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

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

If parents would only realize how they bore their children!

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.

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

The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.

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

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

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.

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

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

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

Men are what their mothers made them.