The rich never have to seek out their relatives.

They say blood is thicker than water. It’s also more treacherous, prone to betrayal, full of shit and quite honestly, I wouldn’t put much weight into it at all.

Hermes gazed up at the stars. ‘My dear young cousin, if there’s one thing I’ve learned over the eons, it’s that you can’t give up on your family, no matter how tempting they make it....

Some people will only love you as much as they can use you, their loyalty ends where the benefits cease.

My family tree spreads wide as well. I am a great ape, and you are a great ape, and so are chimpanzees and orangutans and bonobos, all of us distant and distrustful cousins.I know this...

God gives us relatives; thank God, we can choose our friends.

Nothing like watching your relatives fight, I always say.

Stop tagging everyone into your life’s profile. For all you don’t know, some will neither comment nor commend you; some may not like or hike with you! Evil companies corrupt good morals… Watch who goes...

When we have passed a certain age, the soul of the child that we were and the souls of the dead from whom we sprang come and shower upon us their riches and their spells,...

Worship Allah and associate nothing with Him, and to parents do good, and to relatives, orphans, the needy, the near neighbor, the neighbor farther away, the companion at your side, the traveler, and those whom...

The relatives were not informed and not invited to the court. They are also unhappy with the lawyer.

I’m a sex lover and fan of family reunions. Those two things are unrelated, just as all my sex partners are unrelated (at least to me).

I lost everything in my house. A couple of my relatives were killed, so I’m not in a real festive mood at this time.

People have lots of relatives everywhere.

We would be relatives, and I would like to meet them.

When the food runs out, the family reunion is over. It’s cool that out of all my relatives, I’m the only cannibal.

Distant relatives are the best kind, and the further the better

My own brother, Aberforth, was prosecuted for practicing inappropriate charms on a goat. It was all over the papers, but did Aberforth hide? No, he did not! He held his head high and went about...

The slaughter of chimpanzees and gorillas, our closest relatives, is absolutely diabolical. I can’t imagine that this can go on much longer before these animals are extinct,

In my view, if the father is in the United States and prepared to take custody, and the relatives decline to give him custody, there is no basis whatsoever in law, morality or general convention...

An advantage of poverty, your relatives gain nothing by your death.

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

When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them. But when they are away, we console ourselves for their absence by...

Loving relatives and home-cooked meals are solid levees against a recession.

When describing myself, I don’t use superlatives. Just normal latives. And if I use the same word more than once to describe myself, it’s a relative. This is how I became my own father. And...

Announcing the intended arrival of some people is kind of like issuing a hurricane warning. 

Ask anyone and they’ll most likely say their family is crazy, and if they don’t say their family is crazy, their friends are crazy. That’s because everyone is crazy after taking the mask off. People...

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

…Having the intransigent position of the Miami relatives as something that was clear that this was the only alternative for reuniting the boy with his father, … It was done in an appropriate way, it...

His eyes went again to the crucifix above his head, reflected in the mirror. The strained arms, the arched spine. All that effort to open the gates of heaven for us and we (he thought)...

What is inspiration in strangers is jealousy in kinsmen.

My son went to the local authorities to ask if we could get permission to meet my relatives but they are mum. They have been telling him to come the next day. I still do...

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

Judging Natalie as my mother had judged me was, I felt like telling her son, just my ass-backward way of showing love. I’d spent my life trying to translate that language, and now I realized...

We are relatives at the village and yet we become strangers in the city

There are Atheists in foxholesAtheists in hurricanesThere are Atheists in all the rolesDenied by your refrainsAtheists are your fellow citizensPeople who love and laugh and cryAtheists are your relatives and friendsDon’t insult them with a...

O, great wise man,’ she said, ‘I have been wondering so many things. Is life more than sitting at home doing the same thing over and over? Wise man, is life more than watching one’s...

To understand something properly, we need to know it a little more; but to know someone purely, we need to understand our inner feelings truly and for sure.

Our ancestors are very good kind of folks; but they are the last people I should choose to have a visiting acquaintance with.

Leonard is far and away my least favorite relative, and I have no clue why I call him one night, collect, very late, and give him an involved and scrupulously fair edition of the whole...

So, I want to thank Pluto and Mickey and Donald, and all my relatives.

Stunning is the fact that a novel idea proposed by a person ordinary is initially not liked often by his or her friends any, but suddenly many of them like if the same or similar...

It’s the victims that matter most, those who lost relatives, those who suffered, … They must feel closure. If the trial’s not fair and open, that satisfaction will not result.

Finally, he smiled, and although his smile was bumpy because some of his teeth were jagged and broken, it was a warming, infectious smile that was reflected in his eyes. It made her smile widely...

All my relatives in Orlando came through for me,