Top 100 Quotes About Cousins
#1. She has a point," Cousins said. He never would have stood back here making sandwiches, though he felt he could use a sandwich, that he wanted one, and so he poured himself another drink.
Ann Patchett
#2. It's infuriating that yesterday, my father had to pull all my younger cousins into a room and tell them to be more careful. He had to explain that in some cases, their brown skin convicts them before an offense is even committed.
Janelle Gray
#3. I must confess that in my teens and twenties, I loved 'Mansfield Park' rather in spite of Fanny than because of her. Like Fanny's rich, sophisticated cousins, I didn't really get her.
Susanna Clarke
#4. Win, lose or draw, you're all my cousins and I love you.
Chill Wills
#5. When I go home to Pennsylvania, my cousins who live in small towns and are twenty-three with kids are like 'Krysten, when are you getting married?' 'When are you having a kid?' Honestly, those aren't the most important things to me right now.
Krysten Ritter
#6. Yes, I travel in unusual circles. George Osborne and his wife Frances are my cousins.
Daryl Hall
#7. I lost relatives to AIDS. A couple of my closest cousins, favorite 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 - you know, you can't really deny it, and you can't run from it.
Queen Latifah
#8. I've come to realize how much it really was a part of my upbringing, the Georgia part. We were away from town. It was just dirt and trees and spouses. And a lot of kids - my cousins, who were all like brothers and sisters to me - just a lot of kids at one time.
Alice Smith
#9. Do not pay attention to my cousins. Every family needs a couple idiots and we keep them around for entertainment.
Michelle M. Pillow
#10. I think she was from Connecticut, but not fancy Connecticut, with the money and the Kennedy cousins and the Lyme disease. I think she was from New Haven, or Bridgeport.
Lev Grossman
#11. I shared a room with my parents until I was 7, and I lived with my uncles and aunts and my cousins and my grandfather ... so the house was always full of people.
Dichen Lachman
#12. My mother's sister was killed in a trolley car accident, so I was raised as one of eight with my sister and six male cousins.
Alan King
#13. All my cousins are almost old enough to start seeing my movies. I'm going to have some 'splainin' to do.
Evan Goldberg
#14. I was brought up with a whole bunch of cousins in the Wye Valley during the hippy days of the 1970s.
Saul David
#15. I used to spend my holidays there in my grandparents' large family house, with my numerous cousins. When I die, I am going to be buried in the village cemetery.
Yves Chauvin
#16. She hadn't met Earth or Fire, the other two cousins, but she'd filled a couple of library requests for each of them in the past week. If they were around, they would help her. Wouldn't they?
Anne Bishop
#17. Uncle Tarmac says vehicles always resemble their owners, and likes advising my female cousins to judge whether boyfriends will make decent husbands or not by observing how they treat or mistreat their cars.
David Mitchell
#18. I can sit underneath the shed with all my family, my cousins, and everything, and just be like, "Yeah, this is what it's about - just sitting with people you love and hanging out."
Channing Tatum
#19. Tuscan sausages are smaller than their American cousins, each one demarcated with a string, a graceful loop drawn tightly into a knot - looping and tightening, looping and tightening, a symmetrically floppy, aesthetically appealing rhythm.
Bill Buford
#20. Right when 'High School Musical' was taking off, one of my little cousins called and was really excited to tell me there was a huge 'I Hate Zac Efron' club at her school. I'm sure they're doing great. More power to them.
Zac Efron
#21. Italians and Greeks have uncles, aunts, cousins and grandparents as far as the eye can see.
Joe Novella
#22. My brother, Mario, is in show business and so are all my cousins on my dad's side. We come from a family of musicians. My grandmother's sister in Puerto Rico plays five instruments.
Irene Cara
#23. I've always been an actress, entertaining my family was the start. I'm a goof ball among many of my cousins and siblings.
