Kinship Quotes - Page 4

• For me, now, feminist art must show a consciousness of women's social and economic position in the world. I also believe it demonstrates forms and perceptions that are drawn from a sense of spiritual kinship between women.

  Suzanne Lacy

  Spiritual, Art, Believe

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

  Louis Armstrong

  Tea, Special, Feels

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• I discover no kinship, no understanding, no mercy. I see only the overwhelming indifference of nature.

  Werner Herzog

  Understanding, Indifference, Mercy

  "Grizzly Man". Documentary, Biography, www.imdb.com. 2005.

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• We evolved. We have only to look at the pouting face of a young chimpanzee to laugh at its reflections of ourselves. We know that more then 98 percent of our genes are shared with the chimpanzee, but we feel the kinship directly when the furry baby puts up its arms to be held.

  Alison Jolly

  Baby, Reflection, Laughing

  Alison Jolly (2001). “Lucy's Legacy: Sex and Intelligence in Human Evolution”, p.9, Harvard University Press

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• Aaron was one of the few Jewish volunteers in our study, and I felt a certain kinship with him at that level.

  Rick Strassman

  Volunteer, Levels, Study

  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

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• I'm sure I've been a toad, one time or another. With bats, weasels, worms...I rejoice in the kinship. Even the caterpillar I can love, and the various vermin.

  Theodore Roethke

  Nature, Bats, Toads

  Theodore Roethke (2011). “The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke”, p.219, Anchor

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• How infinitely happier and more grateful is the whole personality or spirit when it finds something nourishing in art or writing or thinking, than the mere mind or intellect is: the kinship you celebrate in these personalities is your own dismembered Orpheus stumbling across another fine organ to rejoin to itself. I put it this way: aristic psyche loves itself enough to chasten itself, to put itself through boot camp for the sake of being competent for life, alive to life.

  Kenny Smith

  Life, Art, Grateful

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• Kinship among nations is not determined in such measurements as proximity of size and age. Rather we should turn to those inner things - call them what you will - I mean those intangibles that are the real treasures free men possess.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Real, Mean, Men

  Speech at Guildhall, London, on June 12, 1945. "At Ease: Stories I Tell to Friends". Book by Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1967.

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• I wrote the Dickens book because I loved Dickens, not because I felt a kinship with him, but after writing the book it seemed to me that there was at least one similarity between us and that was that Dickens loved to write and wrote with the ease and conviction of breathing. Me, too.

  Jane Smiley

  Book, Writing, Breathing

  Jane Smiley (2014). “Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel”, p.12, Faber & Faber

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• The Catholic novelist in the South will see many distorted images of Christ, but he will certainly feel that a distorted image of Christ is better than no image at all. I think he will feel a good deal more kinship with backwoods prophets and shouting fundamentalists than he will with those politer elements for whom the supernatural is an embarrassment and for whom religion has become a department of sociology or culture or personality development.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Thinking, Personality, Catholic

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• Like the Pentagon, our social science often reduces all phenomena to dollars and body counts. Sexuality, family unity, kinship, masculine solidarity, maternity, motivation, nurturing, all the rituals of personal identity and development, all the bonds of community, seem "sexist," "superstitious," "mystical," "inefficient," "discriminatory." And, of course, they are -- and they are also indispensable to a civilized society.

  George Gilder

  Motivation, Community, Identity

  George F. Gilder (1973). “Sexual Suicide”, [New York] : Quadrangle

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• How I hate the man who talks about the 'brute creation', with an ugly emphasis on Brute. Only Christians are capable of it. As for me, I am proud of my close kinship with other animals. I take a jealous pride in my Simian ancestry. I like to think that I was once a magnificent hairy fellow living in the trees and that my frame has come down through geological time via sea jelly and worms and Amphioxus, Fish, Dinosaurs, and Apes. Who would exchange these for the pallid couple in the Garden of Eden?

