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

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 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. 

Familiarity breeds contempt—and 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.

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

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

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.

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

If parents would only realize how they bore their children!

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

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

Men are what their mothers made them.