Men are what their mothers made them.

In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.

Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had.

A family’s photograph album is generally about the extended family—and, often, is all that remains of it.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

The most socially subversive institution of our time is the one-parent family.

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

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