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

—Friedrich Schiller, 1781

Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.  

—Gertrude Stein, 1940

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

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

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

—Pope John Paul II, 1986

If parents would only realize how they bore their children!

—George Bernard Shaw, c. 1910

Mother died today. Or maybe it was yesterday, I don’t know. 

—Albert Camus, 1942

The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended—and not to take a hint when a hint isn’t intended.

—Robert Frost, 1939

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

—Edward, Duke of Windsor, 1957

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

Men are what their mothers made them.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1860

A family’s photograph album is generally about the extended family—and, often, is all that remains of it.

—Susan Sontag, 1977