Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.

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

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.

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

If parents would only realize how they bore their children!

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

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

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

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

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