Aeriel Miranda
#24. We belong to a short-lived genus of species. All of our cousins are already extinct. What's more, we do damage. The brutal climate and environmental changes that we have triggered are unlikely to spare us. For
Carlo Rovelli
#26. Zoo animals are ambassadors for their cousins in the wild.
Jack Hanna
#27. God has no cousins, only children.
Max Lucado
#28. Would all go tell their friends and neighbors and cousins and strangers in the supermarket that we went up for our baptism and sneezed in the holy water.
Brad Meltzer
#29. Cousins are part of your life so stick with cuz not friends.
Claude Shannon
#30. A strangely reflective, even melancholy day. Is that because, unlike our cousins in the northern hemisphere, Easter is not associated with the energy and vitality of spring but with the more subdued spirit of autumn?
Hugh Mackay
#31. Talent and success are cousins;
genius and excellence are twins.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#32. As a songwriter, I was influenced by David Bowie - a great writer. A class above everybody in so many ways. Lennon and McCartney, of course. Class stuff. David Cousins was my favorite lyricist.
Rick Wakeman
#33. I find it hard to see how my northern cousins could get so worked up about counties created by British imperialists.
Colm O'Rourke
#34. When I first started tweeting, I was just doing it because I was watching 'Breaking Bad' in my trailer and I was so scared by the assassinating cousins. And when people started responding to me, I realized it was like I wasn't watching it alone.
Retta
#35. Unlike her closest primate cousins, the standard human female doesn't come equipped with private parts that swell up to double their normal size and turn bright red when she is about to ovulate. In
Christopher Ryan
#36. I was eight when he left office. Like, he had an awesome house, you know, and my cousins and I had awesome trips to Camp David and Washington. It was just all like a good time for me.
Lauren Bush
#37. Difficult" and "impossible" are cousins often mistaken for one another, with very little in common.
Scott Lynch
#38. But, Henry, this is wicked!' But, Adam, the world is wicked. Maoris prey on Moriori, Whites prey on darker-hued cousins, fleas prey on mice, cats prey on rats, Christians on infidels, first mates on cabin boys, Death on the Living. 'The weak are meat, the strong do eat.
David Mitchell
#39. And what was that about blood brothers? That means absolutely nothing. You might as well have said you were pinecone cousins.
Pierce Brown
#40. If a man is both wise and lucky, he will not make the same mistake twice. But he will make any one of ten thousand brothers or cousins of the original.
Jesse Lauriston Livermore
#41. English kings married their cousins and so their kids were as sharp as clubs.
Peter Prasad
#42. Cousins are like cake. Does the cake make the event fun, or is it the fun event that makes you like cake?
Jim Gaffigan
#43. One of my cousins is named Lucifer. I once asked my aunt why and she said, Because I wanted him to be beautiful and to think for himself.
Ilona Andrews
#44. In former days, when there were Whigs instead of Liberals, it was almost a rule of political life that all leading Whigs sould be uncles, brothers-in-law, or cousins to each other. This was pleasant and gave great consistency to the party; but the system has now gone out of vogue.
Anthony Trollope
#45. My parents didn't really understand too much about sport. At that time, we were in a Polish community in the inner city of Chicago, and I was the youngest of a bunch of cousins. Polish families are real big, with cousins and aunts and uncles.
Mike Krzyzewski
#46. When I was a kid, I was surrounded by girls: older sisters, older girl cousins just down the street ... except for an older boy named Vito who threw rocks. Each year I would wish for a baby brother. It never happened.
Wally Lamb
#47. That's right. He is Charls. I am Charls. We are cousins,' said Charls, gamely, 'named after our grandfather. Charls.
C.S. Pacat
#48. I didn't have enough other people in my life to cover the loss of this many people at once. I didn't have spare aunties or cousins or grandparents. I didn't have backup. I didn't have insurance to cover a loss like this.
Liane Moriarty
#49. Grammar snobs are a distinct breed from their gentle cousins: word nerds and grammar geeks. The difference is bloodlust.
