And I'm not sure why I'm infatuated with death, My imagination is surely an aggravation of threats... Maybe cause I'm a dreamer, and sleep is the cousin of death, Really stuck in the scheme of wondering when I'mma rest.
— Kendrick Lamar
Sublime Cousin quotations
Friends are those rare people who ask how we are, and then wait to hear the answer.

Do not look at anybody in terms of friend or foe, brother or cousin;
do not fritter away your mental energies in thoughts of friendship or enmity. Seeking the Self everywhere, be amiable and equal-minded towards all, treating all alike.
How old is too old to stop believing in, like, the tooth fairy? Like 12? I've got a cousin who is 18... Yeah, still believes in gay marriage.
Never we sleep, a thug doesn't rest, Cause a wise man said: it was a cousin of death.
I never sleep, cause sleep is the cousin of death.
Most of all the other beautiful things in life come by twos and threes, by dozens and hundreds. Plenty of roses, stars, sunsets, rainbows, brothers, and sisters, aunts and cousins, but only one mother in the whole world.
My parents didn't really understand too much about sport.
At that time, we were in a Polish community in the inner city of Chicago, and I was the youngest of a bunch of cousins. Polish families are real big, with cousins and aunts and uncles.
But in the east the sky was pale and through the gray woods came lanterns with wagons and horses, bringing Grandpa and Grandma and aunts and uncles and cousins.
We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.
At Rochester, I came with the same emotions as many of the entering freshman: everything was new, exciting and a bit overwhelming, but at least nobody had heard of my brothers and cousins.
I can't talk politics with my cousin because he's such a hypocrite.
He's against the death penalty and he hanged himself.
All my family, my blood, is mixed up now.
They don't even all know each other. I just hope they don't never hate or fight each other, not knowin who they are. Cause all these people livin are brothers and sisters and cousins. All these beautiful different colors! We!... We the human Family. God says so! FAMILY!
My cousins gay, he went to London only to find out that Big Ben was a clock.
Our house was always full of grandparents and aunts and uncles and cousins.
I sustain myself with the love of family.
My father's best friend, Georgie Terra, was an Italian guy.
The children and the cousins and nieces and nephews were children of the Mafia. Those were the children he grew up with. If you want to go to a safe neighborhood, go to where the Mafia is.
When I was a child, our whole family cooked.
All my cousins cooked. All my aunts and uncles cooked. It was part of our heritage.
The Empress is legitimate, my cousin is Republican, Morny is Orleanist, I am a socialist; the only Bonapartist is Persigny, and he is mad.
The Empress is legitimate, my cousin is Republican, Morny is Orleanist, I am a socialist; the only Bonapartist is Persigny, and he is mad.
I did not fire Brian Wilson from the Beach Boys.
I cannot fire Brian Wilson from the Beach Boys. I am not his employer. I do not have such authority. And even if I did, I would never fire Brian Wilson from the Beach Boys. I love Brian Wilson. We are partners. He’s my cousin by birth and my brother in music.
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.
He's just, your cousin, ay, abhorrently, He'd wash his hands in blood, to keep them clean.
You know, all my songs are relatives, brothers, sisters, cousins.
It is not the rich man's son that the young struggler for advancement has to fear in the race for life, nor his nephew, nor his cousin. Let him look out for the dark horse in the boy who begins by sweeping out the office.
Cousins are part of your life so stick with cuz, not friends.
Watersheds come in families; nested levels of intimacy... As you work upstream toward home, you're more closely related. The big river is like your nation, a little out of hand. The lake is your cousin. The creek is your sister. The pond is her child. And, for better or worse, in sickness and in health, you're married to your sink.
We've had cloning in the South for years. It's called cousins.
Anxiety and fear are cousins but not twins. Fear sees a threat. Anxiety imagines one.
If a man is both wise and lucky, he will not make the same mistake twice.
But he will make any one of ten thousand brothers or cousins of the original.
Sparklers are the gay cousins of the fireworks family.
Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.
Even your super weirdo creep cousin.
Use the right word, not its second cousin.
A friend of ours has a hobby doing genealogy, and we found out that we were cousins in the ninth degree, that we had a common ancestor on the Mayflower.
My son has two loving parents and an extended family, whether it's cousins or stepmothers or boyfriends. My son is surrounded by love.