an only child. He and my cousins were everything to me.

  Deon Cole

  Uncles, Children, Trying

  Source: newsblaze.com

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• One day I was in the studio with my cousin. My dad was on tour at the time, so just for fun I recorded some stuff with my cousin. We were just playing around. After my dad got back, one day he played what we recorded. He heard my part and was like, "Who is that?" My cousin was like, "Uh, that's your son!" So he was like, "That's hot. You wanna make a record?"

  Lil Romeo

  Dad, Fun, Son

  Source: ledgernote.com

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• Fortunately, I had cousins who lived in Buffalo and would often go to visit them, which I loved to do because I liked Buffalo as it was a big city. Even today, the bigger the city, the better.

  Paul Smith

  Cities, Buffalo, Today

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• I graduated in June 1948 and then went in the fall to the art school. I stayed with my cousins on Seventeenth Street in the beginning, and later had my own apartment very near there and was able to walk to the Art Institute on Elmwood Avenue. The school had a faculty of local artists - Jeanette and Robert Blair, James Vullo who were well known in the area. It was a school that I think thrived on returning GIs, as many schools did at that time. It was a very informal program - but it was professional.

  Paul Smith

  Art, Fall, School

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• Jack Sturtzer, one of my cousins, had gone to art school and suggested that I might be interested in a private school called the Art Institute of Buffalo, and in fact that is what happened. So upon graduation in 1948, I then went to stay with my cousins on Seventeenth Street and enrolled in the program at the Art Institute on Elmwood Avenue.

  Paul Smith

  Art, School, Facts

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• Simplicity is the first cousin of contentment.

  John Stott

  Simplicity, Contentment, Firsts

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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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• What's odd is that nobody in my family is an artist. My cousins are like secretaries at law firms or nurses or just more blue collar. And I was in a baseball team. I used to be like a really big tomboy.

  Melonie Diaz

  Baseball, Team, Artist

  "Fruitvale Station‘s Melonie Diaz On Getting “Comfortable” With Michael B. Jordan". Interview with Meghan O'Keefe, www.vh1.com. July 12, 2013.

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• Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family. Even your super weirdo creep cousin.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Appreciation, Relatives And Friends, Family And Friends

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• My cousin Roger once told me, on the eve of his third wedding, that he felt marriage was addictive. Then he corrected himself. I mean early marriage, he said. The very start of a marriage. It's like a whole new beginning. You're entirely brand-new people; you haven't made any mistakes yet. You have a new place to live and new dishes and this new kind of, like, identity, this 'we' that gets invited everywhere together now. Why, sometimes your wife will have a brand-new name, even.

  Anne Tyler

  Mistake, New Beginnings, Mean

  Anne Tyler (2012). “The Beginner's Goodbye”, p.122, Random House

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• Fear not, dear cousin. In madness there is great power

  Pen Densham

  Madness, Fear Not, Dear

  Simon R. Green, Pen Densham (1991). “Kevin Costner is Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves: a novel”, Berkley

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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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• 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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• God has no cousins, only children.

  Max Lucado

  God, Christian, Children

  Max Lucado (2012). “A Gentle Thunder: Hearing God Through the Storm”, p.192, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Growing up, one of my cousins was an out gay man.

  Eric Stonestreet

  Growing Up, Gay, Men

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

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• In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who come out together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude.

  Cyril Connolly

  Friendship, Girl, Couple

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