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Kirk Cousins is the future of the Washington Redskins. -- Bill Cowher
Sheep. Looting. Cousins." Lucien cursed and got out of bed. -- Melina Marchetta
Cousins are part of your life so stick with cuz not friends. -- Claude Shannon
Cousins are more then cousins, there best friends that are their through it all. -- Heather Mills
Kirk Cousins has played much better at the quarterback position than Robert Griffin III has, -- Joe Theismann
Cousins are forever and forever are cousins they stand by your side for you no matter what. -- Brandi Carlile
As a songwriter, I was influenced by David Bowie - a great writer. A class above everybody in so many ways. Lennon and McCartney, of course. Class stuff. David Cousins was my favorite lyricist. -- Rick Wakeman
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I have learned never to underestimate the capacity of the human mind and body to regenerate -- even when prospects seem most wretched. The life force may be the least understood force on earth. Norman Cousins (in his; Anatomy of an Illness) -- Norman Cousins
But we have yet to make peace basic to our education. The most important subject in the world is hardly taught at all. In the spirit of this passage, the editor has taken the liberty of editing Mr. Cousins' language to make it more gender inclusive. -- Norman Cousins
Zoo animals are ambassadors for their cousins in the wild. -- Jack Hanna
You know, all my songs are relatives, brothers, sisters, cousins. -- David Coverdale
We've had cloning in the South for years. It's called cousins. -- Robin Williams
Win, lose or draw, you're all my cousins and I love you. -- Chill Wills
It was difficult knowing one of your cousins had lost his life. -- Steven Gerrard
My cousins gay, he went to London only to find out that Big Ben was a clock. -- Rodney Dangerfield
I had a wonderful family including my aunts, uncles and cousins but they've all gone to heaven. -- Doris Day
Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself. -- H. L. Mencken
My whole family is spiritual. My grandmother, grand aunt, cousins, they're all preachers and pastors. Spirituality is a part of my family, from generations ago. -- Ziggy Marley
When I was a kid, I used to watch 'Laurel and Hardy' with my cousins all the time. I still think they're extremely funny and so surreal. -- David Chase
All my cousins steal things. They're just a bunch of thieves. My whole family is like that. You put something down for a second, and they steal it. You never see it again. -- Gaby Hoffmann
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
That's a traditional Samoan dance. I was lucky that I was able to fly my cousins, who are professional dancers, up from Hawaii and they were able to be in the movie with me. We had a great time. -- Dwayne Johnson
I come from an enormous and very close family. I have over a dozen aunts and uncles in Pakistan, dozens of cousins. I have many close friends. I have received so much love in Lahore that the city always pulls me. -- Mohsin Hamid
Confidence and empowerment are cousins in my opinion. Empowerment comes from within and typically it's stemmed and fostered by self-assurance. To feel empowered is to feel free and that's when people do their best work. You can't fake confidence or empowerment. -- Amy Jo Martin
It has to do - I think - with growing up in an apartment, with my aunt and my cousins right next door to me, with the door open, with neighbors walking in and out, with people yelling at each other all the time. -- Larry David
My father's best friend, Georgie Terra, was an Italian guy. The children and the cousins and nieces and nephews were children of the Mafia. Those were the children he grew up with. If you want to go to a safe neighborhood, go to where the Mafia is. -- Louis Gossett, Jr.
