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

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

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.

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

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

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

Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.  

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

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

I cannot bear a parent’s tears.

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.