Close Relatives

Famous quotes containing the words close and/or relatives:

“The nonsense that charms is close to sense.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

“Every milestone of a firstborn is scrutinized, photographed, recorded, replayed, and retold by doting parents to admiring relatives and disinterested friends. . . . While subsequent children will strive to keep pace with siblings a few years their senior, the firstborn will always have a seemingly Herculean task of emulating his adult parents.”
—Marianne E. Neifert (20th century)