Quotes for All
What Uncle Leo XIII never suspected was that his nephew’s courage did not come from the need to survive or from a brute indifference inherited from his father, but from a driving need for love, which no obstacle in this world or the next would ever break. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Love means not ever having to say you’re sorry. Erich Segal
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss. Epicurus
You have family\”, Bob said. \”You have a wife who hates you. Kids who are furious with you. A brother and sister who make you insane. And a nephew who used to be kind of a drip but apparently is not so much of a drip now. That’s called family\”. Elizabeth Strout
Mr. [Aldous] Huxley has been the alarming young man for a long time, a sort of perpetual clever nephew who can be relied on to flutter the lunch party. Whatever will he say next? How does he think of those things? He has been deplored once or twice, but feeling is in his favor: he … Read more
The closer the genetic relationship of the family members, as for example father-to-son, as opposed to uncle-to-nephew, the higher the degree of cooperation. E. O. Wilson
Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love. Francis of Assisi
He’s a bootlegger….One time he killed a man who found out that he was nephew to Von Hindenburg and second cousin to the devil. F. Scott Fitzgerald
Hey, I’m just looking for an excuse to retire so I can play summer league baseball, go coach my nephews, play pickup basketball. I’ve always had that ability to move on to the next thing. Doug Flutie
No matter what, I always make it home for Christmas. I love to go to my Tennessee Mountain Home and invite all of my nieces and nephews and their spouses and kids and do what we all like to do – eat, laugh, trade presents and just enjoy each other… and sometimes I even dress … Read more