Men are what their mothers made them.

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

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.

I cannot bear a parent’s tears.

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

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.

The root of the kingdom is in the State. The root of the State is in the family. The root of the family is in the person of its Head.

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

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

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