My father! The sun is my father, and the earth is my mother, and on her bosom I will recline.

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

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.

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

Mother died today. Or maybe it was yesterday, I don’t know. 

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. 

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.

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

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

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

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

In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.

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