  W.N.P. Barbellion

  Christian, Couple, Hate

  W. N. P. Barbellion (2017). “The Journal of a Disappointed Man”, p.35, Penguin UK

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• We think that by protecting ourselves from suffering, we are being kind to ourselves. The truth is we only become more fearful, more hardened and more alienated. We experience ourselves as being separate from the whole. This separateness becomes like a prison for us - a prison that restricts us to our personal hopes and fears, and to caring only for the people nearest to us. Curiously enough, if we primarily try to shield ourselves from discomfort, we suffer. Yet, when we don't close off, when we let our hearts break, we discover our kinship with all beings.

  Pema Chodron

  Truth, Fear, Heart

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• Indeed, much to my parents' surprise, the first word I spoke in this lifetime was "light." Prior to uttering its name, however, I was already searching for light - for my source. Yet despite my preternatural kinship with that spark that lights this and all worlds, for the first two or three decades of my life, I resisted it.

  Rod Stryker

  Light, Names, Two

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• I feel a special kinship with our military personnel, veterans, and their families. After all, two of my decisions sent them into harm's way.

  George W. Bush

  Military, Two, Decision

  Source: www.texasmonthly.com

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• It is worse to stay where one does not belong at all than to wander about lost for a while and looking for the psychic and soulful kinship one requires

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Psychics, Doe, Lost

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• Nothing is more important for transgender people than to have access to excellent health care in trans-affirmative environments, to have the legal and institutional freedom to pursue their own lives as they wish, and to have their freedom and desire affirmed by the rest of the world. This will happen only when transphobia is overcome at the level of individual attitudes and prejudices and in larger institutions of education, law, health care, and kinship.

  Judith Butler

  Attitude, Law, People

  Source: transadvocate.com

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• I feel a special kinship for our military. Because, unfortunately, I became a wartime president. And committed our military in the defense of our country to difficult assignments. I tell people all the time, I don't miss much about being president; I do miss looking in the eyes of people who volunteered to serve. And so not only do I feel a kinship, I feel an obligation and a duty to help.

  George W. Bush

  Country, Military, Eye

  Source: www.golfdigest.com

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• I agree completely that nothing is more important for transgender people than to have access to excellent health care in trans-affirmative environments, to have the legal and institutional freedom to pursue their own lives as they wish, and to have their freedom and desire affirmed by the rest of the world. This will happen only when transphobia is overcome at the level of individual attitudes and prejudices and in larger institutions of education, law, health care, and kinship.

  Judith Butler

  Attitude, People, Wish

  Source: www.transadvocate.com

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• If you're trying to forge bonds on something other than kinship, and forge a tribal identity on something other than relatedness, conformity is a good way to do it. And if you're wealthy, you can do it with a very expensive It bag, or whether it's Vuitton or Valentino at the moment, and it's a way to signal to one another, We're part of this tribe.

  Wednesday Martin

  Trying, Identity, Conformity

  Source: www.glamour.com

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

  Fatima bint Muhammad

  Joining, Causes, Made

  "Ayan al-Shī'ah" by al-Sayyid Muhsin al-Amin, vol.1, p. 316,

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• I grew up in a time when people believed in duty, honor and country. My grandfathers were both officers. My father was a General in the Air Force. My brother and I were both in the Army. I've always felt a kinship with soldiers; I think it's possible to support the warrior and be against the war.

  Kris Kristofferson

  Country, Brother, Father

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

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• The short story is at an advantage over the novel, and can claim its nearer kinship to poetry, because it must be more concentrated, can be more visionary, and is not weighed down (as the novel is bound to be) by facts, explanation, or analysis. I do not mean to say that the short story is by any means exempt from the laws of narrative: it must observe them, but on its own terms.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Mean, Law, Narrative

  Elizabeth Bowen (1959). “Stories”

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• A lot of the kinship that people notice is not coincidental. I was very impressionable and trying to find my role models when I was twelve or thirteen.

  Adrian Tomine

  People, Role Models, Trying

  Interview with Nicole Rudick, believermag.com. October 1, 2007.

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• The [Kwanzaa] holiday, then will of necessity, be engaged as an ancient and living cultural tradition which reflects the best of African thought and practice in its reaffirmation of the dignity of the human person in community and culture, the well-being of family and community, the integrity of the environment and our kinship with it, and the rich resource and meaning of a people's culture.

  Maulana Karenga

  Integrity, Holiday, Kwanzaa

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