Family Quotes

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

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"Family bonds are unbreakable"
Rubén Darío
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"The family is where we first learn the language of love."
Jorge Edwards
"The family is the first school of justice and compassion."
Miguel Ángel Asturias
"The bonds of family are stronger than the logic of reason."
Miguel Ángel Asturias
"Family is where we first learn to be human."
Gioconda Belli
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"All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother."
Abraham Lincoln
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"I have always believed that one man and woman constituting themselves into a marriage relation and sticking to it means more for the race and for the nation than 10,000 sterile friendships."
Abraham Lincoln
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"I am my brother's keeper."
Nelson Mandela
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"Our children are watching how we resolve our differences."
Nelson Mandela
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"Women are the keepers of stories that men forget."
Elena Garro
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"The family is both prison and sanctuary."
Elena Garro
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"We inherit the traumas of our ancestors."
Elena Garro
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"The family is where we learn to love and suffer."
Elena Garro
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"The family legacy is written in our DNA and our dreams."
Elena Garro
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"The family is both our foundation and our prison."
Elena Garro
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"Family is the cornerstone of our existence."
Rosario Castellanos
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"Family bonds are the strongest in the world."
Rosario Castellanos
"The family is the first democracy; within it, we learn to negotiate and compromise."
Miguel Ángel Asturias
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"Family bonds are the foundation upon which civilization is built."
Rubén Darío
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"Family binds us, but it should never imprison us."
Nellie Campobello
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"Family legacy lives in the choices we make for others."
Nellie Campobello
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"We inherit both the triumphs and traumas of our ancestors."
Rosario Castellanos
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"We inherit our mother's silences along with our father's names."
Elena Garro
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"We inherit more from our mothers than blood; we inherit silence."
Elena Garro
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"The worst thing you can do for those you love is the things they could and should do themselves."
Abraham Lincoln
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"My father taught me to work, but not to love it."
Abraham Lincoln
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"Family bonds are the foundation of all human dignity."
Mariano Azuela
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"Family teaches us our first lessons in love."
Mariano Azuela
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"We inherit not just genes, but ghosts."
Rosario Castellanos
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"The family is where we first learn to love and be wounded."
Rosario Castellanos