Close Relationship

Famous quotes containing the words close relationship, close and/or relationship:

    There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts. The fragility and delicacy of the former are of the same nature as the brutal insensitivity of the latter.
    Jean Genet (1910–1986)

    I became, and remain, my characters’ close and intent watcher: their director, never. Their creator I cannot feel that I was, or am.
    Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)

    Christianity as an organized religion has not always had a harmonious relationship with the family. Unlike Judaism, it kept almost no rituals that took place in private homes. The esteem that monasticism and priestly celibacy enjoyed implied a denigration of marriage and parenthood.
    Beatrice Gottlieb, U.S. historian. The Family in the Western World from the Black Death to the Industrial Age, ch. 12, Oxford University Press (1993)