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

A family’s photograph album is generally about the extended family—and, often, is all that remains of it.

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

If parents would only realize how they bore their children!

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

Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.

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

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

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

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

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

Few sons are equal to their fathers; most fall short, all too few surpass them. 

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