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  • There's a kinship among men who have sat by a dying fire and measured the worth of their life by it.

    Men   Fire   Dying  
  • I felt a kinship with country music, because country has lyrics that tell stories

  • In friendship similarity of character has more weight than kinship.

    Real   Character   Weight  
  • Animal liberation is also human liberation. Animal liberationists care about the quality of life for all. We recognize our kinship with all feeling beings. We identify with the powerless and the vulnerable, the victims, all those dominated, oppressed and exploited. And it is the non-human animals whose suffering is the most intense, widespread, expanding, systematic and socially sanctioned of all.

  • Simplicity means to feel such a sense of kinship with others that we choose to live simply so that others may simply live.

    Mean   Simplicity   May  
  • Strangely, although they may seem worlds apart, boxing and tennis have a certain kinship. Two individuals head-to-head, probing for weakness and attacking it. Footwork, timing and stamina are essential. Just you and your opponent until one of you is beaten. There's no brain damage in tennis - although sometimes I wonder.

    Two   Boxing   Tennis  
  • But we must not forget, this ritual expressed, certain ideas which lie at the very root of true religion, the fellowship of the worshippers with one another in their fellowship with the deity, and the consecration of the bonds of kinship as the type of all right ethical relations between man and man.

    Religious   Lying   Men  
  • There is a kinship, a kind of freemasonry, between all persons of intelligence, however antagonistic their moral outlook.

    Moral   Kind   Outlook  
    Norman Douglas (1922). “Alone”
  • The man who sat on the ground in his tipi meditating on life and its meaning, accepting the kinship of all creatures and acknowledging unity with the universe of things, was infusing into his being the true essence of civilization.

    Yoga   Men   Essence  
    Luther Standing Bear (2006). “Land of the Spotted Eagle”, p.250, U of Nebraska Press
  • I feel a kinship with anyone who feels that their road, their life or who they really are is not good enough. I really relate to that.

    "In the Director’s Chair: Baz Luhrmann". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, pagesix.com. December 6, 2010.
  • I am only about half alive - a large part of my strength is consumed in sitting up or walking. My nervous system is a shattered wreck, and I am absolutely bored & listless save when I come upon something which peculiarly interests me. However - so many things do interest me, & interest me intensely, in science, history, philosophy, & literature; that I have never actually desired to die, or entertained any suicidal designs, as might be expected of one with so little kinship to the ordinary features of life.

    Letter to Alfred Galpin (27 May 1918), in "Letters to Alfred Galpin" edited by S. T. Joshi, (p. 18), 2003.
  • She had always known that all lives are in common, rejoicing in her kinship to the fish in the tanks of her laboratories, seeking the experience of existences outside the human boundary.

    Animal   Tanks   Common  
    Ursula K. Le Guin (2009). “The Dispossessed”, p.18, Harper Collins
  • Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars.

    Stars   Sunset   Night  
    George Meredith (2010). “The Egoist”, p.549, Broadview Press
  • Kinship among nations is not determined in such measurements as proximity of size and age.

    Age   Measurement   Size  
    "At ease: stories I tell to friends" by Dwight David Eisenhower, (p. 389), 1967.
  • I'VE NOTICED, FROM MY EXPERIENCE, IF THE EXTERNAL, EMOTIONAL CONSTRUCTION OF IMAGES IN A FILM ARE BASED ON THE FILMMAKER'S OWN MEMORY, ON THE KINSHIP OF ONE'S PERSONAL EXPERIENCE WITH THE FABRIC OF THE FILM, THEN THE FILM WILL HAVE THE POWER TO AFFECT THOSE WHO SEE IT.

  • A human life, I think, should be well rooted in some spot of a native land, where it may get the love of tender kinship for the face of earth, for the labors men go forth to, for the sounds and accents that haunt it, for whatever will give that early home a familiar, unmistakable difference amidst the future widening of knowledge.

    Stars   Home   Men  
    "Daniel Deronda".
  • Whenever I see an erring man, I say to myself I have also erred; when I see a lustful man I say to myself, so was I once; and in this way I feel kinship with everyone in the world and feel that I cannot be happy without the humblest of us being happy.

    Men   Religion   Way  
    Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.73, A&C Black
  • . . . every tree near our house had a name of its own and a special identity. This was the beginning of my love for natural things, for earth and sky, for roads and fields and woods, for trees and grass and flowers; a love which has been second only to my sense of enduring kinship with birds and animals, and all inarticulate creatures.

    Love   Flower   Animal  
    Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1963). “Collected Stories”
  • I like to think that Einstein would look at string theory’s journey and smile, enjoying the theory’s remarkable geometrical features while feeling kinship with fellow travelers on the long and winding road toward unification.

    Journey   Thinking   Long  
  • Allah made joining and connecting with the kinship and cognation, the cause of lengthening of life.

    Joining   Causes   Made  
    "Ayan al-Shī'ah" by al-Sayyid Muhsin al-Amin, vol.1, p. 316,
  • I think if all men knew and understood who they are, and were aware of the divine source from whence they came, they would have feelings of kindness and kinship for each other that would change their whole way of living and bring peace on earth.

    Kindness   Men   Thinking  
  • Flyers fell a certain kinship with the sight of the earth unencrusted by humanity, they want to see it that way in one sweeping view, in reassurance that nature still exists on her own, without a chain-link fence to hold her.

    Sight   Views   Humanity  
    Richard Bach (2012). “A Gift of Wings”, p.200, Dell
  • Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never comes when it is gold, And the great price we paid for it full worth: We have it only when we are half earth. Little avails that coinage to the old!

    Stars   Fire   Dying  
    George Meredith (2010). “The Egoist”, p.549, Broadview Press
  • Aaron was one of the few Jewish volunteers in our study, and I felt a certain kinship with him at that level.

    Rick Strassman, M.D. (2000). “DMT: The Spirit Molecule: A Doctor's Revolutionary Research into the Biology of Near-Death and Mystical Experiences”, p.180, Inner Traditions / Bear & Co
  • While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.

    Speech at trial, Cleveland, Ohio, 14 Sept. 1918
  • It is now. It is always now. Now is good. Now could be the best. My name is Catcher. My name was Catcher. My name...my name... I am... I am lost, I am found and then I am free and I am happy. When I jump over that edge, someone leaps with me, shoulder to shoulder. I smell kinship on him. Kinship is all. I'm not alone. Never alone. I land, earth below me, moon above. I am wolf. We are pack. And that is all I need.

    Moon   Land   Names  
  • There is a kinship between music and painting - with the same words used to describe both, as when a musical composition is said to have color and a painting to have rhythm.

  • Until we establish a felt sense of kinship between our own species and those fellow mortals who share with us the sun and shadow of life on this agonized planet, there is no hope for other species, there is no hope for the environment, and there is no hope for ourselves.

  • When you're with another tea smoker it makes you feel a special kinship.

    Tea   Special   Feels  
  • In the desert you become a discoverer. You discover your soul, which had been submerged in vain pursuits, which had been lost in the coils and toils of modern life. You discover your kinship with nature and man, which is evoked by the naturalness and the gentle humanity of the natives of the desert, and you will also discover God.

    Men   Humanity   Over You  
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