The most socially subversive institution of our time is the one-parent family.
—Paul Johnson, 1989Quotes
To be a successful father… there’s one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don’t look at it for the first two years.
—Ernest Hemingway, 1954I cannot bear a parent’s tears.
—Virgil, c. 25 BCThe strength of a family, like the strength of an army, is in its loyalty to each other.
—Mario Puzo, 2001In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.
—V.S. Pritchett, 1968As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.
—Pope John Paul II, 1986By 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, 1955The 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 BCMy mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
—Quentin Crisp, 1968Nobody, 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, 1815Few sons are equal to their fathers; most fall short, all too few surpass them.
—Homer, c. 750 BCFamily! 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, 1886Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had.
—Aristotle, c. 350 BC