Quotes About Relatives

#1. A harem is not a brothel, as so many Westerners erroneously believe. It is merely the women's living quarters. Male relatives can join them
but no male nonrelatives may do so. It is hardly a den of eroticism.

Phyllis Chesler

#2. Success is a relative term. It brings so many relatives.

Stephen Hawking

#3. Leader follows his ideology, Leader does not follow his relatives and friends

Imran Khan

#4. Nobody can ever make enough money for as many poor relatives as I've got. Somebody's got a sick kid, or somebody needs an operation, somebody ain't got this, somebody ain't got that. Or to give the kids all a car when they graduate.

Dolly Parton

#5. I've never been a fan of loans between relatives or friends. They can divide relationships.

Jean Chatzky

#6. I just want people to respect the privacy of my relatives in Taiwan ... They need to live their lives as well.

Jeremy Lin

#7. As one of Henrietta's relatives said to me, "If you pretty up how people spoke and change the things they said, that's dishonest. It's taking away their lives, their experiences, and their selves." In

Rebecca Skloot

#8. If you hire relatives, you'll have a payroll that won't quit.

Milton Berle

#9. Some people talk about illogical things like love.. But then they can rationally sacrifice their relatives. - Sebastian Michaelis

Yana Toboso

#10. It's raining in Washington tonight. Plump, warm summer rain that covers the sidewalks with leopard spots. Downtown, elderly ladies carry their houseplants out to set them on the fire-escapes, as if they were infirm relatives or Boy Kings. I like that.

Alan Moore

#11. I cannot go to the houses of my nearest relatives, because I do not wish to be alone. Society exists by chemical affinity, and not otherwise.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#12. But as my brother was doing his research for a book about my father, it became his opinion that the most influential anti-semitism my father encountered when he was growing up was from Jews, because his relatives were German Jews, and doctors.

Tobias Wolff

#13. We are so lonely because we don't have enough friends and relatives. Human beings are supposed to live in stable, like-minded, extended families of fifty people or more.

Kurt Vonnegut

#14. Everything is relative except relatives, and they are absolute.

Alfred Stieglitz

#15. Thoreau, At death, our friends and relatives either draw nearer to us, and are found out, or depart farther from us, and are forgotten.

Neil Peart

#16. 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

#17. I always want to say to people who want to be rich and famous: 'try being rich first'. See if that doesn't cover most of it. There's not much downside to being rich, other than paying taxes and having your relatives ask you for money. But when you become famous, you end up with a 24-hour job.

Bill Murray

#18. The house of a childless person is a void, all directions are void to one who has no relatives, the heart of a fool is also void, but to a poverty stricken man all is void.

Chanakya

#19. Remember folks, fish are like relatives. After two days, they stink.

Bobby Heenan

#20. The sight of the Medusa head made the boar squeal in outrage. Maybe it looked too much like one of his relatives.

Rick Riordan

#21. Tel-Aviv airport is still the only airport in the world where each passenger is met by ten relatives.

George Mikes

#22. Poison ivy, because who needed a case of that on your pecker). We're all here in Derry. No camp, no relatives, no vacations, no AWAY. All right here. Present and accounted for. There's

Stephen King

#23. I have a lot of relatives that were dancers and musicians and artists. They basically came out of the womb doing it.

Sarah Hay

#24. Food for us comes from our relatives, whether they have wings or fins or roots. That is how we consider food. Food has a culture. It has a history. It has a story. It has relationships.

Winona LaDuke

#25. The relatives didn't feel slighted - they had a limited interest in people like Roy who had just married into the family, and not even contributed any children to it, and who were not like themselves. They were large, expansive, talkative. He was short, compact, quiet.

Alice Munro

#26. Blodgett and Hobart are named for and oven and a mixer?" Justin asked. "Huh. And all this time I thought they were named for some unfortunate relatives.

Jenn McKinlay

#27. There's something to be said for relatives ... it has to be said because it's unprintable!

Albert Einstein

#28. Blogs seem to have two magnetic poles, one attracting friends, the other repulsing relatives.

