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

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

God is our father, but even more is God our mother.

He that raises a large family, does indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand…a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too. 

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

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

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

I cannot bear a parent’s tears.

If parents would only realize how they bore their children!

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

To be a successful father… there’s one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don’t look at it for the first two years.