Quotes with relatives

  • In time your relatives will come to accept the idea that a career is as important to you as your family. Of course, in time the polar ice cap will melt.
  • After Huguette Clark died in 2011 at age 104, 19 relatives challenged her will, claiming she was mentally ill and had been defrauded by her nurse, attorney and accountant.

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  • Al Goldstein A self made man is a rarity and hated by the parasites that floated to fame thought their parents, relatives and contacts.
    Al Goldstein
    American pornographer (1936 - 2013)
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  • Bill Dedman After Huguette Clark died in 2011 at age 104, 19 relatives challenged her will, claiming she was mentally ill and had been defrauded by her nurse, attorney and accountant.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Henry Louis Mencken Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Ethel Watts Mumford God gives us our relatives - thank God we can choose our friends.
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  • Addison Mizner God gives us relatives; thank God, we can choose our friends.
    Addison Mizner
    American architect (1872 - 1933)
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  • Barbara Dale In time your relatives will come to accept the idea that a career is as important to you as your family. Of course, in time the polar ice cap will melt.
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  • Margaret Mead Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put it in an impossible situation.
    Margaret Mead
    American cultural anthropologist (1901 - 1978)
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  • Euripides One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
    Euripides
    Greek tragedian and poet (480 - 406)
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  • Jacques Delille Our relatives are ours by chance, but we can choose our friends.
    Jacques Delille
    French author (1738 - 1813)
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  • Tacitus The hatred of relatives is the most violent.
    Tacitus
    Roman senator and historian (56 - 117)
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  • Jim Morrison The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.
    Jim Morrison
    American singer, poet and songwriter (1943 - 1971)
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  • Cary Fowler To begin with, I've always known that I was a little bit different. And, I have a lot of relatives who own farms. I grew up in the American South where political issues and issues of justice were at the forefront. What I do now is a combination of all these factors.
    Cary Fowler
    American agriculturalist and businessman (1949 - )
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  • Bernard Malamud We can't all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers.
    Bernard Malamud
    American novelist (1914 - 1986)
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  • George Bernard Shaw We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Jimmy Carter We've uncovered some embarrassing ancestors in the not-too-distant past. Some horse thieves, and some people killed on Saturday nights. One of my relatives, unfortunately, was even in the newspaper business.
    Jimmy Carter
    American statesman, 39e President (1924 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Jacques Delille Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.
    Jacques Delille
    French author (1738 - 1813)
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