Top 183 Kinship Quotes & Sayings

A lot of the kinship that people notice is not coincidental. I was very impressionable and trying to find my role models when I was twelve or thirteen.

There's a kinship among men who have sat by a dying fire and measured the worth of their life by it.

We Americans have always felt a special kinship with the future.

I think that when you have that really strong desire to work with someone it's because, instinctively, you feel you have a certain kinship.

Families have a sense of kinship that no four strangers would ever have as a team.

Not only are animals unable to avail themselves of language to assert their own rights, but many fewer humans have a clear sense of kinship with animals than have a clear sense of kinship with other humans. Among beings with subjective states of awareness, animals are the untouchable caste, those whom human others would rather not acknowledge, let alone render assistance.

I feel a great kinship with my origins, even though I only learned a few words of Arabic.

I like working with people I know and feel a kinship to.

Kinship doesn't come from skin color. It's in your soul and your mind.

I felt a kinship with country music, because country has lyrics that tell stories

All my life... I believed in Malaysian merger and unity of the two territories. You know that we, as a people, are connected by geography, economics, by ties of kinship.

Sharing the same meal reaffirms kinship.

I feel a special kinship with our military personnel, veterans, and their families. After all, two of my decisions sent them into harm's way.

Most beautiful is the sight of those near and dear to us when our original kinship makes us of one mind.

I feel a kinship with anyone who feels that their road, their life or who they really are is not good enough. I really relate to that.

Kinship among nations is not determined in such measurements as proximity of size and age.

If a work of art is a projection of feeling, its kinship with organic nature will emerge, no matter through how many transformations, logically and inevitably.

I've a kinship with women. That's why I've always put women in strong positions in music.

The very ritual practices that the New Atheists dismiss as costly, inefficient and irrational turn out to be a solution to one of the hardest problems humans face: cooperation without kinship

That is why we profess a spiritual kinship with primitive and archaic art.

Setting ... is accident. Either a building is part of a place, or it is not. Once that kinship is there, time will only make it stronger.

Among life's sweetest blessings is fellowship with men and women whose ideals and aspirations are high and noble. Next to a sense of kinship with God comes the helpfulness, encouragement, and inspiration of friends.

All the arts of refinement have mutual kinship.

The spiritual kinship between Lincoln and Whitman was founded upon their Americanism, their essential Westernism. Whitman had grown up without much formal education; Lincoln had scarcely any education. One had become the notable poet of the day; one the orator of the Gettsyburg Address. It was inevitable that Whitman as a poet should turn with a feeling of kinship to Lincoln, and even without any association or contact feel that Lincoln was his.

Acceptance is the truest kinship with humanity.

I never thought, when I was a kid, that there was a sense of competition or animosity towards poor blacks. I just thought there was a recognition that they lived differently - they primarily lived on the other side of town. And we're both poor, but that's kind of it. There wasn't much explicit statement of kinship or of the lack of kinship.

There was brotherhood between people who had fed from the same breast, a kinship that even time could not break. - Amir

Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars.

When you're with another tea smoker it makes you feel a special kinship.

What I really want to say: That what the world really needs is a real feeling of kinship. Everybody: stars, laborers, Negroes, Jews, Arabs. We are all brothers.

I'm from Canada and my wife is from St. Albans, so I feel a great kinship with the Brits.

I discover no kinship, no understanding, no mercy. I see only the overwhelming indifference of nature.

When you think back in history about producers and artists or writers who've had good synergy, a lot of times they date, or they're married, or there's a friendship and a kinship.

I've never felt any sense of kinship with other comedians; they've always seemed too needy.

Allah made joining and connecting with the kinship and cognation, the cause of lengthening of life.

There is a kinship between music and painting - with the same words used to describe both, as when a musical composition is said to have color and a painting to have rhythm.

The portrait is one of the most curious art forms. It demands special qualities in the artist, and an almost total kinship with the model.

I came to South Korea with a feeling of deep kinship, but people here perceive me only as a talbukja, someone of a different nationality.

The first lesson of evolution was one of conflict. The lesson now is one of kinship.

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 and soulful kinship one requires

Not by way of the forced and worn formula of Romaticism, but throught the closeness of an imagination that has never broken kinship with nature. Art must accept such gifts, and revaluate the giver.

Humans become human through intense learning not just of survival skills but of customs and social mores, kinship and social laws-that is, culture.

Serve others for they are reflections of the same Entity of which you are yourself another reflection. No one of you has any authenticity, except in reference to the Original. Feel always kinship with all creation.

I found a deep kinship between Mahler's recurrent attempts to confront all sides of life and to affirm himself in the face of his own finitude, and Aschenbach's dedication to persevere in the literary evocation of beauty. Exploring this kinship led me to reflect on many of Mahler's songs and symphonies - and particularly his great masterpiece, Das Lied von der Erde. The end result was a way of reading Mann that I hadn't originally anticipated at all.

I feel a special kinship for our military. Because, unfortunately, I became a wartime president. And committed our military in the defense of our country to difficult assignments. I tell people all the time, I don't miss much about being president; I do miss looking in the eyes of people who volunteered to serve. And so not only do I feel a kinship, I feel an obligation and a duty to help.

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 name... I am... I am lost, I am found and then I am free and I am happy. When I jump over that edge, someone leaps with me, shoulder to shoulder. I smell kinship on him. Kinship is all. I'm not alone. Never alone. I land, earth below me, moon above. I am wolf. We are pack. And that is all I need.

Aaron was one of the few Jewish volunteers in our study, and I felt a certain kinship with him at that level.

True compassion does not come from wanting to help out those less fortunate than ourselves but from realizing our kinship with all beings.

We're children of God through our blood kinship with Christ. We're also sons and daughters of Adam and Eve, with a hereditary craving for forbidden fruit salad.

In friendship similarity of character has more weight than kinship.

I felt a real kinship with Steve Bruner. He's one of those guys that is so prolific that he has a hard time keeping up with himself. I'm the opposite and move at a glacial place.

I'm sure I've been a toad, one time or another. With bats, weasels, worms...I rejoice in the kinship. Even the caterpillar I can love, and the various vermin.

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.

There is a kinship, a kind of freemasonry, between all persons of intelligence, however antagonistic their moral outlook.

The more uncertain I have felt about myself, the more there has grown up in me a feeling of kinship with all things.

The safest rule of conduct is to claim kinship when we want to do service and not to insist on kinship when we want to assert a right.

I think like my dad, but I have a huge kinship with my mom.

Because of our kinship in suffering, our channels of contact have always been charged with the language of the heart.

Being a very tall person, I have always felt a kinship with giraffes.

Let philosophy resolutely aim to be as scientific as possible, but let her not forget her strong kinship with literature.