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

Families, I hate you! Shut-in homes, closed doors, jealous possessions of happiness.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, is in its loyalty to each other.