Robert Breault

#29. The craze of genealogy is connected with the epidemic for divorce. If we can't figure out who our living relatives are, then maybe we'll have more luck with the dead ones.

Elizabeth Jane Howard

#30. I've always felt, as a writer, that radicals are fascinating because they're relations, they have a place in the American family. They're the relatives everyone wishes would go away. They're the embarrassments to decorum and good taste.

E.L. Doctorow

#31. With the abundance of toys available, a child's room (or the whole house) can be overtaken by Kid Stuff with just one Christmas or birthday and a small group of well-meaning relatives.

Dana White

#32. For our immediate family and relatives, Canada was a land of opportunity.

Sidney Altman

#33. Both bonobos and common chimps are as close to humans as foxes are to dogs. I don't know about you, but that's closer than I feel to some of my human relatives.

Susan Block

#34. The fate of the world depends upon whether or not you can bring yourself to visit your relatives ..." ~ Skulduggery Pleasant

Derek Landy

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

Charles Bukowski

#36. When I see professional clowns, mimes, or people who makes ballon animals, I think of their relatives and how disappointed they must be.

Jimmy Fallon

#37. My mom told me when I was younger that when you jack off all of your dead relatives are watching. But then I figured who were they going to tell.

Robert Schimmel

#38. Refusal to participate is a moral choice. Water is a gift for all, not meant to be bought and sold. Don't buy it. When food has been wrenched from the earth, depleting the soil and poisoning our relatives in the name of higher yields, don't buy it.

Robin Wall Kimmerer

#39. What is a normal childhood? We weren't rich, we were pretty middle-class. My dad survived from job to job; with him taking care of so many relatives, he couldn't save any money.

Charlie Sheen

#40. Friends and relatives might be surprised that I think of myself as lonely. I'm married to a man I not only love but like, and we spend a lot of time together. If I feel like socializing, I can usually find someone to meet for coffee or a drink.

Robin Marantz Henig

#41. Offspring, friends and relatives flee from a devotee of the Lord: yet those who follow him bring merit to their families through their devotion.

Chanakya

#42. I made nepotism an art form, so I get to work with a lot of relatives and they're part of it.

Garry Marshall

#43. Michelle will tell you that when we get together for Christmas or Thanksgiving, it's like a little mini-United Nations ... I've got relatives who look like Bernie Mac, and I've got relatives who look like Margaret Thatcher ... We've got it all.

Barack Obama

#44. What about those who help growth indirectly, those who stay at home and look after others - mothers, carers of elderly parents or sick relatives who save the state millions of pounds annually. What is their worth? How is their value to be determined?

Noreena Hertz

#45. But why people need privacy? Why privacy is important? In China, every family live together, grandparents, parents, daughter, son and their relatives too. Eat together and share everything, talk about everything. Privacy make people lonely. Privacy make family fallen apart.

Xiaolu Guo

#46. I was so shy. I used to cross the street so I wouldn't even have to talk to my relatives, much less strangers. That's not shy, that's wise. But I found that that when you had a journalist's notebook in your hand it wasn't really you, you see.

Geraldine Brooks

#47. It seemed like folly to imagine that one could fill a house (or a tent) with relatives and still expect to have a pleasant vacation.

Emma Straub

#48. The two words, in the American lexicon, are never good. Pink slip. The first time I ever heard it when I was young was when Kaiser Steel handed out pink slips to many of my neighbors and relatives. Layoffs were about efficiency, sales figures for raw materials or refrigerators.

Susan Straight

#49. If one drops dead in the street, friends and loved ones are shocked, stricken, but a long lingering death loses all nobility and drama, while relatives and friends await the inevitable end in a succession of weary anti-climaxes.

Alanna Knight

#50. 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

#51. I am convinced that material things can contribute a lot to making one's life pleasant, but, basically, if you do not have very good friends and relatives who matter to you, life will be really empty and sad and material things cease to be important.

David Rockefeller

#52. Unlike features of a landscape like trees and mountains, people have feet. They move to places where opportunities are best, and they soon invite their friends and relatives to join them.

