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

Men are what their mothers made them.

To be a successful father… there’s one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don’t look at it for the first two years.

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

If parents would only realize how they bore their children!

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

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

I cannot bear a parent’s tears.

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

My father! The sun is my father, and the earth is my mother, and on her bosom I will recline.

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

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

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