Kinship ties Quotes

I have always maintained the importance of Aunts

It neither is reason nor in any wise to be suffered that the young king, our master and kinsman, should be in the hands of custody of his mother's kindred, sequestered in great measure from our company and attendance, the which is neither honorable to his majesty nor unto us.

I think about the Arabs not as enemies but as cousins. Even when we are in a fierce conflict with them, they are more of a kind of family - with all the problems of a family. We have to live with them.

A woman’s good goes to her husband and her bad to her kin.

I think we need to have a nest of something which is family.

In Afghanistan, legitimate authority has been traditionally highly localized, a product of consensus rather than brute force, and firmly anchored in tribal, clannish, and kinship structures.

Nevertheless, blood is thicker than water, as anyone knows who has tasted both.

We are the ancestors of our grandchildren's children. We look after them, just as our ancestors look after us. We aren't here for ourselves. We are here for each other and for the children of our grandchildren.

The ties of blood," said Spider, "are stronger than water." Water's not strong," objected Fat Charlie.

But, the truth is and we can argue about whether this is right or not as long as we want to, but the fact is that women really do spend more time with their families. Until I can find a man who can tell me the dates of all of his nieces and nephews birthdays and get presents out to them regularly, I'm going to stay by that statement.

He aint heavy, he's my brother.

Anglo-Saxon kings often used to favour their sister's son to their own - for at least you could guarantee there was your own blood in your sister's son!

My mom and I have the exact same mannerisms - the way we talk and the gestures that we made.

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

I had no blood relatives till I made some.

Marriage, the family unit, was the "original Department of Health, Education and Welfare."

Children were vehicles for passing things along. These things could be kingdoms, rich wedding gifts, stories, grudges, blood feuds. Through children, alliances were forged; through children, wrongs were avenged. To have a child was to set loose a force in the world.

You can't choose who your brother is. You're born, and whoever is in your family is your family. That's your blood. That's the way it is.

What strange creatures brothers are!

Break up the institution of the family, deny the inviolability of its relations, and in a little while there would not be any humanity.

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

The mother-in-law is the centre of a family.

You only have to glance at the daily news to see how passions are stirred by claims of exclusive loyalty to one's own kin, one's own clan, one's own country, and one's own church. These ties that bind are vital to our communities and our lives, but they can also be twisted into a noose.

Regard the world as your country … good men as your kin, bad men as foreigners.

. through marriage the white trader gained entry into the kinship groups of which the woodland societies were composed, thereby becoming directly related to the people with whom they hoped to do business. Indian wives taught their white husbands the languages of the forest, skills and knowledge often indispensable to survival in the wilderness. On the other hand, the tribal people of the Lakes, who suffered severe losses among their young men in the wars and epidemics of the eighteenth century, were eager to have their widows and daughters married off to Frenchmen who could provide for needs, generate new children and grant commercial concession to their woodland relatives