Mean Relatives Quotes

#1. As for those whose role it is to love us - I mean, relatives and in-laws (what a word)- It's a different tune. They find the right word, but it's usually the one that wounds.

Albert Camus

#2. If you're going to try, go all the way. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives, jobs and maybe your mind.

Charles Bukowski

#3. I would like to apologize to the relatives of the fan who gave me 29 books to sign in Odyssey 7, Manchester. I'm a little twitchy towards the end of a day of signing and did not mean to kill and eat him.

Terry Pratchett

#4. As our closest relatives, they (chimpanzees) tell us special things about what it means to be a primate and, ultimately, what it means to be a human at the DNA level.

Francis Collins

#5. Ah love is bitter and sweet,
but which is more sweet
the bitterness or the sweetness,
none has spoken it.

Hilda Doolittle

#6. I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#7. In the society of would-be-gods, a humble man is always polite.

Greg Bear

#8. I'm never gonna quit, cause quitting' just ain't my schtick.

Barry White

#9. If [black] nationalism could create a strong and effective insularity, deliver on its promise of self-respect, then the hurt it might cause well-meaning whites, or the inner turmoil it caused people like me, would be of little consequence.

Barack Obama

#10. There's a big difference between having relatives who have money and actually having it yourself. Just because you have a cousin who has a lot of money doesn't mean he shares it with you. Or that you'd ask him for a loan.

Whit Stillman

#11. One-Eye scowled at Goblin. "Keep it up, Barf Bag. You'll be grocery shopping with the turtles." What the hell did that mean? Some kind of obscure shop talk? But Goblin was as croggled as the rest of us. Grinning, One-Eye resumed gabbling with his relatives.

Glen Cook

#12. Everything is real, except Beika City

Gosho Aoyama

#13. I was 4 years old when I sang in public for the very first time.

Mireille Mathieu

#14. Family does not necessarily mean blood relatives but often a description of a community, organisation or nation

Queen Elizabeth II

#15. You do not need a certain number of friends, just a number of friends you can be certain of

Itzik Amiel

#16. The young John Quincy Adams begins it lifelong habit of keeping a journal with reluctance that he might one day have to read it. He hopes, though, that the flaws in his earlier entries will be balanced by the progress he is able to see.

Paul C. Nagel

#17. Self-care is the number one solution to helping somebody else. If you are being good to yourself and your body and your psyche, that that serves other people better because you will grow strong enough to life someone else up.

Mary Lambert

#18. Across organizations in services, manufacturing, healthcare and government, eighty percent of an organization's improvement potential lies in front-line ideas.

Alan G. Robinson

#19. Self-esteem isn't everything; it's just that there's nothing without it.

Gloria Steinem

#20. Silicon Valley's involvement with Washington dates from one event, which was John Scully - who was the CEO of Apple - had dinner with President Clinton and Vice President Gore in 1993. And we're all going, like, 'What's going on? Why would we have dinner with the president?'

Eric Schmidt

#21. They're all Allomancers," Waxillium guessed. "More than that," Wayne said. "They're all relatives." "It's only been three hundred years since the Originators, Wayne. We're all relatives." "Does that mean you'll take responsibility for me?" "No.

Brandon Sanderson