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Kindred spirits alone do not change with the changing years. -- Lucy Maud Montgomery
The older I get, the more I realize how rare it is to meet a kindred spirit. -- Ethan Hawke
Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world. -- Lucy Maud Montgomery
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And by the way, I wanted to point out that Kindred is not science fiction. You'll note there's no science in it. It's a kind of grim fantasy. -- Octavia Butler
Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them. -- Alan Watts
Butler's novel 'Kindred' may be the book most widely read by readers outside science fiction; it has been assigned as a text in classrooms and has sold steadily since its publication in 1979. -- Karen Joy Fowler
Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared. -- Jane Porter
Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
Kindred objects kindred thoughts inspire, As summer clouds flash forth electric fire. -- Samuel Rogers
All living things on earth are kindred. -- Edward Abbey
May love's kindred treasure box fling your luminescent glove. -- Isabel Yosito
People who feel empowered by your presence become kindred spirits. -- Wayne Dyer
Justice discards party, friendship, kindred, and is always, therefore, represented as blind. -- Joseph Addison
America is an archipelago of tribes, a land where people form national families of kindred spirits. -- Hampton Sides
Type of the wise who soar but never roam, True to the kindred points of heaven and home. -- William Wordsworth
I found that it wasn't so oddball to like music and poetry and visual arts, they're kindred spirits. -- J. Carter Brown
To express a marriage of two complementary colors, their mingling and their opposition, the mysterious vibrations of kindred tones... -- Vincent Van Gogh
The strongest bond of human sympathy outside the family relation should be one uniting working people of all nations and tongues and kindreds. -- Abraham Lincoln
The great vicarious work for our kindred dead in our temples demonstrates both the justice and the fairness of the gospel of Jesus Christ. -- James E. Faust
It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him. -- Abraham Lincoln
Now must we sing and sing the best we can, But first you must be told your character: Convicted cowards all, by kindred slain. -- William Butler Yeats
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
What friends or kindred can be so close and intimate as the powers of our soul, which, whether we will or no, must ever bear us company? -- Saint Teresa of Avila
Twitter represents a collective collaboration that manifests our ability to unconsciously connect kindred voices through the experiences that move us. As such, Twitter is a human seismograph. -- Brian Solis
Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmas-time. -- Laura Ingalls Wilder
I had to learn to do everything because I couldn't find another kindred soul. Now you see eighty people listed doing the same things I was doing by myself. -- Ray Harryhausen
There is in stillness oft a magic power To calm the breast when struggling passions lower, Touched by its influence, in the soul arise Diviner feelings, kindred with the skies. -- John Henry Newman
Searching for our kindred dead isn't just a hobby. It is a fundamental responsibility for all members of the Church. We believe that life continues after death and that all will be resurrected. -- James E. Faust
The theatre, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history, because the medium has a kindred movement to that of real life, though an artificial setting and form. -- George Santayana
Meeting Stevie Wonder was a massive, lifetime achievement for me. He's one of the sweetest people. I sense a kindred spirit in him, and I hope he'd say the same. Actually, he did. -- Hunter Hayes
I feel comfortable here primarily because I think Los Angeles is made up of people who don't come from here, so you can find kindred spirits very easily. It's a town of gypsies. -- Matthew Rhys
The Disney archives, it's 84 years of history. The one way in which I feel I'm a kindred spirit with Walt Disney is that neither one of us ever throws anything away. He never threw anything away. -- Warren Spector
In 1893, Miss M. Roalfe Cox brought together, in a volume of the Folk-Lore Society, no less than 345 variants of 'Cinderella' and kindred stories showing how widespread this particular formula was throughout Europe and how substantially identical the various incidents as reproduced in each particular country. -- Joseph Jacobs
At present, the most effective way of preventing war would be for statesmen to direct politics so as to support a sound nationalism. This leads to concordance between people of kindred race and languages, whereas the conquest and coercion of people of different race and language inevitably lead to new wars. -- Ellen Key
Aleksey and I have gathered together a bunch of kindred spirits who are also versatile musicians. We have a violinist who eats fire, another who is an acrobat, and a flutist who beats boxes. We hope in years to come to tour the U.S. with our 'League of X-traordinary musicians.' -- Richard Hyung-ki Joo
It is not death to have the body called back to the earth, and dissolved into its kindred elements, and mouldered to dust, and, it may be, turn to daisies, in the grave. But it is death to have the soul paralyzed, its inner life quenched, its faculties dissipated; that is death. -- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
I am left alone in the wide world. My own dear family I have buried: one in Rangoon, and two in Amherst. What remains for me but to hold myself in readiness to follow the dear departed to that blessed world, 'Where my best friends, my kindred dwell, where God, my Saviour, reigns.' -- Adoniram Judson
ELVIS PRESLEY was bigger than life. His success was documented and laid out for him. He came to the first show I had in Memphis, and it was very nice. He sort of treated me like an equal, because we were both fresh in the business. We got to be great friends and kindred souls. -- Roy Orbison
I have said that poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity: the emotion is contemplated till, by a species of reaction, the tranquillity gradually disappears, and an emotion, kindred to that which was before the subject of contemplation, is gradually produced, and does itself actually exist in the mind. -- William Wordsworth
I, on my side, require of every writer, first or last, a simple and sincere account of his own life, and not merely what he has heard of other men's lives; some such account as he would send to his kindred from a distant land; for if he has lived sincerely, it must have been in a distant land to me. -- Henry David Thoreau
