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

There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.

I cannot bear a parent’s tears.

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

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.

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

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

Familiarity breeds contempt—and children.

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

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

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

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. 

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