Kissing Cousin Quotes & Sayings

I think it's important to give young people the freedom to follow their ideas and pursue their interests. — Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

Cyclists thus found their hobby not as pleasant as it could be, to say the least, and the League of American Wheelmen committed to doing something about it. A year after Fisher opened his store, the league launched a magazine, Good Roads, that became an influential mouthpiece for road improvement. Its articles were widely reprinted, which attracted members who didn't even own bikes; at the group's peak, Fisher and more than 102,000 others were on the rolls, and the Good Roads Movement was too big for politicians to ignore. Yes, the demand for roads was pedal-powered, and a national cause even before the first practical American car rolled out of a Chicopee, Massachusetts, shop in 1893. A few months ahead of the Duryea Motor Wagon's debut, Congress authorized the secretary of agriculture to "make inquiry regarding public roads" and to investigate how they might be improved. — Earl Swift

Exaggeration is the kissing cousin of both truth and lie. — Khang Kijarro Nguyen

Into this November air
a supernatural force
draws me to it like a magnet — Aine MacAodha

When I first went into the active Army, you could tell someone to move a chair across the room. Now you have to tell them why. — Robert Lembke

I've jumped out of an airplane 34 times. I've dove 212 feet under water. I've done a lot of things that defied death. — Jesse Ventura

Oh, it was a cousin of pain - a kissing cousin even - but Dylan didn't have a name for the sensation that made him want to live inside that ache. Maybe he'd just call it Bob. — Lyn Gala

Be a great writer when you write your life's song. — Debasish Mridha

Here all may see my body lie/ But not my soul, for that can fly! — Helme Heine

You come to know the aches and vanities and tastes and intrigues of an entire neighborhood at a drug store. — Paul Engle

A liberal mind is a mind that is able to imagine itself believing anything. — Max Eastman

We never really see time. We see only clocks. If you say this object moves, what you really mean is that this object is here when the hand of your clock is here, and so on. We say we measure time with clocks, but we see only the hands of the clocks, not time itself. And the hands of a clock are a physical variable like any other. So in a sense we cheat because what we really observe are physical variables as a function of other physical variables, but we represent that as if everything is evolving in time. — Carlo Rovelli

I'm sure it's not what it looks like." Sophie's meek voice held a note of pity.
Brooke's, on the other hand, was laced with anger. "What the heck is he thinking?"
"There must be a reasonable explanation for his actions."
"Ugh. Could that dress be any shorter?"
"She's probably just a friend."
"You're way prettier than her, Dawn." "Maybe she's his cousin?" Sophie asked hopefully.
Brooke snorted. "Yeah, if you mean kissing cousin. — Ada Adams

History my god. An incurable diarrhea of dead immortals. — Robert Coover

Mother used to say, "Roses have both petals and thorns, my dark flower. You needn't believe something weak because it appears delicate. Show the world your bravery." Mother — Kerri Maniscalco

A trick I've learned is to eat just a little bit of something that has no carbs and no sugar in it before you go to sleep because it keeps your metabolism going. — Kelly Osbourne

Embroidering the account, and decided it offered — Anne Perry