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
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"A family is where life begins and love never ends."
François Mauriac
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"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
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"The bonds of family are stronger than any external force."
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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"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
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"Motherhood is the most profound revolution a woman can experience."
François Mauriac
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"The family is where our deepest wounds and greatest healings occur."
François Mauriac
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"The heart of a child contains many a secret."
Henry James
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"Families are nothing but little tyrannies."
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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"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
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"The family is where we learn to love and where love tests us most severely."
François Mauriac
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"We inherit our parents' unresolved conflicts as surely as we inherit their eyes."
François Mauriac
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"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
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"A child's nature is like a mirror, reflecting the moral state of those around it."
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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"A home without love is like a body without a soul."
Nathaniel Hawthorne
"Family is where life begins and love never ends."
Romain Rolland
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"The family is the school of the virtues."
François Mauriac
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"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
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"The privilege of marriage is that it gives one duties."
Henry James
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"The family we are born into shapes us, but it does not define us."
Marcel Proust