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

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

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.

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

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

I cannot bear a parent’s tears.

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

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

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

A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy till they die!

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

Familiarity breeds contempt—and children.