Quotes About Bond

I pet her and she pays me back in purrs.

Perchance, like myself, you may cloud-gazing be; Perchance, my sweet friend, you are thinking of me...

Certain it is, that there is no Kind of Affection so pure and angelic as that of a Father to a Daughter.

Mothers and daughters are closest, when daughters become mothers.

A daughter is a day brightener and a heart warmer.

A daughter is a little girl who grows up to be a friend.

An old dog, even more than an old spouse, always feels like doing what you feel like doing.

A dog iz the only thing on this earth that luvs yu more than he luvs himself

Blood is hotter than water.

All the water in the sea won't wash out our kindred.

A family is a small kingdom, a kingdom is a large family...

The lack of emotional security of our American young people is due, I believe, to their isolation from the larger family unit. No two people — no mere father and mother — as I have often said, are enough to provide emotional security for a child. He needs to feel himself one in a world of kinfolk, persons of variety in age and temperament, and yet allied to himself by an indissoluble bond which he cannot break if he could, for nature has welded him into it before he was born.

Fear and courage are brothers.

The function of a friend is not to have a function.

A hug is the shortest distance between friends.

A hug is a smile with arms, a laugh with a stronger grip.

They seemed to share the kindliness and largeness of John Thornton.

L'odio creava fra loro un legame più saldo di quanto non avrebbe potuto fare l'amore.

The master rode alone that day; and in the woods, side by side, White Fang ran with Collie, as his mother, Kiche, and old One Eye had run long years before in the silent Northland forest.

Her own terror rushed upon me, and in that moment of fear, - the most terrible fear a man can experience, - I knew that in inexpressible ways she was dear to me.

Steward, Daughtry. Mr. Daughtry, friend, sir, or whatever I may name you, this is no fairy-story of the open boat, the cross-bearings unnamable, and the treasure a fathom under the sand. This is real. I have a heart. That, sir"—here he waved his extended hand under Daughtry's nose—"is my hand. There is only one thing you may do, must do, right now. You must take that hand in your hand, and shake it, with your heart in your hand as mine is in my hand.

for Temujin, such chosen forms of fictive kinship were already proving more useful than the ties of biological kinship.

True friendship must be akin to romance, I think; only without all the anguish and anxiety.

In love, howsoever it is manifest, we are greater than the sum of our parts.