June Casagrande
#50. In truth, I am a single mother. But I don't feel alone at all in parenting my daughter. Krishna has a whole other side of her family who loves her, too. And so Krishna is parented by me, but also by her grandmother and aunts and cousins and uncles and friends.
Padma Lakshmi
#51. There is health in table talk and nursery play. We must wear old shoes and have aunts and cousins.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#52. If you are going to be successful, you need to give up the phrase, "I can't" & all of its cousins, such as "I wish I were able to.
Jack Canfield
#53. My cousins and I used to play Beatle wives. We all wanted to be married to Paul, but John was O.K. too. None of us wanted Ringo. Or even worse, George.
Ann Hood
#55. My mother's side is Italian; my father's side is Jewish. We're the kind of family where every Sunday night we have dinner with all 19 of my cousins.
Lea Michele
#56. Mr. Cuervo and I - and all of his Mexican cousins are no longer on speaking terms
K.A. Tucker
#57. Our house was always full of grandparents and aunts and uncles and cousins.
Bryan Clay
#58. The two families really don't like each other, except for all us younger cousins because we don't know any better.
Stephen Chbosky
#59. At Rochester, I came with the same emotions as many of the entering freshman: everything was new, exciting and a bit overwhelming, but at least nobody had heard of my brothers and cousins.
Steven Chu
#60. 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
#61. 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
#62. And the uncles, the aunts, the cousins, the nieces, the nephews, that lived in those walls, the gibbering pack of tree apes that said nothing, nothing, nothing and said it loud, loud, loud.
Ray Bradbury
#63. All my life, up until that moment, I'd had a warm, protective blanket wrapped around me, knitted of aunts and uncles, purled of first and second and third cousins, knot-tied with grandmas and grandpas and greats. That blanket had just dropped from my shoulders. I felt cold, lost and alone.
Karen Marie Moning
#64. My father and mother were second cousins, though they did not meet till shortly before their marriage.
Patrick White
#65. I had a wonderful family including my aunts, uncles and cousins but they've all gone to heaven.
Doris Day
#66. That's a traditional Samoan dance. I was lucky that I was able to fly my cousins, who are professional dancers, up from Hawaii and they were able to be in the movie with me. We had a great time.
Dwayne Johnson
#67. Everyone in my family can sing - my momma can sing, my cousins. I was in the third grade and I was that kid who was so bad in school because I could sing.
Ester Dean
#68. Punk is an attitude, not a genre, age group, or time period. What's interesting is trying to define the blues and punk in different ways. They are very close cousins.
Jack White
#69. In my time first cousins did not meet like strangers. But we are learning modesty from the Americans, and old English ways are too gross for us.
J. Sheridan Le Fanu
#70. My thing is, I don't get in nobody's business or nothing like that or try to bash anybody for what they do. I've got cousins who are gay. To me, there's just no difference. We always chill and have family functions the way we always have. It's not a problem.
Warren G
#71. Well, I think it's because I'm an only daughter. I have four brothers, a bunch of guy cousins, and so it's like I was raised amongst men. So I've always gotten along really well with men.
Alicia Machado
#72. We're the battling bastards of Bataan. No mama, no papa, no Uncle Sam. No aunts, no uncles, no cousins, no nieces. No pills, no planes, no artillery pieces. And nobody gives a damn.
Kenneth Edward Lim
#74. And FYI, Deliverance took place in Georgia. In West Virginia we kiss our cousins.
Abigail Roux
#75. Short stories are often treated as the poor cousins of novels.
Christopher Bram
#76. While my cousins were gang-banging, I was trying to learn what the Internet was about.
Theophilus London
#77. Do you have anyone in mind, Hugo?" the duke asked. "Not really." Hugo sighed. "I have an army of female cousins and aunts who would be only too
Mary Balogh
#78. "How many girls do you kiss against cars?" asked Echo in a clipped manner.
