Family Bond Quotes:

In performance, you dont always feel that sort of family bond right off the top. It sort of develops and grows over time.

- Uzo Aduba

topic: Family Bond, Grows, Feels

The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.

- Richard Bach

topic: Family, Spiritual, Respect, Happy Family, Jonathan Livingston Seagull

Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.

- Anthony Brandt

topic: Change, Family, Grandparent, Happy Family, Large Family

Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present and future.

- Gail Buckley

source: "Books of the Times" by Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, www.nytimes.com. 1986.

topic: Family, Past, Mirrors, Genealogy, Happy Family

You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.

- Desmond Tutu

topic: Inspirational, Family, Cute Relationship, Happy Family, Family Holiday

Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.

- Margaret Mead

source: Attributed to Margaret Mead in Ellyn Sanna "Sisters by Birth Friends by Choice: All the Things I Love About You", June 2003.

topic: Relationship, Family, Sister, Brothers And Sisters, Inspirational Brother And Sister

The lack of emotional security of our American young people is due, I believe, to their isolation from the larger family unit. No two people - no mere father and mother - as I have often said, are enough to provide emotional security for a child. He needs to feel himself one in a world of kinfolk, persons of variety in age and temperament, and yet allied to himself by an indissoluble bond which he cannot break if he could, for nature has welded him into it before he was born.

- Pearl S. Buck

topic: Family, Mother, Children, Large Family, Family Unit

The disciple of Jesus gives up all he has, all his goods, because he has found in him the greatest Good from which every other good receives its full value and meaning: family bonds, other relationships, work, cultural and economic goods and so on... The Christian detaches himself from everything and rediscovers all of it in the logic of the Gospel, the logic of love and service.

- Pope Francis

topic: Christian, Jesus, Giving Up, Family Bond

If you're truly in a band and you guys have been together for a long time, there's a family bond that you have. In fact, I've talked about this with therapists, especially if you're talking about a relationship, because when you're with somebody, you're going to your family, and she's alone.

- Gary Allan

topic: Talking, Long, Guy, Family Bond

Against the long years when family bonds make up all that is happiest in life, there must always be reckoned those moments of agitation and revolution, during which the bosom of a family is the most unrestful and disturbing place in existence ...

- Margaret Oliphant

source: Margaret Oliphant (2015). “Delphi Works of Margaret Oliphant with Complete Stories of the Seen and Unseen”, p.2359, Delphi Classics

topic: Family, Years, Long, Family Bond

" ... It is not my desire to wound the feelings of any person with whom I am connected in family bonds. I may be a hypocrite," said Mr. Pecksniff, cuttingly, "but I am not a brute."

- Charles Dickens

source: Charles Dickens (1867). “The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit”, p.75

topic: Funny, Humorous, Hypocrite, Family Bond

Banning human cloning reflects our humanity. It is the right thing to do. Creating a child through this new method calls into question our most fundamental beliefs. It has the potential to threaten the sacred family bonds at the very core of our ideals and our society. At its worst, it could lead to misguided and malevolent attempts to select certain traits, even to create certain kind of children -- to make our children objects rather than cherished individuals.

- William J. Clinton

topic: Children, Creating, Humanity, Human Cloning, Family Bond