#relative

A friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative. ↗

— George Ade

#dear #friend #may #near #relative

Judging Natalie as my mother had judged me was, I felt like telling her son, just my ass-backward way of showing love. I'd spent my life trying to translate that language, and now I realized I had come to speak it fluently. When was it that you realized the thread woven through your DNA carried the relationship deformities of your blood relatives as much as it did their diabetes and bone density? ↗

— Alice Sebold

#relationships #relatives #family

I would not say I chose to write long poems on a conscious level. The long poem has been a relative constant. ↗

— John Barton

#chose #conscious #constant #i #level

Religion kept some of my relatives alive, because it was all they had. If they hadn't had some hope of heaven, some companionship in Jesus, they probably would have committed suicide, their lives were so hellish. ↗

— Octavia Butler

#alive #because #committed #companionship #had

Some would suggest that there has been a dramatic change in our perception of the world and ourselves within the world. Others have observed that there has been an almost complete about-face in a relatively short span of time. ↗

— Alex Campbell

#been #change #complete #dramatic #dramatic change

From a relatively early age I got interested in business. ↗

— Steve Case

#business #early #early age #got #i

The campaign against the death penalty has been - while a powerful campaign, its participants have been those who attend all of the vigils, a relatively small number of people. ↗

— Angela Davis

#attend #been #campaign #death #death penalty

I don't mind having these relatives. I'll give them a little, since they all prayed for my victory. ↗

— Manny Pacquiao

#having #i #little #mind #prayed

When the food runs out, the family reunion is over. It’s cool that out of all my relatives, I’m the only cannibal. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#cannibalism #eat #family #family-reunion #food

That fallacy flies in the face of studies that show, every day, in every way, things are getting a little worse for America's minorities relative to the progress made by those in the top percentiles of assets and income. ↗

— Harold Washington

#assets #day #every #every day #face