Blood Relatives Quotes

Promised Lands was a better book in my opinion, and it's still my mother's favorite of the three I've done, but I doubt anyone who isn't a blood relative has ever heard of it. Which is to say expectations aren't worth much in the book world.

My father is incapable of showing much affection, or even of carrying on a conversation. I didn't want to have a relationship with him just because he's my blood relative. It would bore me.

You want a blood relative to lead your army? Get Marcie. She likes ordering people around. She'll be a natural.

Now let's try to understand that falling into sexual and emotional thrall with an underage blood relative hadn't exactly been on my list of Things to Do while visiting England,but I was coming around to the belief that whether you liked it or not, Things Happen and once they start happening you pretty much just have to hold on for dear life and see where they drop you when they stop.

Fathers in today's modern families can be so many things.

Father or stepfather - those are just titles to me. They don't mean anything.

Blood relatives often have nothing to do with family, and similarly, family is about who you choose to make your life with.

We are, all four of us, blood relatives, and we speak a kind of esoteric, family language, a sort of semantic geometry in which the shortest distance between any two points is a fullish circle.

Family does not necessarily mean blood relatives but often a description of a community, organisation or nation.

Mama always said a good family has one heartbeat. No one knows you like the people you live with, and no one will take up your cause to the outside world quite like your blood relatives.

I had no blood relatives till I made some.

You should be careful, tossing descriptors like that around in a situation like this. My ‘problem’ isn’t little. Unless you’re drawing some pretty wild comparisons. Please tell me you’re not drawing wild comparisons. Or blood-relative comparisons.

When we are inclined to boast of our position [as Christians] we should remember that we are but Gentiles, while the Jews are of the lineage of Christ. We are aliens and in-laws; they are blood relatives, cousins, and brothers of our Lord. Therefore, if one is to boast of flesh and blood the Jews are actually nearer to Christ than we are.

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.

You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.

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