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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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