Quotes About Kin

Revenge has probably been the most regular and prominent cause of fighting cited in anthropological accounts of pre-state societies. Violence was activated to avenge injuries to honour, property, women, and kin. If life was taken, revenge reached its peak, often leading to a vicious circle of death and counter-death.

To act here is to face one's own complicity, to choose to take life in order that one's own kin might continue to live. When I lie down to sleep far from home, I place this small work of art close by on a folded scarf.

Sympathy among kin emerges from the overlap in genetic makeup that interconnects us in the great web of life. Sympathy among everyone else emerges from the impartiality of nature: each of us may find ourselves in straits where a small mercy from another grants a big boost in our own welfare

I thought they were my kin then, Lionblaze reflected sadly. Brambleclaw is Tawnypelt's brother. . . . I liked them, especially Tigerheart. But now . . .

She doesn't have to worry about me. We're not even kin!

Tail held high, Brokentail's tiny sister pattered forward into the circle to stand beside him. "I give you a life for love of kin," she mewed, the wisdom in her voice startling Yellowfang as it came from so small a body. "And as Clan leader, remember that every Clan cat is your kin.

I see you've taken an interest in Whitekit," Goosefeather observed as they climbed a leafy slope. "He's my kin," she mewed. "So am I," he reminded her, "but you don't visit me." That's because you've got bees in your brain.

Because you're weak," Hawkfrost taunted him. "You care more for kin than for power. But I don't.

Your Clan is safe for now. But there will be three, kin of your kin, who hold the power of the stars in their paws." Firestar stared at the old warrior. "I don't understand. Why are you telling me this?" There

There will be three cats, kin of your kin, with the power of the stars in their paws.

At least ThunderClan has the three cats mentioned in the prophecy, Jayfeather thought. There will be three, kin of your kin, with the power of the stars in their paws. Me, Lionblaze, and Dovewing, all in the same Clan. That must make us safer, right?

His sister was a teenager named Lucinda

I have a lot of cousins, but no siblings.

I'm one of 32 first cousins on my mom's side, and 25 of us are boys.

You will find that our enemies are our own kin. It is they who betray us. So learn this most important lesson-in the end, our worst enemy is ourselves

My whole family's been in the business. My whole family is crazy.

In every moment of conscious happiness there mingles an undertone of sadness. However full of enjoyment the present, the future is always uncertain, and it is the feeling of this--the feeling that we are of the class of ephemera--perpetually recurring in the rarest and sweetest moments of existence, that constitutes, more than any other, the "one touch of nature that makes the whole world kin."

you can choose your friends but you sho' can't choose your family, an' they're still kin to you no matter whether you acknowledge 'em or not, and it makes you look right silly when you don't." "That's

Where I grew up, I feel lucky to have been from there. The culture in general is rooted with a strong sense of family; of kin; of place, geographically; of tradition. There's a resilience, a strong will to make it. I mean, heck, it was settled by a bunch of outcasts that didn't fit in.

Fair and foul are near of kin And fair needs foul," I cried. "My friends are gone, but that's a truth Nor grave nor bed denied."

The majority of my family is in Jersey.

The desire to pass resources on to kin is one of the most enduring constants in human politics.

Trade is very old. In the state of nature, trade is something people do to their enemies. They don't trade with kin.

No soul can withstand the sun's bones of light and reason dims when darkness falls - so we shape barrows in the night for you and your kin." "Forgive my interruption, then," said I. "The dead never interrupt," said the mason, "they but arrive.