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.

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

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

The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.

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

By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.

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

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.

There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.