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One race there is of men, one of gods, but from one mother we both draw our breath.

—Pindar, c. 450 BC

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

—Aristotle, c. 350 BC

Families, I hate you! Shut-in homes, closed doors, jealous possessions of happiness.

—André Gide, 1897

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

—Paul Johnson, 1989

A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy till they die!

—Philip Roth, 1969

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

God is our father, but even more is God our mother.

—Pope John Paul I, 1978

The root of the kingdom is in the State. The root of the State is in the family. The root of the family is in the person of its Head.

—Mencius, c. 270 BC

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

If parents would only realize how they bore their children!

—George Bernard Shaw, c. 1910

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

—Herodotus, 440 BC

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.

—Oscar Wilde, 1895

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

—Pope John Paul II, 1986