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

The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.

I cannot bear a parent’s tears.

A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy till they die!

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

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

Familiarity breeds contempt—and children.

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

Men are what their mothers made them.

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 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.

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

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