Quotes About Blood Ties

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

V.C. Andrews

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

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

Vincent Van Gogh

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. 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

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

Katy Perry

#10. 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

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

J.D. Cunegan

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

Peter Drucker

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. 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

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

Sallust

#17. 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

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

J. Budziszewski

#19. 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

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

Jane Austen

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. 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

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

J.D. Cunegan

#26. 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

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

Neil Gaiman

#28. 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

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

Tony Harrison