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• Everything is relative except relatives, and they are absolute.

  Alfred Stieglitz

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Relatives, Absolute

• I didn’t write about my mother much in the third year after she died. I was still trying to get my argument straight: When her friends or our relatives wondered why I was still so hard on her, I could really lay out the case for what it had been like to be raised by someone who had loathed herself, her husband, even her own name.

  Anne Lamott

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Relatives, Straight

• Individuals approaching death often experience encounters with their dead relatives, who seem to welcome them to the next world. These deathbed visions are authentic and convincing; they are often followed by a state of euphoria and seem to ease the transition.

  Stanislav Grof

  Topics in Death, Experience

  Tags in Relatives

• In time your relatives will come to accept the idea that a career is as important to you as your family. Of course, in time the polar ice cap will melt.

  Barbara Dale

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Time, Relatives

• I enjoy slaughtering beasts, and I think of my relatives constantly.

  Roger Zelazny

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Enjoy, Relatives

• Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself out of those values.

  Ralph Ellison

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Relatives, Ancestors

• But as my brother was doing his research for a book about my father, it became his opinion that the most influential anti-semitism my father encountered when he was growing up was from Jews, because his relatives were German Jews, and doctors.

  Tobias Wolff

  Tags in Relatives, Encountered

• Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.

  H. L. Mencken

  Tags in Relatives, Grotesque

• Unfortunately, inner feelings and potential are often stunted by our parents, relatives or peers.

  Willie Stargell

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Relatives, Stunted, Feelings

• To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.

  Honoré de Balzac

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Relatives, Relationships, Inheritance, Killing

• Relatives are the worst friends, said the fox as the dogs took after him.

  Topics in Danish Proverbs

  Tags in Parents, Dog, Relatives

• The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.

  Jim Morrison

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Murder, Relatives, Parents, Force, Parenting, Freedom

• All people are your relatives, therefore expect only trouble from them.

  Topics in Chinese Proverbs, Family

  Tags in Relatives

• What is a normal childhood? We weren’t rich, we were pretty middle-class. My dad survived from job to job; with him taking care of so many relatives, he couldn’t save any money.

  Charlie Sheen

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Normal, Relatives, Childhood

• For our immediate family and relatives, Canada was a land of opportunity.

  Sidney Altman

  Topics in Family

  Tags in Relatives, Canada