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Quotes About Kin

I will greatly increase your offspring, And they shall be too many to count." 11 The angel of the Lord said to her further, "Behold, you are with child And shall bear a son; You shall call him Ishmael,* For the Lord has paid heed to your suffering. 12 He shall be a wild ass of a man; His hand against everyone, And everyone's hand against him; He shall dwell alongside of all his kinsmen.
~ Adele Berlin
If these wars between Caesar and Pompey are "worse than civil," it is because they were fought between two men who had been bound by marriage pact; in that sense, they were familial wars ("kin facing kin"), not merely between citizens.
~ David Armitage
Oh, where is man That mortal god, that hath no mortal kin Or like on earth? Shall Nature's orator The interpreter of all her mystic strains Shall he be mute in Nature's jubilee?
~ Hartley Coleridge
Poetry is always close kin to the impossible, isn't it?
~ Reginald Shepherd
Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
~ Willa Sibert Cather
"Fair and foul are near of kin,And fair needs foul," I cried."My friends are gone, but that's a truthNor grave nor bed denied."
~ William Butler Yeats
But blood is never left up to you, blood will call to blood. You can't deny your own kin.
~ William Gay
I give my soul to God, my body to the earth, and my worldly possessions to my nearest of kin, charging them to remember the sufferings of Jesus Christ.
~ Michelangelo
Bercelak's kin kept themselves busy by sharpening weapons, reading, talking, or setting things on fire with small bursts of flame.
~ G.A. Aiken
I'll never Be such a gosling to obey instinct, but stand As is a man were author of himself And knew no other kin.
~ William Shakespeare
I have 40 cousins.
~ Russell Howard
Those who hate are kin.
~ Richard Marsh
That's Delhi. When life gets too much for you all you need to do is to spend an hour at Nigambodh Ghat,watch the dead being put to flames and hear their kin wail for them. Then come home and down a couple of pegs of whisky. In Delhi, death and drink make life worth living
~ Khushwant Singh
Do not fear so, here is one who would be a blade at your back. A shield across your breast. Here is kin, here is strength to lean upon, to share as you share in need.
~ Andre Norton.
Hot rage runs through you, and is close kin to hot passion, but cold rage, that is close kin to hate.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
I have tried imagining that the single peacock I see before me is the only one I have, but then one comes to join him, another flies off the roof, four or five crash out of the crepe-myrtle hedge; from the pond one screams and from the barn I hear the dairyman denouncing another that has got into the cow-feed. My kin are given to such phrases as, 'Let's face it.
~ Flannery O'Connor
The idea here is that childhood lies are not just a phase of harmless delinquency we pass smoothly through, but the first in a series of test runs for self-serving dishonesty. Through positive reinforcement (for undetected and fruitful lies) and negative reinforcement (for lies that peers uncover, or through the reprimand of kin) we learn what we can and can't get away with, and what our kin do and don't consider judicious deceit.
~ Robert Wright
The word was out that Royal Barnes was huntin' Kilkenny," somebody commented. "He was kin to the Webers, you know. Half-brother, I think.
~ Louis L'Amour
kin, not ancestors. Our main difference from
~ Ronald Wright
Dobrý lov vám vÅ¡em, kdo jste z mé krve
~ Rudyard Kipling
For him to claim now that he'd dashed off a spec script brilliant enough to win him a fat Hollywood contract did not merely strain Credulity; it beat the crap out of Credulity and sent Credulity's next of kin scurrying to its bedside.
~ Joe Keenan
Yes, there is another brother. His name is Frankie.
~ Kevin Jonas
that contract of brutal caution, to enter the necessary fact on the necessary line: "Please list your next of kin.
~ Frank Herbert
Pity and need Make all flesh kin. There in no caste in blood.
~ Edwin Arnold