Family Quotes

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

16096 quotes

"Family is the first world in which we learn to exist with others."
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
"The smallest cell of the political body is the family, and this is why family life is nothing else than the cell of society as a whole."
Walter Benjamin
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"Family shapes who we become."
Paul Feyerabend
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"Family shapes who we become."
Noam Chomsky
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"The family is humanity's first school of compassion."
Alfred North Whitehead
"Kinship systems are the language through which societies speak."
Claude Lévi-Strauss
"We inherit not genes but stories and practices."
Claude Lévi-Strauss
"The study of kinship reveals the architecture of society."
Claude Lévi-Strauss
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"Family is the first institution that teaches us about responsibility."
Ludwig von Mises
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"Family bonds are strengthened through shared values and experiences."
Ludwig von Mises
"Family structures reveal the deepest values of any society."
Claude Lévi-Strauss
"The family is where we first learn to navigate symbolic systems."
Claude Lévi-Strauss
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"Family bonds are strengthened through honest communication."
Karl Popper
"The family is humanity's first school of social relations."
Claude Lévi-Strauss
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"Family is where life begins and love never ends."
Johann Tetens
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"Family ties are made to be broken."
Johann Tetens
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"Family bonds are rooted in biological necessity."
Julien Offray de La Mettrie
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"The bonds of family are the strongest bonds known to humanity."
Antonio Genovesi
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"The family is the first school of the human heart."
Antonio Genovesi
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"The family is the first school of virtue and the foundation of all society."
Johann Tetens
J
"Family is both the origin of our wounds and the source of their healing."
Johann Tetens
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"The family is the first school of self-interest and social utility."
Julien Offray de La Mettrie
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"The family is the first school of virtue and the foundation upon which all social order rests."
Antonio Genovesi
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"The greatest inheritance a parent can leave is not wealth but wisdom and virtue."
Antonio Genovesi
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"Family bonds are the first of nature's social contracts."
Julien Offray de La Mettrie
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"The family unit serves as the foundation upon which all civilized society must rest."
Johann Tetens
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"Family bonds, though sometimes burdensome, provide essential anchoring for our moral development."
Johann Tetens
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"The family is the first school of virtue and wisdom."
Antonio Genovesi
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"Family is the foundation of the state"
Giovanni Vico
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"The family unit is nature's school of moral and spiritual development."
George Berkeley