J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

Everyone's pedigree merges into everyone else's pedigree. So if you go back far enough, everyone is related.

Family is more than DNA, more than who we used to be, more than we can imagine we will become.

If you want to see mankind fully, look at a family. Within the family minds become organically one, and for this reason the family is total poetry.

Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

There are men who would quickly love each other if once they were speak to each other; for when they spoke they would discover that their souls had only separated by phantoms and delusions.

Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Men are fair, and they have learned not to personalize anger - they can disagree with you and argue to the bone, but afterward they still consider you a nice person with whom the underlying human relationship need not be altered.

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.

Relationships are interesting to me. Not just between men and women, but fathers and sons, brothers and sisters and friends.

It takes two men to make one brother.

Love is the bond between men, the way to teach and the center of the world.

Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures-in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together.

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

Do I need men? I don't think it's about needing men. It's about love.

The People of the United States are kindred of the People of Great Britain. With all our distinct national interests, objects, and aspirations, we are conscious that our moral strength is largely derived from that relationship, and we do not deceive ourselves when we suppose that, by constantly cherishing cordial friendship and sympathy with the other branches of the family to which we belong, we impart to them not less strength than we derive from the same connection.

Home is not land and borders. It's about people you love.

I don't see coming to Kerala as a commercial exercise; it's a human venture. Every film I make, I come here. I am the prodigal son.

Relationships can be about yourself, they can be about you and your god, you and your people, you and your family. It can be about a lot of different stuff. And it is.

It's one of nature's way that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.

However deep our devotion may be to parents or to children, it is our contemporaries alone with whom understanding is instinctive and entire.

There is no hope of joy except in human relations.

For there is but one problem - the problem of human relations. We forget that there is no hope or joy except in human relations.

The men who come on the stage at one period are all found to be related to each other. Certain ideas are in the air.

...the measure of life is revealed in the quality of our relationships: with God, our families, our fellow men." - A Perfect Day by Richard Paul Evans

The man who melts With social sympathy, though not allied, Is more worth than a thousand kinsmen.