If parents would only realize how they bore their children!

I cannot bear a parent’s tears.

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

Familiarity breeds contempt—and children.

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

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

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

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

It’s frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself… it seems unfair. You can’t assume the responsibility for everything you do—or don’t do.

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

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

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

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