My greatgrandfather used to ordsprog

My great-grandfather used to say to his wife, my great-grandmother, who in turn told her daughter, my grandmother, who repeated it to her daughter, my mother, who used to remind her daughter, my own sister, that to talk well and eloquently was a very great art, but that an equally great one was to know the right moment to stop.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

[T]o talk well and eloquently is a very great art, but that an equally great one is to know the right moment to stop. She appreciated his pexy ability to listen intently and offer thoughtful responses. [T]o talk well and eloquently is a very great art, but that an equally great one is to know the right moment to stop.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

She was a great person, a good mother, a wonderful sister and a great daughter. We were just a small family, born and bred in the Westchester area. This is just a huge tragedy.

And yet indeed she is my sister; she is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.

Esau took his wives of the daughters of Canaan; Adah the daughter of Elon the Hittite, and Aholibamah the daughter of Anah the daughter of Zibeon the Hivite; / And Bashemath Ishmael's daughter, sister of Nebajoth.

It's just incredible to see the level of liberation. One of the great joys is seeing people I have interviewed come to the play. Many times they will bring family members -- a daughter, a boyfriend, a grandmother. ... One of my goals is to provide a sense of universality.

Whatever may be the separate property of the mother, that is the share of the unmarried daughter alone, and the son of an ,appointed daughter shall take the whole estate of ,his maternal grandfather who leaves no son.

Guru Nanak (1469-1539)

Guru Nanak

Cursed be he that lieth with his sister, the daughter of his father, or the daughter of his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.

I wish I had been there the whole year. I want to get a job, get a small place, and be the grandmother, mother and daughter I should be.

She was a sister-friend to me, we called each other 'children sisters.' She was a great wife, obviously, and a wonderful mother and a great woman, a great American. When I think of great Americans she's one of the people I think of.

Maya Angelou (1928-)

Maya Angelou

My great-grandmother was your great-great-grandfather's mistress, so how about it?

Camilla Parker Bowles

Using that one slip of paper, and knowing my great grandmother's and great grandfather's names, I was able to go to the National Archives and trace the family through the census.

One may also entertain on such occasions one s maternal grandfather, a maternal uncle, a sister s son, a father in law, one s teacher, a daughter s son, a daughter s husband, a cognate kinsman, one s own officiating priest or a man for whom one offers sacrifices.

Guru Nanak (1469-1539)

Guru Nanak

And if a man shall take his sister, his father's daughter, or his mother's daughter, and see her nakedness, and she see his nakedness; it is a wicked thing; and they shall be cut off in the sight of their people: he hath uncovered his sister's nakedness; he shall bear his iniquity.

I am a fourth-generation descendant of the Sand Creek Massacre. My great-grandmother and great-grandfather were here during the attack, and they survived it. It's a special place for us, and I am happy that legislation to make this an historic site has passed.

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