Quotes About Bond

Real friendship or love is not manufactured or achieved by an act of will or intention. Friendship is always an act of recognition.

we owe love to all people, but only to a proven friend are we to entrust "the secrets of the heart.

It didn't matter what we did or where we did it as long as we were together. We knew we'd found what most people either pursue in years of futile search or dismiss as a fantasy at the outset: the missing half of ourselves. The real thing.

There are fathers who do not love their children, but there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson. —Victor Hugo

The highest, the transcendent glory of the American Revolution was this -- it connected, in one indissoluble bond, the principles of civil government with the precepts of Christianity.

The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity.

When I'm alone, I'm in the company of the most interesting dog I know.

Blood is thicker than water.

Wedlock is a padlock.

Isnt it possible that wanting to be wanted Ã¢â'¬Â¦ or 'loved' Ã¢â'¬Â¦ could be as much an aspect of what you call 'love' as actually loving back?" I said. "I mean, in choosing someone to 'love' you—to be loved by—while that other person chooses you to 'love'—doesnt one complete the need of the other?

There's something about marriage that is not as intensely romantic or interesting as a couple's first meeting.

Just because people are related doesn't always make the difference it should.

Old friends are best.

Marriage is a desperate thing.

You are closer to me than my breath,

They could smell changes in each other's mood.

Nobody else seemed ready to give them any mothering, so they had only each other and their three clone-sisters for love.

The closest and most precious people in your life are guaranteed to make you feel the entire spectrum of human emotions.

She and I were twins: And should I die this instant, I had liv'd her time to a minute.

Even the most skillful deceit is wasted on a man's mother.

The most important thing in the world is family and love.

She loved me, my daughter! Even knowing this, I was surprised. In truth, I was amazed.

A gift, she thought again, placing her mittened hand lightly on his leg, a gift to be able to know someone for so many years.

It was as if marriage had been a long, complicated meal, and now there was this lovely dessert.