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

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

Familiarity breeds contempt—and children.

If parents would only realize how they bore their children!

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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