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Quotes About Bonds

Solitude is the place where we can connect with profound bonds that are deeper than the emergency bonds of fear and anger.
~ Henri Nouwen
Sometimes blood isn't thicker than water and family will cross you quicker than strangers.
~ Unknown
Relations which are not sanctioned by the law establish bonds of kinship as manifold, as complex, and even more solid, than those which spring from marriage.
~ Marcel Proust
And though my Lord hath lost his estate and been banished out of his country, yet neither despised poverty nor pinching necessity could make him break the bonds of friendship or weaken his loyal duty.
~ Margaret Cavendish
All human happiness revolves around love. Love is central to the bonds on which a family is built.
~ Margaret Way
An educational method that shall have liberty as its basis must intervene to help the child to a conquest of liberty. That is to say, his training must be such as shall help him to diminish as much as possible the social bonds which limit his activity.
~ Maria Montessori
Very few of the heroes of the Golden Age of American finance had much interest in the solid realities of what underlay their structure of stocks and bonds and credits .
~ Robert Heilbroner
What keeps me motivated is not the food itself but all the bonds and memories the food represents.
~ Unknown
Friendship's said to be a plant of tedious growth, its root composed of tender fibers, nice in their taste, cautious in spreading.
~ John Vanbrugh
If we all told what we know of one another there would not be four friends in the world
~ Blaise Pascal
There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.
~ Chanakya
They have our soul who have our bonds - and the world was more fortunate in who had London's bonds than America is seventy years later. Britain's eclipse by its wayward son was a changing of the guard, not a razing of the palace.
~ Mark Steyn
Friendships begin with liking or gratitude roots that can be pulled up.
~ George Eliot
Hearts united in pain and sorrow will not be separated by joy and happiness. Bonds that are woven in sadness are stronger than the ties of joy and pleasure. Love that is washed by tears will remain eternally pure and faithful.
~ Kahlil Gibran
Understanding sociopathy can teach us that, at those times when we focus only on ourselves and our group and ignore our intrinsic ties to others—when we turn a blind eye to the importance of everyone's well-being—even those of us who do have conscience begin to lose our way, and the shadow of evil looms closer. Goodness lies in sensing our bonds with others; evil happens when, for whatever reasons, those feelings are numbed.
~ Martha Stout
To enter in these bonds, is to be free; Then where my hand is set, my seal shall be. Full
~ Unknown
bonds of unity which could not be severed: A unity of race and language; a unity of historical development; a unity in religion; and the political unity created by the fact that all the thrones were filled by members of the same family,
~ Unknown
No one ever talked about such bonds before the rise of industrialization, when wage labor first became an option for women. Note that the bonding story got revved up again in the early 1970s, as women were moving into the labor market (screwing up traditional conceptions about the natural female role)
~ Meghan Daum
Then choose another bond. One written by yourself. Because it is what you do for strangers that counts in the end.
~ Melina Marchetta
Bonds are like rules, they're meant to be broken.
~ Melissa de la Cruz
But instead of U.S. citizens and companies being taxed or U.S. capital markets being obliged to finance the rising federal deficit, foreign economies were obliged to buy the new Treasury bonds being issued. America's Cold War spending thus became a tax on foreigners. It was their central banks who financed the costs of the war in Southeast Asia.
~ Michael Hudson
These funds are called vultures because they feed on "dead" bonds in default.Complaining that "these hedge funds who have bought the bonds at 20-30 cents to a dollar … now want to be repaid in full citing contractual obligations
~ Michael Hudson
Some of the best friends you'll ever meet in your life, you'll meet though your children--mothers and fathers of their friends, parents from school. You'll see. That's the way it was for Bill and me. It's one of the many gifts of parenting.
~ Michael J. Fox
Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature."22
~ Michael Shermer