#loyalty

The Dolly's around here can't be seen to coddle a snitch's family --- that's the always been our way. We're old blood, us people, and our ways was set firm long before hot shot baby Jesus ever even burped milk'n sh*& yellow. ↗

— Daniel Woodrell

#loyalty #tradition #family

I have a loyalty that runs in my bloodstream, when I lock into someone or something, you can't get me away from it because I commit that thoroughly. That's in friendship, that's a deal, that's a commitment. Don't give me paper - I can get the same lawyer who drew it up to break it. But if you shake my hand, that's for life. ↗

— Jerry Lewis

#because #bloodstream #break #commit #commitment

A person who deserves my loyalty receives it. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#loyalty #person #receives #who

As much as I liked and admired the various members of the Kennedy family, my first loyalty was to Jackie. ↗

— Pierre Salinger

#family #first #i #jackie #kennedy

Though there is growing division among the Ukrainian military ranks as to loyalty in this revolution, the possibility of violence looms over the entire situation. ↗

— Bob Schaffer

#division #entire #growing #looms #loyalty

But what are loyalty and caring really worth?" "To me? Everything. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#caring #friendship #inspirational-attitude #life #loving-others

There are two things which are mine in this world, You and my Dreams and I love them both by heart and soul....! ↗

— M.H. Rakib

#dreams #love #loyalty #dreams

I thought of how proud he was when he took the marks- cutting the skin of his throat in a long slash and then packing it with ashes until keloid scars rose up. He called it his second smile. ↗

— Holly Black

#family #honor #life #loyalty #mafia

Say yes,’ he whispers. ‘Marry me.’ I hesitate. I open my eyes. ‘You will get my fortune,’ I remark. ‘When I marry you, everything I have becomes yours. Just as George has everything that belongs to Isabel.’ ‘That’s why you can trust me to win it for you,’ he says simply. ‘When your interests and mine are the same, you can be certain that I will care for you as for myself. You will be my own. You will find that I care for my own.’ ‘You will be true to me?’ ‘Loyalty is my motto. When I give my word, you can trust me. ↗

— Philippa Gregory

#equality-between-partners #husband-and-wife #love #loyalty #marriage

Love's the son stood stammering elocution while the poor ship in flames went down ↗

— Elizabeth Bishop

#love #loyalty #family