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

Mother died today. Or maybe it was yesterday, I don’t know. 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

He that raises a large family, does indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand…a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.