Quotes About Kinship

the queen my good sister coming of the brother, and I of the sister.

A seismic shift was about to occur, one that discounted her kinship bonds to Elizabeth

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.

She had always known that all lives are in common, rejoicing in her kinship to the fish in the tanks of her laboratories, seeking the experience of existences outside the human boundary.

married Eadbald's sister, Æthelburh, for she, unlike her brother,

The opinions which we hold of one another, our relations with friends and kinfolk are in no sense permanent, save in appearance, but are as eternally fluid as the sea itself

Relations which are not consecrated by the laws establish bonds of kinship as manifold, as complex, even more solid than those which spring from marriage.

this style also her letter on bleeding, on lemons and so forth, supposing it to be typical of the letters of Madame de Sévigné. But my grandmother who had approached that lady from within, attracted to her by her own love of kinsfolk and of nature, had taught me to enjoy the real beauties of her correspondence, which are altogether different

what brings men together is not a community of views but a consanguinity of minds.

I came to recognise that, apart from her [Françoise's] own kinsfolk, the sufferings of humanity inspired in her a pity which increased in direct ratio to the distance separating the sufferers from herself.

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

We can choose our family. We can't choose our relatives.

Some people are your family no matter when you find them, and some people are not, even if you are laid, still wet and crumpled, in their arms.

You can choose your friends but you sho' can't choose your family, an' they're still kin to you no matter whether you acknowledge 'em or not, and it makes you look right silly when you don't.

You can choose your friends, but you sho' can't choose your family.

We're all related. We're all a family.

Like watches over like, as the saying goes.

Relations which are not sanctioned by the law establish bonds of kinship as manifold, as complex, and even more solid, than those which spring from marriage.

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Your heart and my heart are very, very old friends.

Oh call it by some better name, For friendship sounds too cold.

To mingle friendship far is mingling bloods.

Our actual Friends are but distant relations of those to whom we are pledged.

We were bred of earth before we were bred of our mothers. Once born, we can live without mother or father, or any other kin, or any friend, or any human love. We cannot live without the earth or apart from it, and something is shrivelled in a man's heart when he turns away from it and concerns himself only with the affairs of men.