Quotes About Blood Ties

#1. The ones we choose to love become our anchorwhen the hawser of the blood-tie's hacked, or frays.

Tony Harrison

#2. True kinship has naught to do with blood ties, however strong they be. I think we are all kin, brothers and sisters one to the other, all children of all parents.

Lloyd Alexander

#3. The heart swellings convince me of the folly of those who dare to think that any new ties can weaken the first and best of nature.

Stephanie Dray

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

Neil Gaiman

#5. You know what I hate about rock? I hate tie-dyed tee shirts. I wouldn't wear a tie-dyed tee shirt unless it was dyed with the urine of Phil Collins and the blood of Jerry Garcia.

Kurt Cobain

#6. So now that you know my truth, let's talk about yours.

J.D. Cunegan

#7. Her weakness was aggressive and kept forcing him to capitulate until eventually he lost his strength and was transformed into the rabbit in her arms .

Milan Kundera

#8. She knew he meant it. He'd burn the library, the city or the whole world to ashes if she asked him. It was their bond, marked by blood and scent and something else she couldn't place. A tether as strong as the one that bound her to her parents. Stronger, in some ways.

Sarah J. Maas

#9. Life sure went by quick when you weren't paying attention. It took forever to go from a child to a grown-up. The middle-aged years went by at a steady clip, and everything else after that just sort of whizzed by.

Karen McQuestion

#10. As a South African I honestly cannot understand how people can't see South Africa as a unique nation, untied by ties of history, bonds of suffering, victory, struggles, hope - and in more ways than I ever before thought possible - blood.

Christina Engela

#11. So long divided and so differently situated, the ties of blood were little more than nothing.

Jane Austen

#12. Hen I tried to talk to him I realized that, though ties of blood made us kin, though I could see a shadow of my face in his face, though there was an echo of my voice in his voice, we were forever strangers, speaking a different language, living on vastly distant planes of reality

Richard Wright

#13. Experience assists wisdom because the universe has been designed to make it so.

J. Budziszewski

#14. Even divorce, she thought, cannot erase all the bonds forged by years of marriage. Long after the papers are signed, decrees notarized, the ties still remain. And the most powerful tie of all is written in a child's flesh and blood.

Tess Gerritsen

#15. Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.

Sallust

#16. Those are the same stars, and that is the same moon, that look down upon your brothers and sisters, and which they see as they look up to them, though they are ever so far away from us, and each other.

Sojourner Truth

#17. My hold of the colonies is in the close affection which grows from common names, from kindred blood, from similar privileges, and equal protection. These are ties which, though light as air, are as strong as links of iron.

Edmund Burke

#18. It's still a compliment when you're backed by younger and older, but it's actually unexpected. It's surprising, but for me it's in fact the most beautiful compliment.

Stromae

#19. The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager.

Peter Drucker

#20. Blood ties are not supposed to be chains.

V.C. Andrews

#21. All I know is, a writer ever walks into Homicide looking to shadow someone, I'm shooting them on-sight.

J.D. Cunegan

#22. So often they made her think of the phrase "Blood is thicker than water," because at times blood was the only bond they shared and she had to remind herself they were family, because at times it was unbelievable they were even related. She loved them, but she hadn't chosen them.

Victoria Kahler

#23. I have a confidence because my research shows that I should just really trust my instincts.

Katy Perry

#24. I lay there knowing something eerie ties us to the world of animals. Sometimes the animals pull you backward into it. You share hunger and fear with them like salt in blood.

Barry Lopez

#25. The increasing remoteness of consanguinity is everyday diminishing the force of the family compact between France and Spain. And politicians have ever with great reason considered the ties of blood as feeble and precarious links of political connection.

Alexander Hamilton

#26. There is a compulsion that is perhaps the heart of life's meanings, this marvelous mystery of blood ties that brings joy whenever a new family member comes on the scene.

Walter Cronkite

#27. Ties of blood are not always ties of friendship; but friendship founded on merit, on esteem, and on mutual trust, becomes more vital and more tender when strengthened by the ties of blood.

Lord Chesterfield

#28. Find things beautiful as much as you can, most people find too little beautiful.

Vincent Van Gogh

#29. Whatever may be said as to our relations to some other countries, I think the relations of this country to Spain offer no ties of gratitude or of blood.

Henry Cabot Lodge