By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.

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

If parents would only realize how they bore their children!

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

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

I cannot bear a parent’s tears.

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

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

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

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

Familiarity breeds contempt—and children.

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

It is impossible to please all the world and one’s father.