Quotes About Bond

The family are the people who see you day in day out through all the bad times as well.

I am a mother. Whether it is Alia or Shaheen, at any point in time, if they are suffering, I am the one who gets affected badly.

Bajrang Bali worked to connect all Indian communities together, from north to south and east to west.

All my ex-boyfriends, bar one, are my best friends.

We're a basketball family.

Nico Santos I've known from Bay Area stand-up, and he lives right by me so we hang out all the time.

I don't think any child could really be happy between five and eight away from their parents.

My father never left my side; on the street, on the beach, he was always with me. He helped me on the road to becoming a professional, and now I play just for him.

Women just weren't made to bear children to give them away.

My mom was amazing. She believed in me and we were best friends.

I just always wanted to be part of something where I felt like I belonged.

When a child is small, it is his mother who is mainly responsible for the way he is brought up. So it was with me. I belonged in those days to my mother rather than my father.

In trying to understand McCandless, I inevitably came to reflect on other, larger subjects as well: the grip wilderness has on the American imagination, the allure high-risk activities hold for young men of a certain mind, the complicated, highly charged bond that exists between fathers and sons. The result of this meandering inquiry is the book now before you.

Unlike Muir and Thoreau, McCandless went into the wilderness not primarily to ponder nature or the world at large but, rather, to explore the inner country of his own soul. He soon discovered, however, what Muir and Thoreau already knew: An extended stay in the wilderness inevitably directs one's attention outward as much as inward, and it is impossible to live off the land without developing both a subtle understanding of, and a strong emotional bond with, that land and all it holds.

I wonder how many ways there are for a mother to produce that wreckage in her own daughter, and my muscles tense as I think of them.

We were then, and are now, what Jackson called "one great family.

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Petter and I were probably peas in a pod.

Unlike most dog owners, I don't project onto him that he's my child, my son. Rather, it's a more disturbed relationship than that. I think of him as my dear friend whom I happen to live with. In that way, we're like two old-fashioned closeted bachelors who cohabitate and don't think the rest of the world knows we're lovers.

Dogs are the kids we've always wanted. They're totally devoted and want to live with you until they die. Not like children who can't wait to take off as soon as they grow up and don't need you anymore.

Whatever else happened, she wanted a dog in her life.

She had a lifetime of practice at arriving late in a family of four and being loved by all.

I said it was OK, I said I loved her, I said not to worry about me. Her breathing became slower and more labored, and then just past noon, it stopped altogether. I laid my cheek on her chest and held her for a long time, not thinking anything, just being an animal that had lost its mother.

When have you ever done anything but intercede for me? Everything I am I owe to you. Mother.