Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one’s own Trojan horse.

It’s frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself… it seems unfair. You can’t assume the responsibility for everything you do—or don’t do.

Men are what their mothers made them.

God is our father, but even more is God our mother.

Family! Thou art the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children.

Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.  

A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy till they die!

As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.

There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.

My father! The sun is my father, and the earth is my mother, and on her bosom I will recline.

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.

It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.

The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.