Our social life is literally primal, in the sense that chimpanzees and gorillas, our closest relatives among the primates, are also social.

- Clay Shirky

A lot of Asians and Asian-Americans have liver problems. If you basically ask anybody who is Asian, they or one of their relatives will have some sort of a liver issue, and the liver actually falls into the jurisdiction of the gastroenterologist.

- Gene Luen Yang

My sister and I were born in San Francisco. When our parents died, we came down here to live with relatives.

- Freddy Fender

The advice would be the same for any kind of fiction. Keep writing, and keep sending things out, not to friends and relatives, but to people who have the power to buy. A lot of additional, useful tips could be added, but this is fundamental.

- Fred Saberhagen

I listen to every thing, all kinds of stuff. I've been obsessed with the Nas and Damian Marley record, 'Distant Relatives.' I feel like a lot of people haven't heard it, and it's amazing.

- Eve Jihan Jeffers

God gives us our relatives, thank God we can choose our friends.

- Ethel Watts Mumford

I listen to everything - all kinds of stuff. I've been obsessed with the Nas and Damian Marley record, 'Distant Relatives.' I feel like a lot of people haven't heard it, and it's amazing.

- Eve

You know, all my songs are relatives, brothers, sisters, cousins.

- David Coverdale

After Katrina, no one was the same. People, relatives, they were dying one after another.

- Donna Brazile

Everyone is related to Africa; everyone comes from Africa. We are all distant relatives.

- Damian Marley

Did you hear the one about the elderly Jew on his deathbed who sent for a priest, after declaring to his astonished relatives that 'I want to convert.' Asked why he would become a Catholic, after living all his life as a Jew, he answered: 'Better one of them should die than one of us.'

- Alan King

Being a third-generation Mexican-American and speaking English exclusively, I heard Spanish spoken by my relatives all my life, especially when they didn't want me to understand what they were talking about.

- Cheech Marin

So when I write characters and situations and relationships, I try to sort of utilize what I know about the world, limited as it is, and what I hear from my friends and see with my relatives.

- Charlie Kaufman

After Huguette Clark died in 2011 at age 104, 19 relatives challenged her will, claiming she was mentally ill and had been defrauded by her nurse, attorney and accountant.

- Bill Dedman

When I came to America from Sweden, Mother and I, we went to Chicago where our relatives lived.

- Ann-Margret

Let's say, 100 years ago, I'm not sure how many people had to empty out their relatives' homes; they just stayed in the same house, because they lived there. Nowadays, almost everyone, at least once in their life, somehow, has to deal with this experience.

- Arnon Goldfinger

I had no blood relatives till I made some.

- Andy Dick

I feel that each and every one of us as individuals has a responsibility to one another. None of us would be here without the help of someone else - whether it be guardians, teachers, parents, relatives, etc. - someone contributed to your well being as a person. We're all connected in so many different ways.

- Alonzo Mourning

Everything is relative except relatives, and they are absolute.

- Alfred Stieglitz

I had relatives who would go to Japan and bring back random stuff they bought at the airport or whatever - 'Ultraman' and 'Speed Racer,' stuff like that.

- Adrian Tomine