Family Quotes
Blood or chosen, families shape who we become. These quotes honor those bonds.
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"Young people are particularly ignorant of what their parents think."Henry James
"A family is where life begins and love never ends."François Mauriac
"The bonds of family cannot be broken by distance."François Mauriac
"I wish I had recorded more of my father; he was not a man to be forgotten."Mark Twain
"An angel in the house is worth two on the street."Mark Twain
"The bonds of family are stronger than any external force."Nathaniel Hawthorne
"We are bound by ties of affection to those who have not merited them."Herman Melville
"Family is the first prison we inhabit."Louis-Ferdinand Céline
"Motherhood is the most profound revolution a woman can experience."François Mauriac
"The family is where our deepest wounds and greatest healings occur."François Mauriac
"The heart of a child contains many a secret."Henry James
"Families are nothing but little tyrannies."Nathaniel Hawthorne
"The bosom of his family is the true throne of a man."Nathaniel Hawthorne
"The family is where cruelty is disguised as love."Louis-Ferdinand Céline
"Family bonds are chains we mistake for love."Louis-Ferdinand Céline
"Family is the foundation of all society."Romain Rolland
"Family bonds are forever."Romain Rolland
"The family is where we learn to love and where love tests us most severely."François Mauriac
"We inherit our parents' unresolved conflicts as surely as we inherit their eyes."François Mauriac
"A family is a sanctuary where love transcends all differences"Henry James
"Family is not always blood. It's the people in your life who want you in theirs."Louis-Ferdinand Céline
"A child's nature is like a mirror, reflecting the moral state of those around it."Nathaniel Hawthorne
"A home without love is like a body without a soul."Nathaniel Hawthorne
"Family is where life begins and love never ends."Romain Rolland
"The family is the school of the virtues."François Mauriac
"Family is what you cannot escape, which makes it either a blessing or a curse."Anatole France
"Family is the first tyranny we knowingly accept."Louis-Ferdinand Céline
"Family is where they have to take you in."Louis-Ferdinand Céline
"The privilege of marriage is that it gives one duties."Henry James
"The family we are born into shapes us, but it does not define us."Marcel Proust