Quotes About Kinship

Strangers, the Blue Man said, are just family you have yet to come to know.

Whoever said you had to share DNA with a person for them to be family had rocks for brains [...]

She decided to donate blood to the Red Cross; she wanted to donate a quart a week and her blood would be in the veins of Australians and Fighting French and Chinese, all over the whole world, and it would be as though she were close kin to all of these people. She could hear the army doctors saying that the blood of Frankie Addams was the reddest and the strongest blood that they had ever known.

I don't want to be your hero. I want to be your brother. You know, I want to be your family member. I want to be your equal.

Mike Bibby's my brother.

Carl, Dennis and Brian are brothers, and Mike Love's a cousin.

La razón por la que pudo atraparme es porque ambos somos iguales

Mick and I may not be friends—too much wear and tear for that—but we're the closest of brothers, and that can't be severed.

I always feel at home in theatres like this ... because we're about the same age

Quickly, the dragon came at him, encouraged As Beowulf fell back; its breath flared, And he suffered, wrapped around in swirling Flames -- a king, before, but now A beaten warrior. None of his comrades Came to him, helped him, his brave and noble Followers; they ran for their lives, fled Deep in a wood. And only one of them Remained, stood there, miserable, remembering, As a good man must, what kinship should mean.

Que no hay peor odio que el de la misma sangre, [...], porque a nadie se odia más con más intensos bríos que a aquello a que uno se parece y uno llega a aborrecer el parecido.

Yet there is so much that fills me: plants, animals, clouds, day and night, and the eternal in man. The more uncertain I have felt about myself, the more there has grown up in me a feeling of kinship with all things. In fact it seems to me as if that alienation which so long separated me from the world has become transferred into my own inner world, and has revealed to me an unexpected unfamiliarity with my­ self.

Todo esto te lo digo por algo. Hay veinte personas en la sala de espera ahora mismo. Algunas están emparentadas contigo. Otras no. Pero ten por seguro que todas somos tu familia. Aún tienes una familia.

In sharp contradiction to Kipling, Mark Twain had no wish to succeed the British in any imperial role. He abhorred what his country had done to the people of the Philippines as much as what the British had done to the Boers, and so he finished introducing his English guest with the playfully reproachful words: 'We are kin. And now that we are kin in sin, there is nothing more to be desired.

One smell of brimstone makes the whole world kin.

It is not the level of prosperity that makes for happiness but the kinship of heart to heart and the way we look at the world. Both attitudes are within our power, so that a man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy, and no one can stop him.

The safest rule of conduct is to claim kinship when we want to do service and not to insist on kinship when we want to assert a right.

Anglo-Saxon kings often used to favour their sister's son to their own - for at least you could guarantee there was your own blood in your sister's son!

You know, all my songs are relatives, brothers, sisters, cousins.

I can't say to Elton, 'Hey, let's walk around the corner and have a coffee.' Someone as well-known as that can't go anywhere in the world without being recognised. Elton has written the soundtrack to a lot of people's lives, so they feel a kinship with him, so they come up, and that does colour things.

I came to South Korea with a feeling of deep kinship, but people here perceive me only as a talbukja, someone of a different nationality.

We don't even know we are brothers.

Yet before another ten years had passed, he was dictator of all Arabia, ruler of Mecca, and the head of a New World religion which was to sweep to the Danube and the Pyrenees before exhausting the impetus he gave it. That impetus was three­fold: the power of words, the efficacy of prayer and man's kinship with God.

Is not the kindred of a common fate a closer tie than that of birth?