Blood Relatives Quotes

You found an uncle on one side and a nephew on the other, a cousin here and a cousin there. Besides it's still true today. I'll tell you something else. There was a time when even two ambassadors to Switzerland, the one from India and the one from Pakistan, were two blood brothers. Oh, the Partition imposed on us by the British was so unnatural!

He’d learned years ago it was better not to dwell too much on who was related to whom on the godly side of things. After Tyson the Cyclops adopted him as a brother, Percy decided that that was about as far as he wanted to extend the family.

When we are inclined to boast of our position as Christians we should remember that we are but Gentiles, while the Jews are of the lineage of Christ. We are aliens and in-laws; they are blood relatives, cousins, and brothers of our Lord. Therefore, if one is to boast of flesh and blood the Jews are actually nearer to Christ than we are.

You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.

Bret Hart is my cousin, I'm told. Didn't know that until I was, I don't know, 28, 25.

Family does not necessarily mean blood relative.

And then, of course, there's a couple that claim to be, but I haven't done any DNA tests or anything.

I have a legion of friends and the best ones are my immediate family, which is very cliched but true.

It always excites me to meet new family members. I'd like to meet them all someday.

I had no blood relatives till I made some.

You can't choose who your brother is. You're born, and whoever is in your family is your family. That's your blood. That's the way it is.

Carl, Dennis and Brian are brothers, and Mike Love's a cousin.

Families have a sense of kinship that no four strangers would ever have as a team.

We are, all four of us, blood relatives, and we speak a kind of esoteric, family language, a sort of semantic geometry in which the shortest distance between any two points is a fullish circle.

I would say the dumbest thing I have heard is that my dad isn't my real dad.

We live in a society that celebrates familial connection above any other kind of relationship. We are shown photos of our great-grandparents and encouraged to marvel over facial similarities. We are told to take pride in our bloodlines, celebrate our ancestry.

Mama always said a good family has one heartbeat. No one knows you like the people you live with, and no one will take up your cause to the outside world quite like your blood relatives.

On 'Love Actually', I met Hugh Grant, who is a relative: our great-grandmothers were sisters. He'd call me cousin and ruffle my hair.

I know I will never be able to replace my parents, but over the years I have realized that you aren't able to choose your own family.

Parents, brothers and sisters, grandparents, aunts and uncles are made more powerful guides and rescuers by the bonds of love that are the very nature of a family.

The only people that you really have, that I learned, are your family, because they love you no matter what.

You know, we have two families: the one we're born into, and the one that we make for ourselves afterwards.

It's funny, you know, growing up, you are always introduced to people as your uncle this or your aunt that or your cousin this. By the time I was in my 20s, I had no idea who I actually was or wasn't related to. It's kind of a running joke in the family.

People seriously ask us all the time, 'Are you guys really brothers?'