The root of the kingdom is in the State. The root of the State is in the family. The root of the family is in the person of its Head.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one’s own Trojan horse.

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

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

Men are what their mothers made them.