40 Quotes About Kinship

What if we ceased to pledge our allegiance to the bottom line and stood, instead, with those who line the bottom?

So it was in Botswana, almost everywhere; ties of kinship, no matter how attenuated by distance or time, linked one person to another, weaving across the country a human blanket of love and community. And in the fibres of that blanket there were threads of obligation that meant that one could not ignore the claims of others. Nobody should starve; nobody should feel that they were outsiders; nobody should be alone in their sadness.

Languages are not strangers to on another.

Kinship. Could they guess how indescribably exotic that was after the barren, selfish world in which she'd spent her life, like a potted plant that had never seen the real sun, nor the real earth, nor heard the rain except against double-paned glass?

Every believer, upon receiving Jesus Christ as their Savior, being born anew, immediately has a connection with other believers.

You want me to lie for you?" Aidan asked, watching them. "Believe in me, the way you did in my mama." Aidan wheezed and sputtered. What did she know 'bout him and Miz Garnett? "Please." She sounded like a young gal and a grown woman too. "Believe in me." "That's the most a person can do for another," Aidan said. "I believe in you too.

The rest of the gang aren’t worth mentioning. But every one of them’s got a story.I catch myself writing ‘not worth mentioning’. According to what criteria? No reason whatever to feel superior.

We’re stubborn people, queer folks and Indians and queer Indians alike. Green shoots rise quickly from burnt-over earth—and rarely, if ever, in solitude.

I have met many different people in the course of my life, some of whom I have come to know pretty well, but where these three traits are concerned, I had never encountered anyone before Seiji Ozawa with whom I found it so easy and natural to identify. In that sense, he is a precious person to me. It sets my mind at ease to know that there is someone like him in the world.