Family Quotes

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

16096 quotes

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"I carry my childhood like a burden I refuse to set down."
Fernando Pessoa
J
"We are all refugees from our own childhoods, forever trying to go home."
John Banville
J
"The family is humanity's first experiment with tyranny."
José María de Eça de Queirós
P
"Children are the keepers of tomorrow's possibilities."
Padraig Colum
P
"The bonds of family are the threads that hold civilization together."
Padraig Colum
L
"The family that grows together in hardship becomes unbreakable."
Luís de Camões
"Family is not an important thing; it's everything"
Patrick Kavanagh
J
"Family is the first mythology we learn to believe in."
John Banville
J
"We inherit more from the past than we realize."
John Banville
J
"Family is the first prison we willingly enter."
José María de Eça de Queirós
J
"Family bonds are chains we learn to love."
José María de Eça de Queirós
J
"Family is the first betrayal we learn to forgive."
José María de Eça de Queirós
A
"We inherit not just land, but the ghosts of our ancestors' struggles."
Austin Clarke
A
"The greatest gift we can give our children is stories that tell them they matter."
Austin Clarke
S
"I feel it in my bones that something is owed to the place we come from."
Seamus Heaney
S
"Family is where life begins and love never ends."
Seamus Heaney
P
"The bonds of family are woven from invisible threads of love."
Padraig Colum
P
"Children are the living messages we send to tomorrow."
Padraig Colum
J
"We are shaped by the stories we inherit and transform."
John Banville
A
"Family is the first language we learn to speak."
Austin Clarke
"Family is where we first learn what it means to belong without conditions."
Patrick Kavanagh
"Family teaches us that love is not conditional upon perfection."
Patrick Kavanagh
C
"Family is not an important thing. It's everything."
Christy Brown
J
"Family is where we learn to love imperfectly those we did not choose."
José María de Eça de Queirós
S
"Family is where life begins and love never ends."
Seán Ó Faoláin
S
"A family is a life jacket in the stormy sea of life."
Seán Ó Faoláin
C
"Family is the foundation upon which we build our strength."
Christy Brown
S
"What we inherit from our ancestors shapes how we perceive and create."
Seamus Heaney
P
"A man's first duty is to his own household and his own people."
Padraig Colum
P
"A family is not bound by blood alone but by choice and commitment."
Padraig Colum