Quotes About Family Not By Blood

#1. 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

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

Sandy Archibald

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

DaShanne Stokes

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

Brittainy C. Cherry

#5. 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

#6. 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

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

Helio Gracie

#8. 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

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

Juvenal

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. 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

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

Cassandra Clare

#14. 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

#15. A wise man once told me family don't end in blood, but it doesn't start there either. Family cares about you, not what you can do for them. Family's there through the good, bad, all of it. They got your back even when it hurts. That's family

Eric Kripke

#16. My family understands the pain of struggling with a loved one who's suffering from a blood-related cancer, and we seek to support those who are working to find a cure.

Nadia Bjorlin

#17. India, to some extent, courses through my blood. My father was brought up there, and my grandfather served there, and so on. We have a very strong family affinity for the place.

John Gimlette

#18. You must remember, family is often born of blood, but it doesn't depend on blood. Nor is it exclusive of friendship. Family members can be your best friends, you know. And best friends, whether or not they are related to you, can be your family.

Trenton Lee Stewart

#19. But the people who mattered were the people you chose instead of the people who were yours by an accident of birth. Real family was heart as much as, if not more than, blood.

Martina Boone

#20. Your love doesn't end because you find out that he's not related to you by blood. I believe that love transcends such small details as family lineage.

Delancey Stewart

#21. They are father and son, just not by blood. I didn't know that family members could just find each other, choose each other like they have. I love the idea. And I'd like to trade in Dad and Noah for these two.

Jandy Nelson

#22. Public school teachers in Long Island, New York, saved my life in the '70s. They were involved and invested and helpful. One took me into her family and loved me back to life. She taught me that love is not formed and families are not formed by blood. That love makes a family.

Rosie O'Donnell

#23. 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

#24. It is not by blood, anyhow, that man's true continuity is established: Alexander's direct heir is Caesar, and not the frail infant born of a Persian princess in an Asiatic citadel; Epaminondas, dying without issue, was right to boast that he had Victories for daughters.

Marguerite Yourcenar

#25. Family cannot be determined by blood. Family is determined by actions. Family is about trust. Family is about acceptance. Family is about love. True family is earned, not born.

Sarah Brianne

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

Laisha Rosnau

#27. 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

#28. 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

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

Jessica Scott

#30. 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

#31. 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

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

Cassandra Clare

#33. 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

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

Lynette Eason

#35. 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

#36. 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

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

Kim Boykin

#38. 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

#39. 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

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

Elizabeth Eulberg

#41. 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

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

Charles Dickens

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

Erica Goros

#44. 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

#45. 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

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

Jenna Morasca

#47. 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

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

Shellie Palmer