Family Quotes

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

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"The home is the best seminary for the heart."
Harriet Beecher Stowe
"I think my family is the greatest blessing I have."
Louisa May Alcott
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"The greatest inheritance is not money but wisdom passed down from elders."
Washington Irving
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"The love of family is the foundation upon which all other loves are built."
Washington Irving
"Motherhood is the greatest profession, requiring all our talents and love."
Harriet Beecher Stowe
"The creation of a single new human being is so great an undertaking that it has almost always commanded and engaged the highest religious almost everywhere."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"A father's duty extends beyond providing sustenance to nurturing virtue."
James Fenimore Cooper
"Family duty is both a burden and a blessing, often simultaneously."
James Fenimore Cooper
"Our parents and our memories are all we have."
Willa Cather
"I think my family will always be my greatest achievement."
Louisa May Alcott
"A woman's happiest kingdom is home."
Louisa May Alcott
"The greatest wealth is a loving family."
Louisa May Alcott
"A mother's love is the foundation upon which all goodness is built."
Harriet Beecher Stowe
"The bonds of family are the invisible threads that hold civilization together."
James Fenimore Cooper
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"A family united by love becomes an fortress against the world's indifference."
Washington Irving
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"The role of a family is to teach us who we are and inspire us to become who we might be."
Washington Irving
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"One Sister have I in our house and one a hedge away."
Emily Dickinson
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"One Sister have I in our house."
Emily Dickinson
"Familiarity breeds contempt and children."
Mark Twain
"By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who knows he's wrong."
Mark Twain
"The bonds of family are forged not merely by blood, but by love and sacrifice."
James Fenimore Cooper
"The greatest legacy is not wealth, but wisdom passed to future generations."
James Fenimore Cooper
"In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future, and bond to one another."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"One sister have I in our house and one a hedge away."
Emily Dickinson
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"Family is the garden where we learn to grow."
Emily Dickinson
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"In family relations, the greatest gift is the presence of love and the absence of judgment."
Washington Irving
"When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years."
Mark Twain
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"A family is a ship that must be captained with both firmness and love."
Herman Melville
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"When children cease to respect parents, old age loses all its honors."
Nathaniel Hawthorne
"Family is everything."
Louis-Ferdinand Céline