Famous quotes containing the words friends and/or relatives:
“Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“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)