Family Bonds Quotes

#1. I grew up in a strong family; we had strong family bonds.

John Howard

#2. Cultivating strong family bonds is a natural side effect of homeschooling as we pursue our interests, share chores and simply enjoy one another's company.

Laura Grace Weldon

#3. 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

#4. " ... 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

#5. Hypothesis: Brothers and sisters forge family bonds through a complex byplay of accusations and insults.

Gordon Korman

#6. Allah created the bonds of family, so Who are you to cut bonds that Allah has created.

Nouman Ali Khan

#7. The bonds of family bind us up, support us, help us. And they are also a bond from which it is difficult, perhaps impossible to extricate oneself.

Neil Gaiman

#8. Everlasting bonds of the women of this family. It served to remind us of why we'd flocked back to this city. I always appreciated the time set aside to remember just how much we needed each

A.L. Jackson

#9. Something inexorable seeds itself in the place of your origin. You can never escape the bonds of family history, no matter how far you travel.

Christina Baker Kline

#10. All human happiness revolves around love. Love is central to the bonds on which a family is built.

Margaret Way

#11. Note: 'family' does NOT only mean a biological unit composed of people who share genetic markers or legal bonds, headed by a heterosexual-mated pair. Family is much, much more than that.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#12. You forge different bonds with friends than with family, tell different secrets.

Jenna Morasca

#13. The power of the unknown fact hit me like a bolt of lightning, that maybe, my father did care about me after all, and I realized another true thing that day: the love of a father is invaluable; regardless of how old you become, or how many bridges you cross in life

Sara Niles

#14. The bonds between a family are strange indeed.

Sara Sheridan

#15. In expectation of his demise, a successful businessman may sell out to his competitors to prepare his estate with readily marketable securities, such as U.S. Treasury bonds. The confiscatory death tax eliminates many family enterprises and promotes the growth of giant corporations.

Hans F. Sennholz

#16. The experience of seeing differences of dogma made moot in practice by the bonds of family affection and neighborly respect was formative for him. It seemed to leave him with a lasting sense that life was more complicated in practice than in theory - and that this was a good thing.

Yuval Levin

#17. I was an only child. Growing up, we moved a lot, so I didn't have any close friends. So the animals I was around as a child - dogs, cats, and horses, and stuffed animals - became my family and friends. The only strong bonds I made as a child were with animals.

William McNamara

#18. The things that matter most to me are eternal. The bonds of love shared within a family I believe to be eternal.

Mike Ericksen

#19. The Constitution itself, plainly written as it is, the safeguard of our federative compact, the offspring of concession and compromise, binding together in the bonds of peace and union this great and increasing family of free and independent States, will be the chart by which I shall be directed.

James K. Polk

#20. I am a living member of the great family of all souls; and I cannot improve or suffer myself, without diffusing good or evil around me through an ever-enlarging sphere. I belong to this family. I am bound to it by vital bonds.

William Ellery Channing

#21. It takes more than wings to release one from the bonds of kinship.

Betsy Tobin

#22. [Friendship] is a relationship that has no formal shape, there are no rules or obligations or bonds as in marriage or the family, it is held together by neither law nor property nor blood, there is no glue in it but mutual liking. It is therefore rare.

Wallace Stegner

#23. Though I may accumulate a great deal of riches in this world, it is only my wealth of knowledge, talents, and emotional bonds that I keep when I leave.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#24. What they say about TV shows is true. You're really a family. You laugh, you fight, you get close, you know? Movies are shorter. They're over quicker. You don't form the same bonds.

James Gandolfini

#25. I had a brilliant time working with the entire cast and crew at 'Return To Nim's Island.' It's amazing how, after working on a film, you really become a family, and you build these really special bonds together.

Bindi Irwin

#26. To have deep roots in a place means having dead buried there. It is almost that literal, the dead forming your bond to the earth and to the others whose dead lie buried there. I always had that bond whether I knew it or not.

Julene Bair

#27. I couldn't comprehend why she still hadn't stopped him because it's clearly every mother's responsibility to protect her children. After all, that's the trust that bonds a mother and her child together, forever

Veronika Gasparyan

#28. As my intimacy with his family grew, I became part of the world which he sought to escape; I became one of the bonds which held him.

Evelyn Waugh

#29. There is an interconnectedness among members that bonds the family, much like mountain climbers who rope themselves together when climbing a mountain, so that if someone should slip or need support, he's held up by the others until he regains his footing.

Phil McGraw

#30. Pack is built on the bonds of family, of mating, of love. You come first. You always will.

Nalini Singh

#31. You know how the bonds of family are, my lady ... They cling as tightly as vines. And sometimes, like vines, they cling tightly enough to kill.

Cassandra Clare