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Relatives Quotes

In China, the dead are not forgotten - my relatives cheerfully pointed out all the niches of deceased friends and family, as if gesturing at the homes of the living Picture Quote #1

My mother was a Mohawk, born and raised on a reservation, and when I was a kid, she would take me there to visit her relatives Picture Quote #1

My uncles and other relatives are against encouraging girls in every aspect, and that includes sports. I hardly interact with them. My parents are more open. They back me all the way Picture Quote #1

We are, all four of us, blood relatives, and we speak a kind of esoteric, family language, a sort of semantic geometry in which the shortest distance between any two points is a fullish circle Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 are suffering a tough time Picture Quote #1

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For those of us who have lost loved ones in their prime - as I did when my father and other relatives succumbed - even one of those years would have been a precious gift Picture Quote #1

For our immediate family and relatives, Canada was a land of opportunity Picture Quote #1

Being Jewish and having lost relatives in the Holocaust, I’ve always been aware of the meaning of prejudice. These are things that have remained with me throughout my political career Picture Quote #1

You might be a redneck if your wheelbarrow breaks and it takes four relatives to figure out how to fix it Picture Quote #1

I hope someday we can stamp out illiteracy in America. Of course you’ll have to kill alot of my relatives to do it Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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Nearly every BRCA mutation carrier’s main concern is how to avoid the fate of relatives who have had, and possibly died from, breast or ovarian cancer Picture Quote #1

We must keep these waters for wild rice, these trees for maple syrup, our lakes for fish, and our land and aquifers for all of our relatives - whether they have fins, roots, wings, or paws Picture Quote #1

A young lady’s most natural ally is her sister although sometimes our own relatives are as inscrutable to us as an antipodean Picture Quote #1

Hoping to drink beer without gaining weight is the same as winning the lottery and expecting that no sketchy relatives will ask for a boat Picture Quote #1

During my past career as a journalist, I relished writing obits and equally dreaded phoning relatives for the necessary facts. But to my surprise and great relief, they often wanted to talk - they wanted their recently deceased loved ones recorded in print Picture Quote #1

Most advice on child-rearing is sought in the hope that it will confirm our prior convictions. If the parent had wished to proceedin a certain way but was made insecure by opposing opinions of neighbors, friends, or relatives, then it gives him great comfort to find his ideas seconded by an expert Picture Quote #1

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The great thing about getting married young like I did and having a child so young is that he gets to know all the relatives. He knew his great-grandmother, and we sat down together and tied down the stories of our uncles and aunts Picture Quote #1

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? Picture Quote #1

When you use force, people get hurt, and when you kill people, their relatives don’t like it. And usually war has some unanticipated consequences so it’s something you shouldn’t launch into, on the expectation that this is going to rally the nation. This is not like ‘Friday Night Lights’ Picture Quote #1

I didn’t write about my mother much in the third year after she died. I was still trying to get my argument straight: When her friends or our relatives wondered why I was still so hard on her, I could really lay out the case for what it had been like to be raised by someone who had loathed herself, her husband, even her own name Picture Quote #1

Did you hear the one about the elderly Jew on his deathbed who sent for a priest, after declaring to his astonished relatives that ‘I want to convert.’ Asked why he would become a Catholic, after living all his life as a Jew, he answered: ‘Better one of them should die than one of us.’ Picture Quote #1

My family went to Toronto to visit relatives when I was 13 or 14. It was the first time we had ever been abroad. This was the early Eighties, and I remember the impossible glamour of air travel - my mum spending days trying to decide what she was going to wear on the plane Picture Quote #1

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My parents’ names were Florian and Mabel Smith. My mother’s maiden name was Dersam. They were of German heritage and were part of a family community with my grandparents and uncles and relatives. I was an only child Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

The French are pretty thin-skinned. The few times I mentioned a French writer in ‘City Boy,’ the relatives would ring up in high dudgeon. I once wrote a mocking review of Marguerite Duras in the ‘New York Review of Books,’ and good friends of mine in France got very angry Picture Quote #1

If man was the relative of animals, then animals were the relatives of man, and in degrees bearers of that inwardness of which man, the most advanced of their kin, is conscious in himself Picture Quote #1

Looking through family photographs now is like watching an episode of ‘Dad’s Army.’ My relatives seem to drop like flies around me. Who’s next? Will it be someone I can’t stand? Picture Quote #1

But there’s the paradox of fiction - why do you cry when a fake character dies? It’s the basis of art. You engage with people who don’t exist and care about them as you would your friends and relatives Picture Quote #1