Steven Pinker

#53. Everyone wanted his relatives to be proud of him, didn't he?

Jude Deveraux

#54. We passed from laughter to terror which, like love and hate, are close relatives.

Lise Deharme

#55. 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

#56. Well, if you don't want your relatives and friends to die, help me spread the news. Let people know about immortality device. That way, your loved ones won't die.

Alex Chiu

#57. Your most expensive advice is the free advice you receive from your financially struggling friends and relatives.

Robert Kiyosaki

#58. One of the biggest indicators for success in life is having a few crazy relatives. So long as you get only some of the crazy genes, you don't end up crazy; you merely end up different. And it's that difference that gives you an edge, that makes you successfull.

Douglas Coupland

#59. But by the way, who is the murderer? The one who does not know my relatives, or myself, as I erect my new life like a fragile mausoleum where their shadowy figure is integrated, like a corpse, at the source of my wandering?

Julia Kristeva

#60. My whole damn family was nice. I don't think I've imagined it. It's true. Maybe it has to do with being brought up as Christian Scientists. Half of my relatives were Readers or Practitioners in the church.

Henry Fonda

#61. I think the reason they are my relatives now is they are from my country too - it's like the country has become a real family since we are in America, which is not our country

NoViolet Bulawayo

#62. The room-service Caesar salads with soggy croutons, the distant relatives who show up at readings pitching weird, far-fetched investment schemes, the fans who have you sign a book to 'Cathy' and then tell you, 'No, it's Kathy with a K' - it gets challenging after a while. It tests your stamina.

Walter Kirn

#63. One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

#64. I always felt I was living in two worlds. One was the Mexican world, because nearly everybody I knew, relatives and cousins and kids in the neighbourhood, were Mexican. Then school was a different world. It was ethnically mixed.

Gilbert Hernandez

#65. If passionate love is the coke of love, companionate love is like having a glass of wine or smoking a few hits of some mild weed. That makes it sound a little better than the uncle thing, right? We all like booze and weed more than we like our relatives, right?

Aziz Ansari

#66. Nothing is more false and more indiscreet than always to want to choose what mortifies us in everything. By this rule a person would soon ruin his health, his business, his reputation, his relations with his relatives and friends, in fact every good work which Providence gives him.

Francois Fenelon

#67. Great, huge sobs for herself, for her relatives, for the torment and shame of her past, for losses which could never be recovered.

Sally Laity

#68. Let's say, 100 years ago, I'm not sure how many people had to empty out their relatives' homes; they just stayed in the same house, because they lived there. Nowadays, almost everyone, at least once in their life, somehow, has to deal with this experience.

Arnon Goldfinger

#69. I think people have an instinct for a family. You look until you find a mother, a father, a sister, a brother. They don't have to be blood relatives. They just have to love you. And when you find them, you don't have to look anymore.

Nancy Farmer

#70. As they do every year, al-Qaida has threatened to disrupt and ruin Christmas. You know, we already have a group that disrupts and ruins Christmas every year. They're called relatives.

Jay Leno

#71. I enjoy slaughtering beasts, and I think of my relatives constantly.

Roger Zelazny

#72. My father was killed by a German mine, while I lost other relatives in Allied bombing attacks.

Jean-Marie Le Pen

#73. A shadow has no relatives
he is universally orphan

Yarro Rai

#74. He is a "princeling," the relatives of current or former senior Chinese Communist Party leaders.

Anonymous

#75. I think that Scottish people, like Canadians, are often misunderstood and what I like about my Scottish friends and relatives is how quickly it can go from love to anger. It's a great dynamic.

Mike Myers

#76. Once a patient goes brain dead and relatives sign his organ donation consent form, he will get the best medical treatment of his life. A hospital code blue may be a call for doctors to rush to the bedside of a beating heart cadaver who needs his or her heart defibrillated.

Dick Teresi

#77. After long study and experience, I have come to the conclusion that (1) all religions are true; (2) all religions have some error in them; (3) all religions are almost as dear to me as my own Hinduism, in as much as all human beings should be as dear to one as one's own close relatives.

