Quotes About Bonding

Proximity and activity don't always equal connectivity.

The need to belong goes beyond the need for superficial social ties . . . it is a need for meaningful, profound bonding.

Love creates, love cements, love enters and harmonizes all things.

Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.

The best inheritance a parent can give to his children is a few minutes of their time each day.

As you put your children to bed, spend at least three minutes of private time, after books and bathroom and teeth-brushing, and ask them to tell you one thing they did that they appreciate themselves for and one thing someone else did that they are thankful for. You

There are few better things in life than exploring with a dog and finding new places together.

There are times when friendship feels like running down a hill together as fast as you can, jumping over things, spinning around, and you don't care where you're going, and you don't care where you've come from, because all that matters is speed, and the hands holding your hands.

The kiss intimately relates to the most primitive kind of human contact, which can satisfy all of our needs, like: feeding, enjoying pleasure, tasting, wanting, rejecting, everything we associate with love.

Perhaps the single most important ritual a family can observe is having dinner together.

I was giddy feeling his first kicks and I spoke to him every moment, as I crushed my herbs, as I cut clothes for his body, wove his cradle out of rushes. I imagined him walking beside me, the child and boy and man that he would be.

Many marriages are between acquaintances. You can be with a person for three hours of your life and have a friend. Another one will remain an acquaintance for thirty years.

Sir, more than kisses, letters mingle souls; For, thus friends absent speak.

We talked for hours. He talked and I listened. It was like wind and sunlight. It blew all the cobwebs away.

Well, in my defense, I was walking the floor at three this morning with her latest child. I think it's a girl. What's her name?

Yale was founded before the advent of the fraternity system, so the white men of generations past had to make up their own structures for sub-erotic bonding and pointless tribalism.

No one but me ever put a hand on me to feel that baby. No one wanted to put his ear against it and listen...You shouldn't have a baby if there's no one who wants to feel it kick or listen to it move.

I wanted my cousins to like Owen, because I liked him—he was my best friend—but, at the same time, I didn't want everything to be so enjoyable that I'd have to invite Owen to Sawyer Depot the next time I went. I was sure that would be disastrous. And I was nervous that my cousins would make fun of Owen, and I confess I was nervous that Owen would embarrass me—I am ashamed of feeling that, to this day.

My mother and I smoked a cigarette; she was trying to quit as I was trying to start. Therefore, we shared a cigarette between us- in fact, we'd promised never to smoke a whole one alone.

The group consisting of mother, father and child is the main educational agency of mankind.

One cannot watch chimpanzee infants for long without realizing that they have the same emotional need for affection and reassurance as human children.

Attachment parenting demands not just certain actions you take with your baby but also certain emotional states to accompany those actions.

It is possible to take energy from someone else. This is usually done in close, emotional sexual relationships.

But at the same time that the experience is pulling you apart, it's also bonding you. You have this joint venture! You both made this baby. And that's the thing I still can't get over