Family Quotes

Blood or chosen, families shape who we become. These quotes honor those bonds.

16096 quotes

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