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

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

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

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.

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

It’s frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself… it seems unfair. You can’t assume the responsibility for everything you do—or don’t do.

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

If parents would only realize how they bore their children!

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.

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

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

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.