Quotes About Kinship

Blood is stronger than breeding.

All the water in the sea won't wash out our kindred.

The lack of emotional security of our American young people is due, I believe, to their isolation from the larger family unit. No two people — no mere father and mother — as I have often said, are enough to provide emotional security for a child. He needs to feel himself one in a world of kinfolk, persons of variety in age and temperament, and yet allied to himself by an indissoluble bond which he cannot break if he could, for nature has welded him into it before he was born.

The sun heals. Laughter heals. Love, breathing, touch, beauty, Nature, warmth, kinship Heal, if you will let them Be part of your medicine.

for Temujin, such chosen forms of fictive kinship were already proving more useful than the ties of biological kinship.

Whether these adoptions began for sentimental reasons or for political ones, Temujin displayed a keen appreciation of the symbolic significance and practical benefit of such acts in uniting his followers through this usage of fictive kinship. In the same way that he took these children into his own family, he accepted the conquered people into his tribe with the possibility that they would share fairly in the future conquests and prosperity of his army.

He organized his warriors into squads, or arban, of ten who were to be brothers to one another. No matter what their kin group or tribal origin, they were ordered to live and fight together as loyally as brothers;

There are ties that bind more complex than blood.

I, who have no sisters or brothers, look with some degree of innocent envy on those who may be said to be born to friends.

Each flies with its own kind: pigeon with pigeon, hawk with hawk.

Man, man, is thy brother, and thy father is God.

Our kinship with Earth must be maintained; otherwise, we will find ourselves trapped in the center of our own paved-over souls with no way out.

A stranger who is kind is a kinsman; an unkind kinsman is a stranger.

Most of the people I have really cared about in this world, I have elected to the position. I have a belief that a man's real relatives are scattered throughout the universe, and seldom if ever belong to his immediate kin.

I've never felt any sense of kinship with other comedians; they've always seemed too needy.

My nephew Ahaan is just like my son.

Why should I marry? One marries to have children, but I already have children! My nieces and nephews are my children.

When people say, 'You don't have a family' it makes my blood boil. I thought, 'Yes I do, I have my dad, my mum, my brothers and nieces.'

You're going to be my sister-in-law. We should deepen our relationship whenever we can!

There is perhaps a kinship among qualities; one draws another along with it; and the biographer should here call attention to the fact that this clumsiness is often mated with a love of solitude. Having stumbled over a chest, Orlando naturally loved solitary places, vast views, and to feel himself for ever and ever and ever alone.

There's danger in feeling," Tess murmured. Although she could not begin to imagine what kind of pain Dante carried within him, she felt a kinship growing between them. Both alone, both adrift in their worlds. "I don't want to feel anything for you, Dante." "God, Tess. I don't want to feel anything for you either.

From the beginning, Tegan, you were more brother to me than any kin by blood. You still are." Tegan felt likewise, in spite of all they'd been through. Maybe because of it. "I'll always have your back, Lucan. You can count on it.

daughter-in-law, Cecy, with whom she had become dear friends.

Because the difference between a friend and a real friend is that you and the real friend come from the same territory, of the same place deep inside you, and that means you see the world in the same kind of way. You know each other even before you do.