A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
- Bowring, John

The excessive regard of parents for their children, and their dislike of other people's is, like class feeling, patriotism, save-your-soul-ism, and other virtues, a mean exclusiveness at bottom.
- Hardy, Thomas

Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
- Humphrey, Hubert

It is fortunate to come of distinguished ancestry. - It is not less so to be such that people do not care to inquire whether you are of high descent or not.
- La Bruyere, Jean

Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name.
- Lucan

When your eyes are fixed in the stare of unconsciousness, and your throat coughs the last gasping breath - as one dragged in the dark to a great precipice - what assistance are a wife and child?
- Nagarjuna

How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.
- Scott, Sir Walter

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
- Shaw, George Bernard

If parents would only realize how they bore their children!
- Shaw, George Bernard

Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors.
- Voltaire