Family Quotes
Blood or chosen, families shape who we become. These quotes honor those bonds.
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"I sustain myself with the love of family."Maya Angelou
"I am my mother's daughter, I am my father's sister, I am my grandparent's granddaughter."Maya Angelou
"My mother had a tremendous impact on me."Maya Angelou
"I believe that one can never leave home."Maya Angelou
"Separation from my father was not good for me."Alice Walker
"The most important thing is our relationships with each other."Alice Walker
"We are our mothers' daughters, and we carry their strength forward."Toni Cade Bambara
"Family is the first democracy we know."Carl Sandburg
"The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat."Robert Frost
"Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in."Robert Frost
"A mother's love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible."Robert Frost
"The family is the foundation of civilization."Ezra Pound
"We are our grandmothers' prayers, and we are our grandmothers' struggles."Toni Cade Bambara
"We carry our ancestors within us; we are their dreams realized."Toni Cade Bambara
"We are our mothers' daughters, carrying forward their unfinished dreams."Toni Cade Bambara
"I am my mother's daughter, and hers, and hers, and hers."Alice Walker
"Family is where we learn to love imperfectly."Alice Walker
"I sustain myself with the love of family and friends, and the knowledge that what I'm doing has meaning and purpose."Maya Angelou
"The greatest gift is time spent with loved ones."Carl Sandburg
"Our children need to know their own story."Toni Cade Bambara
"We must invest in our children."Toni Cade Bambara
"Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in."Robert Frost
"Every unhappy family may resemble each other, but I am more interested in what is going on."Toni Morrison
"You need your mama, you need your sisters, you need that village."Toni Morrison
"Being somebody's mother is heroic."Toni Morrison
"To acknowledge our ancestors means we are aware that we did not make ourselves, that the line stretches all the way back, forever."Alice Walker
"To honor our ancestors is to commit ourselves to continuing their unfinished work."Alice Walker
"Family is the foundation of all society, yet it can also be a prison."Richard Wright
"We inherit both the burdens and the possibilities of our ancestors."Toni Cade Bambara
"We are made of the struggles and triumphs of those before us."Toni Cade Bambara