My mouth gaped, but no sound came out. Rico and his two cousins cackled at my expression. I snapped it shut when Echo winked. Damn, I loved it when she dished it back.
Katie McGarry
#79. We were born in the '70s, back when twins were rare, a bit magical: cousins of the unicorn, siblings of the elves.
Gillian Flynn
#80. By adopting a wonderful mutt, you'll save a life and help reduce animal homelessness while also boosting your chances of a more robust new furry friend, as mixed-breed dogs have demonstrated better health and longer life spans than their purebred cousins.
Ingrid Newkirk
#81. I was an only child, but I did have a hell of a lot of cousins.
Desi Arnaz
#82. It was difficult knowing one of your cousins had lost his life.
Steven Gerrard
#83. It didn't matter that she was one of his best friend's cousins, or that she was a decade younger than him, or that he knew he'd likely get burned by her. He wanted to taste her again and this time he wasn't going to stop at kissing. Not unless she told him to.
Katie Reus
#84. My grandfather was a lawyer, my dad was a lawyer, my mum was a lawyer, I got an uncle who's a lawyer, I got cousins that are lawyers.
Benicio Del Toro
#85. I could feel the blood rushing to my cheeks. Montgomery had gotten the flowers. Sometime yesterday he'd picked wild flowers like he used to when we'd visit cousins in the country.
Megan Shepherd
#86. People talk about me as if I am the sole inheritor of the Guinness family fortune and worth masses, but I have hundreds of cousins.
Jasmine Guinness
#87. I have a very big family, and that is my number one thing, and we go away for a month to see my cousins in Italy every year, but I need to work.
Richard Rogers
#88. Obviously, I've seen what the press has done to my cousins. I would never let that rule my life, but I'm not the kind of person to rebel or do things. I don't know. I don't let the potential for bad press dictate who I am, but I keep that in mind. How can you not?
Lauren Bush
#89. The CIA's offices in London were no secret to the MI6. In fact, the two agencies were practically kissing cousins.
Kenneth Eade
#90. My dad and my brother and my cousins carry him out to the car of the person who is least angry at him.
Stephen Chbosky
#91. Denial and the desire to self-destruct are elemental cousins; mining one yields the other in equal proportion.
Domenica Ruta
#92. From Italy, I'd get calls from cousins and aunts saying, 'I don't think you should act. It's really tough. What are the chances?' This was around the time 'Flashdance' came out, and I was like, 'What about your dreams? I'm a maniac.'
Enrico Colantoni
#93. I have two cousins with juvenile diabetes. They both contracted the disease before the age of 5, and it was so heartbreaking watching them go through daily blood tests and injections. It is such a difficult disease to live with and requires constant attention; a tough thing to explain to a child.
Amy Robach
#94. For generations comedians have made jokes about Scots-Irish in the South inter-breeding. "I am my own grandpa" and all that stuff; you know, because they all were marrying their first cousins.
Ishmael Reed
#95. So many times through the course of a season you are defined by your backups. They have three players in [Kirk] Cousins, Niles [Paul] and [Bashaud] Breeland who may be better than the players that they're replacing.
Bill Cowher
#96. I'm really big on family. I'll love catching up with my cousins. Everyone's in their twenties, so they're all on their grind at the moment, but when we get the time, I'll fly everybody to Amsterdam or Ibiza, and we can just hang for a week, chill, do nothing.
Tinie Tempah
#97. Several of my favorite cousins and some of my best friends are lawyers, and I find the profession endlessly fascinating.
Luanne Rice
#98. Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.
H.L. Mencken
#99. I have 52 first cousins. My mom and dad were the only two to move to North America, so I've got deep family there, but I'm a California kid.
Donal Logue
#100. For the increase in the number of my Brennan cousins," Conall remarked dryly, "we must thank the potato.
Edward Rutherfurd
