#relative

Poverty is relative, and the lack of food and of the necessities of life is not necessarily a hardship. Spiritual and social ostracism, the invasion of your privacy, are what constitute the pain of poverty. ↗

— Alice Foote MacDougall

#food #hardship #invasion #lack #life

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. It doesn't matter if they hate you, or embarrass you, or simply don't appreciate your genius for inventing the Internet-- ↗

— Rick Riordan

#relatives #family

God gave us our relatives; thank God we can choose our friends. ↗

— Ethel Watts Mumford

#friends #gave #god #our #relatives

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

— Ethel Watts Mumford

#friends #gives #god #our #relatives

That fallacy flies in the face of studies that show, every day, in every way, things are getting a little worse for America's minorities relative to the progress made by those in the top percentiles of assets and income. ↗

— Harold Washington

#assets #day #every #every day #face

If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#arise #cleverness #confusion #duty #faithful

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

— Taylor Caldwell

#i #laugh #relatives #talked #used

Acquiring a dog may be the only opportunity a human ever has to choose a relative. ↗

— Mordecai Wyatt Johnson

#choose #dog #ever #human #may

Do not be misled by the fact that you are at liberty and relatively free; that for the moment you are not under lock and key: you have simply been granted a reprieve. ↗

— Ryszard Kapuscinski

#fact #free #granted #key #liberty

I can't think of any relatives that ever went into science. ↗

— William Standish Knowles

#ever #i #into #relatives #science