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

Men are what their mothers made them.

He that raises a large family, does indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand…a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too. 

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

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

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

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

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

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.

If parents would only realize how they bore their children!

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.

Family! Thou art the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children.