Family Quote by Emma Bull

“Two things we have no control:The family in which you were born it to and the name you were given at birth.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“So much must be established at birth . . . in the random choosing of a name.”

— Bill Barich

“We all need to work out who we are. But at the same time, we are all labeled from birth.”

— Ella Carey

“Everyone of us has a new name that winks at us daily because there are rivers of life in our bellies, we just need…

— Euginia Herlihy

“My children don’t even know my name, and it’s no excuse that they haven’t even been born yet.”

— Jarod Kintz

“Some people are born with family, and others have to make family.”

— Samantha Young

“Girl-children do not reproduce their own name. They bring forth offspring for strangers. They receive, carry and bring forth other people's seeds. Their own…

— Lucy Michot

“None of us could choose our birth, but we could still chose our family, and only those who love you are your true family.”

— Meg X

Birth and ancestry, and that which we have not ourselves achieved, we can scarcely call our own.

— Ovid

“What is it that makes a family? Certainly no document does, no legal pronouncement or accident of birth. No, real families come from choices…

— Elizabeth Berg

“One does not accept a name. The ancestors choose our names for us. We do not have a choice of accepting — we are…

— Faye Hollidaye

“People don't always need a name.”

— Edward Averett