Relatives Quotes

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

Family, Land, Canada

Individuals approaching death often experience encounters with their dead relatives, who seem to welcome them to the next world. These deathbed visions are authentic and convincing; they are often followed by a state of euphoria and seem to ease the transition.
Stanislav Grof

Death, Experience, Often

My relatives used to laugh when I talked of being a writer.
Taylor Caldwell

Laugh, Used, Writer

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

Enjoy, Beasts, Constantly

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

Friends, Find, Here

I stayed in Baghdad every summer until I was 14. My dad's sister is still there, but many of my relatives have managed to get out. People forget that there are still people there who are not radicalized in any particular direction, trying to live normal lives in a very difficult situation.
Andy Serkis

Dad, Live, Forget

In the beginning of the human race there was no genetic load which would cause undesirable traits such as appear in offspring of marriages between relatives today.
Walter Lang

Today, Human, Between

Unfortunately, inner feelings and potential are often stunted by our parents, relatives or peers.
Willie Stargell

Parents, Feelings, Often

There aren't many downsides to being rich, other than paying taxes and having relatives asking for money. But being famous, that's a 24 hour job right there.
Bill Murray

Money, Famous, Job

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

Wise, Talk, Used

You know, all my songs are relatives, brothers, sisters, cousins.
David Coverdale

Songs, Brothers, Sisters

Six hours a day I lived under school discipline in active intercourse with people none of whom were known to those at home, and the other hours of the twenty-four I spent at home, or with relatives of the people at home, none of whom were known to anybody at school.
Georg Brandes

Home, School, Discipline

I lost relatives to AIDS, a couple of my closest cousins. I lost friends to AIDS, high-school friends who never even made it to their 21st birthdays in the '80s. When it's that close to you, you can't really deny it, and you can't run from it.
Queen Latifah

Lost, Made, Friends

My father was killed by a German mine, while I lost other relatives in Allied bombing attacks.
Jean-Marie Le Pen

Father, Lost, While

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.
Hamid Karzai

Peace, Time, Children

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

Power, Writing, Friends

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

Help, Friends, Die

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

Father, Book, Opinion

The family ties between hundreds of thousands of German families and their American relatives led many to think that America would never join a second war against Germany.
Julius Streicher

Family, War, America

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

School, Different, Two

I was very much in my room with my marionette stage, you know, creating these incredibly boring things that I felt were so fascinating, and forcing my relatives to come, and charging money for them to see my little productions.
Bob Balaban

Money, Boring, Felt

I do believe that there are African Americans who have thick accents. My mom has a thick accent; my relatives have thick accents. But sometimes you have to adjust when you go into the world of film, TV, theatre, in order to make it accessible to people.
Viola Davis

Mom, Sometimes, Film

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.
Barbara Dale

Family, Time, Important

My mother speaks of my step being a source of life-long pain to her, that it is a living death, etc. By the same post I had several letters from anxious relatives, telling me that it was my duty to come home and thus ease my mother's anxiety.
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson

Home, Death, Mother

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

Made, Blood, Till

I don't mind having these relatives. I'll give them a little, since they all prayed for my victory.
Manny Pacquiao

Mind, Give, Victory

My sister and I were born in San Francisco. When our parents died, we came down here to live with relatives.
Freddy Fender

Live, Parents, Down

My mother and father and many of my relatives had been sharecroppers.
John Lewis

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

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

Family, Nice, True

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