I cannot bear a parent’s tears.

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

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

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

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

Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.

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

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

My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.

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

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.