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brother father years
There was a great strain in our family because my father didn't want anything to do with me. He was happy to see my brother and sister, but not me. I don't know why. Maybe it was shame. I don't know. But he never wanted anything to do with me. That rejection was terribly hurtful and it went on for years. Carol Vorderman
brother husband character
At home, besides being Peter or Jane, we also bear a general character; husband or wife, brother or sister, chief, colleague or subordinate. Not among Friends. It is an affair of disentangled, or stripped, minds. Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities. C. S. Lewis
brother thinking way
I was a photographer first.I worked alone. I did it my way as much as I could. I have been sort of courageous about doing things, because I didn't think I should do less than my brothers. Agnes Varda
brother men feet
I never stepped foot into a Brooks Brothers before Mad Men. Aaron Staton
brother cutting college
My brother is the youngest member of the College of Physicians and Surgeons. And I wouldn't let him cut my nails. Alan King
brother humble home
My home is humble and unattractive to strangers, but to me it contains what I shall find nowhere else in the world - the ... affection which brothers and sisters feel for each other. Charlotte Bronte
brother men endurance
The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother. Charles Dickens
brother integrity simple
Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity than straigthforward and simple integrity in another. A knave would rather quarrel with a brother knave than with a fool, but he would rather avoid a quarrel with one honest man than with both. He can combat a fool by management and address, and he can conquer a knave by temptations. But the honest man is neither to be bamboozled nor bribed. Charles Caleb Colton
brother wine yield
We must meditate, brothers. These grapes will yield no wine we tread upon it. Charles Spurgeon
cousin reality love-is
You have introduced a topic on which our natures are at variance - a topic we should never discuss: the very name of love is an apple of discord between us. If the reality were required, what should we do? How should we feel? My dear cousin, abandon your scheme of marriage - forget it.
cousin human jar lab medical mine pathology placed seat sitting special took tour
When I was 10 years old, a cousin of mine took me on a tour of his medical school. And as a special treat, he took me to the pathology lab and took a real human brain out of the jar and placed it in my hands. And there it was, the seat of human consciousness, the powerhouse of the human body, sitting in my hands. Aditi Shankardass
cousin relative
Where there's a will - there's a relative! Ricky Gervais
cousin your-side forever
Cousins are forever and forever are cousins they stand by your side for you no matter what. Brandi Carlile
cousin father sides
Bassett was a member of parliament and a cousin on my father's side of the family. My father delivered him and it became plain in later days that he must have dropped him. David Lange
cousin leader world
If George Bush can't get along with Stephen Harper, he can't get along with any world leader. They're ideological cousins, if not twins. David Taras
cousin mrs-bennet expectations
Mr. Bennet's expectations were fully answered. His cousin was as absurd as he had hoped, and he listened to him with the keenest enjoyment. Jane Austen
cousin hair diversity
Not keep a journal! How are your absent cousins to understand the tenor of your life in Bath without one? How are the civilities and compliments of every day to be related as they ought to be, unless noted down every evening in a journal? How are your various dresses to be remembered, and the particular state of your complexion, and curl of your hair to be described in all their diversities, without having constant recourse to a journal?
cousin people sole
People talk about me as if I am the sole inheritor of the Guinness family fortune and worth masses, but I have hundreds of cousins. Jasmine Guinness
old-school stuff fleas
Flea and Anthony are into funk, like old school Meters and stuff like that. Chad Smith
old-school artist trying
I always try to act like I'm some old school artist from the 1960s. Danny Brown
old-school guy trying
I'm an old-school guy. I don't try to be too flashy. Dany Heatley
old-school school bits
I am a bit old-school. Jay Kay
old-school school parent
Everything I am I owe to my faith and secondly to parents who were old school. J. C. Watts
old-school school men
Play it cool, that's the old school rule man... Nas
old-school school guy
I'm old school. I'm not the fastest guy or the quickest guy. James Harden
old-school car trying
I'm not trying to be new school and I'm not old school - I'm classic. There's a lot of new cars and there's a lot of old cars, but I'm just classic in doing what I do. LL Cool J
old-school school tweet
I'm too old-school to tweet. Julianna Margulies