Family Strangers Quotes

#1. 'Humans of New York' is basically somebody walking up to absolute strangers on the street every day and, within minutes, talking with them about very personal things. Some things they haven't even told their best friends or family members.

Brandon Stanton

#2. Strangers are just family you have yet to come to know.

Mitch Albom

#3. it is strange
how
sisters
can
be
saviors
or
strangers
sometimes
a bit of both.

Amanda Lovelace

#4. We see in the backstory of Acts 16 the beautiful reconciliation that the gospel achieves, not just of unholy individuals to a holy God but superficially incompatible people to each other! Jesus takes strangers and makes them a family.

Matt Chandler

#5. The wit of a family is usually best received among strangers.

George Eliot

#6. That's why I try to keep KF hidden from my parents. My family is really paranoid about internet strangers. You know the type; every person on the internet is a pedophile and wants to meet up with you and molest you and dismember you slowly in their basement.

Taylor Nadeau

#7. It is what a man does for strangers that counts more than what he does for his family.

Melina Marchetta

#8. I keep my family out of my public life because it can be an awful nuisance to them. What's my mother going to tell strangers anyway? That I was a cute baby and that she's terribly proud of me? Nuts. Who cares?

Montgomery Clift

#9. I might reinvent myself to strangers, but to this day, as far as my family is concerned, I'm still the one most likely to set your house on fire.

David Sedaris

#10. I had always thought that the relationships we make strangers are the hardest and the relationships we have with family the easiest. For me the opposite had been true. The family I was born into was not really my family anymore, while the family I made for myself out of strangers was mine.

Amulya Malladi

#11. Some strangers become more important to you than family, maybe because you're not expected to love them. You can leave them whenever you want to. They can, too. Every moment together is a choice.

Walter Kirn

#12. It melted my heart, no matter how much strangers love you, like you or praise you but if your closer ones believes in you and your dreams, then you have a life, which is worth it, there is nothing better than friends and family.

Shaikh Ashraf

#13. Your generation has no sense of responsibility to a group, a calling higher than your own. You treat random friends like family and family like strangers. You want to dither your life away, pursuing one pleasure after another. That is not a path; that is a waste of life.

Liz Braswell

#14. Some families are an odd melting pot of strangers with the occasional offering of obligation.

Donna Lynn Hope

#15. I try to win the love and approval of strangers, since it didn't work with my family.

Judy Gold

#16. Maybe, if you can't get someone out of your head they were never meant to leave. Perhaps, they were meant to help change you into the person you have been waiting to become.

Shannon L. Alder

#17. If those who give are conscious of their own generosity and those who receive feel indebted, they are no longer family but rather strangers doing business.

Zicheng Hong

#18. In an extended family, anybody can bug out of his own house for months, and still be among relatives. Nobody has to go on a hopeless quest for friendly strangers, which is what most Americans have to do.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#19. They were not a family anymore. They were strangers. Tied together by chains, but they had rusted, and there was no hope for them to reconnect. Something had disappeared, and perhaps it was their sanity.

Callie Hunter

#20. No one I interact with - except maybe for family and strangers at the Russian baths and other weird places I may go to - is just friends or lovers with me: they also know something of my writing and this distorts their take on me

Jonathan Ames

#21. When you invite people to share in your miracle, you create future allies during rough weather.

Shannon L. Alder

#22. Our best hope for the future is not to get people to think of all humanity as family - that's impossible. It lies, instead, in an appreciation of the fact that, even if we don't empathize with distant strangers, their lives have the same value as the lives of those we love.

Peter Singer

#23. I can use the house to create a home. I can offer my family, my friends, myself, and even strangers the gift of love by making them feel special when they are in my home.

Sarah Mae

#24. The realization that my parents, too, felt pain and fear frightened me more than any strangers could.

Sara Novic

#25. No one says: when my family treated me as a stranger, I preferred the company of strangers, and I walked among strangers and what did I find but God in every one of their faces.

Joanna Brooks

#26. To conquer your biology, stop seeing people sexually and start seeing them as family. In our day, we have really a perverted notion where it's like strangers and potential sexual objects.

Mark Driscoll

#27. Kings and queens cry with family. Hide your grief from subjects and strangers.

