It was the sad privilege of blood relations to love him…

To-day there is hardly a woman of intelligence in all America ... who is not definitely and actively concerned in some social interest, who…

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

A friend is the best gift we give to ourselves. Friends are those people in our life with whom we do not have any…

— Anurag Prakash Ray

I am impressed by how much of my grandparent's life depended on continuities, contacts, connections, friendships, and blood relationships.

— Wallace Stegner

Next to blood relationships, come water relationships.

— Stanley Crawford

I think we all make our own families, whether they're comprised of blood relations or friends. Some people are lucky and love their families.…

— Jane Cleland

We dont have to have blood relations in order to be brothers and sisters. Flesh and blood, those are just things that were made…

— Anonymous

Never set a child afloat on the flat sea of life with only one sail to catch the wind.

— D. H. Lawrence

“What is family? they were the people who claimed you. In good, in bad, in parts or in whole, they were the ones who…

— Sarah Dessen

Blood relations are the most durable and everlastings connections.

— Anonymous

“We should free ourselves from the narrowness of being related only to those familiar to us, either by the fact that they are blood…

— Erich Fromm

“Knowledge without action is like a bow without a string.” A relationship as close as blood relationship must be established between knowledge and action.…

— Franz Rosenthal

“Like Newt Gingrich shifting the focus from local to national, social media has transformed politics from the public to the personal. Whereas, in the…

— Jared Yates Sexton

“What is family? They were the people who claimed you. In good, in bad, in parts or in whole, they were the ones who…

— Sarah Dessen

“They were staggered to learn that a real tangible person, living in Minnesota, and married to their own flesh-and-blood relation, could apparently believe that…

— Sinclair Lewis

I love you but I am not your lover. i hug you but I am not ur life patner. I care for you but…

— Junior Dè Rèál Testament