Top 100 Quotes About Kin
#1. Yes," said Jalem as he returned to his brushing. "You've obviously done a superb job so far. Tell me, do I need to make an appointment to try and kill Drothe, or is it simply on a first-come, first-served basis? I can never keep kin etiquette straight.
Douglas Hulick
#2. It seems that nothing ever gets to going good till there's a few resignations
Kin Hubbard
#3. The fourth cat stepped forward; Yellowfang didn't know his name. He was a skinny gray tom, and he studied Brokentail carefully before he spoke. I give you a life for truth. Without it, kin is set against kin, Clan against Clan. Hold fast to truth in all your dealings and let it guide your words.
Erin Hunter
#4. There are two ways to handle a woman, and nobody knows either of them.
Kin Hubbard
#5. And you, their best beloved one, are now to me, flesh of my flesh; blood of my blood; kin of my kin; my bountiful wine-press for awhile; and shall later on be my companion and my helper.
Bram Stoker
#7. If the government was as afraid of disturbing the consumer as it is of disturbing business, this would be some democracy.
Kin Hubbard
#8. The worst feature of a new baby is its mother's singing.
Kin Hubbard
#10. About the only thing we have left that actually discriminates in favor of the plain people is the stork.
Kin Hubbard
#11. Are you kin to the Gallaghers or the Brennans?" Jill asked.
"Hell, no! If I was, I'd shoot myself in the head with this gun.
Carolyn Brown
#12. One of the commonest ailments of the present day is the premature formation of opinion.
Kin Hubbard
#13. It's what a fellow thinks he knows that hurts him.
Kin Hubbard
#14. Go and don't come back, you can take the catmint. I have no quarrel with ThunderClan; I don't want to see cats suffer, whatever you might think. Just be careful you don't end up like a bully like your kin, Tigerstar.
Erin Hunter
#15. University: ... a place where rich men send their sons who have no aptitude for business.
Kin Hubbard
#16. As one old gentleman put it, Son, I don't care if you're stark nekkid and wear a bone in your nose. If you kin fiddle, you're all right with me. It's the music we make that counts.
Robert Fulghum
#17. The hardest thing is to take less when you can get more.
Kin Hubbard
#18. Among all the characters mentioned in the Bible, none is more mysterious than Melchisedec; said to be without father, mother, or earthly kin, and holding the dual office of king and priest.
Max Heindel
#19. He who has seen present things has seen all, both everything which has taken place from all eternity and everything which will be for time without end; for all things are of one kin and of one form.
Marcus Aurelius
#20. Oh, where is man That mortal god, that hath no mortal kin Or like on earth? Shall Nature's orator The interpreter of all her mystic strains Shall he be mute in Nature's jubilee?
Hartley Coleridge
#21. Don't knock the weather. If it didn't change once in a while, nine out of ten people couldn't start a conversation.
Kin Hubbard
#22. Nobody ever grew despondent looking for trouble.
Kin Hubbard
#23. I invite you to enter the world of my Dragon Kin - where the dragons are much saner than the humans surrounding them could ever hope to be. - G.A. Aiken
G.A. Aiken
#24. Pity and need Make all flesh kin. There in no caste in blood.
Edwin Arnold
#25. No matter how much strong black coffee we drink, almost any after- dinner speech will counteract it.
Kin Hubbard
#26. As to those who hoard gold and silver and spend it not in God's path, give them, then, the tidings of a painful agony: on a day when these things shall be heated in hell-fire, and their foreheads, and their sides, and their backs shall be branded therewith.
Kin Hubbard
#27. When a type design is good it is not because each individual letter of the alphabet is perfect in form, but because there is a feeling of harmony and unbroken rhythm that runs through the whole design, each letter kin to every other and to all.
Frederic Goudy
#28. Litigation: A form of hell whereby money is transferred from the pockets of the proletariat to that of lawyers.
Kin Hubbard
#29. To all the defiant stoics, laughing and fighting lonesome battles in the face of adversity.
Kin F. Kam
#30. Kin kills no kin," she said, "if no to feed, if no to mate.
Magaly Guerrero
#31. 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
#32. Sometimes I wondered if it even mattered whether our communion cups were filled with consecrated wine or draft beer, as long as we bent over them long enough to recognize each other as kin.
Barbara Brown Taylor
#33. There's many a slip twixt the blueprints and a new house.
Kin Hubbard
#34. Being an optimist after you've got everything you want doesn't count.