Stephanie Dray

#28. Do you treat strangers as good as you do your friends or church family? (Acts 10:34)

Amanda Penland

#29. A family is a collection of strangers trapped in a web of DNA and forced to cope.

Neal Shusterman

#30. Everything they see, hear, feel, touch, or even smell impacts their brain and thus influences the way they view and interact with their world - including their family, neighbors, strangers, friends, classmates, and even themselves.

Daniel J. Siegel

#31. A friend to everybody is often a friend to nobody, or else in his simplicity he robs his family to help strangers, and becomes brother to a beggar. There is wisdom in generosity, as in everything else.

Charles Spurgeon

#32. When was the last time we talked? Before we moved? Even now, when we had time to talk, he walked off to make phone calls. I thought I should be disappointed or sad but I wasn't. I was empty. Strangers in a strange family.

C.L.Stone

#33. I think love courses through all of us, and we can express it to one person all the time, or we can express it to everybody in our world, in our immediate world, in our extended family and all that and to strangers. I think as a concept. I don't mean you and me later.

Bruce Greenwood

#34. I love films that test cynicism and inspire you to do better in your dealings with your family and with strangers.

Jennifer Phang

#35. If you are a gay couple living in Alabama, you know one thing: your family has no standing under the law; and it can and will be violated by strangers.

Andrew Sullivan

#36. Only the family, society's smallest unit, can change and yet maintain enough continuity to rear children who will not be "strangers in a strange land," who will be rooted firmly enough to grow and adapt.

Salvador Minuchin

#37. In my life, the stories I have heard from my family, my friends, my community, and from willing strangers all over the world have been the true source of my education.

Holly Near

#38. Two elements enter into successful and happy gatherings at table. The food, whether simple or elaborate, must be carefully prepared; willingly prepared; imaginatively prepared. And the guests - friends, family or strangers - must be conscious of their welcome.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

#39. Occasionally, family members treat each other with less courtesy and kindness than they do acquaintances or even strangers.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#40. There're times when strangers are like family, and family are like strangers

Hlovate

#41. My grandma loved to be on stage entertaining people. She loves to make people smile and laugh. She loves to brighten other people's day. She often calls perfect strangers her angel, as a way of witnessing, but also to encourage and build their self-esteem.

Lisa Bedrick

#42. The politeness was unbearable. They avoided touching each other, careful as strangers on a train ... A family can go on for years without the love that once bound it together, like a lovely old wall that stays standing long after rain has crumbled the mortar.

Kathleen Winter

#43. I watch a lot of TV - 'Perfect Strangers,' 'Family Matters,' 'Who's the Boss?' - then I go over my notes in the script, lock it into my head and go to bed.

Lea Salonga

#44. My illness is one often characterized by dramatic overspending - in my case through frenzied shopping sprees, credit card abuse, excessive hoarding of unnecessary material goods and bizarre generosity with family, friends and even strangers.

Andy Behrman

#45. According to FBI statistics for 2008, only 22 percent of murder victims were killed by strangers. More than 30 percent were slain by family members, boyfriends, and girlfriends. Nearly half of all murders were committed by friends, neighbors, and casual acquaintances.

Alafair Burke

#46. Twenty years is, after all, a long time. We are not the same people we were. Old friends, lovers, even family members: they are strangers who happen to wear a familiar face. We have no right to claim to know anyone after such a distance.

Graham Joyce

#47. Comedy is the only profession where love from a stranger is better than love from a family member. You need to perform for strangers to see if you're really funny. If they laugh and cheer, it's the greatest thing in the world.

Jay Leno

#48. Strangers," the Blue Man said, "are just family yo have yet to come to know.

Mitch Albom

#49. She wanted to ask him why they were all strangers who shared the same last name.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#50. They were my family, yet they were strangers.

Maria V. Snyder

#51. I wasn't big on family gatherings. Too many intimate strangers. I smiled a lot, but really I never knew what to say.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#52. Strangers had small interest in hurting you. That was always done best by your own family and friends.

Robin Hobb

#53. Every single day, no matter who you meet in the day - friends, family, work colleagues, strangers - give joy to them. Give a smile or a compliment or kind words or kind actions, but give joy! Do your best to make sure that every single person you meet has a better day because they saw you.

