Relatives Quotes

312 Relatives quotes by 262 unique authors

Our relatives form the natural setting of our childhood. We understand ourselves best and are best understood by others through the persons who came nearest… — Lucy Larcom
We can't all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers. — Bernard Malamud
Everything is relative except relatives, and they are absolute. — Alfred Stieglitz
My mother and father and many of my relatives had been sharecroppers. — John Lewis
Tel-Aviv airport is still the only airport in the world where each passenger is met by ten relatives. — George Mikes
But space travel can't ease the pressure on a planet grown too crowded not even with today's ships and probably not with any future ships-because… — Robert A. Heinlein
Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite… — Nicholson Baker
Our relatives are ours by chance, but we can choose our friends. — Jacques Delille
I was very much in my room with my marionette stage, you know, creating these incredibly boring things that I felt were so fascinating, and… — Bob Balaban
I had no blood relatives till I made some. — Andy Dick
I do believe that there are African Americans who have thick accents. My mom has a thick accent; my relatives have thick accents. But sometimes… — Viola Davis
The human understanding is of its own nature prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than it finds. And… — Francis Bacon
Prayer is vastly superior to worry. With worry, we are helpless; with prayer, we are interceding. When I hear sad news, I try to say… — Mary Pipher
People in Afghanistan want peace, including the Taliban. They're also people like we all are. They have families, they have relatives, they have children, they… — Hamid Karzai
I can't think of any relatives that ever went into science. — William Standish Knowles
My father was killed by a German mine, while I lost other relatives in Allied bombing attacks. — Jean-Marie Le Pen
Gay brothers and sisters... You must come out. Come out to your relatives... come out to your friends... Come out to your neighbors... to your… — Harvey Milk
Once we were happy in our own country and we were seldom hungry, for then the two-leggeds and the four-leggeds lived together like relatives, and… — Black Elk
One of the best things about Heaven is that we will be able to reunite with loved ones who have already passed on. It will… — David Berg
I don't think you see your minds. I think you see your thoughts; you see your desires; you see your relatives, friends, lovers, enemies. I… — Frederick Lenz

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