Mahatma Gandhi

#78. If you don't own a home, buy one. If you own one home, buy another one. And if you own two homes, buy a third and lend your relatives the money to buy one.

John Paulson

#79. I have lost my mother, my father, my five, and ninety relatives in Poland. Poland is for me a cemetery.

Simon Wiesenthal

#80. Ever since we'd found Wilson, his cousin's calmness bothered me. I realized now I felt less unease with angry outbursts from grieving relatives, than I had with the slow, ticking time bomb of the quiet and collected.
--Prepped for Kill, Marjorie Gardens Mystery Book 2

A.E.H. Veenman

#81. You have to do a little bragging on yourself even to your relatives-man doesn't get anywhere without advertising.

John Nance Garner

#82. In what appears to have been an unplanned quip, Wilberforce asked Huxley if he thought he was descended from an ape on his father's or mother's side. Huxley retorted that he would rather have simian relatives than claim kinship with a man who used his charisma and authority to quash free debate.

Jonathan Clements

#83. I had seen so many begin to pack their lives in cotton woool, smother their impulses, hood their passions, and gradually retire from their manhood into a kind of spiritual and physical semi-invalidism. In this they are encouraged by wives and relatives, and it's such a sweet trap.

John Steinbeck

#84. We ought to encourage our children to know their relatives. We need to talk of them, make effort to correspond with them, visit them, join family organizations, etc.

Spencer W. Kimball

#85. All my friends and relatives have always taken a condescending tone to my writing, and never ceased urging me in a friendly way not to give up real work for the sake of scribbling.

Anton Chekhov

#86. Try not to annoy your relatives unnecessarily.

Judith Martin

#87. Feel what you feel, know what you know, and set your relatives free to do the same.

Melody Beattie

#88. Without my relatives, I am but a thread; together, we form a colorful and elaborate Persian carpet.

Firoozeh Dumas

#89. Mistakes are like the memories you hide in an attic: old love letters from relationships that tanked, photos of dead relatives, toys from a childhood you miss. Out of sight is out of mind, but somewhere deep inside you know they still exist. And you also know that you're avoiding them.

Jodi Picoult

#90. My father said you can't make a living in birds, my relatives all went into business: bankers, stockbrokers. However, they eventually lost it all and died in wheelchairs. Sometimes you have to be a little aberrant.

Roger Tory Peterson

#91. Ain't nothing wrong with being a woman, gancho," Lopen said. "Some of my relatives are women.

Brandon Sanderson

#92. If one were to just understand the worldly life and what it is, he would attain liberation [moksha]. The worldly life is 'relative'. And "All these relatives are temporary adjustments".

Dada Bhagwan

#93. The world is nothing but a school of love;
our relationships with our husband or wife,
with our children and parents,
with our friends and relatives
are the university in which we are meant to learn what love and devotion truly are.

Swami Muktananda

#94. choose their preferred facility according to where the service is located (i.e., vicinity to relatives) rather than based on publicly reported quality information.

Vincent Mor

#95. You share a toast with me:
Here's to seasonal
madness, part-time
relatives, and
substitutes for love.

Ellen Hopkins

#96. At 140, 150, that's when the car starts floating. At 160, that's when you start seeing dead relatives. At 180, it's, like, terrifying and exciting.

Adam Ferrara

#97. The advice would be the same for any kind of fiction. Keep writing, and keep sending things out, not to friends and relatives, but to people who have the power to buy. A lot of additional, useful tips could be added, but this is fundamental.

Fred Saberhagen

#98. Never be too quick to criticize yourself. It's not fair to all of your friends and relatives, who are dying to do it for you.

Texas Bix Bender

#99. The reality is that when you visit Italy, you'll be hijacked by relatives of all sorts; the entire family tree is waiting to meet you. [A hyphenated Italian's risk]

Ivanka Di Felice

#100. Some of my happiest moments are the ones I spend with my husband, a few close relatives, and a handful of very good friends who know me well and like me anyway.

Robin Marantz Henig