I cannot bear a parent’s tears.

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

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

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

Familiarity breeds contempt—and children.

Mother died today. Or maybe it was yesterday, I don’t know. 

Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.

One race there is of men, one of gods, but from one mother we both draw our breath.

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

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.

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

My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.