Quotes About Ties

To those of you who are wearing ties, I think my dad would appreciate it if you took them off.

Furthermore, his family's connections

In truth, there were no tracks of destiny through the chaos of life, only paths forged by decisions. She had dreamed of riding a fast train to stardom, but the rails and ties of those tracks had never been carefully laid.

Had God not bound him to the earth with the ties of flesh and blood, he might well have come to such an end himself.

Adoption has the dimension of connection — not only to your own tribe, but beyond, widening the scope of what constitutes love, ties and family. It is a larger embrace. By adopting, we stretch past our immediate circles and, by reaching out, find an unexpected sense of belonging with others.

The rumors of Frank Sinatra's violence and his ties to organized crime were such that journalists joked in print about me ending up in concrete boots and sleeping with the fishes if I proceeded to write his biography.

'Old Dominion' is the nickname for the state of Virginia, and four of us have ties to Virginia.

Men adjust their ties to deal with insecurities or discomfort. It also covers the suprasternal notch.

Friendship is the bond when the ties between two cannot be worn, where selfishness is out of question, and emotion is an art of devotion.

So the bloodline wasn't pure." He shook his head. "It was an excuse, like all the other excuses. I liked my life as it was. I didn't want ties, especially the sort I'd have had with you." He looked at her with pure raging desire. "I knew if we were ever intimate, there'd be no going back. I was right. I eat, breathe, sleep and dream you, especially now, with my baby growing in your belly.

Rejection has long ties pulling the pain of yesterday into the situations of today. What felt hopeless yesterday will feed a hopelessness into today unless we cut those ties.

If we react with more emotion than is appropriate for an isolated incident, it's probably not so isolated. The escalated emotion of this situation is probably an indication of painful ties to the past.

All of us have in our veins the exact same percentage of salt in our blood that exists in the ocean, and, therefore, we have salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears. We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea - whether it is to sail or to watch it - we are going back from whence we came.

The politics of Scotland were tribal: blood ties and kin culture were predominant

We'll build new ties of trade and of commerce, culture and education that unleash the potential of the Iraqi people.

Jawaharlal Nehru wanted India to develop close ties with China and learn from its experience.

We have our own history, our own language, our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the destinies of other people - history has made us all South Africans.

I like to write scenes in the middle of the night. We could change every word of Family Ties between Monday and Friday.

It is sad to see a woman sacrificing the ties of the affections even to do good.

I've returned to being an amateur without any ties or strings attached, which gives me a freedom I never had before.

Freedom for the Church comes from the necessity of the Word of God. Otherwise, it becomes arbitrariness and ends in a great many new ties.

Remove the sentiment of love and discover how dangerously fragile are rendered one's ties to the familiar world. How seductive the possibility of utter change.

am caught in such a net of ties here." Again she almost revealed her secret: "if ever you know of my life here, I think you will only wonder at the constancy with which I have sustained myself." But she would not. "Meanwhile, love me all you can; let me feel, that, amid the fearful agitations of the world, there are pure hands, with healthful, even pulse, stretched out toward me, if I claim their grasp.

silk handkerchief that erupted out of the breast pocket, an affectation he had adopted to distance himself from the Westminster hordes in their banal Christmas-stocking ties and Marks & Spencer suits.