It’s frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself… it seems unfair. You can’t assume the responsibility for everything you do—or don’t do.

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

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

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

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.

In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.

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

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.

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

I cannot bear a parent’s tears.

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