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

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

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

By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.

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

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

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.

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

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

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. 

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

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

If parents would only realize how they bore their children!