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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

It’s frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself… it seems unfair. You can’t assume the responsibility for everything you do—or don’t do.

—Simone de Beauvoir, 1966

Familiarity breeds contempt—and children.

—Mark Twain, c. 1900

Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one’s own Trojan horse.

—Rebecca West, 1959

If parents would only realize how they bore their children!

—George Bernard Shaw, c. 1910

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

—Aristotle, c. 350 BC

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

—Herodotus, 440 BC

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

—Edward, Duke of Windsor, 1957

The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, is in its loyalty to each other.

—Mario Puzo, 2001

Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.

—Jane Austen, 1815

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

—Friedrich Schiller, 1781

Few sons are equal to their fathers; most fall short, all too few surpass them. 

—Homer, c. 750 BC

My father! The sun is my father, and the earth is my mother, and on her bosom I will recline.

—Tecumseh, 1810