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

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

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

Men are what their mothers made them.

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

If parents would only realize how they bore their children!

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

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

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.

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

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

To be a successful father… there’s one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don’t look at it for the first two years.