I don't like to design single objects. I like my pieces to have a relationship to each other. They can be mother and child, like the Schmoo salt and pepper shakers, or brother and sister like the Birdie salt and peppers, or cousins, like most of my dinnerware sets. -- Eva Zeisel
In truth, I am a single mother. But I don't feel alone at all in parenting my daughter. Krishna has a whole other side of her family who loves her, too. And so Krishna is parented by me, but also by her grandmother and aunts and cousins and uncles and friends. -- Padma Lakshmi
I thought it was normal to recycle pants and shoes from your older cousins. That was just my way of life. At the end of the month, there was not much food in the refrigerator and you're hoping the first comes so food can come again. You never forget those things. -- Tyson Chandler
I spent my childhood clad in 1970s hand-me-downs, primarily from male cousins, which mainly consisted of a selection of beige, brown and orange dungarees. That, combined with a perfectly round pudding-bowl haircut, made me look, on a good day, like a cross between Ann Widdecombe, one of the Flower Pot Men, and a monk. -- Miranda Hart
I lost relatives to AIDS. A couple of my closest cousins, favorite 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 - you know, you can't really deny it, and you can't run from it. -- Queen Latifah
Ethnically, Tuareg describe themselves as white. And they don't look Arab or black. Many Tuareg have light skin, light eyes and sharp angular noses and cheekbones. They are cousins of the Berbers of North Africa. Some legends say the Tuareg are the decedents of an ancient Roman legion that disappeared into the desert two millennia ago. -- Richard Engel
I've loved singing since forever. Whether it was with my sisters while cleaning the kitchen, putting shows on for my stuffed animals, writing songs about my stuffed animals, starting an a capella group with my cousins while on vacation, or awkwardly singing along to karaoke tracks alone in my bedroom - singing always found a way into my life. -- Kina Grannis
My identity has always been confused. Born in Edinburgh of a Scottish/Russian/Jewish mother and an English/Irish/Catholic father, there is no form of guilt to which I was not subjected in my childhood. Members of my immediate family live all over the world - a diaspora of cousins, aunts, uncles and more in a dizzying mix. -- Sara Sheridan
It was one of my dreams as a child, growing up in my little village with my cousins. We used to walk together, and I used to say, when you look at the world map, 'This town is there, that town is there, that river is there.' I used to say, 'One day, I'm going to travel these places.' -- Jimmy Cliff
God has no cousins, only children. -- Max Lucado
Indolence and stupidity are first cousins. -- Antoine Rivarol
anger and jeaously are first cousins! -- Eric Jerome Dickey
Courage and folly are cousins, or so I've heard. -- George R. R. Martin
Sparklers are the gay cousins of the fireworks family. -- Dave Attell
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Growing up, one of my cousins was an out gay man. -- Eric Stonestreet
Most of my cousins are boys, so I'm used to being around boys. -- Michelle Ryan
Psychedelic experiences and dreams are chemical cousins; they are only different in degree. -- Terence McKenna
I will jump into the river to save two brothers or eight cousins. -- John B. S. Haldane
Our house was always full of grandparents and aunts and uncles and cousins. -- Bryan Clay
English kings married their cousins and so their kids were as sharp as clubs. -- Peter Prasad
My parents were second cousins. That is enough to explain all of my peculiarities. -- Sargent Shriver
While my cousins were gang-banging, I was trying to learn what the Internet was about. -- Theophilus London
Yes, I travel in unusual circles. George Osborne and his wife Frances are my cousins. -- Daryl Hall
I'd gone heavy on the black eye makeup until raccoons and I could pass for cousins. -- Jeaniene Frost
I was an only child, but I did have a hell of a lot of cousins. -- Desi Arnaz
I've got cousins galore, Mexicans just spread all their seeds and the women just pop them out -- Jessica Alba
Sometimes funerals can be good. It reunites you with your cousins you haven't seen in a while. -- David Burtka
My father and mother were second cousins, though they did not meet till shortly before their marriage. -- Patrick White
It's not a common thing for a Southern white family to go out and seek their black cousins. -- Edward Ball
I have already given two cousins to the war and I stand ready to sacrifice my wife's brother. -- Charles Farrar Browne
Gays and lesbians began to gain civil rights when Americans realized that their brothers, cousins, daughters were gay. -- Nicholas Kristof