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In China, the dead are not forgotten - my relatives cheerfully pointed out all the niches of deceased friends and family, as if gesturing at the homes of the living (Relatives Quotes) My mother was a Mohawk, born and raised on a reservation, and when I was a kid, she would take me there to visit her relatives (Relatives Quotes) My uncles and other relatives are against encouraging girls in every aspect, and that includes sports. I hardly interact with them. My parents are more open. They back me all the way (Relatives Quotes) We are, all four of us, blood relatives, and we speak a kind of esoteric, family language, a sort of semantic geometry in which the shortest distance between any two points is a fullish circle (Relatives Quotes) 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 (Relatives Quotes) 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 are suffering a tough time (Relatives Quotes) For those of us who have lost loved ones in their prime - as I did when my father and other relatives succumbed - even one of those years would have been a precious gift (Relatives Quotes) For our immediate family and relatives, Canada was a land of opportunity (Relatives Quotes) Being Jewish and having lost relatives in the Holocaust, I’ve always been aware of the meaning of prejudice. These are things that have remained with me throughout my political career (Relatives Quotes) You might be a redneck if your wheelbarrow breaks and it takes four relatives to figure out how to fix it (Relatives Quotes) I hope someday we can stamp out illiteracy in America. Of course you’ll have to kill alot of my relatives to do it (Relatives Quotes) 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 (Relatives Quotes) Nearly every BRCA mutation carrier’s main concern is how to avoid the fate of relatives who have had, and possibly died from, breast or ovarian cancer (Relatives Quotes) We must keep these waters for wild rice, these trees for maple syrup, our lakes for fish, and our land and aquifers for all of our relatives - whether they have fins, roots, wings, or paws (Relatives Quotes) A young lady’s most natural ally is her sister although sometimes our own relatives are as inscrutable to us as an antipodean (Relatives Quotes) Hoping to drink beer without gaining weight is the same as winning the lottery and expecting that no sketchy relatives will ask for a boat (Relatives Quotes) During my past career as a journalist, I relished writing obits and equally dreaded phoning relatives for the necessary facts. But to my surprise and great relief, they often wanted to talk - they wanted their recently deceased loved ones recorded in print (Relatives Quotes) Most advice on child-rearing is sought in the hope that it will confirm our prior convictions. If the parent had wished to proceedin a certain way but was made insecure by opposing opinions of neighbors, friends, or relatives, then it gives him great comfort to find his ideas seconded by an expert (Relatives Quotes) The great thing about getting married young like I did and having a child so young is that he gets to know all the relatives. He knew his great-grandmother, and we sat down together and tied down the stories of our uncles and aunts (Relatives Quotes) 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? (Relatives Quotes) When you use force, people get hurt, and when you kill people, their relatives don’t like it. And usually war has some unanticipated consequences so it’s something you shouldn’t launch into, on the expectation that this is going to rally the nation. This is not like ‘Friday Night Lights’ (Relatives Quotes) I didn’t write about my mother much in the third year after she died. I was still trying to get my argument straight: When her friends or our relatives wondered why I was still so hard on her, I could really lay out the case for what it had been like to be raised by someone who had loathed herself, her husband, even her own name. (Relatives Quotes) Did you hear the one about the elderly Jew on his deathbed who sent for a priest, after declaring to his astonished relatives that ‘I want to convert.’ Asked why he would become a Catholic, after living all his life as a Jew, he answered: ‘Better one of them should die than one of us.’ (Relatives Quotes) My family went to Toronto to visit relatives when I was 13 or 14. It was the first time we had ever been abroad. This was the early Eighties, and I remember the impossible glamour of air travel - my mum spending days trying to decide what she was going to wear on the plane. (Relatives Quotes) My parents’ names were Florian and Mabel Smith. My mother’s maiden name was Dersam. They were of German heritage and were part of a family community with my grandparents and uncles and relatives. I was an only child. (Relatives Quotes) 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. (Relatives Quotes) The French are pretty thin-skinned. The few times I mentioned a French writer in ‘City Boy,’ the relatives would ring up in high dudgeon. I once wrote a mocking review of Marguerite Duras in the ‘New York Review of Books,’ and good friends of mine in France got very angry. (Relatives Quotes) If man was the relative of animals, then animals were the relatives of man, and in degrees bearers of that inwardness of which man, the most advanced of their kin, is conscious in himself. (Relatives Quotes) Looking through family photographs now is like watching an episode of ‘Dad’s Army.’ My relatives seem to drop like flies around me. Who’s next? Will it be someone I can’t stand? (Relatives Quotes) But there’s the paradox of fiction - why do you cry when a fake character dies? It’s the basis of art. You engage with people who don’t exist and care about them as you would your friends and relatives. (Relatives Quotes)

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