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My family and relatives alone could fill Shanmukhananda Hall in Bombay. -- Zubin Mehta
For our immediate family and relatives, Canada was a land of opportunity. -- Sidney Altman
Blood relatives often have nothing to do with family, and similarly, family is about who you choose to make your life with. -- Oliver Hudson
Because we had no other relatives living in the U.K., me, my parents and my siblings continuously journeyed abroad to bond with our extended family. -- Anton du Beke
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
We have lost close friends and relatives to cancer and Parkinson's disease, and the level of personal suffering inflicted on patients and their families by these diseases is horrific. -- Peter Jackson
In China, the dead are not forgotten - my relatives cheerfully pointed out all the niches of deceased friends and family, as if gesturing at the homes of the living. -- Tess Gerritsen
Celebrate your family's bleakest moments and how your relatives overcame them. In doing so, you will encounter darkness, but you'll give your children the confidence that they, too, shall overcome. -- Bruce Feiler
I love my family, I love my relatives. One special request I have is for the media back in Taiwan to kind of give them their space because they can't even go to work without being bombarded and people following them. -- Jeremy Lin
I've always regretted that I never was able to talk openly with my parents, especially with my father. I've heard and read so many things about my family that I can no longer believe anything; every relative I question has a completely different story from the last. -- David Bowie
Every year, I travel extensively in the autumn and the spring. I set most of the winter and summer aside for my family and my own tribal relatives. But during that traveling time, I often find myself visiting other native communities around the continent - perhaps a dozen or more each year. -- Joseph Bruchac
World fertility surveys indicate that anywhere from one third to one half of the babies born in the Third World would not be if their mothers had access to cheap, reliable family planning, had enough personal empowerment to stand up to their husbands and relatives, and could choose their own family size. -- Donella Meadows
My family went to Toronto to visit relatives when I was 13 or 14. It was the first time we had ever been abroad. This was the early Eighties, and I remember the impossible glamour of air travel - my mum spending days trying to decide what she was going to wear on the plane. -- John Niven
I loathe rock stars. I am a music nerd, a fan, a follower... just like any fan of music might be. And although I have blood-relatives, a lot of times I feel closer to my audience than my true family, because at least my fans get what I'm doing, to a certain extent, whereas my family does not. -- Phil Anselmo
The Iraq war was fought by one-half of one percent of us. And unless we were part of that small group or had a relative who was, we went about our lives as usual most of the time: no draft, no new taxes, no changes. Not so for the small group who fought the war and their families. -- Bob Schieffer
We can choose our family. We can't choose our relatives. -- Gabriel Iglesias
Family does not necessarily mean blood relatives but often a description of a community, organisation or nation -- Queen Elizabeth II
One of my relatives invented the sensory deprivation tank. Appropriately, most of my family has never seen or heard of him. -- Ryan Lilly
Most of my relatives are police marksmen, apart from my grandad who was a bank robber. He died recently, surrounded by his family. -- Milton Jones
We ought to encourage our children to know their relatives. We need to talk of them, make effort to correspond with them, visit them, join family organizations, etc. -- Spencer W. Kimball

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