These cousin quotes are here to highlight the special and unique relationship we have with these people who aren’t quite best friends, aren’t quite siblings, but often feel like a little bit of both.

Why are our relationships with our cousins so unique?

Many people believe it’s because they can have a closer relationship with us than our siblings.

Others compare cousins to best friends and even soulmates. 

Our cousins are some of the closest family members we have.

The cousin quotes below explore this unique relationship and the important role cousins play in our family.

Cousins are always there for us when we need them, and they can even help us find ourselves through their crazy antics.

Truly, we’ll never find another person like our favorite cousin.

Don’t forget to also read these sibling quotes celebrating brothers and sisters.

Cousin Quotes for Cousins Who Are Best Friends

1. “Never forget who was with you from the start.” – Ziad K. Abdelnour

2. “Win, lose, or draw, you’re all my cousins and I love you.” – Chill Wills

3. “If little kids had a People magazine, cousins would be on the cover.” – Jim Gaffigan

4. “Some of us can live without a society but not without a family.” – Amit Kalantri

5. “The only thing most of us love about most of our family members is that they are related to us.” – Mokokoma Mokhonoana

6. “If you have cousins, it’s pretty easy.” – Joseph P. Kennedy

7. “Cousins are people that are ready-made friends.” – Courtney Cox

8. “The night before the cousins came, I couldn’t sleep.” – Katie Yamasaki

9. “I like spending time with cousins.” – Jacob Tremblay

10. “Our dads used to do this, and now us cousins always get together for it.” — Larry Lewis

11. “If you’re lucky, a cousin is there from the beginning.” — Susan Bolch

12. “Cousins are more than cousins; they are best friends that are there for us through it all.” — Heather Mills

13. “Cousins are not those we do not know but instead part of a family that also provide support and comfort.” – Byron Pulsifer

14. “I always call my cousin because we’re so close. We’re almost like sisters, and we’re also close because our moms are sisters.” – Britney Spears

15. “Little kids love their cousins. I’m not being cute or exaggerating here. Cousins are like celebrities for little kids.” – Jim Gaffigan

Cousin Quotes for Always Being There

16. “Cousins are part of your life so stick with cuz not friends.” – Claude Shannon

17. “You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.” – Desmond Tutu

18. “Would I lay down my life to save my brother? No, but I would to save two brothers or eight cousins.”- John B. S. Haldane

19. “Born as a cousin, made as a friend.” – Byron Pulsifer

20. “Within our family there was no such thing as a person who did not matter. Second cousins thrice removed mattered.” – Shirley Abbott

21. “Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the cousins together.” – Woodrow Wilson

22. “Other things may change us, but we start and end with family.” – Anthony Brandt

23. “Cousins are the barometers of how fun a family get-together will be.” – Jim Gaffigan

24. “Never judge someone by their relatives.” – Charles Martin

25. “Family is not an important thing. It’s everything.” – Michael J. Fox

Cousin Quotes About the Value of Family

26. “Happiness is having crazy cousins.”

27. “We might not have it all together, but together we have it all.”

28. “A cousin a day keeps the boredom away.”

29. “Cousin to cousin we’ll always be, special friends from the same family tree.”

30. “A cousin is a ready-made friend for life.”

31. “Cousins are sisters you never had.”

32. “Your family is the best team you could ever have.”

33. “Cousins are like fudge…mostly sweet with a few nuts.”

34. “Blood makes you related. Loyalty makes you family.”

35. “A grandparent’s house is where cousins become best friends.”

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36. “At Christmas, cousins are the presents under the tree.”

37. “Nobody will understand the craziness of your family better than your cousins.”

38. “Cousins by blood—friends by choice.”

39. “God made us cousins because he knew our mothers could not handle us as siblings.”

40. “Cousins are different beautiful flowers in the same garden.”

41. “A cousin is someone whose smile helps when the roads are rough and long.”

Cousin Quotes for Self-Discovery

42. “In my cousin, I find a second self.”

43. “A cousin is a little bit of childhood that can never be lost.”

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44. “Never underestimate the power of a cousin.”

45. “My cousins are shareholders of my soul.”

46. “A cousin is someone who knows everything about you, and still likes you anyway.”

47. “Happiness is any day spent with my cousins.”

48. “Cousins: Obnoxious when we’re together, yet we don’t even care!”

49. “Cousins are sisters or brothers you never had.” – Read Glowstorl

50. “Cousins are cool to see, impossible to forget and true to your heart.”

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Other Cousin Quotes and Sayings

51. “Cousins will help protect you from any negativity you come across.”

52. “The love of a cousin keeps you warm in the cold.”

53. “Mess with me and you mess with my cousins!”

54. “Cousins are awesome. Well, mine is. I can’t speak to yours.”

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55. “Friends might choose you at some point in your life, but cousins loved you from the start.”

56. “You will always be… the sister of my soul, the friend of my heart.”

57. “Treasure your cousins, they were your first friends and will love you forever.”

58. “Cousins are friends that will love you forever.”

59. “No one will ever understand your crazy family like your cousins do even if you haven’t talked too much lately.”

60. “Friends are forever, cousins are for life!”

61. “You will be jealous, as I have the best cousin.”

