Kindred Quotes - Page 6

• The lover never sees personal resemblances in his mistress to her kindred or to others. His friends find in her a likeness to hermother, or her sisters, or to persons not of her blood. The lover sees no resemblance except to summer evenings and diamond mornings, to rainbows and the song of birds.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Summer, Song, Morning

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.101, Courier Corporation

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• God formed us for His pleasure, and so formed us that we as well as He can in divine communion enjoy the sweet and mysterious mingling of kindred personalities. He meant us to see Him and live with Him and draw our life from His smile.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Sweet, Personality, Mysterious

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• The bureaucratic manager, the consuming aesthete, the therapist, the protester and their numerous kindred occupy almost all the available culturally recognizable roles, the notions of the expertise of the few and of the moral agency of everyone are the presuppositions of the dramas which those characters enact. To cry out that the emperor had no clothes on was at least to pick on one man only to the amusement of everyone else; to declare that almost everyone is dressed in rags is much less likely to be popular.

  Alasdair MacIntyre

  Drama, Character, Men

  Alasdair MacIntyre (2013). “After Virtue”, p.298, A&C Black

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• So that in the nature of man, we find three principal causes of quarrel. First, competition; secondly, diffidence; thirdly, glory. The first maketh men invade for gain; the second, for safety; and the third, for reputation. The first use violence, to make themselves masters of other men's persons, wives, children, and cattle; the second, to defend them; the third, for trifles, as a word, a smile, a different opinion, and any other sign of undervalue, either direct in their persons or by reflection in their kindred, their friends, their nation, their profession, or their name.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Children, Men, Reflection

  Thomas Hobbes (2005). “Leviathan, Parts I and II”, p.95, Broadview Press

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• In a pure society, the subject of marriage would not be so often avoided,--from shame and not from reverence, winked out of sight,and hinted at only; but treated naturally and simply,--perhaps simply avoided like the kindred mysteries. If it cannot be spoken of for shame, how can it be acted of? But, doubtless, there is far more purity, as well as more impurity, than is apparent.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Marriage, Sight, Mystery

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1759, Delphi Classics

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• The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible; but all natural objects make a kindred impression, when the mind is open to their influence. Nature never wears a mean appearance.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Stars, Mean, Mind

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.9, Library of America

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• I see behind each mask that wonder a kindred soul.

  Walt Whitman

  Soul, Wonder, Mask

  Walt Whitman (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867”, p.554, NYU Press

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• So they pass away: friends, kindred, the dearest-loved, grown people, aged, infants. As we go on the down-hill journey, the mile-stones are grave-stones, and on each more and more names are written; unless haply you live beyond man's common age, when friends have dropped off, and, tottering, and feeble, and unpitied, you reach the terminus alone.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Journey, Men, Names

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1869). “Miscellanies: The four Georges. The English humorists. Roundabout papers”, p.310

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• What friends or kindred can be so close and intimate as the powers of our soul, which, whether we will or no, must ever bear us company?

  Teresa of Avila

  Soul, Bears, Intimate

  St. Teresa of Avila (2014). “The Interior Castle (Annotated Edition)”, p.46, Jazzybee Verlag

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• It was around that time, early 60s. There were like three kindred spirits in New Jersey. I had two friends who played folk music, old-time music and bluegrass and we started a little band called the Garret Mountain Boys.

  David Grisman

  Boys, Two Friends, Mountain

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• Could be my soul mate / two kindred spirits / Maybe we're not / I guess we'll never / know

  Jay Asher

  Two, Soul, Spirit

  Jay Asher (2011). “Thirteen Reasons Why”, p.190, Penguin

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• The laughter in his deep-set black eyes, the feverish heat of his big hand around mine, the flash of his white teeth against his dark skin, his face stretching into the wide smile that had always been like a key to a secret door where only kindred spirits could enter.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Laughter, Eye, Dark

  Stephenie Meyer (2008). “Eclipse”, Little Brown & Company

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• A great friendship was like a great work of art, he thought. It took time and attention, and a spark of something that was impossible to describe. It was a happy, lucky accident, finding some kindred part of yourself in a total stranger." pg. 287

  Elise Broach

  Art, Lucky, Attention

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• And is it not true that in like manner a leader of the people who, getting control of a docile mob, does not withhold his hand from the shedding of tribal blood, but by the customary unjust accusations brings a citizen into court and assassinates him, blotting out a human life, and with unhallowed tongue and lips that have tasted kindred blood, banishes and slays and hints at the abolition of debts and the partition of lands.

