Family Quotes

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

16096 quotes

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"Family is where we learn to love."
William Carlos Williams
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"Family bonds are unbreakable."
William Carlos Williams
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"Family is the first adventure and the last home."
Jack Kerouac
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"If there are any heavens my mother will by herself have"
e.e. cummings
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"Family is both anchor and sail."
Hart Crane
"I have a wife and daughters, so I do care about the future of the species, as a sentimental thing."
Kurt Vonnegut
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"The family unit shapes us more profoundly than any school or institution."
William Carlos Williams
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"Family is the first teacher of love and compassion"
Allen Ginsberg
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"Family binds us to history and hope simultaneously."
Hart Crane
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"Family is both burden and salvation."
Hart Crane
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"Family is the heart of existence."
Hilda Doolittle
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"Family is where we learn to love."
Hilda Doolittle
"So I learned to listen to mothers on television."
Kurt Vonnegut
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"The family is the foundation of all society."
William Carlos Williams
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"The family is where we first learn the language of belonging."
Hart Crane
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"Family teaches us our first lessons in love."
Hilda Doolittle
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"Family wounds run deep but healing is possible."
Hilda Doolittle
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"I realized these were all the snapshots which our children would look at someday with wonder, thinking their parents had lived smooth, well-ordered lives and got up in the morning to walk proudly on the sidewalks of life."
Jack Kerouac
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"One thing I liked about my grandmother was that she never tried to make me anything other than what I was."
Jack Kerouac
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"A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another."
Amy Lowell
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"Family bonds are sacred."
Amy Lowell
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"Family is where we learn the first language of love."
William Carlos Williams
"A mother is a woman who demonstrates the power of pure love."
Fannie Hurst
"Family is the foundation of all things."
Fannie Hurst
"We inherit not just genes but a responsibility to the future."
Marianne Moore
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"Family is not just an accident; it is a deliberate choice."
Amy Lowell
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"The family we choose is as important as the one we're born to."
Hilda Doolittle
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"A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary."
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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"The very foundations of our civilization rest on woman's work."
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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"Family is the foundation of society."
Charlotte Perkins Gilman