Kin Hubbard
#35. Every once in a while someone without a single bad habit gets caught.
Kin Hubbard
#36. Bargain ... anything a customer thinks a store is losing money on.
Kin Hubbard
#37. A sympathizer is a fellow that's for you as long as it doesn't cost anything.
Kin Hubbard
#38. But you comfort me, Gimli, I'm glad to have you standing nigh with your stout legs and your hard axe. I wish there were more of your kin among us. But even more would I give for a hundred good archers of Mirkwood.
- Legolas
J.R.R. Tolkien
#39. Women seem to be all right on bargains till it comes to picking out a husband.
Kin Hubbard
#40. Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.
Kin Hubbard
#41. One day you will have vengeance, little half-blood. You will stand upon a wasteland littered with your dead kin and you will be free.
Pippa DaCosta
#43. Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother!
Honore De Balzac
#44. Probably half the cases of Civil War dead were not identified. And so there was no way to let loved ones know, and there were no regularized processes in either Northern or Southern Army for notifying next of kin.
Drew Gilpin Faust
#46. Folks that blurt out just what they think wouldn't be so bad if they thought.
Kin Hubbard
#47. We grew together, and now are grown. In her eyes, I see my heart. In her breath, I hear my soul. She is my land. She is my kin. My love.
Pierce Brown
#48. A fellow ought to save a few of the long evenings he spends with his girl till after they're married.
Kin Hubbard
#49. The only battles that he and his kin fought, the only blood they spilt was on the chessboard. Massacres and carnage were not to his taste. He preferred the long, slow, tortuous death. I
Kiran Nagarkar
#50. I don't know of anything better than a woman if you want to spend money where it will show.
Kin Hubbard
#51. Kindness goes a long ways lots of times when it ought to stay at home.
Kin Hubbard
#52. Dying
shucks! If you kin handle the living, what's to be afraid of the dying?
Robert Penn Warren
#53. How will it end? ... a vision of a universal religion, which will embrace all creeds; a universal government which will embrace all humanity; a universal knowledge which will make all mankind kin ...
Carl H. Claudy
#54. The longer it takes you to select a cantaloupe, the worse it is!
Kin Hubbard
#55. No person is your friend (or kin) who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow and be perceived as fully blossomed as you were intended. Or who belittles in any fashion the gifts you labor so to bring into the world.
Alice Walker
#56. Where ignorance is bliss it's foolish to borrow your neighbor's newspaper.
Kin Hubbard
#57. I don't see why the likes o' thee
Without axin' leave should go makin' free
With the shank or the shin o' my father's kin;
So hand the old bone over!
Rover! Trover!
Though dead he be, it belongs to he;
So hand the old bnone over!
J.R.R. Tolkien
#58. She saw it. Recognized it as kin. (...) Realized they really weren't that different after all.
Noelle Adams
#59. Maybe there was a place where the people were safe, where Archer and his kin had carved out a place free from danger. Or maybe the dark magic her father had feared had consumed them all, and turned the only boy she'd ever loved into a monster beyond reckoning.
Anonymous
#60. Poor thing. If she wasn't being thrown into trees or attacked by his kin, she was being mystically flung to the ground by his old, terrifying great-great-aunt.
It was really going to be impossible to talk to Braith in a rational, calm manner after all this.
G.A. Aiken
#61. When a fellow says, 'It ain't the money but the principle of the thing,' it's the money.
Kin Hubbard
#62. Another bad thing about "prosperity" is that you can't jingle any money without being under suspicion
Kin Hubbard
#63. And there were moments on that first night in this fetid little paradise when I prayed that in spite of all my secret power, I was somehow kin to every mortal man. Maybe I was not the exotic outcast that I imagined, but merely the dim magnification of every human soul.
Anne Rice
#64. What made me most courageous was that I realized I had to try to let go of that stereotype I had in my mind, that bit of homophobia, and try for a second to be vulnerable and sensitive. It was f**kin' hard, man. I succeeded only for milliseconds.
Jake Gyllenhaal
#65. Life-Enriching Education: an education that prepares children to learn throughout their lives, relate well to others, and themselves, be creative, flexible, and venturesome, and have empathy not only for their immediate kin but for all of humankind.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
#66. It don't make no difference what is is, a woman'll buy anything she thinks a store is losin' money on.
