I cannot bear a parent’s tears.

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

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

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.

In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.

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

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

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.

Men are what their mothers made them.

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

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

Families, I hate you! Shut-in homes, closed doors, jealous possessions of happiness.

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