Men are what their mothers made them.

Familiarity breeds contempt—and 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.

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

A family’s photograph album is generally about the extended family—and, often, is all that remains of it.

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

The root of the kingdom is in the State. The root of the State is in the family. The root of the family is in the person of its Head.

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

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

I cannot bear a parent’s tears.

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

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.

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