Quotes About Bonding

We don't see a lot of models for male social interaction. There's sports and barn raisings.

The best way for guys to communicate is just don't talk to each other for nine hours. That's why I like long motorcycle rides. It's a great way for guys to socialize and not socialize.

You do become very close like a family but because you see each other for such an intense period of time on the set everyday. You really don't end up socializing that much.

I played softball for a few years growing up. Both my brothers played baseball.

My dad was a really good surfer, and by the time I was 10, he was dragging me out on some good days at Bells. I'd reckon they were solid, 6-foot days, and he'd tell me to wait on the shoulder. I'd see him coming through the barrel, and he'd just scream at me to go. I'd drop in, and he'd give me a hoot from behind - I've always loved it.

I really like feeling connected to people and feeling like I have a good, solid sense of empathy.

Primate and elephant and even pig societies show considerable evidence of care for others, parent-child bonding, solidarity in the face of danger, and so on.

There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other.

Our family has dinner together every night - you can tell that my daughter wants to run. After dinner, I go up to my room and immediately put on my pajamas. I mean, immediately. I read some things that I haven't read yet, and I jump into bed.

If I had to live on a desert island, and somebody gave me a chicken, there's no way I'd kill it - I'd call it Henry and make it my friend.

It always excites me to meet new family members. I'd like to meet them all someday.

When you massage someone, the levels of oxytocin go up in the brain, and oxytocin is one of the chemicals that drives attachment.

Ah, what happiness it is to be with people who are all happy, to press hands, press cheeks, smile into eyes.

Perhaps once one realised how deeply one could bond with a creature as foreign as a dragon, all forms of human love seemed more acceptable.

Dill was in hearty agreement with this plan of action. Dill was becoming something of a trail anyways, following Jem about... He only grew closer to Jem. (Lee 55)

Love lives on propinquity but dies on contact.

I have a need to always make people laugh. I have a desperate need. I love a great sense of humor. The people I sort of surround myself with have that.

Falling in love is a chemical reaction. But it wears off in a year. That's why you need a strong line of communication... which includes laughter.

I mean I love my family very much, but there is a difference when you're reuniting with your family outside of your hometown and reuniting in the family home.

The joys of friendship inert the heart and fizzy home bouncing jubilantly with laughter-buttered love.

Two of man's basic needs are to love and to share. Both of these needs are satisfied in greater or lesser degree by friendship.

We cannot really love anyone with with whom we never laugh.

My girls are great at making fun of Dad. They're never impressed with anything I do. I love that. I hope that never changes.

Reading is only a pretext for our bodies to stick together, like a sculpture, fused in a way that when trying to separate one from other, or the work remains intact or is completely lost