The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, is in its loyalty to each other.
—Mario Puzo, 2001Quotes
A family’s photograph album is generally about the extended family—and, often, is all that remains of it.
—Susan Sontag, 1977Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.
—Gertrude Stein, 1940If parents would only realize how they bore their children!
—George Bernard Shaw, c. 1910He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.
—Francis Bacon, 1625Nobody, 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, 1815It is impossible to please all the world and one’s father.
—Jean de La Fontaine, 1668My father! The sun is my father, and the earth is my mother, and on her bosom I will recline.
—Tecumseh, 1810All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.
—Oscar Wilde, 1895In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.
—V.S. Pritchett, 1968Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.
—H.L. Mencken, 1919Few sons are equal to their fathers; most fall short, all too few surpass them.
—Homer, c. 750 BCMy mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
—Quentin Crisp, 1968