Quotes about Bond

Family need not be defined merely as those with whom we share blood, but as those for whom we would give our blood.

Oh indeed! Our and the Wilfers' Mutual Friend, my dear.

You are part of my existence, part of myself.

DOMBEY sat in the corner of the darkened room in the great armchair by the bedside, and Son lay tucked up warm in a little basket bedstead, carefully disposed on a low settee immediately in front of the fire and close to it, as if his constitution were analogous to that of a muffin, and it was essential to toast him brown while he was very new.

Her face looked ugly in the attempt to avoid tears; it was an ugliness which bound him to her more than any beauty could have done. It isn't being happy together, he thought as though it were a fresh discovery, that makes one love--it's being unhappy together.

United we stand, divided we fall.

No one leaves an old friend unless they are ashamed.

I don't see how a man is to be good for much unless he has some one woman to love him dearly.

To have a happy family is to enjoy an earlier heaven.

you will always love, and you will always be loved

Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.

But I will tell you Squire that having read even a few dozen books in common is a force more binding than blood.