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

I cannot bear a parent’s tears.

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

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

If parents would only realize how they bore their children!

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

Familiarity breeds contempt—and children.

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.

It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.

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

Men are what their mothers made them.

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.

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