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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

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

I cannot bear a parent’s tears.

—Virgil, c. 25 BC

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

In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.

—V.S. Pritchett, 1968

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

—Paul Johnson, 1989

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

—Mario Puzo, 2001

There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.

—Michel de Montaigne, 1580

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

—Aristotle, c. 350 BC

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

—Edward, Duke of Windsor, 1957

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

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

—Tecumseh, 1810

If parents would only realize how they bore their children!

—George Bernard Shaw, c. 1910