Family Is More Than Blood Quotes

#1. Family is more than blood

Cassandra Clare

#2. Blood doesn't make family, and time and distance doesn't break it. Like the moon, family will always be there, even when it's too dark to see it. Keep strong and it will light your way home, wherever you are.

June Stevens Westerfield

#3. We read that Adam and Methuselah lived so many centuries; at that time, it was the custom to marry in the family - marry as closely as possible - so that the tie of blood might be as strong as it could be made.

Max Heindel

#4. Truth be told the one's you love the most aren't blood related

Shellie Palmer

#5. People are laughing at me today for having holes in my pockets, and ink blood on my fingers-
a thirty-something old writer, who strangles words from dictionaries, and feeds on the decay of poetry.

Anthony Liccione

#6. I'm part German and part Irish. In fact, there's even a town in Germany that was named after my family, Limbach or so forth. And I don't know. I might even have some Indian blood in there.

Rush Limbaugh

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

DaShanne Stokes

#8. it was that family wasn't built by blood - it was built by love.

Brittainy C. Cherry

#9. You may be as different as the sun and the moon, but the same blood flows through both your hearts. You need her, as she needs you ...

George R R Martin

#10. Life is a risk, who knows this better than me? Who knows more surely that babies die easily, that children fall ill from the least cause, that royal blood is fatally weak, that death walks behind my family like a faithful black hound?

Philippa Gregory

#11. I created a flag from the sport's dignity. I oversee the name of my family with affection, steady nerves and blood.

Helio Gracie

#12. I come from a family of Catholic Italians, and that will always be in my blood.

Jenna Morasca

#13. Of what use are pedigrees, or to be thought of noble blood, or the display of family portraits, O Ponticus?

Juvenal

#14. Nature, the great Moloch, which exacts a frightful tax of human blood, sparing neither young nor old; taking the child from the cradle, the mother from her babe, and the father from the family.

William Osler

#15. I should never have left you. I was caught between fealty to my world and fealty to my blood. I chose wrong. I was a king. I held the knife. I acted as a king should. But I did not act as family should.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#16. I think people have an instinct for a family. You look until you find a mother, a father, a sister, a brother. They don't have to be blood relatives. They just have to love you. And when you find them, you don't have to look anymore.

Nancy Farmer

#17. Family isn't blood. It's the people who love you. The people who have your back.

Cassandra Clare

#18. The beach is in our blood. Everyone in our family returns to the beach instinctively, just like the sea turtles.

Sandy Archibald

#19. In every family there is a murderer, a thief and a crazy person. And if you have a little Blue blood in the line, you can be sure there are more than one of each.

Clark Jeffries

#20. Rocky is a poor Italian boy from a poor Italian family, and he appreciates the buck more than almost anybody. He's only got two halfway decent purses so far, and it was like a tiger tasting blood

Rocky Marciano

#21. Not by blood, or even by marriage, but family is more than that. You find people you love and keep them close to you. That's what a family is.

Jay Bell

#22. A friend loves you for your intelligence, a mistress for your charm, but your family's love is unreasoning; you were born into it and are of its flesh and blood. Nevertheless it can irritate you more than any group of people in the world.

Andre Maurois

#23. Blood is thicker than water, I know, but it's unnatural stuff to drink so much of. ("The Wife Of Ted Wickham")

A.E. Coppard

#24. Where I come from, family's defined as those who don't screw you over a paycheck. Blood makes no difference. If you can trust them with your life and know that they'll be there come whatever hell rains down, then they're your family.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#25. Everyone in my family is an artist in some capacity whether they're musicians, painters, or sculptors, so it's in their blood.

Jessica Alba

#26. One thing I know for sure is that family is not defined by blood.

Jessica Scott

#27. Jack and Bobby Kennedy were too young, too attached to real family to transfer affection and loyalty to those that of their blood or region or upbringing.

David Pietrusza

#28. The foolish families worry over blood. I care nothing for purity of family or ancestry. That is a vain thing. I care only for strength. What a man can do to other men, women.

Pierce Brown

#29. Tobias loved her more than he'd loved anything - his family, his duty, even himself. There, perhaps, the Herondale blood ran true.

Cassandra Clare

#30. A lot of people in my family have high blood pressure. Dre told me I better start hitting the gym ... so I took his advice.

Warren G

#31. Family's not just made up of people who share the same blood, it's made up of people who love you.

Lynette Eason

#32. I've got my feet on the ground because I've got a lovely family waiting for me when I get home, even though they're not my flesh and blood. I haven't got children. That's my only regret, I suppose.

Bonnie Tyler

#33. She did it without thinking--At that moment she was pure Gilly again: red-haired, with fury for blood, perfect aim, and nothing to lose.

Tiffany Baker

#34. You are blood. You are sisters. No man can break that bond.

Kim Boykin

#35. And, as always, I thank my family who are an amazing network of support.

Laisha Rosnau

#36. The desire to be and have a sister is a primitive and profound one that may have everything or nothing to do with the family a woman is born to. It is a desire to know and be known by someone who shares blood and body, history and dreams.

Elizabeth Fishel

#37. But family doesn't have to be blood relations only. I think family is more a state of mind.

Elizabeth Eulberg

#38. The blood bond was nothing. It was the people that mattered. If they covered your back, and you covered theirs, then maybe that was worth calling family. Everything else was just so much smoke and lies.

Paolo Bacigalupi

#39. Only you can determine your own worth. No one else but you, but they can certainly help when you need it. We are a family not by blood but by bond and family must stand together

James Terzian

#40. Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we'd give blood.

Charles Dickens

#41. The heart of a person only beats when it's surrounded by blood, by family.

Erica Goros

#42. Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins.

Charles Eastman