Quotes About Bond

Silver Jews was always a coolection of old friends. Uncoolection.

My mum and I are, in many ways, quite similar. We're both creative, gregarious, and energetic.

My husband and I have very similar backgrounds even though we're years apart. So there are a lot of things that we basically share.

Coach Cunningham's my guy. Without me saying a word, he can read my body language and facial expressions and tell me exactly what I'm thinking and feeling. We're actually very similar people.

I think my dad has a similar black sense of humour to mine, so perhaps it's just an inherited thing. I've got two little boys now, and I can see it with them as well. I don't know if you learn it off your parents - but my dad used to take me to see certain plays when I was quite young, so maybe that had an effect as well.

Microchimeric sharing means that, even if the mother loses a child, she'll have a small memento of him or her secreted away inside her. Similarly, a bit of our mothers live on in all of us no matter how long ago Mom died.

It's as simple as you can explain all of 'Dallas.' We're a dysfunctional family forced to stay together.

Here is what you do, friends. Forget country. Forget king. Forget wife and children and freedom. Forget every concept, however noble, that you imagine you fight for here today. Act for this alone: for the man who stands at your shoulder. He is everything, and everything is contained within him. That is all I know. That is all I can tell you. --Dienekes at Thermopylae

I was keenly conscious of the comrades-in-arms who had fallen with me. A bond surpassing by a hundredfold that which I had known in life bound me to them. I felt a sense of inexpressible relief and realized that I had feared, more than death, separation from them. I apprehended that excruciating war survivor's torment, the sense of isolation and self-betrayal experienced by those who had elected to cling yet to breath when their comrades had let loose their grip.

Indeed, we own a bond, my friend. That most sublime of all: reminiscence for our vanished youth.

Leonidas's and Dienekes' quips draw the individual out of his private terror and yoke him to the group.

That gang or posse that we imagine is sustaining us by the bonds we share is in fact a conglomeration of individuals who are just as fucked up as we are and just as terrified.

But a ship of war runs on heart as much as sweat. There must be love among the men or you're finished.

Although there are different stages and seasons of parenting responsibilities, your heart and mind will always be with each one of your children for the rest of your life.

in Him we have the opportunity to defuse bombs the enemy has planted that are set to destroy what God has joined together. Are

To realize the importance the imagination could have in friendship, to understand its immense power for bringing us together in a way.

Amazing how quickly someone else's problems become yours. Trouble creates a vacuum into which the rest of us get sucked.

Family's tough. It's like walking through a minefield, hoping you won't get blown to bits

couldn't think when I'd last run into a man quite so inventive. My reaction to him was gut-level chemistry—like crystals of sodium flung in a swimming pool, throwing off sparks, dancing across the water like light. I had a friend once who said to me, "Wherever there is sex, we work to create a relationship that's worthy of it." I thought about that now, sensing that soon I would do that with him—start to bond, start to fantasize, start

But it's not just whether or not we have close relationships in our lives—the quality of these relationships matters, too. Negative relationships undermine our health.

How did this way of dealing with emotion work to keep the most important relationships in your life intact?

The demise of marriages begins with a growing absence of responsive intimate interactions. The conflict comes later.

The message of EFT is simple: Forget about learning how to argue better, analyzing your early childhood, making grand romantic gestures, or experimenting with new sexual positions. Instead, recognize and admit that you are emotionally attached to and dependent on your partner in much the same way that a child is on a parent for nurturing, soothing, and protection.

The longer partners feel disconnected, the more negative their interactions become