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

—Aristotle, c. 350 BC

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

As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.

—Pope John Paul II, 1986

It is impossible to please all the world and one’s father.

—Jean de La Fontaine, 1668

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

—Edward, Duke of Windsor, 1957

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

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

—Tecumseh, 1810

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.

—Oscar Wilde, 1895

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

—Mario Puzo, 2001

I cannot bear a parent’s tears.

—Virgil, c. 25 BC

Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.

—H.L. Mencken, 1919

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

—Herodotus, 440 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