Quotes About Kinship

I'm from Canada and my wife is from St. Albans, so I feel a great kinship with the Brits.

I think like my dad, but I have a huge kinship with my mom.

I feel a kinship to the idea of beloved stories and beloved pieces of art that we can imagine in different ways and sort of take a meta approach in terms of what those stories offer us.

I think that when you have that really strong desire to work with someone it's because, instinctively, you feel you have a certain kinship.

Is your father," Margie completed for me. "Which makes Prunella Pratt your father's stepmother, which I suppose means that Harry Pratt was your stepgrandfather? Or something like that.

All people are bound by ties and obligations, and the most binding ties of all are those between kin.

Rather than seeing a contest between druid and Christian, I see a kinship between stone chapel and stone circle.

One does not make friends. One recognizes them.

I'll give you a theory: Man's closest relative is not the chimpanzee, as the TV people believe, but it, in fact, the dog.

Not only are animals unable to avail themselves of language to assert their own rights, but many fewer humans have a clear sense of kinship with animals than have a clear sense of kinship with other humans. Among beings with subjective states of awareness, animals are the untouchable caste, those whom human others would rather not acknowledge, let alone render assistance.

human beings have been human beings—in this genetic form—for about 250,000 years. And for 99.9 percent of that time, we lived in hunter-gatherer bands of relatively small multifamily groups.

Thorolf took possession of land between Staf River and Thors River, and called it Thorsness. He held the mountain on that headland so sacred that he called it Helgafell and no one was allowed even to look at it unless he'd washed himself first. So holy was the mountain, no living creature there, man or beast, could be harmed until they left of their own accord. Thorolf and his kinsmen all believed that they would go into the mountain when they died.

Immortals are never alien to one another.

Your Honor, years ago I recognized my kinship with all living beings, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on earth. I said then, and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it, while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.

I'm Native American, so it's in my blood to always want brothers and friends. I'm a good brotherhood guy.

But even that word, 'stranger', arose from a time of kin-hearths and a half-dozen huts marking the very limits of a people, a realm, a temporary nest in the seasonal rounds – when we lived in nature and nature lived in us and no other divide existed beyond what was known and what was unknown.

Trull Sengar kills, and kills, and then, when it is done and he kneels in the blood of the kin he has slain, he weeps.

Kinship is more important than you might think. Blood-bound lives are the web that carries each of us; they make up that which a life climbs, from newborn to child, then child to adulthood. Without such life-forces, one withers and dies.

How could she have felt afraid of the sea? It had demonstrated its power because it was the primal form of all female power; she had always been kin to it. Now, it called to her.

Lily, something is happening to me, to my mind. I feel weak and afraid. We are kin, you and Owen and I. You must not turn away from me.

The social aspects of food are really important to me - my favourite food-related memories are meals I've shared with my family and friends. Posting Instagram pictures of your food and then seeing your friends comment on it is just a modern form of that kinship.

It was as if we'd known each other for a thousand years.

Have you ever met someone and felt like you've known them forever?

Strangers, are just family you have yet to come to know.