Family Quotes
Blood or chosen, families shape who we become. These quotes honor those bonds.
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"The family that works together grows together."Robertson Davies
"Family is the first country we ever know."Seán Ó Faoláin
"Family is where love begins and never ends."Frank O'Connor
"Family is where love begins."Joyce Carol Oates
"Family is not always blood – it's those who choose to stay."Sean O'Casey
"Family is both the greatest blessing and the deepest wound."Douglas Coupland
"Family teaches you who you are and who you don't want to be."Douglas Coupland
"Family is a choice you make over and over again."Margaret Atwood
"Fathers are more appreciated as they get older, much like wine."Robertson Davies
"The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day."Robertson Davies
"The family unit is where we learn our first languages of pain and joy."Joyce Carol Oates
"All we're supposed to do is try. We're supposed to take care of our own."Harper Lee
"You can choose your friends but you sho' can't choose your family."Harper Lee
"The one human institution that is older than any other is the family."Harper Lee
"You can never really go back home."Douglas Coupland
"The deepest and most unconditional love is that of a parent."Carson McCullers
"The great thing about family is that it endures."Eudora Welty
"My mother is a Wyandotte and my father was part German and part Scotch-Irish."Flannery O'Connor
"Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home."Robertson Davies
"He knew only that the child was his warrant."Cormac McCarthy
"We inherit both the blessings and the wounds of our families."Carson McCullers
"Family relationships are the most complex because they cannot be dissolved without profound consequences."Joyce Carol Oates
"Family trauma echoes through generations; breaking cycles requires awareness and intention."Joyce Carol Oates
"I maintain that the Ewells started it all, but I do not think it entirely fair to say that we made a mistake in following Atticus' convictions."Harper Lee
"You can choose your friends, but you sho' can't choose your family."Harper Lee
"A man without a home is a man without a heart"Robertson Davies
"The family is where life begins and love never ends"Robertson Davies
"Family is the only thing that's real. Everything else is just noise."Cormac McCarthy
"Family relationships are laboratories for understanding ourselves."Joyce Carol Oates
"Family teaches us our first lessons in both cruelty and care."Joyce Carol Oates