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Quotes About Kindred

May love's kindred treasure box fling your luminescent glove.
~ Isabel Yosito
America is an archipelago of tribes, a land where people form national families of kindred spirits.
~ Hampton Sides
One does not make friends. One recognizes them.
~ Garth Henrichs
Surely, whatever lived in this place had preceded him from the hall of the dead. He was kindred to it. There was no need for fear.
~ Storm Constantine
Perveen should have been happy to hear these words of release; but instead, she felt a great sorrow that the one she'd believed was her kindred spirit had turned out to be such an ordinary, closed-minded man.
~ Sujata Massey
There's magic in recognizing a kindred spirit, and an even greater power in letting yourself love them. When it scares you, let it - that's your ego letting go.
~ Jacqueline Koyanagi, Ascension
When I met with Anna Chancellor, I knew she was a kindred spirit. We got one another.
~ Toby Stephens
Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.
~ Jane Porter
On the 9th day of May, 1862, at which time there were nearly four millions of your race in bondage, sanctioned by the laws of the land and protected by our flag,--on that day, in the face of the floods of prejudice that well-nigh deluged every avenue to manhood and true liberty, you came forth to do battle for your country and kindred.
~ Susie King Taylor
Katie Couric is kind of my soulmate.
~ Matt Lauer
Sometimes we meet someone and feel like we have known them all our lives.
~ Avijeet Das
The truth seems to be, however, that the mother-forest, and these wild things which it nourished, all recognised a kindred wilderness in the human child.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
The truth seems to be, however, that the mother-forest, and these wild things which it nourished, all recognized a kindred wildness in the human child.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nature is a temple, where the living Columns sometimes breathe confusing speech; Man walks within these groves of symbols, each Of which regards him as a kindred thing.
~ Charles Baudelaire
Praise bounteous providence if you will that grants even an ogre a tiny glow-worm tenderness encapsulated in icy caverns of a cruel heart or else despair for in the very germ of that kindred love is lodged the perpetuity of evil
~ Chinua Achebe
And Grace—meeting Grace has been like discovering a long-lost sister, a kindred spirit who's been out in the world all this time forging a nearly identical path.
~ Caroline Knapp
If you are wise, all men will be your friends and kindred, for you will be useful.
~ Plato
Fight it must, but let that fight be not a civil war against its own blood kindred but against the dangerous foreign races, whether they advance sword in hand or in the more insidious guise of beggars at our gates, pleading for admittance to share our prosperity. If we continue to allow them to enter they will in time drive us out of our own land by mere force of breeding. The
~ T. Lothrop Stoddard
Reading was not just an escape or a Band-Aid; it was a deep form of feeling seen and recognized, and being able to see and recognize other kindred spirits. My dad was a writer, too, which also likely had something to do with that.
~ Garth Risk Hallberg
When a man loves cats, I am his friend and comrade, without further introduction.
~ Mark Twain
Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.
~ L.M. Montgomery
What lawsuits grow out of the graves of rich men, every day; sowing perjury, hatred, and lies among near kindred, where there should be nothing but love!
~ Charles Dickens
I believe that you meet people who are vital to your transformation only when the conditions are right, when the tenacious concerns of the unconscious break into awareness. Then such kindred spirits are drawn to each other like iron shavings to a magnet.
~ Terri Jentz
Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmastime.
~ Laura Ingalls Wilder