Cousin Quotes
379 Cousin quotes by 317 unique authors
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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…
— Unknown Author
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I enjoy slaughtering beasts, and I think of my relatives constantly.
— Roger Zelazny
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Where there's a will - there's a relative!
— Ricky Gervais
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Yes, I travel in unusual circles. George Osborne and his wife Frances are my cousins.
— Daryl Hall
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Dissent is the cousin of diversity; the respect for a wide range of beliefs. This begins by allowing people the space to say "no". If…
— Peter Block
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Before I was nine I had learned the basic canon of Arab life. It was me against my brother; me and my brother against our…
— Leon Uris
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Your cousin might be a pretty face, but you, my darling, courageous, maddening, seductive, mysterious, wonderful Diana, you are the Duchess of Wakefield. My duchess.
— Elizabeth Hoyt
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Kirk Cousins has played much better at the quarterback position than Robert Griffin III has,
— Joe Theismann
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All I can say is, it's a sort of kinship, as though there is a family tree of grief. On this branch, the lost children,…
— Elizabeth McCracken
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Sentimentality and nostalgia are closely related. Kissing cousins. I have no time for nostalgia, though. Nostalgics believe the past is nicer than the present. It…
— Mal Peet
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Certain guys are like relief pitchers; they come off the bench, they don’t know when they’re playing – you come in and you just go.…
— Marshall Faulk
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If astronomy teaches anything, it teaches that man is but a detail in the evolution of the universe, and the resemblant though diverse details are…
— Percival Lowell
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Words, do not have twins in every language. Sometimes they only have distant cousins, and sometimes they pretend that they are not even related.
— Monique Truong
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Chess is far too complex to be definitively solved with any technology we can conceive of today. However, our looked-down-upon cousin, checkers, or draughts, suffered…
— Garry Kasparov
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Some people insist they've never met a gay person. But Three Degrees of Jason Collins dictates that no NBA player can claim that anymore. Pro…
— Jason Collins
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The health benefits, both mental and physical, of humor are well documented. A good laugh can diffuse tension, relieve stress, and release endorphins into your…
— Cherie Carter-Scott
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If George Bush can't get along with Stephen Harper, he can't get along with any world leader. They're ideological cousins, if not twins.
— Unknown Author
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There's her cousin, an she were not possessed with a fury, exceeds her as much in beauty as the first of May doth the last…
— William Shakespeare
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Friend of my bosom, thou more than a brother, Why wert thou not born in my father's dwelling?
— Charles Lamb
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I hope you will be ready to own publicly, whenever you shall be called to it, that by your great and frequent urgency you prevailed…
— Jonathan Swift
Who Wrote These Cousin Quotes
317 authors contributed a total of 379 Cousin Quotes, led by these top contributors: