Top 98 Family Quotes

A hand-organized collection of 98 family quotes from notable authors and thinkers. Browse the full set, find the lines that resonate, and turn any quote into a shareable image.

There is no greater warrior than a mother protecting her child.
N.K. Jemisin
N.K. Jemisin
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Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.
Margaret Mead
Margaret Mead
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It's the children the world almost breaks who grow up to save it.
Frank Warren
Frank Warren
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Hip-hop is more than music, it's a culture. It's bigger than hit songs.
Nelly
Nelly
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How far would you go to protect your family? I'm a father, I'm a son, I'm a grandson, and I'm a husband. If someone were to hurt the women in my life and the law didn't take care
of it, what would I do? Pretty awful things.
of it, what would I do? Pretty awful things.
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The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.
Peter De Vries
Peter De Vries
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Hypocrisy is the mother of all evil and racial prejudice is still her favourite child.
Don King
Don King
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Attachment was my mother, and anger was my father. They both died, so I have nothing to do. Now I do not need to do anything." Meditation will become your very nature when you give up attachment, anger, and pride. Then you will not have to pose for meditation,
for your whole life will be a sort of meditation.
for your whole life will be a sort of meditation.
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Our children can achieve great things when we set high expectations for them.
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
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Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future.
John F. Kennedy
John F. Kennedy
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Feminism is a socialist, anti-family, political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.
Pat Robertson
Pat Robertson
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Learning a foreign language, and the culture that goes with it, is one of the most useful things we can do to broaden the empathy and imaginative sympathy and cultural outlook of children.
Michael Gove
Michael Gove
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Homeopathy is one of the few medical specialties which carries no penalties - only benefits.
Yehudi Menuhin
Yehudi Menuhin
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Children do better when they feel better.
Jane Nelsen
Jane Nelsen
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Family is not an important thing. It's everything.
Michael J. Fox
Michael J. Fox
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We are all the children of God.
Alice Bailey
Alice Bailey
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Every child needs at least one adult who is irrationally crazy about him or her.
Urie Bronfenbrenner
Urie Bronfenbrenner
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Be your own sugar daddy!
Grace Jones
Grace Jones
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Women wear many hats in their lives. Daughter, sister, student, breadwinner. But no matter where we are or what we're doing, one hat that moms never take off is the crown of motherhood. There is no crown more glorious.
Amy Nuttall
Amy Nuttall
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The older I get, the smarter my father seems to get.
Tim Russert
Tim Russert
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I miss my mother very, very much.
Paul Haggis
Paul Haggis
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My family comes first. Maybe that's what makes me different from other guys.
Bobby Cann
Bobby Cann
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They say that abandonment is a wound that never heals. I say only that an abandoned child never forgets.
Mario Vargas Llosa
Mario Vargas Llosa
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I do not hate my toxic family members. I also do not need them.
Sherrie Campbell
Sherrie Campbell
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I have four children and I have seven grandkids.
Dick Van Dyke
Dick Van Dyke
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Homeopathy offers a safe, natural alternative that causes no side effects or drug interactions.
Cindy Crawford
Cindy Crawford
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Air pollution is turning Mother Nature prematurely gray.
Irv Kupcinet
Irv Kupcinet
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A community is made up of intimate relationships among diversified types of individuals - a kinship group, a local group, a neighborhood, a village, a large family.
Carol Gilligan
Carol Gilligan
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All children are born Atheists; they have no idea of God.
Baron d'Holbach
Baron d'Holbach
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I hate children! I hate them all!
Lindsay Lohan
Lindsay Lohan
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I've been homesick for countries I've never been, and longed to be where I couldn't be.
John Cheever
John Cheever
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From an evolutionary perspective children are, literally, designed to learn. Childhood is a special period of protected immaturity. It gives the young breathing time to master the things they will need to know in order to survive as adults.
Moises Gordon
Moises Gordon
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Home is where somebody notices when you are no longer there.
Aleksandar Hemon
Aleksandar Hemon
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Home isn't really a place. It's the people who make it what it is. I have a great home.
John O'Callaghan
John O'Callaghan
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Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes.
Gloria Naylor
Gloria Naylor
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A child that's being abused by its parents doesn't stop loving its parents, it stops loving itself.
Shahida Arabi
Shahida Arabi
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The way to build long-term returns is through preservation of capital and home runs.
Stanley Druckenmiller
Stanley Druckenmiller
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My family comes first before anything, they are everything to me.
Niall Cavan
Niall Cavan
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The change starts within each one of us. And ends only when all children are free to be children.
Dawn Deluca
Dawn Deluca
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There is a lot of food culture that goes on in the home and in the community in non-traditional ways. Food is a lot more than restaurants.
Eddie Huang
Eddie Huang
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Mother, sister, wife, and daughter are the four natural elements in any relationship between men and women.
Jack McLean
Jack McLean
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I don't do office work at home.
A.K. Antony
A.K. Antony
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In a representative republic, the education of our children must be of the utmost importance!
James Monroe
James Monroe
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There is a good explanation for why Emotional Neglect has been so overlooked. It hides. It dwells in the sins of omission, rather than commission. It's the white space in the family picture rather than the picture itself. It's often what was NOT said or observed or remembered from childhood, rather than what WAS said.
JONICE WEBB
JONICE WEBB
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Ohana means family - no one gets left behind and no one is ever forgotten.
Chris Sanders
Chris Sanders
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My mother's five-foot-two, and I'll be honest with you - she's the only person I'm scared of.
Karen Sutherland
Karen Sutherland
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Dignity is not negotiable. Dignity is the honor of the family.
Vartan Gregorian
Vartan Gregorian
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Family first, always.
Karen M. McManus
Karen M. McManus
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