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

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

The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, is in its loyalty to each other.

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.

Families, I hate you! Shut-in homes, closed doors, jealous possessions of happiness.

Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.

Familiarity breeds contempt—and children.

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

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

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

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

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

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