“Man is the head of the family, woman the neck that turns the head.”
“There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.”
“Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.”
“All people are your relatives, therefore expect only trouble from them.”
“I think the ideal situation for a family is to be completely incestuous.”
“Look for the good, not the evil, in the conduct of members of the family.”
“A friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative.”
“It is not possible for one to teach others who cannot teach his own family.”
“Roots is not just a saga of my family. It is the symbolic saga of a people.”
“The most socially subversive institution of our time is the one-parent family.”
“The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart.”
“Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.”
“The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have.”
“There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.”
“People who have good relationships at home are more effective in the marketplace.”
“As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.”
“When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.”
“All happy families resemble one another; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
“A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living.”
“Family jokes, though rightly cursed by strangers, are the bond that keeps most families alive.”
“In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.”
“He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows.”
“The voice of parents is the voice of gods, for to their children they are heaven's lieutenants.”
“The family unit plays a critical role in our society and in the training of the generation to come.”
“You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family.”
“The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.”
“A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it.”
“A man ought to live so that everybody knows he is a Christian... and most of all, his family ought to know.”
“Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.”
“There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.”