7,080 Quotes About Family

  • Author Honoré de Balzac
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    A country is strong which consists of wealthy families, every member of whom is interested in defending a common treasure; it is weak when composed of scattered individuals, to whom it matters little whether they obey seven or one, a Russian or a Corsican, so long as each keeps his own plot of land, blind in their wretched egotism, to the fact that the day is coming when this too will be torn from them.

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  • Author Hosea Ballou
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    Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.

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  • Author Honoré de Balzac
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    A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.

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  • Author Howard Warren Buffett
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    If I'm home, I'll be happy. And if I'm around family, and if I'm working on projects with friends, I don't know what else I'd want to be doing.

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  • Author Ireland Baldwin
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    I have received nasty e-mails, messages on Twitter and ridiculous comments, not only about my size, but my family.

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  • Author Ingmar Bergman
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    All of us collect fortunes when we are children. A fortune of colors, of lights, and darkness, of movement, of tensions. Some of us have the fantastic chance to go back to his fortune when grown up.

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  • Author Jack Butler
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    These are personal situations. They are family situations, people have to talk to their spouses and their children.

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  • Author James A. Baldwin
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    Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

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