Family Quotes

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

16096 quotes

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"The legacy of the heart outlives all else."
Frances Burney
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"The family is the foundation upon which civilization is built."
Henry Fielding
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"The family bond is stronger than any external force."
Henry Fielding
"Every man is not fit to be a master of a family."
Daniel Defoe
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"The education of children should begin with the mother's understanding."
Mary Wollstonecraft
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"The bonds of family are written in the soul, not merely in blood."
Ann Radcliffe
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"The greatest inheritance is not wealth, but wisdom."
Ann Radcliffe
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"A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short."
Stendhal
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"A woman situate in the married state requires every possible comfort and protection."
Frances Burney
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"The reason why so few marriages are happy is, because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages."
Jonathan Swift
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"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
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"Melancholy, without doubt, was the characteristick of our family."
Laurence Sterne
L
"I wish either my father or my mother had been more mindful of what they were about."
Laurence Sterne
L
"The greatest inheritance is not wealth, but wisdom."
Laurence Sterne
A
"The family that shares vulnerability shares the deepest connection."
Ann Radcliffe
A
"Family is the first stage upon which we learn to be human."
Ann Radcliffe
S
"You must not be surprised to find that your parents are fallible."
Samuel Johnson
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"I am convinced that there is no greater happiness than to be united with those we love."
Frances Burney
H
"The strength of family bonds determines the strength of society."
Henry Fielding
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"Children will always be tyrants if they feel that any fear stands between them and their own will."
Mary Wollstonecraft
M
"How great a proportion of the misery springing from the inequality of condition has originated in the negligence of parents!"
Mary Wollstonecraft
M
"How cruel are the parents who force their children into life without any preparation!"
Mary Wollstonecraft
"The ties of family are woven with threads we cannot break."
Daniel Defoe
"Family bonds are the strongest ties that bind us."
Eliza Haywood
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"The family is the foundation of all society."
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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"The family that reads together, grows together."
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
"Family bonds, though often troubled, form the foundation upon which we build ourselves."
Eliza Haywood
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"To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition."
Samuel Johnson
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"Teach thy sons all that thou hast taught thyself."
Percy Bysshe Shelley
"The family we choose often proves more binding than the family we inherit."
Aphra Behn