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.

If parents would only realize how they bore their children!

The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.