  Plato

  Blood, Hands, Land

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• When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

  Socrates

  Love, Inspiration, Inspire

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• Twitter represents a collective collaboration that manifests our ability to unconsciously connect kindred voices through the experiences that move us. As such, Twitter is a human seismograph.

  Brian Solis

  Moving, Voice, Collaboration

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• Let us truly be a temple-attending and temple-loving people...We should not go only for our kindred dead, but also for the personal blessings of temple worship, for the sanctity and the safety that are within those hallowed and consecrated walls. As we attend the temple, we learn more richly and deeply the purpose of life and the significance of the atoning sacrifice of the Lord Jesus Christ. Let us make the temple, together with temple worship and temple covenants and temple marriage, our ultimate earthly goal and the supreme mortal experience.

  Howard W. Hunter

  Jesus, Wall, Sacrifice

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• Evil, which is our companion all our days, is not to be treated as a foe. It is wrong to cocker vice, but we grow narrow and pithless if we are furtive about it, for this is at best a pretense, and the sage knows good and evil are kindred. The worst of men harm others, and the best injure themselves.

  Edward Dahlberg

  Men, Evil, Vices

  Edward Dahlberg (1972). “The sorrows of Priapus: consisting of The sorrows of Priapus and The carnal myth”, Not Avail

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• True individualists are always at odds with the universe. Set adrift by their peculiar tastes and interests, they spend their lives searching for kindred spirits and a compatible mate. They are hopelessly out of step with the business world and its trivial urgencies. Their priorities are not the priorities of their neighbors. They are unique; therefore they are alone.

  Rick Bayan

  Unique, Odds, Priorities

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• Alan Ladd was a marvelous person in his simplicity. In so many ways we were kindred spirits. We both were professionally conceived through Hollywood's search for box office and the types to insure the box office. And we were both little people. Alan wasn't as short as most people believe. It was true that in certain films Alan would climb a small platform or the girl worked in a slit trench. We had no such problems together.

  Veronica Lake

  Girl, Believe, Office

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• He who understands you is greater kin to you than your own brother. For even your own kindred neither understand you nor know your true worth.

  Khalil Gibran

  Brother, Understanding, Knows

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• There is in stillness oft a magic power To calm the breast when struggling passions lower, Touched by its influence, in the soul arise Diviner feelings, kindred with the skies.

  John Henry Newman

  Struggle, Passion, Sky

  John Henry Newman, Albert Redcliffe (2002). “Selected Writings to 1845”, p.87, Taylor & Francis

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• For years after Lydgate remembered the impression produced in him by this involuntary appeal-this cry from soul to soul, without other consciousness than their moving with kindred natures in the same embroiled medium, the same troublous fitfully-illuminated life.

  George Eliot

  Moving, Years, Soul

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.196, Penguin

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• Jane Kindred’s THE HOUSE OF ARKHANGEL'SK dazzles with its surreal blending of worlds. Lost angel Anazakia, last survivor of her murdered family, finds herself in the hands of demons with suspect motives, betrayed by her own kind, stranded in the world of Man—21st century St. Petersburg, Russia, to be exact. Weaving startling visuals with compelling characters, Kindred reveals parallels in the two worlds that are ‘neither haphazard chance nor calculated design.’ It’s a dizzying, vibrant read.

  Lynn Flewelling

  Character, Angel, Men

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• Neither had Watt of the Steam engine a heroic origin, any kindred with the princes of this world. The princes of this world were shooting their partridges... While this man with blackened fingers, with grim brow, was searching out, in his workshop, the Fire-secret.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Fire, Secret

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.75, Lulu.com

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