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Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother! -- Honore de Balzac
It seems some have chosen to ignore or have simply forgotten the big-picture vision promoted by Dr. King and his kin. -- Al Sharpton
Rules and Things Number 63: Never, Ever Say Something Bad About Someone You Don't Know--Especially When You're Around a Bunch of Strangers. You Never Can Tell Who Might Be Kin to That Person or Who Might Be a Lip-Flapping, Big-Mouth Spy. -- Christopher Paul Curtis
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin. -- William Shakespeare
Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
I'm influenced by a lot of filmmakers; I like English filmmakers because I feel a kin to them. -- Rupert Sanders
In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin. -- Oscar Wilde
Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood. -- Tryon Edwards
A relative of poison ivy and poison sumac, the cashew contains the same rash-inducing chemicals, known as urushiols, as its kin. -- Kate Christensen
By vulgarity I mean that vice of civilization which makes man ashamed of himself and his next of kin, and pretend to be somebody else. -- Solomon Schechter
Gratitude's not a natural posture. The prince of darkness is ultimately a spoiled ingrate, and I've spent most of my life as kin to the fist-shaker. -- Ann Voskamp
There is something so settled and stodgy about turning a great romance into next of kin on an emergency room form, and something so soothing and special, too. -- Anna Quindlen
Among all the characters mentioned in the Bible, none is more mysterious than Melchisedec; said to be without father, mother, or earthly kin, and holding the dual office of king and priest. -- Max Heindel
If man was the relative of animals, then animals were the relatives of man, and in degrees bearers of that inwardness of which man, the most advanced of their kin, is conscious in himself. -- Hans Jonas
My efforts have been to not only put the Biblical incident in the original setting, but at the same time give the human touch which makes the whole world kin and which ever remains the same. -- Henry Ossawa Tanner
Probably half the cases of Civil War dead were not identified. And so there was no way to let loved ones know, and there were no regularized processes in either Northern or Southern Army for notifying next of kin. -- Drew Gilpin Faust
You can't very well live in a castle while your kin is on the poor side of town and barely have enough food. Some want you to get to the top and rely on you making it for them, too. -- Martha Reeves
Those who are able to climb up the ladder will find ways to pull it up after them, or selectively lower it down to allow their friends, allies, and kin to scramble up. In other words: 'Who says meritocracy says oligarchy.' -- Chris Hayes
A departure from the movie with Michael J. Fox, 'Teen Wolf' tells the story of how a group of angsty teens deal with werewolves, their supernatural kin and the world of trouble that comes with it, all while trying to still live their lives. -- Keahu Kahuanui
Obviously, you would give your life for your children, or give them the last biscuit on the plate. But to me, the trick in life is to take that sense of generosity between kin, make it apply to the extended family and to your neighbour, your village and beyond. -- Tom Stoppard
Charles Darwin and I and you broke off from the family tree from chimpanzees about five million years ago. They're still our closest genetic kin. We share 98.8 percent of the genes. We share more genes with them than zebras do with horses. And we're also their closest cousin. They have more genetic relation to us than to gorillas. -- Colin Camerer
I can remember that on the shelves at home, there were these books by Thomas Wolfe. 'Look Homeward Angel' and 'Of Time and the River.' 'Of Time and the River' had just come out when I was aware of his name. My parents had a hard time convincing me that he was no kin whatsoever. My attitude was, 'Well, what's he doing on the shelf, then?' -- Tom Wolfe
Trouble's made us kin. -- George Eliot
We and the beasts are kin. -- Ernest Thompson Seton
One smell of brimstone makes the whole world kin. -- George Ade
Flattery is a juggler, and no kin unto sincerity. -- Thomas Browne
A boy has never wept...nor dashed a thousand kin -- Dutch Schultz
A little more than kin, a little less than kind. -- William Shakespeare
Poetry is always close kin to the impossible, isn't it? -- Reginald Shepherd
Remember that one touch of ill-nature makes the whole world kin. -- Lord Acton
We call our rich relatives the kin we love to touch -- Eddie Cantor
Poetry is the mathematics of writing and closely kin to music. -- John Steinbeck
Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. -- Willa Cather
Death doesn't just make all the world kin, it makes all religions one -- Neal Shusterman
Love everyone because everyone is your kin and this universe is your home. -- Debasish Mridha
When a knave is in a plumtree he hath neither friend nor kin. -- George Herbert
Pity and need Make all flesh kin. There in no caste in blood. -- Edwin Arnold
The first family is my kin. The other family is my SNSD family. -- Im Yoona
Get thee behind me Satan, and push me along. I'm kin to the devil. -- Eazy-E
Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood. -- Tryon Edwards
Dying--shucks! If you kin handle the living, what's to be afraid of the dying? -- Robert Penn Warren
He is my brother. She is my sister. Come what will, they are my kin. -- Philippa Gregory
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When a man dies, and his kin are glad of it, they say, "He is better off." -- E. W. Howe
Taint no law on earth dat kin make a man be decent if it aint in 'im. -- Zora Neale Hurston
Off in the coupe, spreadin' the loot with my family and friends, and my closest of kin. -- Nelly
Only a f-kin imbecile would think they un-correctable, cause you're susceptible to becoming more than a spectacle. -- Immortal Technique
Everyone in this world is your kin, so be kind to everyone and rude to no one. -- Debasish Mridha
There will be three, kin of your kin, who hold the power of the stars in their paws. -- Erin Hunter
No matter how much you disagree with your kin, if you are a thoroughbred you will not discuss their shortcomings with the neighbors. -- Tom Thomson
I smoke. If this bothers anyone, I suggest you look around at the world in which we live and shut your f-kin' mouth. -- Bill Hicks
One would be in less danger From the wiles of the stranger If one's own kin and kith Were more fun to be with. -- Ogden Nash
In 2010, my two Harvard mathematician colleagues and I dismantled kin-selection theory, which was the reigning theory of the origin of altruism at the time. -- E. O. Wilson
If aught I have said is truth, that truth shall reveal itself in a clearer voice, and in words more kin to your thoughts. -- Khalil Gibran
You kin tame a bear. You kin tame a wild-cat and you kin tame a panther. ... You kin tame arything, son, excusin' the human tongue. -- Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
He who understands you is greater kin to you than your own brother. For even your own kindred neither understand you nor know your true worth. -- Khalil Gibran
If you kin see de light at daybreak, you don't keer if you die at dusk. It's so many people never seen de light at all. -- Zora Neale Hurston
Fair and foul are near of kin And fair needs foul," I cried. "My friends are gone, but that's a truth Nor grave nor bed denied." -- William Butler Yeats
Humans didn't really fight over skin tone or ideology; those were just handy cues for kin-selection purposes. Ultimately it always came down to bloodlines and limited resources. -- Peter Watts
We're more than friends and neighbors and allies; we are kin, who together have built the most productive relationship between any two countries in the world today. -- Ronald Reagan
. . . the sin of abortion, or the destruction of unborn children - lies somewhere a close kin to the crime of destroying human life and certainly to be condemned. -- Harold B. Lee
If you should find yourself in a place that is indifferent to you and there is someone there that your spirit stretches to, then that person is kin. -- Helen Oyeyemi
Woven into our lives is the very fire from the stars and genes from the sea creatures, and everyone, utterly everyone, is kin in the radiant tapestry of being. -- Elizabeth A. Johnson
I give my soul to God, my body to the earth, and my worldly possessions to my nearest of kin, charging them to remember the sufferings of Jesus Christ. -- Michelangelo
You will find that our enemies are our own kin. It is they who betray us. So learn this most important lesson-in the end, our worst enemy is ourselves -- F. Sionil JosÃ©
Certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body; and if he be not kin to God by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature. -- Francis Bacon
For little boys are rancorous When robbed of any myth, And spiteful and cantankerous To all their kin and kith. But little girls can draw conclusions And profit from their lost illusions. -- Phyllis McGinley
People who criticize The Selfish Gene like that often haven't read it. The selfish gene accounts for altruism toward kin and individuals who might be in a position to reciprocate your altruism. -- Richard Dawkins
How will it end?... a vision of a universal religion, which will embrace all creeds; a universal government which will embrace all humanity; a universal knowledge which will make all mankind kin... -- Carl H. Claudy
One must love God first, and only then can one love one's closest of kin and neighbors. We must not be idols to one another, for such is not the will of God. -- Thaddeus of Vitovnica
Oh, where is man That mortal god, that hath no mortal kin Or like on earth? Shall Nature's orator The interpreter of all her mystic strains Shall he be mute in Nature's jubilee? -- Hartley Coleridge
Half of the popcorn sh-t that's out there, we know it's popcorn. But we're like, "It's my guilty pleasure." I feel like we have more guilty pleasure than actual f - kin' pleasure. -- Saul Williams
Youth's longing misconceived inconsistency.Those whom I deemedChanged to my kin, the friends of whom I dreamed,Have aged and lost our old affinity:One has to change to stay akin to me. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Often in this our life do we begin by cursing men and end by loving them. A sense of the common fallibility of all flesh makes us kin. No man is lovable who is invincible. -- Neville Cardus

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