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By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.

—Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1955

It is impossible to please all the world and one’s father.

—Jean de La Fontaine, 1668

The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.

—Edward, Duke of Windsor, 1957

In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.

—Herodotus, 440 BC

As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.

—Pope John Paul II, 1986

I cannot bear a parent’s tears.

—Virgil, c. 25 BC

The most socially subversive institution of our time is the one-parent family.

—Paul Johnson, 1989

Mother died today. Or maybe it was yesterday, I don’t know. 

—Albert Camus, 1942

Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.  

—Gertrude Stein, 1940

The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.

—G.K. Chesterton, 1919

It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.

—Friedrich Schiller, 1781

Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had.

—Aristotle, c. 350 BC

My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.

—Quentin Crisp, 1968