A self made man is a rarity and hated by the parasites that floated to fame thought their parents, relatives and contacts.
Al Goldstein

Blood relatives often have nothing to do with family, and similarly, family is about who you choose to make your life with.
Oliver Hudson

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

Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.
H. L. Mencken

Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.
Jacques Delille

Fighting hard to protect yourself and your relatives is good for your genes, but when captured and escape is not possible, giving up short of dying and making the best you can of the new situation is also good for your genes.
Keith Henson

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

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.
Michael Milken

Friends are relatives you make for yourself.
Eustache Deschamps

From Nelson county we went to Logan county to see some relatives we had there, and after staying until the middle of October, I returned alone to my home in Missouri.
Jesse James

God gave us our relatives; thank God we can choose our friends.
Ethel Watts Mumford

God gives us our relatives, thank God we can choose our friends.
Ethel Watts Mumford

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

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

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

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

I can't think of any relatives that ever went into science.
William Standish Knowles

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

I find it difficult to imagine an afterlife, such as Christians, or at any rate many religious people, conceive it, believing that the conversations with relatives and friends interrupted here on earth will be continued in the hereafter.
Edvard Munch

I had no blood relatives till I made some.
Andy Dick