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

—Pope John Paul II, 1986

The most socially subversive institution of our time is the one-parent family.

—Paul Johnson, 1989

God is our father, but even more is God our mother.

—Pope John Paul I, 1978

It’s frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself… it seems unfair. You can’t assume the responsibility for everything you do—or don’t do.

—Simone de Beauvoir, 1966

It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.

—Friedrich Schiller, 1781

If parents would only realize how they bore their children!

—George Bernard Shaw, c. 1910

Familiarity breeds contempt—and children.

—Mark Twain, c. 1900

In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.

—V.S. Pritchett, 1968

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

—Edward, Duke of Windsor, 1957

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

—Herodotus, 440 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

The 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, 1919

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

—Tecumseh, 1810