Quotes About Kin

Nature does in fact teem with subjectivities — call them spirits if you like — other than our own; it is only the human ego, with its imagined monopoly on subjectivity, that keeps us from recognizing them all, our kith and kin.

At the very least, if I have not - yet- chosen to end your life, I refuse to allow any of my kin to forever deprive me of my prerogative to do so.

I'm influenced by a lot of filmmakers; I like English filmmakers because I feel a kin to them.

To hunt successfully and survive, they had to know the habits of their quarry as well as they knew their own kin. Success depended as much on stalking as it did on weapons.

I respect and reverence you, dear father-in-law, I wish I had chosen death rather than following your son, leaving behind my bridal chamber, my beloved daughter, my dear childhood friends and my kin. But I did not, and I pine away in sorrow.

I just have one brother, younger than me.

To grieve is the gift of the living – a gift so many of our kin have long lost.

Death is not an unkind fate,' Darist said above him. 'If she was a friend, you will miss her company, and that is the true source of your grief—your sorrow is for yourself. My words may displease you, but I speak from experience. I have felt the deaths of many of my kin, and I mourn the spaces in my life where they once stood. But such losses serve only to ease my own impending demise.

Though,' observed Sloan profoundly, 'where there's a will there's usually a relative.

The theologians, the apologists, and their kin the metaphysicians, the high-handed statesmen, and others, no longer interest me. All that has been spoilt for me by the grind of stern reality!

Angels told me you're the poison, and always have been. Said you used God as an excuse to hurt people, includin' your own kin.

Çünkü ayn? kan? ta??yan?n kininden beteri yoktur; çünkü insan hiç kimseden, benzediÄŸi ve benzerliÄŸinden iÄŸrendiÄŸi kiÅŸi kadar büyük bir ÅŸiddetle nefret edemez.

Although each of these disparate groups trusted Garfield, it was not until they were plunged into a common grief and fear that they began to trust one another. Suddenly, a contemporary of Garfield's wrote, the nation was "united, as if by magic." Even Jefferson Davis, the former president of the Confederacy and a man whom Garfield had voted to indict as a war criminal, admitted that the assassination attempt had made "the whole Nation kin.

Instead, they face a bizarre new world of frustrating duties and counterintuitive ideas: sit still, learn math, find a job, move away from friends, ignore kin, drive cars, leave kids in day care, and grow burdensome in old age.

There is something so settled and stodgy about turning a great romance into next of kin on an emergency room form, and something so soothing and special, too.

envy is something you are more likely to encounter in your own kin: lower classes are more likely to experience envy toward their cousins or the middle class than toward the very rich.

Is there anything I can do for you? Take word of you to kin in Sacor City?" "My, but she's taken to the part of being a messenger, hasn't she, Bay?" "Definitely, but I'm afraid that we have no kin in Sacor City. Just a cousin down south and you wouldn't want to meet her.

Most of my kin are bastards," [Tyrion] said with a wry smile, "but you're the first I've had to friend.

When you meet kin, there is an energy and sparkle between your bodies. It must be chemical somehow - DNA and genes.

Battle changed men; that was part of why Francis preached so strenuously for nonviolent resolutions to conflict. Fighting your fellow man was bestial behavior—worse than beasts, in fact, for no wolf or bear assaulted kin for the specious reasons many nobleman and king clung to as their rationale for going to war.

But kin is not the same as family." Raising my hand to his lips, he kissed it. "Rogier Courcel, Duc de Barthelme, is kin to me. You are family.

Certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body; and if he be not kin to God by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature.

I have a belief that a man's real relatives are scattered throughout the universe, and seldom if ever belong to his immediate kin.

I've got loads of nieces and nephews.