Best Kinship Quotations
105 Kinship quotes by 96 unique authors
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The Catholic novelist in the South will see many distorted images of Christ, but he will certainly feel that a distorted image of Christ is…
— Flannery O'Connor
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Your Honor, years ago I recognized my kinship with all living beings, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better…
— Eugene V. Debs
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There was brotherhood between people who had fed from the same breast, a kinship that even time could not break. - Amir
— Khaled Hosseini
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Quickly, the dragon came at him, encouraged As Beowulf fell back; its breath flared, And he suffered, wrapped around in swirling Flames -- a king,…
— Burton Raffel
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It could be a meeting on the street, or a party or a lecture, or just a simple, banal introduction, then suddenly there is a…
— John O'Donohue
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Our kinship with Earth must be maintained; otherwise, we will find ourselves trapped in the center of our own paved-over souls with no way out.
— Terry Tempest Williams
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In fact her maturity and blood kinship converted her passion to fever, so it was more affliction than affection. It literally knocked her down at…
— Toni Morrison
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It is worse to stay where one does not belong at all than to wander about lost for a while and looking for the psychic…
— Clarissa Pinkola Estes
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I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves -- this critical basis I call the ideal of a pigsty. The ideals…
— Albert Einstein
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It is now. It is always now. Now is good. Now could be the best. My name is Catcher. My name was Catcher. My name...my…
— Rob Thurman
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In the neuter austerity of that terrain all phenomena were bequeathed a strange equality and no one thing nor spider nor stone nor blade of…
— Cormac McCarthy
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It doesn’t bother you that your canine brethren are being paraded around show rings like slaves?” “My canine brethren?” I said. “I don’thave any canine…
— Carrie Vaughn
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That deepest thing, that recognition, that knowledge, that sense of kinship began the first time I saw you,and it is the same now - only…
— Khalil Gibran
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True compassion does not come from wanting to help out those less fortunate than ourselves but from realizing our kinship with all beings.
— Pema Chodron
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It is not our level of prosperity that makes for happiness but the kinship of heart to heart and the way we look at the…
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Everything we do really is just a little marker on the long road to death. And sometimes that’s overwhelmingly depressing to me, and sometimes it…
— Joss Whedon
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Kinship among nations is not determined in such measurements as proximity of size and age. Rather we should turn to those inner things - call…
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Kinship doesn't come from skin color. It's in your soul and your mind.
— Dave Brubeck
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Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never comes when it is gold,…
— George Meredith
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In friendship similarity of character has more weight than kinship.
— Cornelius Nepos
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Man is not an aquatic animal, but from the time we stand in youthful wonder beside a Spring brook till we sit in old age…
— Hal Borland
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Would we be a better society if we made marriage simply a private contract between two individuals, with no wider implications of kinship and family?…
— John Sentamu
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I just am fascinated by other female artists, probably because I feel a kinship with them, no matter who they are and what they do.
— Shirley Manson
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Sharing the same meal reaffirms kinship.
— Deng Ming-Dao
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You stand with the least likely to succeed until success is succeeded by something more valuable: kinship. You stand with the belligerent, the surly and…
— Greg Boyle
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