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

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

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

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

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

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.

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

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

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

Familiarity breeds contempt—and children.

Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one’s own Trojan horse.