Walter Scott Quotes

Nevertheless, blood is thicker than water, as anyone knows who has tasted both.

There's an awful lot of blood around that water is thicker than.

Your family is your family.

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.

Blood may be thicker than water, but it is still sticky, unpleasant and generally nauseating.

Blood always aids blood, my friend.

It doesn't matter to me. We're still cousins in our own way. Blood's just something old people talk about to make you feel bad.

I'm proud of my brother. I would never not want to be associated with him.

If you're family to me, you're gonna always be family to me.

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.

I have a lot of cousins that I'm very close to.

This is so weird. They're your brother and aunt." "No, I understand. They're your family too." Rhys said. "They loved you and raised you. That's what family is, right?

As to the strong likeness between General Hamilton and Dr. Stevens, Mr. Yard could give no account; altho' it seemed apparent that he thought them near of kin. In cases of this sort, the possibility of kindred blood gives rise to surmises, or strong suspicions, of which no proof is attainable.

Once someone is in your family orbit, there's a mutual responsibility, and whatever happens to them happens to you.

Your first family is your blood family and you always be true to that. That means something. But there's another family and that's the kind you go out and find. Maybe even by accident sometimes. And they're as much blood as your first family. Maybe more so, because they don't have to look out for you and they don't have to love you. They choose to.

Blood is thicker than water, my mother had always said when I was growing up, a sentiment I’d often disputed. But it turned out that it didn’t matter whether she was right or wrong. They both flowed out of my cupped palms.

It's peaceful to think about the family as a group. I totally believe in extended families.

I don't know if she's making the right choice, but it's not my choice to make. I promise to support her, whatever she decides. Because that's what sisters do.

I could forgive my own brother of anything, at the end of the day, because we're brothers. You can't get in between that blood.

Sticking with your family is what makes it a family.

It's hard to force a relationship with a stranger even if they happen to be someone you happen to share blood with.

I believe, Messieurs, in loyalty---to one's friends and one's family and one's caste.

We are a family, and the loyalty of the family must come before anything and everyone else. For if we honor that commitment, we will never be vanquished-but if we falter in that loyalty we will all be condemned.

To recongnize that the treachery of one member of a house does not taint all born within it

He is my brother. She is my sister. Come what will, they are my kin.