"Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city."

"Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other."

"In Boston they ask, How much does he know? In New York, How much is he worth? In Philadelphia, Who were his parents?"

"Familiarity breeds contempt - and children."

"A man should never neglect his family for business."

"Drummed into me, above all, by my dad, by the whole family, was that without your good name, you would be nothing."

"The web is more a social creation than a technical one. I designed it for a social effect — to help people work together — and not as a technical toy. The ultimate goal of the Web is to support and improve our weblike existence in the world. We clump into families, associations, and companies. We develop trust across the miles and distrust around the corner."

"If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family Anatidae on our hands."

"The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found."

"My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me."

"When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry."

"By profession I am a soldier and take pride in that fact. But I am prouder – infinitely prouder – to be a father. A soldier destroys in order to build; the father only builds, never destroys. The one has the potentiality of death; the other embodies creation and life. And while the hordes of death are mighty, the battalions of life are mightier still. It is my hope that my son, when I am gone, will remember me not from the battle field but in the home repeating with him our simple daily prayer, 'Our Father who art in Heaven.'"

"My father was frightened of his mother. I was frightened of my father and I am damned well going to see to it that my children are frightened of me."

"It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father."

"He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too."