#cousins

When I was a kid, I was surrounded by girls: older sisters, older girl cousins just down the street... except for an older boy named Vito who threw rocks. Each year I would wish for a baby brother. It never happened. ↗

— Wally Lamb

#boy #brother #cousins #down #each

A strangely reflective, even melancholy day. Is that because, unlike our cousins in the northern hemisphere, Easter is not associated with the energy and vitality of spring but with the more subdued spirit of autumn? ↗

— Hugh Mackay

#autumn #because #cousins #day #easter

My son has two loving parents and an extended family, whether it's cousins or stepmothers or boyfriends. My son is surrounded by love. ↗

— Bridget Moynahan

#extended #extended family #family #love #loving

My parents were second cousins. That is enough to explain all of my peculiarities. ↗

— Sargent Shriver

#enough #explain #parents #peculiarities #second

Are you all right?” he asked Olivia. His heart was still racing with terror that she’d been hurt. “I heard a woman scream.” “Ah, that would have been me,” Sebastian said. Harry looked down on his cousin, face frozen in disbelief. “You made that noise?” “It hurt,” Sebastian bit off. Harry fought not to laugh. “You scream like a leettle girl. ↗

— Julia Quinn

#cousins #humor #humor

My brother Jim and I spent many wonderful summers working on dairy farms in Wisconsin owned by Mom's cousins, and as members of our local Boy Scout troop. ↗

— Peter Agre

#boy scout #brother #cousins #dairy #farms

I had a wonderful family including my aunts, uncles and cousins but they've all gone to heaven. ↗

— Doris Day

#cousins #family #gone #had #heaven

I was glad to hear of that determination as I detest the practice of cousins marrying or any marriage between persons in which there can be traced the most distant relationship. I go for the improvement instead of the deterioration of our race. ↗

— Ezra Cornell

#between #cousins #deterioration #determination #detest

Zoo animals are ambassadors for their cousins in the wild. ↗

— Jack Hanna

#their #wild #zoo

A lot of people would rather tour sewers than visit their cousins. ↗

— Jane Howard

#lot #people #rather #than #their