Family Quotes and Proverbs

Doc Childre and Howard Martin, The HeartMath Solution
Family is the first social unit for developing the qualities of the heart. A true family grows and moves through life together, inseparable in the heart. Whether a biological family or an extended family of people attracted to each other based on heart resonance and mutual support, the word "family" implies warmth, a place where the core feelings of the heart are nurtured. Family values represent the core values and guidelines that parents and family members hold in high regard for the well-being of the family. Sincere family feelings are core heart feelings. They are the basis for true family values. While we have differences, we remain "family" by virtue of our heart connection. Family provides necessary security and support, and acts as a buffer against external problems. A family made up of secure people generates a magnetic power that can get things done. They are the hope for real security in a stressful world.

Sara Paddison, Hidden Power of the Heart
We are one big family of people, trying to make our way through the unfolding puzzle of life. We are all connected to one another in the heart. Connecting with the ultimate source of love is possible through discovering the hidden power in your heart.

Elizabeth Stone
Making the decision to have a child - it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart walking around outside your body.

Gail Lumet Buckley
Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present and future.

Carl Sandburg
A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.

Martin Mull
Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.

Lyndon Baines Johnson
The family is the corner stone of our society. More than any other force it shapes the attitude, the hopes, the ambitions, and the values of the child. And when the family collapses it is the children that are usually damaged. When it happens on a massive scale the community itself is crippled. So, unless we work to strengthen the family, to create conditions under which most parents will stay together, all the rest — schools, playgrounds, and public assitance, and private concern — will never be enough.

Don Marquis
I would rather start a family than finish one.

George Santayana
The family is one of nature's masterpieces.

Unknown
None but a mule denies his family.

Robert Frost
The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended — and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.

Richard Bach
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.

Chinese proverb
To understand your parents' love, you must raise children yourself.

Ogden Nash
A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.

Ring Lardner
The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have.

George Bernard Shaw
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

Benjamin Franklin
He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.

Reinhold Niebuhr
Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice.

John Bowring
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

Ed Howe
Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.