Quotes About Bond

I thought of making you and Julian real brothers." What is she talking about? Does she expect us to do a ritual thing like cut ourselves and rub blood together so we're blood brothers?

I lead Paco through the house. We pass Shelley in the family room looking at some magazine. "Shelley, this is Paco. He's Alex's friend. Paco, this is my sister, Shelley." At the mention of Alex's name, Shelley gives a happy squeal. "Hey, Shelley," Paco says. Shelley smiles wide. "Shell-bell, I need you to do me a favor." Shelley bobs her head in response as I whisper, "I need you to keep Mom occupied while I talk to Paco." Shelley grins, and I know my sister will come through for me.

Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is thread, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years.

Yes, blood is thicker than water, but without water blood gets dry.

The misery of keeping a dog is his dying so soon. But, to be sure, if he lived for fifty years and then died, what would become of me?

We had been pulled apart by absence, but that same absence had shackled us together for life.

It marks the moment when a meandering conversation between two men took an irrevocable turn toward friendship.

and although the young writer never met his literary mentor, the spiritual connection between the two writers would never be dissolved.

The thing you can do better than anyone else is love your children, because they're your children.

The union of the family lies in love; and love is the only reconciliation of authority and liberty.

The most important thing about a family is that all the people in it love each other.

Strange the affection which clings to inanimate objects - objects which cannot even know our love! But it is not return that constitutes the strength of an attachment.

Love is a hard rock between two people and can't be torn apart

I think there is a special bond between Carolina athletes. A lot of people seem to wear our gear because it is fashionable. They love the colors. It's Michael Jordan's school!

The people we most love do become a physical part of us, ingrained in our synapses, in the pathways where memories are created.

I have four kids - they're 19 to 33 - that I love more than anything.

I love my parents in the way most children would: for having been there at every point in my youth and childhood, ready to pick me up when I fell and support me when I stumbled.

One of life's few really reliable pleasures: to have a family you love, and to leave them for a week.

No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.

Love that has been given to you is too sacred a thing to be talked of to anyone ... except just to the person who is like part of you and who will feel it as you do.

I used to love watching him as a player, so it is a joy to play alongside him. I might take the mickey out of him, but deep down I have so much admiration for him.

The bird loves her nest.

What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.

...there is little that comes so close to death as fulfilled love.