Familiarity breeds contempt—and children.

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.

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.

Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had.

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

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

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

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.