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

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

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

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. 

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

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

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.

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.

Few sons are equal to their fathers; most fall short, all too few surpass them. 

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

The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended—and not to take a hint when a hint isn’t intended.

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.