Family Quotes

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

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"The family is the foundation upon which society is built."
Maxim Gorky
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"The bonds of family can sustain us through our darkest and most difficult moments."
Maxim Gorky
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"Family teaches us our first lessons about love and loyalty."
Ivan Turgenev
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"Family bonds persist even when everything else changes."
Ivan Turgenev
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"Family is the foundation upon which all else is built."
Aleksandr Pushkin
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"The family is where our first betrayals occur."
Mikhail Lermontov
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"We inherit both the dreams and debts of our fathers."
Mikhail Lermontov
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"In family, we find both our greatest joy and deepest sorrow."
Nikolai Gogol
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"A man should never neglect his family for business."
Anton Chekhov
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"The wife of a man is not a woman, but something different."
Anton Chekhov
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"All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."
Leo Tolstoy
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"Ideal family love is not something to be learned, like mathematics or chemistry."
Leo Tolstoy
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"Woman is the salvation or the ruin of the family."
Leo Tolstoy
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"Family bonds are both our greatest strength and deepest pain."
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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"The bonds of family are woven from sacrifice and love."
Aleksandr Pushkin
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"Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home."
Ivan Turgenev
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"Family is where life begins and love never ends."
Ivan Turgenev
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"So potent was my father's intellectual influence upon me that I could not escape it."
James Joyce
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"Distance does not break the tie of blood."
James Joyce
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"Without women, civilization would never have been conceived."
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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"In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, and bridge to our future."
Leo Tolstoy
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"If I am not better than my father, then I am a poor thing."
Anton Chekhov
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"Fathers and sons are forever locked in an age-old struggle."
Ivan Turgenev
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"A prayer for my daughter reminds us to protect what we love."
William Butler Yeats
"All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."
Samuel Beckett
"The family we choose is just as important as the family we're born into."
Samuel Beckett
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"All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."
Leo Tolstoy
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"Family bonds are the foundation upon which society is built."
Leo Tolstoy
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"Conscious or unconscious, we are all bound by family ties."
Anton Chekhov
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"Better never to have been born than to grow up under the influence of a mother who does not love you."
George Bernard Shaw