If parents would only realize how they bore their children!

Men are what their mothers made them.

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

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

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

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. 

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

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

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

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

It is impossible to please all the world and one’s father.

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