Quotes about Bond

The really delightful marriage must be that where your husband was a sort of father, and could teach you even Hebrew, if you wished it.

Speculative truth begins to appear but a shadow of individual minds, agreement between intellects seems unattainable, and we turn to the truth of feeling as the only universal bond of union.

Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.

And remember that I am unchangeably yours: yours - not with selfish wishes - but with a devotion that excludes such wishes.

No child was afraid of approaching Silas when Eppie was near him: there was no repulsion around him now, either for young or old; for the little child had come to link him once more with the whole world. There was love between him and the child that blent them into one, and there was love between the child and the world

What greater thing is there for human souls than to feel that they are joined for life - to be with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.

In your love you see only your two selves in the world, but in marriage you are a link in the chain of the generations

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are therir own

A forced marriage is no marriage.

Of course, parents are the most important people in a child's life.

A family spirit is not always synonymous with family life. Bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh makes for brothers, sisters and relatives, who may be as distant as strangers in a foreign land.