For the increase in the number of my Brennan cousins," Conall remarked dryly, "we must thank the potato. -- Edward Rutherfurd
Difficult" and "impossible" are cousins often mistaken for one another, with very little in common." (Locke Lamora to Requin) -- Scott Lynch
As a child, I was raised with my grandmother, alongside all my cousins, and the kitchen was always full. -- Azzedine Alaia
I don't really have time [to babysit my twin cousins]. And, well, I actually have my own babysitter sometimes. -- Emma Roberts
There is health in table talk and nursery play. We must wear old shoes and have aunts and cousins. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
All my cousins are almost old enough to start seeing my movies. I'm going to have some 'splainin' to do. -- Evan Goldberg
Several of my favorite cousins and some of my best friends are lawyers, and I find the profession endlessly fascinating. -- Luanne Rice
Trying to be like my uncle, because I was an only child. He and my cousins were everything to me. -- Deon Cole
The kiss and the bite are such close cousins that in the heat of love they are too readily confounded -- Heinrich Von Kleist
Would I lay down my life to save my brother? No, but I would to save two brothers or eight cousins. -- John B. S. Haldane
How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual friends, that we might go and meet their ideal cousins. -- Henry David Thoreau
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I've always been an actress, entertaining my family was the start. I'm a goof ball among many of my cousins and siblings. -- Aeriel Miranda
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
We were born in the '70s, back when twins were rare, a bit magical: cousins of the unicorn, siblings of the elves. -- Gillian Flynn
Fur fashion conjures a strange rapport between humans and beasts; humans pose frequently in fur while their furry cousins often pose for extinction -- Martin Dansky
If George Bush can't get along with Stephen Harper, he can't get along with any world leader. They're ideological cousins, if not twins. -- David Taras
Introversion - along with its cousins sensitivity, seriousness, and shyness - is now a second-class personality trait, somewhere between a disappointment and a pathology. -- Susan Cain
Words, do not have twins in every language. Sometimes they only have distant cousins, and sometimes they pretend that they are not even related. -- Monique Truong
Historically, there would always be people among the general population who had family members, friends, cousins who'd done time or who'd been in prison. -- Hank Azaria
It doesn't matter to me. We're still cousins in our own way. Blood's just something old people talk about to make you feel bad. -- Rita Mae Brown
People talk about me as if I am the sole inheritor of the Guinness family fortune and worth masses, but I have hundreds of cousins. -- Jasmine Guinness
I live in New York, but I still get the village gossip. My apartment is a crash pad for so many Singaporean cousins and friends. -- Kevin Kwan
The Goldschmidts had joined forces with other Rothschild cousins, the Bischoffsheims, to form a banking partnership which financed the North in the American Civil War. -- David Icke
My mother's sister was killed in a trolley car accident, so I was raised as one of eight with my sister and six male cousins. -- Alan King
When I was a child, our whole family cooked. All my cousins cooked. All my aunts and uncles cooked. It was part of our heritage. -- Mario Batali
You named them: hustlers, killers, fiends, ex-cons. I called them: cousins, aunts, pops, moms. To you? Hoodlums, crackheads, gunmens. To me? Just neighbors, classmates, young friends. -- Ka
Comedy and horror are cousins; they're related. They both come from storytellers who want to specifically affect the audience and elicit specific reactions during the movie. -- Jason Reitman
The song [The White Trash Song] was not a put down of [ my country cousins ], but a celebration. I wrote that early on, as a teenager. -- Steve Young
I don't write about the intimate details of my cousins and aunts and uncles, and my mother and my father because it's not right to, for me. -- Anne Lamott
My mother's side is Italian; my father's side is Jewish. We're the kind of family where every Sunday night we have dinner with all 19 of my cousins. -- Lea Michele
Deliberate cruelty to our defenceless and beautiful little cousins is surely one of the meanest and most detestable vices of which a human being can be guilty. -- William Ralph Inge
I have 52 first cousins. My mom and dad were the only two to move to North America, so I've got deep family there, but I'm a California kid. -- Donal Logue
If you are going to be successful, you need to give up the phrase, "I can't" & all of its cousins, such as "I wish I were able to. -- Jack Canfield
