Family Quotes

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

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"Nothing is more sacred than the bond between parent and child."
Honoré de Balzac
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"A mother's love is the most powerful force in the world."
Honoré de Balzac
"The bond of family is stronger than any force."
William Wordsworth
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"The family is the foundation of all human society."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"I have much affection for you; I hope never to lose it."
Mary Shelley
"Filial affection is the most beautiful relationship in the universe."
Mary Shelley
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"A child's first teacher is its mother."
Victor Hugo
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"When the child is born, the mother too is born."
Victor Hugo
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"The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness."
Victor Hugo
"There is nothing so bad as parting with one's friends. But you know we shall still be sisters."
Jane Austen
"Children are the living treasure of their parents' love."
William Wordsworth
"The greatest inheritance is virtue."
William Wordsworth
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"Family is the foundation upon which all else is built."
Lord Byron
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"The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"The bonds of family are forged in the fires of time."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home."
John Milton
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"What is the worst of woes that wait on age? To view each loved one blotted from life's page."
Lord Byron
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"Family is the crucible in which character is forged."
John Milton
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"Family is the foundation upon which all other bonds are built."
Dante Alighieri
"A mother's love is the first law of nature, and it teaches all other virtues their beginning."
William Wordsworth
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"What you have inherited from your fathers, earn it anew if you would possess it."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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"There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One is roots. The other is wings."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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"What would you not do for a loved one?"
Virgil
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"Family is the foundation of society."
Virgil
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"In the family, we learn the first lessons of love."
Dante Alighieri
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"Family bonds are the roots from which we grow."
Dante Alighieri
"In family bonds we find both our greatest joy and our deepest challenge."
Geoffrey Chaucer
"Family teaches us first the lessons that shape all future relationships."
Geoffrey Chaucer
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"Children are mirrors of their parents' hearts."
Ovid
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"How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!"
William Shakespeare