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.

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

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

Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had.

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

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

I cannot bear a parent’s tears.

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.

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

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

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

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