Family Quotes

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

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"The wound that is felt in common by brothers and sisters is felt the deepest."
William Butler Yeats
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"Family is the foundation of our lives."
Thomas Hardy
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"An ideal husband is any man who has learned to say 'my dear' instead of 'I told you so.'"
Oscar Wilde
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"Family is the crucible in which we learn to love."
James Joyce
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"All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."
Leo Tolstoy
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"Families are built on understanding and forgiveness."
Leo Tolstoy
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"Motherhood is the privilege of science."
George Eliot
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"Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home."
Anne Brontë
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"The Fallon family has produced many fine men and women."
William Butler Yeats
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"A comfortable family and a happy fire are excellent substitutes for ambition."
George Bernard Shaw
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"There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no man knows anything about."
Oscar Wilde
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"The ties of love are among the strongest that exist; we cannot break them without extreme pain."
Anne Brontë
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"We inherit not just genes and property, but the unresolved conflicts of generations."
Thomas Hardy
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"The bonds of family are both our greatest strength and our deepest wound."
Thomas Hardy
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"Community is where you make it. I found it here not in geography but in people."
George Eliot
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"In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future, and bond to one another."
George Eliot
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"If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance."
George Bernard Shaw
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"The natural term of the affection of the human animal for his offspring is six years."
George Bernard Shaw
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"Family binds us with chains both loving and oppressive."
Thomas Hardy
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"Family is the first school of love and cruelty."
Thomas Hardy
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"The greatest legacy is the love you leave behind."
George Eliot
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"The greatest inheritance is an open heart."
George Eliot
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"There is nothing more important than good health and a happy family"
Charles Dickens
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"The bonds of family are forged in shared experience and mutual support."
Anne Brontë
"The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home."
Émile Zola
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"There is no friend like a sister."
Charlotte Brontë
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"If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance."
George Bernard Shaw
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"Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed."
George Bernard Shaw
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"Accidents will occur in the best-regulated families"
Charles Dickens
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"The bonds of family are stronger than any force"
Charles Dickens