Quotes About Loyalty

Who knows how to make love stay? Tell love you are going to the Junior's Deli on Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn to pick up a cheesecake, and if love stays, it can have half.

Let me get it straight. Your father was king. You were his only son. Your father dies. You are of age. Your uncle becomes king. Yes. Unorthodox.

I will take his secret to the grave, telling people I meet on the way.

What do I want? Nothing which you'd call indecent, though I don't see what's wrong with it myself. You want to be brothers-in-arms, to have him to yourself... to be shipwrecked together, (to) perform valiant deeds to earn his admiration, to save him from certain death, to die for him - to die in his arms, like a Spartan, kissed once on the lips... or just run his errands in the meanwhile. You want him to know what cannot be spoken, and to make the perfect reply, in the same language.

Croom He insists on it, and finds the proof of his wife's virtue in his eagerness to defend it.

Perhaps that's what all human relationships boil down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?

When they fall in love with a city, it is for forever and it is like forever.

And then, I was good to you, Sula, why don't that matter?...... How you know? Sula asked.... About who was good. How you know it was you?

He didn't want an outsider judging his family. That was his job.

Pauline, what would you do if your own brother had a party and didn't invite you?' I said ifn I really wanted to go to that party, I reckoned I'd go anyhow. Never mind what he want. She just sucked her teeth a little and made out like what I said was dumb. All the while I was thinking how dumb she was. Whoever told her that her brother was her friend? Folks can't like folks just 'cause they has the same mama.

Were we women so frail in the wake of men who swore they cherished us? Was a lover's betrayal more lethal than betrayal of oneself?

That all they want, man, is they own misery. Ax em to die for you and they yours for life.

There was no point in questioning him. Just as long ago, when they ventured hand in hand into unknown territory, Cee accompanied her big brother silently. As annoyed as she was now at her relapse into doing what others wanted, she nevertheless cooperated. This one time, she told herself. I don't want Frank making decisions for me.

What one puts up with in a friendship is determined by the emotional value of the relationship.

Perhaps that's what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?

As long as your feet are under my table, you'll do in this house what you are told.

Where you going?" Whitey asked. "Nowhere," said Jim. "Hang on a minute, then," said Whitey. "I ain't going nowhere, either.

The opposite of faith is not doubt. The opposite of faith is disobedience.

what makes a marriage strong is loving with a biblical love grounded in patience, kindness, loyalty, grace, and more, which is in alignment with God's covenantal purpose for marriage.

the glory of the protagonist is always paid for by a lot of secondary characters

Anything you got to do with your own kind in secret, something's wrong with it. You feel bad about it inside.

Don't let just any man have your grace.' Patience was spinning flax. 'Mariah, you keep yourself for a good man.' Mariah could hear the wheel rattle and whirl, rattle and whirl. 'A good man. Like your pa. On top of him being good, he needs to be a true love.' 'How to know a true love?' 'When you get beyond the moonstruck stage and you hit a rough patch, but you can't stay mad at him for long.

It is my perception that a true friend never relies on another's dream. A person with the potential to be my true friend must be able to find his reason for life without my help. And, he would have to put his heart and soul into protecting his dream. He would never hesitate to fight for his dream, even against me. For me, a true friend is one who stands equal in those terms.

In time of war, it is not enough to say, 'I am a citizen and I have rights.' One must also say, 'I am a citizen and I have obligations.