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| The family is the association established by nature for the supply of man's everyday wants. | | Aristotle | |
| The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat. | | Robert Frost | |
| The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children. | | Clarence Darrow | |
| The fundamental defect of fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them | | Bertrand Russell | |
| 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. | | Robert Frost | |
| The kind of man who thinks that helping with the dishes is beneath him will also think that helping with the baby is beneath him, and then he certainly is not going to be a very successful father | | Eleanor Roosevelt | |
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| The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family 'gets together' alone. | | Ashley Montagu | |
| There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human society, are created, strengthened and maintained | | Winston Churchill | |
| There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence | | Samuel Johnson | |
| This is the reason why mothers are more devoted to their children than fathers: it is that they suffer more in giving them birth and are more certain that they are their own | | Aristotle | |
| 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 | | Ernest Hemingway | |
| To support mother and father, to cherish wife and child and to have a simple livelihood; this is the good luck. | | Buddha | |
| To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there. | | Barbara Bush | |
| When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry. | | William Shakespeare | |
| When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished by how much he'd learned in seven years. | | Mark Twain | |
| Where does the family start? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl - no superior alternative has yet been found | | Winston Churchill | |
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| You are not the child of the people you call mother and father, but their fellow-adventurer on a bright journey to understand the things that are. | | Richard Bach | |
| You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's. | | Robert Frost | |
