A family’s photograph album is generally about the extended family—and, often, is all that remains of it.
—Susan Sontag, 1977Quotes
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.
—Oscar Wilde, 1895Families, I hate you! Shut-in homes, closed doors, jealous possessions of happiness.
—André Gide, 1897The 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 BCEvery adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.
—Gertrude Stein, 1940Family! Thou art the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children.
—August Strindberg, 1886As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.
—Pope John Paul II, 1986In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.
—Herodotus, 440 BCThe 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, 1919The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.
—Edward, Duke of Windsor, 1957It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.
—Friedrich Schiller, 1781A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy till they die!
—Philip Roth, 1969He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.
—Francis Bacon, 1625