Kin Hubbard
#67. Stalin raised a toast: "We will mercilessly destroy anyone who, by his deeds or his thoughts - yes, his thoughts! - threatens the unity of the socialist state. To the complete destruction of all enemies, themselves and their kin!"29
Timothy Snyder
#68. The only time some fellows are ever seen with their wives is after they've been indicted.
Kin Hubbard
#69. A bee is never as busy as it seems; it's just that it can't buzz any slower.
Kin Hubbard
#70. Off fall the wife, the mother, the lover, the teacher, and the violent artist takes over. I am I alone. I belong to no one but myself. I mate with no one but the spirit. I own no land, have no kin, no friend or enemy. I have no road but this one.
Sylvia Ashton-Warner
#71. It is the absence of society that leads to destruction. When concord is lost, when arguments cease and in opposition neither side sees the other as kin, as brother and sister, then all manner of atrocity is possible.
Steven Erikson
#72. For little boys are rancorous
When robbed of any myth,
And spiteful and cantankerous
To all their kin and kith.
But little girls can draw conclusions
And profit from their lost illusions.
Phyllis McGinley
#73. The first family is my kin. The other family is my SNSD family.
Im Yoona
#75. Am I racially kin to this man? Baynes wondered. So closely so that for all intents and purposes it is the same? Then it is in me, too, the psychotic streak. A psychotic world we live in. The madmen are in power. How long have we known this? Faced this? And - how many of us do know it?
Philip K. Dick
#76. Get thee behind me Satan, and push me along. I'm kin to the devil.
Eazy-E
#77. When a woman says, 'I don't wish to mention any names', it means it ain't necessary to mention any names.
Kin Hubbard
#78. The election is not very far off when a candidate can recognize you across the street.
Kin Hubbard
#79. You can't very well live in a castle while your kin is on the poor side of town and barely have enough food. Some want you to get to the top and rely on you making it for them, too.
Martha Reeves
#80. Making a long stay short is a great aid to popularity.
Kin Hubbard
#81. I have heard, as well, by those who have seen Drizzt Do'Urden at fight and at play, that he is brilliant even considering the standards of his dark kin.
R.A. Salvatore
#82. What about the pact they made with our pack? (Pandora)
It's dissolved. If they pull any more of your kin out of their time period, I'm going to send them a special welcoming committee. (Dante)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#83. A departure from the movie with Michael J. Fox, 'Teen Wolf' tells the story of how a group of angsty teens deal with werewolves, their supernatural kin and the world of trouble that comes with it, all while trying to still live their lives.
Keahu Kahuanui
#84. You will find that our enemies are our own kin. It is they who betray us. So learn this most important lesson-in the end, our worst enemy is ourselves
F. Sionil Jose
#85. You grow up feeling the weight of blood, of family. There's no forsaking kin. But you can't help when kin forsakes you or when strangers come to be family.
Laura McHugh
#86. In a culture that worshipped its ancestors, to die without offspring was next of kin to damnation.
Joseph Duncan
#87. Do not fear so, here is one who would be a blade at your back. A shield across your breast. Here is kin, here is strength to lean upon, to share as you share in need.
Andre Norton
#88. I give my soul to God, my body to the earth, and my worldly possessions to my nearest of kin, charging them to remember the sufferings of Jesus Christ.
Michelangelo
#89. We are supposed to do our fallible, failing best to perceive the other bad people as kin.
Francis Spufford
#90. In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.
Oscar Wilde
#91. Nothing's as mean as giving a little child something useful for Christmas.
Kin Hubbard
#92. Every father expects his boy to do the things he wouldn't do when he was young.
Kin Hubbard
#93. Nobuddy ever listened t' reason on a empty stomach.
Kin Hubbard
#94. Stay away from Marcus. He's f**kin' bad news with a capital F**k.
Kristen Ashley
#95. The rich man and his daughter are soon parted.
Kin Hubbard
#96. For a God whose heart is supposed to be as cold as his realm, you are so warm and kind. You
make it hard to resist, she murmured.
Why should you resist? You know how much you are enjoying yourself.
Much as I hate to admit it, she sighed
M.M. Kin
#97. If aught I have said is truth, that truth shall reveal itself in a clearer voice, and in words more kin to your thoughts.
Khalil Gibran
#98. Knowin' all about baseball is just about as profitable as bein' a good whittler.
Kin Hubbard
#99. If the trees and the plants are brothers, if the birds are my sisters, then cats are truly my kin.
Andrew Miller
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