Kin Quotes

“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, Dracula

“Finch was his own country, the government unstable, the population volatile.”
― Kealan Patrick Burke, Kin

“In your name, the family name is at last because it's the family name that lasts.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“Some of us can live without a society but not without a family.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“Death doesn't just make all the world kin, it makes all religions one”
― Neal Shusterman

“But family connections are weird. Even if your relatives aren't good to you, they're still your blood. You can't lose that connection completely. And believe me, I've got a few relatives on my dad's side I'd love to lose.”
― Rick Riordan

“Now”—she leaned in a bit—“would you like to go flying with Grandmum before we take you home, so you can watch her toss cows around for no other reason than her own amusement?”

“Sounds unnecessarily cruel.”

“Exactly!” Rhiannon used her tail to place her granddaughter on her back. “See? Already you’re learning what it means to be part of this family.”
― G.A. Aiken, How to Drive a Dragon Crazy

“Éibhear isn’t my friend. He’s kin. A blood relation.”

“Which means what exactly?”

“To a Cadwaladr, it means that if I have good cause, I could beat the scales off his back and get away with it.”
― G.A. Aiken, How to Drive a Dragon Crazy

“Tru, this is your home. You are my blood kin, my second cousin thrice removed. But blood kin's not the most important kin. Do you know what is?" "No, sir." "Love kin. And that comes from the heart. That's why this is your home.”
― G. Neri, Tru & Nelle

“In united families, they might sleep with half filled stomach but no one sleeps with empty stomach.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“You mean everything to me. Everything I've done. All of it. You're the reason. The first and only reason.”
― Jay Kristoff, Kinslayer

“On Ryukyu islands, the expert Kara-te practitioners, used their skills to subdue, control and generally teach bullies A lesson, rather than severely injure or kill their attackers. They knew full well the consequences of their actions and the trail of blood and retribution that would ensue”
― Soke Behzad Ahmadi, COMPLETE OKINAWA KARATE : Chin-na & Shuai-Jiao

“After all, the Indo-European word cunt was derived from the goddess Kunda or Cunti, and shares the same root as kin and country.”
― Eve Ensler, The Vagina Monologues

“I don’t know why—it’s just that—I don’t know—they’re not kin."—Surprising word, I think to myself never used it before. Not of kin—sounds like hillbilly talk—not of a kind—same root—kindness, too—they can’t have real kindness toward him, they’re not his kin -- . That’s exactly the feeling.

Old word, so ancient it’s almost drowned out. What a change through the centuries. Now anybody can be "kind." And everybody’s supposed to be. Except that long ago it was something you were born into and couldn’t help. Now it’s just a faked-up attitude half the time, like teachers the first day of class. But what do they really know about kindness who are not kin.”
― Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

“You can take the Indian out of the family, but you cannot take the family out of the Indian.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“Killing in the name of war was one thing. Killing one's own kin was quite another.”
― Mary E. Pearson, The Kiss of Deception

“Many people cross our paths either by choice or through Kinship. Those who are not meant to be part of our lives will leave but those with who add value to our lives will remain.”
― Nadine Sadaka Boulos

“The Hellene exists as an individual, a separate person within a community. The Germanic individual exists only as the representative, nay, as the personification of a whole. One might imagine that a supreme convulsion of the soul must tear the individual out from that whole, and let him feel him-self, speak as for himself. But actually, it is the opposite that takes place; the more the soul is moved, the more the individual personality is lost in the kin. At the very moment when man most passionately and unreservedly gives way to his own feelings, the clan takes possession of the individual fully and completely. Egil's lament is not the lament of a father for his son; it is the kin, that utters its lament through the person of the father. From this breadth of passion springs the overpowering pathos of the poem.”
― Vilhelm Grønbech, The Culture of the Teutons: Volumes 1 and 2

“Doğu'da kin, kolayca hiyanete kadar götürür.”
― Falih Rıfkı Atay, Çankaya

“A dark bewitched commitment to the lure of Progress (and its polar opposite) lashes us to endless infernal alternatives as if we had no other ways to reworld, reimagine, relive, and reconnect with each other in multispecies wellbeing”
― Donna Haraway, "Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene"

“Leftist dictator's kin-selective self-interest supersedes egalitarian ideology.”
― Avi Tuschman, Our Political Nature: The Evolutionary Origins of What Divides Us

“...I submit that kinship, at least right now, is always a reference to something that is imagined to be inerasable; to "nature." Perhaps one day it will be fit for purpose again, who knows? Perhaps because the concept of nature has itself been turned inside out. But right now, even when it is conceptualized as practice-based, kinship functions as a linguistic appeal to something non-contingent that can ground a relation. And I am asking: can we suspend that fantasy of something non-contingent? Can we let go of it?”
― Sophie Lewis, Die Familie abschaffen: Wie wir Care-Arbeit und Verwandtschaft neu erfinden

“Manhood is measured at least partly in money, a man's only direct way of nourishing children. Manhood, then, as call to action, can be interpreted as a kind of moral compunction to provision kith and kin.”
― David D. Gilmore, Manhood in the Making: Cultural Concepts of Masculinity