Blood Relation Quotes:

To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.

- Barbara Bush

topic: Inspirational, Family, Mean, Family Time, Just Being There

The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.

- Richard Bach

topic: Family, Spiritual, Respect, Happy Family, Jonathan Livingston Seagull

We don't have to have blood relations in order to be brothers and sisters. Flesh and blood, those are just things that we're made of. In a real family, what matters is our hearts. We care, show concern and love. Anyone can be family too.

- Kim Da-hyun

topic: Brother, Real, Drama, Real Family, Blood Relation

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

- Woodrow Wilson

topic: Friendship, Patience, Real Friends, Meaningful Friendship, Inspirational Friendship

I never look back at all. All of my sentiment and emotion goes into my family. I'm an extremely family oriented person and I have a very, very happy family life. That doesn't just include blood relations. I have friends who are close to me.

- Michael Caine

source: "Q & A: Oscar-Winning Michael Caine Asks “Is Anybody There?”". Interview with Brad Balfour,, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 24, 2009.

topic: Blood, Looks, Emotion, Family Oriented, Blood Relation

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

- Hosea Ballou

topic: Blood, Relation, Exaggeration, Exaggerating, Exaggeration Is

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

- Walter Winchell

source: Walter Winchell (1975). “Winchell exclusive: "things that happened to me--and me to them”

topic: Friendship, Real, World, Making Friends, New Friendship

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

- Henry David Thoreau

topic: Friendship, True Love, Real Friends, Making Friends, New Friendship

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

source: "Mother Loathe". Live chat, www.slate.com. May 27, 2015.

topic: Thinking, Blood, Law, Blood Relation

What is family? They were the people who claimed you. In good, in bad, in parts or in whole, they were the ones who showed up, who stayed in there, regardless. It wasn't just about blood relations, but something wider, bigger. We had many families over time...friends, lovers, sometimes even strangers. None of them perfect, and we couldn't expect them to be. You can't make any one person your world. The trick was to take what each could give you and build your world from it!

- Sarah Dessen

topic: Blood, Giving, Perfect, Blood Relation

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

source: Mark Twain (2004). “Mark Twain’s Helpful Hints for Good Living: A Handbook for the Damned Human Race”, p.27, Univ of California Press

topic: Blood, Stranger, Intimate, Handkerchiefs, Intimate Friends

Knavery and flattery are blood relations.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Humor, Blood, Knavery, Blood Relation

It remains unbelievable to me that I have any readers beyond my own blood relations - it's a crazy, wild gift.

- Karen Russell

topic: Crazy, Blood, Relation, Blood Relation

I think we all make our own families, whether they're comprised of blood relations or friends. Some people are lucky and love their families. Others aren't. But whom we spend time with is always a choice. Including our pets.

- Jane Cleland

topic: Thinking, Blood, People, Blood Relation

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

topic: Love, Friendship, Best Friend, Special Friendship, Blind Love

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

source: Henry David Thoreau (2014). “A Week On The Concord And Merrimack Rivers (Annotated Edition)”, p.217, Jazzybee Verlag

topic: Kindness, Blood, Spirit, Blood Relation

The success of a play, especially one's first success, is somewhat like pushing against a door which is suddenly opened that was always securely shut until then. For myself, the experience was invigorating. It suddenly seemed that the audience was a mass of blood relations, and I sensed a warmth in the world that had not been there before. It made it possible to dream of daring more and risking more.

- Arthur Miller

source: Arthur Miller (2015). “Miller Plays: 1: All My Sons; Death of a Salesman; The Crucible; A Memory of Two Mondays; A View from the Bridge”, p.22, Bloomsbury Publishing

topic: Dream, Doors, Blood, Blood Relation

Never set a child afloat on the flat sea of life with only one sail to catch the wind.

- D. H. Lawrence

source: D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.52, Cambridge University Press

topic: Children, Wind, Sea, Versatility, Blood Relation

I don't like your miserable lonely single front name. It is so limited, so meager; it has no versatility; it is weighted down with the sense of responsibility; it is worn threadbare with much use; it is as bad as having only one jacket and one hat; it is like having only one relation, one blood relation, in the world. Never set a child afloat on the flat sea of life with only one sail to catch the wind.

- D. H. Lawrence

topic: Lonely, Children, Responsibility, Sense Of Responsibility, Versatility

From the earliest times the Welsh have been looked upon as an unclean people. It is thus that they have preserved their racial integrity. Their sons and daughters rarely mate with humankind except their own blood relations.

- Evelyn Waugh

source: Evelyn Waugh (1958). “The world of Evelyn Waugh”

topic: Daughter, Integrity, Son, Blood Relation

Linda asked that morning what it was about Charlotte’s Web that Ally particularly liked; maybe it would help to think about that, since it was Ally’s model book. “I like the family that comes together in the barn,” Ally said without hesitation. “I like that they aren’t all the same thing; one is human and one’s a spider and one’s a pig. I like that it has nothing to do with blood relations, and everything to do with love.

- Meg Waite Clayton

topic: Morning, Book, Thinking, Charlotte's Web, Blood Relation

An Albanian’s house is the dwelling of God and the guest.’ Of God and the guest, you see. So before it is the house of its master, it is the house of one’s guest. The guest, in an Albanian’s life, represents the supreme ethical category, more important than blood relations. One may pardon the man who spills the blood of one’s father or of one’s son, but never the blood of a guest.

- Ismail Kadaré

topic: Father, Son, Men, Albanian, Blood Relation