Rhonda Byrne

#54. Family jokes, though rightly cursed by strangers, are the bond that keeps most families alive.

Stella Benson

#55. Strangers take a long time to become acquainted, particularly when they are from the same family.

M.E. Kerr

#56. Young actors often don't think of the consequences of doing nudity or sex scenes. They want the role so badly that they agree to be exploited, and then end up embarrassing family, friends, and even strangers.

Natalie Portman

#57. I always wanted to make strangers and friends and family laugh. I was over ten years younger than my brothers. It was hard to get attention without some kind of gimmick, like athletic stardom or being funny.

Gary Gulman

#58. No connection can ever be broken if love holds tight at both ends.

Shannon L. Alder

#59. You are pregnant, with child, in the family way. People, some of whom you hardly know, will begin to comment on your belly size. They might even give it a rub, like you have strapped an animal of some kind in your front side and given total strangers permission to pet you at their leisure.

Amy E. Spiegel

#60. However self-sufficient we may fancy ourselves, we exist only in relation
to our friend, family, and life partners; to those we teach and mentor; to our co-workers, neighbors, strangers; and even to forces we cannot fully conceive of, let alone define. In many ways, we are our relationships.

Derrick A. Bell

#61. My true inspirations are my kids and my husband. I'm also inspired by stories of my extended family, friends, and even strangers who cause me to look at my life and behavior and encourage me to be the best person, mother, daughter, and friend that I can be.

Trista Sutter

#62. Strangers are family you haven't recognize yet

Mitch Albom

#63. I been with strangers all day and they treated me like family. I come in here to family and you treat me like a stranger.

August Wilson

#64. The family in the West is finished ... its origin was economic, not biological ... the odd group of strangers that make up every family no longer have any reason to live together, to suffer from one another's jagged edges.

Gore Vidal

#65. Cultivate your forgiveness with your friends, with your family, with strangers, and with yourself. Remind yourself that every person you encounter carries a sorrow and a struggle. Recognize that we all share a fundamental humanity. Model the

Desmond Tutu

#66. That's a central part of philosophy, of ethics. What do I owe to strangers? What do I owe to my family? What is it to live a good life? Those are questions which we face as individuals.

Peter Singer

#67. The family that raised me are awesome people and they are my mother and my father and my brother and my sister. I've never viewed them as these "strangers" that took over. It's never been this crazy, dramatic, Lifetime-movie situation. It's been chill.

Angel Olsen

#68. At that moment Mr. Lisbon had the feeling that he didn't know who she was, that children were only strangers you agreed to live with, and he reached out in order to meet her for the first time.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#69. My father was a certain kind of man - I saw how he treated my mother and his family and how he treated strangers. And I vowed I would never make a film that would not reflect properly on my father's name.

Sidney Poitier

#70. If you have to explain your sense of humor, then you are performing for the wrong crowd.

Shannon L. Alder

#71. My family trained me to be polite to people I had just met, and that included strangers. You speak when you're spoken to. You look people in the eye when they address you and when you address them back.

Samuel R. Delany

#72. You will find glimpses of my friends, my family, and strangers off the street in everything I write, because I steal from life and then put it in a blender.

Catherine Cruzan

#73. You grow up feeling the weight of blood, of family. There's no forsaking kin. But you can't help when kin forsakes you or when strangers come to be family.

Laura McHugh

#74. Friends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers!

Barbara Kingsolver

#75. Nothing counts so much as family, the rest are just strangers. (as Nicholas Earpp in Wyatt Earp, 1994)

Gene Hackman

#76. Oh, how terribly backwards, and yet sadly common, it is to sit scowling at family all the day long and then quickly put on a smile for strangers who drop by.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#77. POPPY (standing up to Paul): We're different. You make appointments to see your family. You're careful with what you say and do around people. You care about the opinions of strangers.

None of that makes any fricking sense to me, but I respect your decisions to care about pointless crap.

Bijou Hunter

#78. I wanted to see my family, but didn't want to leave the other guys. The people waiting for us were strangers, even though I knew every last one of them.

Clint Van Winkle