logo

Quotes About Kinfolk

That is where homeland is. In that shifting space, kinfolk know one another by secret signs; and wherever kinfolk meet, homeland soil coalesces about their feet in the mysterious way that coral cays, like seabirds pausing in flight, anchor themselves to the Barrier Reef.
~ Janette Turner Hospital
That is where homeland is. In that shifting space, kinfold know one another by secret signs; and wherever kinfolk meet, homeland soil coalesces about their feet in the mysterious way that coral cays, like seabirds pausing in flight, anchor themselves to the Barrier Reef.
~ Janette Turner Hospital
Perhaps you'd like, you gentle fellow, To hear what I'm prepared to say On kinfolk and their implications? Well, here's my view of close relations: They're people whom we're bound to prize, To honor, love, and idolize, And following the old tradition, To visit come the Christmas feast, Or send a wish by mail at least; All other days they've our permission, To quite forget us if they please- So grant them, God, long life and ease!
~ Alexander Pushkin
In the settler mind, land was property, real estate, capital, or natural resources. But to our people, it was everything: identity, the connection to our ancestors, the home of our nonhuman kinfolk, our pharmacy, our library, the source of all that sustained us.
~ Robin Wall Kimmerer
Mountains have long-lost kinfolk on the other side of the Atlantic. The bloodline that marks that kinship is a vein of a green mineral called serpentine ...
~ Sharyn McCrumb
Still, the first rule of cohabitation is Thou Shalt Not Diss the Other Dude's Kinfolk.
~ Josh Lanyon
You said earlier you knew the color of hell. I just figured you had kinfolk somewhere as living proof.
~ Unknown