Uncles and aunts, and cousins, are all very well, and fathers and mothers are not to be despised; but a grandmother, at holiday time, is worth them all. -- Fanny Fern
My grandfather was a lawyer, my dad was a lawyer, my mum was a lawyer, I got an uncle who's a lawyer, I got cousins that are lawyers. -- Benicio Del Toro
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
I grew up with a lot of brothers and male cousins, so I had to worm my way in to get heard. But that's sort of what excites me. -- Liz Phair
But in the east the sky was pale and through the gray woods came lanterns with wagons and horses, bringing Grandpa and Grandma and aunts and uncles and cousins. -- Laura Ingalls Wilder
I felt completely at home in Mexico - speaking Spanish to my cousins, running around Acapulco and stuffing my face with mole and homemade tortillas. Mexico opened my heart. -- Aimee Garcia
Punk is an attitude, not a genre, age group, or time period. What's interesting is trying to define the blues and punk in different ways. They are very close cousins. -- Jack White
My mother's people are Old Order Mennonite - horse and buggy Mennonite, very close cousins to the Amish. I grew up in Lancaster County and lived near Amish farm land. -- Beverly Lewis
I am the monarch of the sea, The Ruler of the Queen's Navee, Whose praise Great Britain loudly chants And we are his sisters, and his cousins, and his aunts! -- Walter Raleigh
A friend of ours has a hobby doing genealogy, and we found out that we were cousins in the ninth degree, that we had a common ancestor on the Mayflower. -- Marion Zimmer Bradley
Many genetically "altered" fish escape from the confines of the crowded floating concentration camps to mingle and mate with their wild fish cousins, causing horrible and irreversible damage to wild species. -- Sharon Gannon
Yes, but I - you know, it's been such a long time, I'm sure that I've got cousins and uncles that I've never met before, you know, that I've left behind. -- Rafael Palmeiro
If a man is both wise and lucky, he will not make the same mistake twice. But he will make any one of ten thousand brothers or cousins of the original. -- Jesse Lauriston Livermore
For generations comedians have made jokes about Scots-Irish in the South inter-breeding. "I am my own grandpa" and all that stuff; you know, because they all were marrying their first cousins. -- Ishmael Reed
I did see [in Afghanistan] plenty that reminded me of my childhood. I recognised my old neighbourhood, saw my old school, streets where I had played with my brother and cousins. -- Khaled Hosseini
I think passion gives you the energy to do what is right, and discipline makes sure you do what is right. So I look at them as kind of cousins maybe. -- John C. Maxwell
I shared a room with my parents until I was 7, and I lived with my uncles and aunts and my cousins and my grandfather... so the house was always full of people. -- Dichen Lachman
I must confess that in my teens and twenties, I loved 'Mansfield Park' rather in spite of Fanny than because of her. Like Fanny's rich, sophisticated cousins, I didn't really get her. -- Susanna Clarke
Well, in Colombia everybody's very voluptuous, and you're supposed to be. You don't want to be skinny when all of your cousins are mermaids. You grow up thinking that's how beauty is. -- Sofia Vergara
My cousins and I used to play Beatle wives. We all wanted to be married to Paul, but John was O.K. too. None of us wanted Ringo. Or even worse, George. -- Ann Hood
Folk caught up in a riot aren't our cousins and sisters, our brothers and uncles. They are part of a big animal with many arms and claws, armed with stones and sticks. -- Tamora Pierce
I was a tomboy running around in the garden. I used to play on a local cricket team. I grew up with all boy cousins, for the most part, and my brother. -- Felicity Jones
I have a very big family, and that is my number one thing, and we go away for a month to see my cousins in Italy every year, but I need to work. -- Richard Rogers
I did meet 'The Everly Brothers' once, and we talked for awhile. Then we figured out we were first cousins! My late mother was the sister of Don and Phil's father, Ike Everly. -- James Best
At Rochester, I came with the same emotions as many of the entering freshman: everything was new, exciting and a bit overwhelming, but at least nobody had heard of my brothers and cousins. -- Steven Chu
My brother, Mario, is in show business and so are all my cousins on my dad's side. We come from a family of musicians. My grandmother's sister in Puerto Rico plays five instruments. -- Irene Cara
All my cousins steal things. Theyre just a bunch of thieves. My whole family is like that. You put something down for a second, and they steal it. You never see it again. -- Gaby Hoffmann

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