Quotes About Loyalty

Your brand story's "happily ever after" involves open wallets.

Do you realize the cost they paid when they surrendered to their new Lord? No money, no job, no understandable future. They had just hurt the one person they had been trained all their lives to honor and whom they never wanted to bruise—their father. They left him to finish the fishing. They left him with no inheritance. But something in their hearts said, "Go." So they left all they knew to become something that their minds could not comprehend.

My war is not as simple as yours was, Father. People seem to question their obligation to serve on other than their own terms. But enough of that. I fight because we have always fought. It doesn't matter who.

They stared fondly at each other, remembering simpler days of unclouded idealism. Goodrich shook his head. "Solomon, you son of a bitch! What are you doing here?" Mark smiled exasperatedly, almost defensively. "I've been lonely for my family. Then I heard you were back. That did it. I came down.

It is the spirit of the South to defend everything belonging to it. The North is too cosmopolitan and tolerant for such a spirit.

Treachery and acrimony are the wares that endure in the family heirs."

I am on Team Drunk Lady, obviously.

If someone loves you, go home to them.

What country is that without a friend in it?

But it wouldn't be the same if it wasn't Easter,' said Jim. 'Indeed and it wouldn't. Are we straight, so?' 'We're straight as a rush.' Doyler spat on his hand and Jim did likewise and their palms rubbed in the smear. 'The crawl it is,' said Doyler and he slipped from the raft. Before he joined him and the sea would wash it away, Jim sniffed his wetting palm. A private smell. Like leather, bodily, raw.

Well, no boy loves his chum, or no boy says he does. But he answered, I do. I do, he answered as in some preposterous dissenting nuptial. And MacMurrough remembered how touching it was that a young fellow in a stranger's bed should say that he loved his friend.

By the heavens!' he exclaimed. 'Anyone who can save the captain's life and tame that wild beast certainly deserves to be a member of this crew, female or not.

What he was saying was that he really wanted to be part of her life. The good days and the bad ones, too.

Svarte shared this view, but he was obliged to obey.

Silver is stronger than the sword, and people married to a family of each other draw sword on each other.

It was a clan that they would be wise to count a friend rather than a foe.

mutuality, brother. You scratch my back, and I will scratch yours.

The road to Jerusalem at the beginning is winding, my dear, dear Arn.

The paradox was that Roosevelt asked loyalty of a disenfranchised group of people—people like Ernie, who'd been stripped of their rights as Americans.

people who keep dogs . . . are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves. August Strindberg

Dat is het grootste van dieren, dat ze niet kunnen grienen. Als je huilt heb je een slecht geweten, dan ben je in gebreke gebleven. Een dier stelt nooit teleur. Een dier valt niks te verwijten. Je kan je alleen een klootzak voelen dat je zo'n sentimentele etter bent geweest.

My mom always said we can't pick our family," he said, "but we can make our own. I've got some relatives I prefer at a distance and some friends I'd give the shirt off my back.

Because she chose to get married," Ida Belle said. "That's always suspicious as far as I'm concerned.

It was okay though," Gertie said. "Jeb said she wasn't a pleasant woman anyway, so we vacuumed the rug and deposited her in the flower bed out front." "I was beginning to question why we're friends when you told us about the lights," I said. "But you sort of redeemed the whole thing with the efficient flower bed disposal part of the story." "I'm guessing Jeb's mother might feel differently," Ida Belle said.