7,080 Quotes About Family

Families share relationships based not only blood, but also the unique affiliation of a terribly long cord when measured in comparison with any other undertaking in a person’s life, from cradle to the grave if you will. These intimate associations create a bond of love, affection, goodwill, and joy that we seek to duplicate when we marry and begin creating our extended families.

You don’t choose these people and in the not choosing you learn tolerance. You learn to forgive.

There is no better way to crush someone’s self-confidence than to tell this person that her / his choice was wrong, and that she / he should have listened to us (parents). Because, obviously, we know how to make the right choices and she / he does not.

People think that LGBTs adopting children will hurt them, but it's not being in loving homes that hurts children most.

They say family's first, but family is the first to get you hurt

Large families are communities unto their own.

Blood can help make family, but family often transcends blood.

How can I expect readers to know who I am if I do not tell them about my family, my friends, the relationships in my life? Who am I if not where I fit in the world, where I fit in the lives of the people dear to me?

Never lose sight of the people who are the foundation of the future you are working to build.