Our relatives are ours by chance, but we can choose our friends.
Go home, and let all your relatives off the potter's wheel. You are not the potter!
Kareena and Saif want to have a small, private wedding, and only the immediate relatives of the Kapoors and the Khans, and friends close to my children have been invited.
Why do all our friends and relatives destroy the summer for us? Why can't they get married in February?
After Katrina, no one was the same. People, relatives, they were dying one after another.
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.
Being generous, just helping one's relatives and being blameless in one's actions; this is the best good luck.
The majority of people permit relatives, friends,
and the public at large to so influence them
that they cannot live their own lives,
because they fear criticism.
Was using “dead-man’s-toe” morally okay if the man’s relatives had knowingly sold him for parts?
Tel-Aviv airport is still the only airport in the world where each passenger is met by ten relatives.
If God has given you the world's goods in abundance, it is to help you gain those of Heaven and to be a good example of sound teaching to your sons, servants, and relatives.
Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put it in an impossible situation.
Being Jewish and having lost relatives in the Holocaust, I've always been aware of the meaning of prejudice. These are things that have remained with me throughout my political career.
And once again the government has failed to get the kind of cooperation from the relatives that might allow the case of this young boy to end in a civilized manner that is best for him.
I have conservative relatives. I maintain some relationships with some conservatives going back to the 1990s... Not in any meaningful way.
As a child, I grew up in fear. When I was four, all my other relatives were deported to the countryside, having to leave most of their personal belongings behind.
As early as December 1945, I accompanied my wife and a few relatives in their return from evacuation in the countryside to Cologne, where over the years we settled down in a destroyed house.
All my relatives and friends have been pretty aware of my brand of humor for a while, so none of them have been shocked.
Remember that that "rude awakening" which your parents and well-meaning relatives threatened you with as a kid is better than no awakening at all.
Famously cancer fighting, laden with vitamins, minerals, soluble fiber, and phytonutrients, broccoli and its relatives are among the healthiest ingredients of the human diet.
No matter where you're from - you can be Native American, Italian, Jewish, Latino, African-American - whatever you are, we're all distant relatives.
As for those whose role it is to love us - I mean, relatives and in-laws (what a word)- It's a different tune. They find the right word, but it's usually the one that wounds.
A young lady's most natural ally is her sister although sometimes our own relatives are as inscrutable to us as an antipodean.
The craze of genealogy is connected with the epidemic for divorce. If we can't figure out who our living relatives are, then maybe we'll have more luck with the dead ones.
Our society has a mentality that elderly people pass on their wealth to their son or immediate relatives, and I think we all do it. It's a part of nature and is an exaggerated topic.
I hear from my Inuit and Yupik relatives up north that everything has changed. It's so hot; there is not enough winter. Animals are confused. Ice is melting.
Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.
Once our idea of heaven meant
all the dead relatives waiting
on the kept lawn of the many mansions
as if, suddenly sinless, they had nothing
to do.
According to statistics, it's a lot easier to get hit by lightning than to win a Lotto jackpot. The good side: you don't hear from your relatives.
I have a huge affinity with London, and I have a lot of relatives here - now and before I was born. I pretty much look at London as the centre of the universe.
Thank goodness, we can choose our friends. We have to take our relatives as they are, and be thankful.
It is not hard to deceive ministers, relatives and friends. But it is impossible to deceive Christ.
Nearly every BRCA mutation carrier's main concern is how to avoid the fate of relatives who have had, and possibly died from, breast or ovarian cancer.
The funniest jokes you know aren't from comics but relatives, friends - from your life. That's the funniest stuff.
Many of the Kuomintang elite in Taiwan have relatives among the ruling elite here on mainland China.
I am first-generation American, so I didn't grow up in the South or have any relatives who were slaves. My forefathers were colonized.
Sometimes family members will ask to be kept out of certain things that I'm writing, and I try to respect that. I'd much rather have relatives than a book.
I don't want anyone being put off going into politics because they fear their personal life, family and relatives will be spread all over the media.
I have written about the women around me. My ancestors, my relatives, lovers. It was a way of trying to make it all make sense.
The idea of making [conceptual] art was not a good way to approach things... Instead I saw myself as trying to make something that my relatives could understand.
The inspiration was this great group of 40 or 50 relatives, sometimes for Thanksgiving or Passover or something and my brothers would just go up and make them laugh.
People in Afghanistan want peace, including the Taliban. They're also people like we all are. They have families, they have relatives, they have children, they are suffering a tough time.
When I was born, some of our relatives came to our house and told my mother, 'Don't worry, next time you will have a son.'
I've visited Mangalore as a kid because we had relatives there. But I was born and brought up in Mumbai. So I don't know much about the place or the people.
My mom told me when I was younger that when you jack off all of your dead relatives are watching. But then I figured who were they going to tell.
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.
Let those who once fought against brothers and relatives now rightfully fight against barbarians.
Blood relatives often have nothing to do with family, and similarly, family is about who you choose to make your life with.
I had been working with a community of survivors who had lost their relatives and were too scared to talk about it.
Youngsters in Punjab have a borrowed mindset, music and fashion sense from Canada and Hollywood because a large number of our relatives are settled abroad.
Losing close relatives doesnt get any easier, really, but losing your parents is the big deal.
My father said you can't make a living in birds, my relatives all went into business: bankers, stockbrokers. However, they eventually lost it all and died in wheelchairs. Sometimes you have to be a little aberrant.
Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.
I have lost my mother, my father, my five, and ninety relatives in Poland. Poland is for me a cemetery.
There's something to be said for relatives...it has to be said because it's unprintable!
So when I write characters and situations and relationships, I try to sort of utilize what I know about the world, limited as it is, and what I hear from my friends and see with my relatives.
In the beginning of the human race there was no genetic load which would cause undesirable traits such as appear in offspring of marriages between relatives today.
Nine out of ten Americans are actually monarchists at bottom. The fact is proved by their high suseptibility to political claims by president's sons and other relatives, usually nonentities.
God gives us relatives; thank God, we can choose our friends.
We have a duty to rescue our closest living relatives as part of our wider responsibilities to conserve the ecosystems they inhabit.
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