96 Instagram Captions for Cousins

Cousins are the most common type of relatives that human beings can have. We aren’t all gifted with brothers or sisters, but just about anyone who has any family at all has a cousin. Cousins are like automatic friends; when you go for a family reunion or to visit another branch of your family, there are all these people of about your own age with whom you definitely have at least one thing in common: your family.

Whether your memories of your cousins are of times spent at your grandfather’s cabin, or of roasting marshmallows and telling ghost stories by a fire at summer camp, you probably have great memories with them. As an adult, a lot of us stay in touch with our cousins – after graduating high school, going to college, and entering the workforce, it’s these same summer pals that can stay with you.

Your cousin is your friend for life; no matter what happens in your life you can expect to count on them when you’re older. They’re like your brother or sister – only better because you didn’t have to grow up with them!

When you take pictures of you and your cousins for your Instagram feed, you’ll want to find the perfect Instagram caption to share those feelings with the world. Here are some great captions to help memorialize those memories.

Cousins As Friends

• Cousins are those childhood playmates that grow up to be forever friends.
• Cousins by blood. Sisters at heart. Friends by choice.
• Cousins make the best friends.

• Grandma’s house – where cousins become best friends.
• Friends are forever. Cousins are for life!
• A cousin is a ready-made friend for life.
• We’re cousins because our parents couldn’t handle us as sisters.
• A real cousin is someone who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
• Cousins are awesome. Well, mine are. I can’t speak to yours.
• Nobody will understand the craziness of your family better than your cousins.
• Cousins are connected heart to heart, neither distance nor time can break them apart.

Cousins Share Your Experiences

• Cousin to cousin we will always be a couple of nuts off the family tree.
• Happiness is any day spent with my cousins.
• Nobody will understand the craziness of your family like your cousins.
• A cousin is like a warm quilt wrapped around the heart.
• “When I walk, I walk with you. Where I go, you’re with me always.” – Alice Hoffman
• A cousin a day keeps the boredom away.

• A real cousin is someone who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
• Keep calm and love your cousin.
• Time passes and we may be apart, but cousins always stay close at heart.

Real Family

• “You can’t give up on your family, no matter how tempting they make it.”  – Rick Riordan
• “Family is family and is not determined by marriage certificates, divorce papers, and adoption documents. Families are made in the heart.” – C. Joybell C.
• “Remember, cousins, are forever!” – Lydia Howe
• “We must take care of our families wherever we find them.” – Elizabeth Gilbert
• “The capacity for friendship is God’s way of apologizing for our families.” – Jay McInerney
• “Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.” – George Burns
• “He’d learned long ago: perfection isn’t what families are all about.” – Jamie Ford
• “The capacity for friendship is God’s way of apologizing for our families.” – Jay McInerney
• “Family members can be your best friends, you know. And best friends, whether or not they are related to you, can be your family.” – Trenton Lee Stewart
• “If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.” – George Bernard Shaw
• “Sticking with your family is what makes it a family.” – Mitch Albom
• “It’s very hard to grow up in a perfect family when you’re not perfect.” – E.L. James

Quotes for Cousins

• “Cousins are friends who will love you forever.” – Constance Richards
• “A cousin is a little bit of childhood that can never be lost.” – Marion C. Garretty
• “In my cousin, I find a second self.” – Isabel Norton

• “If little kids had a People magazine, cousins would be on the cover.” – Jim Gaffigan
• “At Christmas, cousins are the presents under the tree.” – Karen Decourcey
• “Cousins are sisters or brothers you never had.” – Reah Glowstorl
• “Cousins are cool to see, impossible to forget, and true to your heart.” – Leo Farno
• “Cousins are those rare people who ask you how you are and then wait to hear the answer.” – Ed Cunningham
• “Win, lose or draw, you’re all my cousins and I love you.” – Chill Wills
• “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
• “We’ve had cloning in the South for years. It’s called cousins.” – Robin Williams
• “In my cousin, I find a second self.” – Isabel Norton
• “Born as a cousin, made as a friend. ” – Byron Pulsifer
• “A cousin is a little bit of childhood that can never be lost.” – Marion C. Garretty

For the Larger Family

• You call it chaos – we call it a family.
• Blood makes you related. Loyalty makes you a family.
• My family is temperamental: half temper and half mental.
• My family doesn’t go crazy. They are crazy. They go normal from time to time.
• Happiness is homemade.

