Sometimes Family Is Not Blood Quotes

#1. 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

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

Erica Goros

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

Shellie Palmer

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

Sandy Archibald

#5. 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

#6. Family isn't only blood.

Melissa Marr

#7. The blood of man should never be shed but to redeem the blood of man. It is well shed for our family, for our friends, for our God, for our country, for our kind. The rest is vanity; the rest is crime.

Edmund Burke

#8. All things are connected, like the blood that runs in your family "The water's murmur is the voice of my father's father." 1854 The rivers are our brothers. They quench our thirst. They carry our canoes and feed our children. You must give to the rivers the kindness you would give to any brother.

Chief Seattle

#9. For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood.

Anne Tyler

#10. Blood doesn't make you family,

Kelley R. Martin

#11. The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof.

Richard Bach

#12. As mothers and daughters, we are connected with one another. My mother is the bones of my spine, keeping me straight and true. She is my blood, making sure it runs rich and strong. She is the beating of my heart. I cannot now imagine a life without her.

Kristin Hannah

#13. I loathe rock stars. I am a music nerd, a fan, a follower ... just like any fan of music might be. And although I have blood-relatives, a lot of times I feel closer to my audience than my true family, because at least my fans get what I'm doing, to a certain extent, whereas my family does not.

Phil Anselmo

#14. Because blood is blood, and every family has its own force.
Its own flavor.
Its own charm and strange.

Stephanie Kuehn

#15. All blood does is make you related. But loyalty? It's loyalty that makes you Family.

Chris Diaz