All men are brothers, we like to say, half-wishing sometimes in secret it were not true. But perhaps it is true. And is the evolutionary line from protozoan to Spinoza any less certain? That also may be true. We are obliged, therefore, to spread the news, painful and bitter though it may be for some to hear, that all living things on earth are kindred. -- Edward Abbey
Even so; an't please your worship, Brakenbury, You may partake of any thing we say: We speak no treason, man; we say the King Is wise and virtuous, and his noble queen Well struck in years, fair, and not jealous; We say that Shore's wife hath a pretty foot, A cherry lip, a bonny eye, a passing pleasing tongue; And that the Queen's kindred are made gentlefolks. -- William Shakespeare
Friendship is stronger than kindred. -- Publilius Syrus
All powerful souls have kindred with each other -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I see behind each mask that wonder a kindred soul ... -- Walt Whitman
Beasts of like kind will spare those of kindred spots. -- Juvenal
We pine for kindred natures To mingle with our own. -- Felicia Hemans
When two close kindred meet What better than call a dance?. -- William Butler Yeats
The greater the kindred is, the lesse the kindnesse must bee. -- John Lyly
He was like me - a kindred spirit crazy enough to keep on trying. -- Octavia Butler
The chief recommendation is modesty, then dutiful conduct toward parents, then affection for kindred. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Than smoke and mist who better could appraise The kindred spirit of an inner haze? -- Robert Frost
[Superman and Lois are] kindred spirits, and they always choose to do the right thing. -- Jim Lee
All natural objects make a kindred impression, when the mind is open to their influence. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Lost money is bewailed with deeper sighs Than friends, or kindred, and with louder cries. -- Juvenal
Mountains interposed Make enemies of nations, who had else Like kindred drops been mingled into one. -- William Cowper
It is only kindred griefs that draw forth our tears, and each weeps really for himself. -- Heinrich Heine
Could be my soul mate / two kindred spirits / Maybe we're not / I guess we'll never / know -- Jay Asher
To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world--without friends or country, home or kindred. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
If you are wise, all men will be your friends and kindred, for you will be useful. -- Plato
Lenin sensed that Tukhachevsky was a kindred spirit. He delegated the most responsible jobs to the obscure lieutenant. -- Mikhail Tukhachevsky
Men leave their riches either to their kindred or their friends, and moderate portions prosper best in both. -- Francis Bacon
Defend our liberties and fashion into one united people the multitudes brought hither out of many kindred and tongues. -- Thomas Jefferson
Old events have modern meanings; only that survives of past history which finds kindred in all hearts and lives. -- James Russell Lowell
The great leader attracts to himself men of kindred character, drawing them towards him as the loadstone draws iron. -- Samuel Smiles
Women of vanquished races are usually very prone to wed with the men who have slaughtered their kindred in battle. -- Arthur Desmond
Give all to love: Obey thy heart; Friends, kindred, days, Estate, good fame, Plans, credit, and the Muse,- Nothing refuse. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A bosom friend - an intimate friend, you know - a really kindred spirit to whom I can confide my inmost soul. -- Lucy Maud Montgomery
We can thank our lucky stars when once in a blue moon we find rare and kindred souls along the pathways of our lives. -- Laurel Burch
Friendless I can never be, for all mankind are my kindred, and I am on ill terms with no one member of my great family. -- Charles Dickens
What friends or kindred can be so close and intimate as the powers of our soul, which, whether we will or no, must ever bear us company? -- Saint Teresa of Avila
What lawsuits grow out of the graves of rich men, every day; sowing perjury, hatred, and lies among near kindred, where there should be nothing but love! -- Charles Dickens
Nature is a temple, where the living Columns sometimes breathe confusing speech; Man walks within these groves of symbols, each Of which regards him as a kindred thing. -- Charles Baudelaire
I think most serious and omnivorous readers are alike- intense in their dedication to the word, quiet-minded, but relieved and eagerly talkative when they meet other readers and kindred spirits. -- Paul Theroux
The mystery which underlies the beauty of women is never raised above the reach of all expression until it has claimed kindred with the deeper mystery in our own souls. -- Wilkie Collins
Trust not to friends and kindred, neither do thou put off the care of thy soul's welfare til hereafter; for men will sooner forget thee than thou art aware of. -- Thomas a Kempis
O gentle vision in the dawn:My spirit over faint cool water glides,Child of the day,To thee;And thou art drawnBy kindred impulse over silver tidesThe dreamy wayTo me." -- Harold Monro
O gentle vision in the dawn:My spirit over faint cool water glides,Child of the day,To thee;And thou art drawnBy kindred impulse over silver tidesThe dreamy wayTo me. -- Harold Monro
How can life be worth living, if devoid Of the calm trust reposed by friend in friend? What sweeter joy than in the kindred soul, Whose converse differs not from self-communion? -- Quintus Ennius
For He, who gave this vast machine to roll, Breathed Life in then, in us a Reasoning Soul; That kindred feelings might our state improve, And mutual wants conduct to mutual love. -- Juvenal
It goes without saying that any persons may attempt to unite kindred spirits, but, whatever their hopes and longings, none have the right to impose their vision of unity upon the rest. -- Robert Nozick
Johnny Depp is, to me, a rare kindred spirit with like sensibilities, who has escaped the beast. He's probably one of the few people that have survived Los Angeles as a human being. -- Nick Tosches
Bless my family, kindred, friends and country, be our God and guide this day and forever for His sake, who lay down in the grave and arose again for us, Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. -- George Washington
The Canadian is often a baffled man because he feels different from his British kindred and his American neighbours, sharply refused to be lumped together with either of them, yet cannot make plain his difference. -- J. B. Priestley
The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible; but all natural objects make a kindred impression, when the mind is open to their influence. Nature never wears a mean appearance. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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