• Time spent with family is worth every second.
• I love my family more than yesterday; yesterday they got on my nerves.
• “Never judge someone by their relatives.” – Charles Martin
• I’m fortunate to have been raised in my family.
• “You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you.” – Frederick Buechner
• Knowing your family comes first makes every decision easy.
• “A friend forgives quicker than an enemy, and family forgives quicker than a friend.” – Amit Kalantri
• Family is like music. There are some high notes and some low notes, but always a beautiful song.
• Together is our favorite place to be.
• “You are born into your family and your family is born into you. No returns. No exchanges.” – Elizabeth Berg
• Family is where life begins and love never ends.
• “A dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it.” – Mary Karr
• I smile because you’re my family. I laugh because there’s nothing you can do about it.

Quotes for Family

• “Families are like fudge – mostly sweet with lots of nuts.” – Les Dawson
• “The family is one of nature’s masterpieces.” – George Santayana

• “Family is not an important thing. It’s everything.” – Michael J. Fox
• “I’m a lucky person in that I’ve been loved a lot.” – Monica Bellucci
• “There is no such thing as fun for the whole family.” – Jerry Seinfeld
• “My cousins are shareholders of my soul.” – Saswat Padhy
• “Other things may change us, but we start and end with family.” – Anthony Brandt
• “I sustain myself with the love of family.” – Maya Angelou
• “Some of us can live without a society but not without a family.” – Amit Kalantri

Literary Quotes for Families

• “You need to make time for your family no matter what happens in your life.” — Matthew Quick
• “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
• “When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching — they are your family.” — Jim Butcher
• “Real love amounts to withholding the truth, even when you’re offered the perfect opportunity to hurt someone’s feelings.” — David Sedaris
• “Then I discovered that being related is no guarantee of love! — Stieg Larsson
• “We have three kinds of family. Those we are born to, those who are born to us, and those we let into our hearts.” — Sherrilyn Kenyon
• “True friends are families that you can select.” — Audrey Hepburn
• “You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you.” — Frederick Buechner
• “Home isn’t where you’re from, it’s where you find light when all grows dark.” — Pierce Brown
• “If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.” — George Bernard Shaw
• “This is part of what a family is about, not just love. It’s knowing that your family will be there watching out for you. Nothing else will give you that. Not money. Not fame. Not work.” — Mitch Albom
• “Home is where you are loved the most and act the worst.” — Marjorie Pay Hinckley
• “Happiness [is] only real when shared. – Jon Krakauer
• “Home is people. Not a place. If you go back there after the people are gone, then all you can see is what is not there anymore.” — Robin Hobb
• “Maybe you have to know the darkness before you can appreciate the light.” — Madeleine L’Engle
• “It’s very hard to grow up in a perfect family when you’re not perfect.” — E.L. James
• “Friends are God’s way of apologizing for your family.” — Wayne W. Dyer
• “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” — Leo Tolstoy
• “After a good dinner, one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations.” — Oscar Wilde
• “Because that was what you did with family when you’d been worried about them, you grabbed them and held on to them and told them how much they’d pissed you off, and it was okay because no matter how angry you got, they still belonged to you.” — Cassandra Clare
• “The sun doesn’t just hang on one family’s tree.” — Anchee Min
• “What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.” — Mother Teresa
• “Those whom we most love are often the most alien to us.” — Christopher Paolini
• “A man who doesn’t spend time with his family can never be a real man.” — Mario Puzo
• Our family members are the keepers of our hearts – our cousins most of all because of everything we share with them. What better use is there for social media than to honor your family and your cousins?

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