We still lend our old house out to relatives. They keep a guest book for my fans to sign.
I've had tons of incredible conversations with people who say they got married or buried relatives to my songs.
I hope someday we can stamp out illiteracy in America. Of course you'll have to kill alot of my relatives to do it.
Family does not necessarily mean blood relatives but often a description of a community, organisation or nation.
All my summer and Puja vacations were spent in Calcutta with my didima and a host of other relatives and friends.
Without my relatives, I am but a thread; together, we form a colorful and elaborate Persian carpet.
You can return all the Christmas gifts you want, but you will never get back the time spent with your relatives.
I have developed a very strong partiality for the dead: they don't talk back, they don't sue, and they don't have angry relatives.
Home, for me, is with the people who I really love - whether that's in England with my family, Ireland with my relatives, or Germany and Canada with my friends.
I cannot go to the houses of my nearest relatives, because I do not wish to be alone. Society exists by chemical affinity, and not otherwise.
You might be a redneck if your wheelbarrow breaks and it takes four relatives to figure out how to fix it.
Welsh women aren't the most tactile unless they're your relatives. And then you don't want them to be.
As for me I may not have relatives in the film industry. But I grew up in Mumbai as an avid moviegoer. So I don't feel like an outsider.
In the early 1990s, my relatives in Patna, even those who had no interest in reading or writing, wanted Parker fountain pens.
Ah, but depression - that is what we all hate. We the afflicted. Whereas the relatives and shrinks, the tribal ring, they rather welcome it: you are quiet and you suffer.
Unfortunately, inner feelings and potential are often stunted by our parents, relatives or peers.
On Sunday, we will Skype relatives - my brother lives in America, my best friend is in Canada, and Ryan's family are all in Australia.
Most of my relatives are police marksmen, apart from my grandad who was a bank robber. He died recently, surrounded by his family.
After my mother died, I lived with relatives. Reading was a means of escaping into other worlds, as photography, much later, was to become.
Never be too quick to criticize yourself. It's not fair to all of your friends and relatives, who are dying to do it for you.
My sister and I were born in San Francisco. When our parents died, we came down here to live with relatives.
I have criticized absent people so often, and then discovered, to my humiliation, that I was talking with their relatives, that I have grown superstitious about that sort of thing and dropped it.
If there is anyone dependent on your income - parents, children, relatives - you need life insurance.
Most summers we went to Bangladesh and stayed in Grandad's village, filled with relatives. I'm one of 67 grandchildren.
An absence of antecedents and of relatives is sometimes an aid rather than an impediment to social advancement . . .
My immediate family are from the West Indies - from Trinidad and Grenada - and I have relatives all over the Caribbean.
You’d have to go through at least four different hugs to get from the kitchen to the front room. Those relatives!’.
The irrational may be attractive in the abstract, but not in cab drives, dinner guests, or elderly relatives.
Be conscious of one another and everything that we are connected to in this world of ours (not just your relatives and friends).
The best part of visiting Calcutta is definitely the food and seeing my relatives who I don't get to see often enough. The worst is the pollution and traffic.
I just want people to respect the privacy of my relatives in Taiwan. ... They need to live their lives as well.
Sometimes I even tell my relatives and my friends that I get a lot of love from the fans, and I'm not sure if it's deserved.
My mother was a Mohawk, born and raised on a reservation, and when I was a kid, she would take me there to visit her relatives.
The relatives of a suicide hold it against him that out of consideration for their reputation he did not remain alive.
You have to do a little bragging on yourself even to your relatives-man doesn't get anywhere without advertising.
We usually meet all of our relatives only at funerals where somebody always observes: "Too bad we can't get together more often".
A self made man is a rarity and hated by the parasites that floated to fame thought their parents, relatives and contacts.
People favouring their relatives more than an outsider is what the biggest fight in democracy is, let it be in film industry or politics.
At 140, 150, that's when the car starts floating. At 160, that's when you start seeing dead relatives. At 180, it's, like, terrifying and exciting.
When I see professional clowns, mimes, or people who makes ballon animals, I think of their relatives and how disappointed they must be.
If you're going to try, go all the way. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives, jobs and maybe your mind.
When I go to Ohio to visit relatives on holidays, I am often astonished by the level of casual dismissal offered up by way of discussion.
Offspring, friends and relatives flee from a devotee of the Lord: yet those who follow him bring merit to their families through their devotion.
Blogs seem to have two magnetic poles, one attracting friends, the other repulsing relatives.
When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them.
So many of my relatives didn't get a chance to go to school, and my own Daddy couldn't read or write.
My father was killed by a German mine, while I lost other relatives in Allied bombing attacks.
If there's anythin' on earth that can be more tryin' than any kind of relative, I don't know what it is, but relatives by marriage comes first - easy.
Despite some remaining puzzles, there's no reason to doubt that Darwin had this point right, that all creatures on earth are biological relatives
We want to do one thing and do it really well. For us, that's communications between people who are friends and relatives.
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.
Across society, the lion's share of caring responsibility - whether for children or elderly relatives - still falls on women.
When I visit my village, relatives or even when I am at a film shoot, I try to observe my surroundings and understand the environment.
Eating well, being around the table with the family or friends or relatives - it doesn't get any better.
I'm always very cautious about "brotherhood" concept. Frankly speaking, I don't need such relatives who grab my land and kill my people.
I don't mind having these relatives. I'll give them a little, since they all prayed for my victory.
During childhood, I spent every summer vacation, visiting relatives in Chamoli district in Uttarkhand.
When one has love for God, one doesn't feel any physical attraction to wife, children, relatives and friends. One retains only compassion for them.
I have a lot of relatives that were dancers and musicians and artists. They basically came out of the womb doing it.
When I used to visit my relatives' places in Hyderabad, I would keep seeing the posters of Telugu films. It's not a different world for me.
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