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

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

In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Familiarity breeds contempt—and children.