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Quotes About Kinship

He wasn't much, mind you—just family
~ James Sallis
The primary movement in the text is not from unity to differentiation, but from the isolation of an individual to the deep blessing of shared kinship and community.
~ James V. Brownson
It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons. —SCHILLER
~ Donna Tartt
is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons. —SCHILLER
~ Donna Tartt
Let philosophy resolutely aim to be as scientific as possible, but let her not forget her strong kinship with literature.
~ Morris Raphael Cohen
The thing about members of your family is that if you met them for the first time at a party, you might not bother to take their phone number, and yet something binds you.
~ Celia Imrie
What I really want to say: That what the world really needs is a real feeling of kinship. Everybody: stars, laborers, Negroes, Jews, Arabs. We are all brothers.
~ Marilyn Monroe
I grew up in a time when people believed in duty, honor and country. My grandfathers were both officers. My father was a General in the Air Force. My brother and I were both in the Army. I've always felt a kinship with soldiers; I think it's possible to support the warrior and be against the war.
~ Kris Kristofferson
Did you know your kinsmen before their birth that you should seek to know them after their death?
~ Ramana Maharshi
You want to represent it accurately, and the accurate representation of quarantine is not that it's sad all the time or that people are struggling constantly, it's that there are these moments of hardship and then there are intense moments of levity and kinship and people supporting each other.
~ Megan Ganz
Your family tree includes not just obvious cousins like chimpanzees and monkeys but also mice, buffaloes, iguanas, wallabies, snails, dandelions, golden eagles, mushrooms, whales, wombats and bacteria. All are our cousins. Every last one of them. Isn't that a far more wonderful thought than any myth?
~ Richard Dawkins
First cousins, for instance, have two common ancestors, and the generation distance via each one is 4. Therefore their relatedness is
~ Richard Dawkins
she's related to one of the barons. With all
~ Julie Garwood
You know not, yet, the sort of love that strikes like a lightning bolt, that clutches hold of you by the heart, as irrevocably as death; that becomes the lodestar by which you steer the rest of your life . . . it is in the nature of your kin, to love this way.
~ Juliet Marillier
Man with frailty is allied by birth.
~ Robert Lowth
Wo men shi jie bai xiong di-we are more than brothers, Will.
~ Cassandra Clare
God, what a world, if men in street and mart felt that same kinship of the human heart which makes them, in the face of fire and flood, rise to the meaning of true brotherhood.
~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother!
~ Honore de Balzac
I'm the daughter of a sister whose the mother of a brother who's the brother of another.
~ Queen Latifah
Kinship doesn't come from skin color. It's in your soul and your mind.
~ Dave Brubeck
A poor relation—is the most irrelevant thing in nature.
~ Charles Lamb
Not by way of the forced and worn formula of Romaticism, but throught the closeness of an imagination that has never broken kinship with nature. Art must accept such gifts, and revaluate the giver.
~ Alain LeRoy Locke
Awestruck, Flora stared at the dishevelled sisters with their blazing faces and radiant ragged wings, who smelled of no kin but the wild high air.
~ Laline Paull, The Bees
She had so deep a kinship with the trees, so intuitive a sympathy with leaf and flower, that it seemed as if the blood in her veins was not slow-moving human blood, but volatile sap.
~ Mary Webb, Gone to Earth