My father! The sun is my father, and the earth is my mother, and on her bosom I will recline.
—Tecumseh, 1810Quotes
It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.
—Friedrich Schiller, 1781The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, is in its loyalty to each other.
—Mario Puzo, 2001The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended—and not to take a hint when a hint isn’t intended.
—Robert Frost, 1939Families, I hate you! Shut-in homes, closed doors, jealous possessions of happiness.
—André Gide, 1897Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.
—H.L. Mencken, 1919Familiarity breeds contempt—and children.
—Mark Twain, c. 1900God is our father, but even more is God our mother.
—Pope John Paul I, 1978It is impossible to please all the world and one’s father.
—Jean de La Fontaine, 1668Mother died today. Or maybe it was yesterday, I don’t know.
—Albert Camus, 1942There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
—Michel de Montaigne, 1580As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.
—Pope John Paul II, 1986All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.
—Oscar Wilde, 1895