Quotes About Kinship

la familia real y la familia biológica, sin siquiera hablar de la familia política, coinciden con menos frecuencia de la que se cree, y las familias "ensambladas" no esperaron la década de 1990 para existir).

Cousins are part of your life so stick with cuz, not friends.

The more uncertain I have felt about myself,' Jung said, 'the more there has grown up in me a feeling of kinship with all things.

The truth as I see it is that people can both struggle and remain upbeat simultaneously, through even the most soul-testing of challenges. This doesn't mean they're in denial. Rather, it testifies to the remarkable ability of humankind to adapt, to seek meaning and kinship when confronted with adversity.

It is good that we do not have to try to kill the sun or the moon or the stars. It is enough to live on the sea and kill our true brothers.

We're no kin, Thomas Hudson said. We just used to live in the same town and make some of the same mistakes.

Family' is not just a biological word, it's an an operative one.

I had no blood relatives till I made some.

Fish in the sea are luminous so that they can recognise one another; might not men and women also exude some kind of speechless luminescence to those akin to them?

Ramón's wife's brother's cousin's sister

Second cousins.

Meeting someone who likes what I've made is like discovering a brother or sister.

It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.

I regard longings for twinship or emotional kinship as being reactive to emotional trauma, with its accompanying feelings of singularity, estrangement, and solitude.

In certain books—some way in the first few paragraphs you know that you have met a brother.

Not all friendships take a long time to grow and deepen. Some are formed in an instant.

As Reinhard Bendix (1916–91) summed up Weber's view: 'the Puritan divines brought about a profound depersonalization of the family and neighborhood life' which was linked to a 'decline in kinship loyalties and a separation of business affairs from family affairs' which led to the 'isolation of the individual'.

On jest moim bratem. Ale to nie moja wina.

We see Serbs as our spiritual brothers. And that is what is at the base of our relations today and in the future.

So it was in Botswana, almost everywhere; ties of kinship, no matter how attenuated by distance or time, linked one person to another, weaving across the country a human blanket of love and community. And in the fibres of that blanket there were threads of obligation that meant that one could not ignore the claims of others. Nobody should starve; nobody should feel that they were outsiders; nobody should be alone in their sadness.

Wilma owned a pit bull and they lived in separate trailers, side by side, and sometimes, when she was angry, she and the pit bull looked like kin to him.

I feel a kinship with anyone who feels that their road, their life or who they really are is not good enough. I really relate to that.

I'm an only child, and after making the movie [Yours, Mine and Ours], I know it would be awesome to have 17 brothers and sisters in real life.

Would I lay down my life to save my brother? No, but I would to save two brothers or eight cousins.