Quotes About The Blood Relation

#1. When you're dealing with an in-law violation, I think the first line of defense is for the blood relation to have a serious talk.

Emily Yoffe

#2. Try to be better than yourself.

William Faulkner

#3. Maybe it was more about finding who I was in relation to the Simulacrum-to the blood inside of me- and less about finding myself in relation to who I wanted to be. Maybe I had gotten those two things mixed up along the way

Julia J. Gibbs

#4. Where a blood relation sobs, an intimate friend should choke up, a distant acquaintance should sigh, a stranger should merely fumble sympathetically with his handkerchief.

Mark Twain

#5. ... if only people experienced death earlier, they would know how important it is to show kindness to one another
Gretchen Haight

Emily W. Upham

#6. The tomb of Adam! How touching it was, here in a land of strangers, far away from home, and friends, and all who cared for me, thus to discover the grave of a blood relation.

Mark Twain

#7. How women dressed every single day back in those days is seen as kind of incredible - it must have taken so much time. But there's something so romantic about that because it's so different to how we dress. That aesthetic is so appealing, it's not what we're used to nowadays.

Lily Collins

#8. In relation to the immense sacrifices that the state demands of the individual through the blood tax, it seems rather incidental whether it compensates the soldier more or less abundantly for the loss of time that he suffers from his military-service obligation.

Ludwig Von Mises

#9. For once, Evie didn't know what to say. She hadn't really thought of her uncle as very human. He was more like a textbook who occasionally remembered to put on a tie. But it was clear that he was, indeed, human, with a deep wound named Rotke.

Libba Bray

#10. There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain.

Georges Braque

#11. Neither my father or mother, grandfather or grandmother, great grandfather or great grandmother, nor any other relation that I know of, or care a farthing for, has been in England these one hundred and fifty years; so that you see I have not one drop of blood in my veins but what is American.

John Adams

#12. Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.

Hosea Ballou

#13. When a manic-depressive personality begins to slide deeply into a depressive period, he had written, one symptom he or she may exhibit is acts of self-punishment: slapping, punching, pinching, burning one's self w/ cigarette butts,

Stephen King

#14. Life etches itself onto our faces as we grow older, showing our violence, excesses or kindnesses.

Rembrandt

#15. The miss steps are the mistakes you must make.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#16. True kindness is a pure divine affinity, Not founded upon human consanguinity. It is a spirit, not a blood relation, Superior to family and station.

Henry David Thoreau

#17. Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes.

D.H. Lawrence