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

Family! Thou art the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children.

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

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.

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

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

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

If parents would only realize how they bore their children!

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

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

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.