Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one’s own Trojan horse.

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. 

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

I cannot bear a parent’s tears.

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

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

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

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

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

It is impossible to please all the world and one’s father.

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

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