Family Quotes
Blood or chosen, families shape who we become. These quotes honor those bonds.
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"The family is the nucleus of civilization, for better or worse"Guy de Maupassant
"Family bonds are chains we forge willingly"Guy de Maupassant
"The family unit is where we learn to love and be loved."Victor Leconte de Lisle
"The greatest inheritance is not wealth, but wisdom."Victor Leconte de Lisle
"Family is the cradle of all virtue."Alexandre Dumas, fils
"The bonds of family are both chains and shelter."Guy de Maupassant
"To be a good mother a woman must have sense, and that independence of mind which few women possess."Mary Wollstonecraft
"If you wish to preserve your daughters from folly, you must think seriously yourself."Mary Wollstonecraft
"The woman who submits to her husband's tyranny becomes the tyrant of her children."Mary Wollstonecraft
"The great fault lies in the conduct of mothers and fathers, not in children."Mary Wollstonecraft
"Family binds us not through blood, but through choice and commitment."Gérard de Nerval
"The family that endures is built on mutual respect, not obligation."Victor Leconte de Lisle
"The greatest inheritance is a cultivated and noble mind."Victor Leconte de Lisle
"Family is not always blood; it is the people who are willing to bleed for you."Alexandre Dumas, fils
"Family bonds are tested in hardship, strengthened through forgiveness."Alexandre Dumas, fils
"We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children."Stendhal
"Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see."George Sand
"Motherhood is a profession that requires as much intelligence as any other."George Sand
"In the architecture of family, love is the only foundation that endures."Guy de Maupassant
"Family bonds are among life's greatest treasures."Ann Radcliffe
"A tyrant father is not a phenomenon, especially in the middle class of life."Mary Wollstonecraft
"The very independence I shall endeavor to give my daughters is all the inheritance I can wish for them."Mary Wollstonecraft
"The greatest love is a mother's love."Henry Fielding
"The family is the first essential cell of human society."George Sand
"The greatest evil is not done in our workplaces or public institutions, but in our homes."Frances Burney
"Family is where life begins and love never ends."Frances Burney
"Family is the foundation of all society."Daniel Defoe
"I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me."Laurence Sterne
"The family we are born to teaches us; the family we choose shapes us."Ann Radcliffe
"The bonds of family are unbreakable."Frances Burney