Family Quotes
Blood or chosen, families shape who we become. These quotes honor those bonds.
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"The family is a feedback system where actions ripple endlessly."Gregory Bateson
"The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence."Margaret Mead
"The institution of the family is accountable for a large share of the suffering which exists in the world."Margaret Mead
"Women are the first environment."Margaret Mead
"My grandmother wanted her children to speak well and to be well-educated."Margaret Mead
"The family is the basic unit of society, and its health determines the society's health."Margaret Mead
"The family is the primordial group, and from it all other social institutions have grown."Bronislaw Malinowski
"In the kinship system lies the blueprint of social organization itself."Bronislaw Malinowski
"Family is the root of civilization."Oswald Spengler
"Family bonds endure."Oswald Spengler
"The bonds of kinship extend far beyond mere biological connection."A.R. Radcliffe-Brown
"Marriage systems are solutions to the problem of organizing reproduction and inheritance."A.R. Radcliffe-Brown
"Inheritance and succession systems reveal a society's fundamental values and concerns."A.R. Radcliffe-Brown
"Every society must regulate sexuality because reproduction has profound social consequences."A.R. Radcliffe-Brown
"We inherit more from our ancestors than we inherit from our genes."Alfred Kroeber
"Family is the first school of pattern recognition and relationship."Gregory Bateson
"The family is the crucible in which all human values are forged and tested."Bronislaw Malinowski
"The greatest inheritance is not money, but values."Arnold Toynbee
"We must understand that kinship systems are ways of organizing human relationships, not mere biological facts."A.R. Radcliffe-Brown
"The bond between parents and children is perhaps the strongest force in nature."Christopher Dawson
"The family is the basic unit of society."Christopher Dawson
"Family bonds are sacred and eternal."Christopher Dawson
"The institution of the family is the basis for all civilization."Margaret Mead
"The great tradition of parenthood is the greatest tradition in the world."Margaret Mead
"My grandmother gave me my sense of discipline and my sense of taste."Margaret Mead
"The family is where we first learn to love and be loved."Margaret Mead
"We inherit culture, we do not invent it anew."Alfred Kroeber
"The family is the first and most fundamental group of human society."Bronislaw Malinowski
"Family is the first state, and within it all human virtues and vices are rehearsed."Oswald Spengler
"The first thing to remember about becoming a mother is that no one can do it quite like you."Margaret Mead