Family Quotes

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

16096 quotes

"Family is the basic unit of society"
Frank O'Connor
"A family is the first school of the human heart"
Patrick Kavanagh
"Family is the first love that teaches us how to love"
Patrick Kavanagh
A
"The family is where we first learn what it means to belong."
Austin Clarke
A
"The family teaches us what love costs and what it demands."
Austin Clarke
S
"The family we are born into shapes us; the one we choose defines us."
Seán Ó Faoláin
A
"Home is not always a place; sometimes it is a person or a dream."
Austin Clarke
"The family is where we practice love before we offer it to the world"
Patrick Kavanagh
S
"Family is the foundation of society."
Sean O'Casey
S
"The truth is that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us."
Seamus Heaney
C
"In my family, we learned that adversity was just another teacher."
Christy Brown
C
"My family's love was the foundation upon which I built my life."
Christy Brown
"Family is both our greatest comfort and deepest mystery."
Frank O'Connor
"Family relationships shape who we become in fundamental ways."
Frank O'Connor
S
"The bonds of family are both our greatest comfort and our deepest wound."
Seán Ó Faoláin
S
"We inherit our first wound from our family; we choose how to heal it."
Seán Ó Faoláin
S
"The family is the foundation of society."
Sean O'Casey
S
"Family bonds transcend time and distance."
Sean O'Casey
"There's nothing better than having your family around you."
Douglas Coupland
S
"We inherit not just words but the ghosts of those who spoke them."
Seamus Heaney
B
"When I was a child, my parents wanted me to be a doctor."
Brendan Behan
C
"Family is where you learn that weakness and strength are often the same thing."
Christy Brown
C
"My family showed me that love is not about what you can do, but who you are."
Christy Brown
S
"Family is the foundation upon which we build our lives."
Sean O'Casey
"Family is where we learn to love and be loved."
Frank O'Connor
C
"I have cerebral palsy. But I have also a mother, a father, and a sister who love me. I am not my disability."
Christy Brown
S
"A family is held together not by blood alone but by the stories we share and retell."
Seán Ó Faoláin
"Family is the price we pay for being human."
Douglas Coupland
M
"Family is where life begins and love never ends."
Margaret Atwood
M
"Family bonds are unbreakable."
Margaret Atwood