In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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