62. “Cousins are childhood playmates who grow up to be forever friends.”

63. “Talking to your cousin is sometimes all the therapy you need.”

64. “Time passes, and we may be apart. But cousins always stay close at heart.”

65. “Being a cousin means you are part of something wonderful. It means you will love and be loved for the rest of your life. No matter what.”

66. “My cousin is my favorite partner in crime.”

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67. “Cousins are usually the first friends we have as children. They are the best of both worlds because they are family and friends at the same time.”

68. “Cousins are those childhood playmates who grow up to be forever friends.”

69. “Cousins are many. Best friends are few. What a rare delight to find both in you.”

70. “Treasure your cousins, they were your first friends and will love you forever.”

71. “I may not always be there with you, but I will always be there for you.”  

72. “No one will ever be as entertained by us as us.”

73. “Cousins are connected heart to heart, distance and time can’t break them apart.”

74. “Cousins resemble who you really are deep inside!”

75. “Cousins are both family and friends – they are the best of both worlds.”

76. “You can always share your secrets with your cousins.”

Cousin quotes to cherish your relationship

77. “Cousins are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.”

78. “A cousin sees the first tear, catches the second, and stops the third.”

79. “A cousin is someone who knows all about you but likes you anyway.”

80. “Cousins are people that are ready-made friends, you have laughs with them and remember good times from a young age, you have fights with them but you always know you love each other, they are a better thing than brothers and sisters and friends cause there all pieced together as one.” – Courtney Cox

81. “Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.” – H. L. Mencken

82. “My cousins are shareholders of my soul..” ― Saswat Padhy

83. “It has to do – I think – with growing up in an apartment, with my aunt and my cousins right next door to me, with the door open, with neighbors walking in and out, with people yelling at each other all the time.” – Larry David

84. “Growing up in Northern California, I’ve only seen snow at Christmas maybe twice in my life! I was always jealous of my cousins on the East Coast with their white Christmases.” – Guy Fieri

85. “We’ve had cloning in the South for years. It’s called cousins.” – Robin Williams

86. “I may argue with my brother, but I fight beside my brother against my cousin, and with my cousin against a stranger.” – Old Arab adage

Cousin quotes for that special family relationship

87. “The family that brunches together stays together. My cousins and I swear by this rule, and Sunday brunch with them is like a detox session.” – Ananya Panday

88. “A lot of people would rather tour sewers than visit their cousins.” – Jane Howard

89. “Cousins help make the hard times easier and the easy times more fun.”

90. “The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life.” – Richard Bach

91. “You don’t get to choose your cousins. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.”

92. “Our roots say we’re cousins. Our hearts say we’re friends.”

93. “A cousin is like a warm quilt wrapped around the heart.”

94. “I smile because you’re my family. I laugh because there’s nothing you can do about it.”

95. “The love between cousins knows no distance.”

96. “A real cousin is someone who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.”

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97. “Cousins. Children together. Friends forever.”

98. “Remember that I don’t only consider you as a cousin but as a good friend as well.”

99. “You are definitely a fantastic cousin and I am forever grateful to have you in my life.”

100. “Cousin: your partner in crime when you were young.”

101. “Gossiping with cousins during a family function is more fun than the actual program.” -Amit Verma

102. “My cousin and I are more than friends. We’re like a tiny gang.”

103. “My cousin has the best cousin in the world.”

104. “I don’t have friends. I got family.” – Furious Seven

105. “Cousins are the friends that are forced to share their toys with you.”

106. “The bond between cousins cannot be broken.”

Cousin Quotes to Describe the Impact of This Relationship on Your Life

107. “Within our family, there was no such thing as a person who did not matter. Second cousins thrice removed mattered.” — Shirley Abbott 

108. “We may not have it all together, but together we have it all.”

109. “The love of a family is life’s greatest blessing.”

110. “My dear young cousin, if there’s one thing I’ve learned over the eons, it’s that you can’t give up on your family, no matter how tempting they make it.” — Rick Riordan

111. “In my cousin, I find a second self.” — Isabel Norton

112. “Sticking with your family is what makes it a family.” – Mitch Albom

113. “It’s not what we have, but who we have in life that matters.”

114. “But in the east, the sky was pale and through the gray woods came lanterns with wagons and horses, bringing Grandpa and Grandma and aunts and uncles and cousins.” – Laura Ingalls Wilder

115. “Sometimes, I forget to thank the people who make my life so happy in so many ways. Sometimes, I forget to tell them how much I do appreciate them for being an important part of my life. Today is just another day, nothing special going on. So thank you, all of you, just for being here for me!”

116. “We didn’t realize we were making memories; we just knew we were having fun.” – Winnie The Pooh

Which of these cousin quotes resonated with you best?

There’s no relationship better than the one you have with your cousins, and these cousin quotes highlight the best of these relationships.

Your cousins are your built-in best friends, closer than siblings, and the ones who make family gatherings bearable.

They can help us figure out our deepest truths, and when the world comes crashing down, they’re the ones who know how to help. 

What can we learn from our relationships with our cousins?

We learn how to laugh, how to have fun, and how to value family.

We learn what matters most in life, and learn about the most important thing in life – love.

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