Quotes About Bond

Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

That's the moment I saw my home in his eyes. Maybe it was just a shared moment of smart-assedness.

Family. Family said it all. Fifty years later, the name's the same. Family is the currency that never devalues. Family is beyond value. The priceless thing that enriches our lives and our work.

I buried Little Ann by the side of Old Dan. I knew that was where she wanted to be. I also buried a part of my life along with my dog.

Old Dan must have known he was dying. Just before he drew his last breath, he opened his eyes and looked at me. Then with one last sigh, and a feeble thump of his tail, his friendly gray eyes closed forever.

Men," said Mr. Kyle, "people have been trying to understand dogs ever since the beginning of time. One never knows what they'll do. You can read every day where a dog saved the life of a drowning child, or lay down his life for his master. Some people call this loyalty. I don't. I may be wrong, but I call it love--the deepest kind of love.

I suppose there's a time in practically every young boy's life when he's affected by that wonderful disease of puppy love. I don't mean the kind a boy has for the pretty little girl that lives down the road. I mean the real kind, the kind that has four small feet and a wiggly tail, and sharp little teeth that can gnaw on a boy's finger; the kind a boy can romp and play with, even eat and sleep with.

The greatest thing is to have someone who loves you and—and to love in return.

Arthur had begun to understand with devastating clarity that the most valuable thing a human can do is commit to another human, or humans---in this case, his family.

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

Marriage? That's for life! It's like cement!

The mother-daughter relationship is the most complex.

A vice in common can be the ground of a friendship but not a virtue in common. X and Y may be friends because they are both drunkards or womanizers but, if they are both sober and chaste, they are friends for some other reason.

Yo creo que dos personas que se hacen reír tienen derecho a todo.

It will be well for the huntsman, in general, to give the dogs their food himself; for though, when they are in want, they do not know who is the cause of it, they conceive an affection for him, who, when they are eager to receive it, gives it them.

Are you eating?" I asked. "You have to keep up your strength." "All of a sudden you're grown and worrying about me, instead of the other way around. Seems like yesterday you were just a little boy.

During all those years, even after Root was old enough to grow a mustache, in the Professor's eyes he remained a small boy in need of protection. And when the Professor could no longer reach high enough, Root would bend over so the Professor could rub his head.

You see, my brother-in-law can never remember you, but he can never forget me

Une mère, c'est une présence que ni l'érosion du temps ni les défaillances de la mémoire ne peuvent altérer.

the bond of blood. How strong it is, and how it has the power to reach across oceans.

Do you miss her?' 'Who? Emma? Of course. Every day. She was my best friend.

He could feel her laughter against his chest, and at that moment he thought that there was no better feeling than making Emma Morley laugh.

but they had also settled into the maddening familiarity of friendship; maddening for her at least.

Perhaps all families have these fleeting moments when, without ever saying as much, they take each other in and think, we work and we fit together and we love each other, and if we can remain like this, all will be fine.