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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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