35 Quotes About Fake Family Members

From siblings to cousins, dealing with a fake family member can challenge your trust and faithfulness. These quotes about fake family members highlight some of the longer term damage that can occur from their behavior.

“Betray a friend, and you’ll often find you have ruined yourself.”

“Blood relatives often have nothing to do with family, and similarly, family is about who you choose to make your life with.”

“Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.”

“Everyone is related to Africa; everyone comes from Africa. We are all distant relatives.”

“Everything is relative except relatives, and they are absolute.”

“Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.”

“Feel what you feel, know what you know, and set your relatives free to do the same.”

“Food for us comes from our relatives, whether they have wings or fins or roots. That is how we consider food. Food has a culture. It has a history. It has a story. It has relationships.”

“God gives us our relatives, thank God we can choose our friends.”

“God gives us relatives; thank God, we can choose our friends.”

“I am convinced that material things can contribute a lot to making one’s life pleasant, but, basically, if you do not have very good friends and relatives who matter to you, life will be really empty and sad and material things cease to be important.”

“I don’t mind having these relatives. I’ll give them a little, since they all prayed for my victory.”

“I find it difficult to imagine an afterlife, such as Christians, or at any rate many religious people, conceive it, believing that the conversations with relatives and friends interrupted here on earth will be continued in the hereafter.”

“I hate liars, hypocrites and people who take advantage of people who care about them.”

“I have developed a very strong partiality for the dead: they don’t talk back, they don’t sue, and they don’t have angry relatives.”

“I live very well, but I support a lot of relatives.”

“I was always a drama queen. I remember playing in the kitchen, trying to get my mom to think I was dead and call the police. When she didn’t, I would cry. I was always theatrical. I don’t think any of my relatives are surprised.”

“If God has given you the world’s goods in abundance, it is to help you gain those of Heaven and to be a good example of sound teaching to your sons, servants, and relatives.”

“If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.”

“If there is anyone dependent on your income – parents, children, relatives – you need life insurance.”

“It isn’t necessary to have relatives in Kansas City in order to be unhappy.”

“Most of the catfish you find at the fish counter has been farmed. Though I usually prefer to buy and eat wild fish, farmed catfish taste cleaner, without the muddy taste of their wild relatives.”

“Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we’ve put it in an impossible situation.”

“One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.”

“Our relatives form the natural setting of our childhood. We understand ourselves best and are best understood by others through the persons who came nearest to us in our earliest years.”

“Religion kept some of my relatives alive, because it was all they had. If they hadn’t had some hope of heaven, some companionship in Jesus, they probably would have committed suicide, their lives were so hellish.”

“Some of my happiest moments are the ones I spend with my husband, a few close relatives, and a handful of very good friends who know me well and like me anyway.”

“Some of the most poisonous people come disguised as friends and family.”

“Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself out of those values.”

“Sometimes, you have to give up on people. Not because you don’t care but because they don’t.”

“Stay real. stay loyal or stay away from me.”

“The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.”

“The saddest thing about betrayal is that it never comes from your enemies.”

“When one has love for God, one doesn’t feel any physical attraction to wife, children, relatives and friends. One retains only compassion for them.”

“World fertility surveys indicate that anywhere from one third to one half of the babies born in the Third World would not be if their mothers had access to cheap, reliable family planning, had enough personal empowerment to stand up to their husbands and relatives, and could choose their own family size.”

Setting boundaries with others is one of the best ways to establish a standard.