Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had.
—Aristotle, c. 350 BCQuotes
As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.
—Pope John Paul II, 1986It’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, 1966Nobody, 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, 1815The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.
—Edward, Duke of Windsor, 1957Familiarity breeds contempt—and children.
—Mark Twain, c. 1900My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
—Quentin Crisp, 1968God is our father, but even more is God our mother.
—Pope John Paul I, 1978My father! The sun is my father, and the earth is my mother, and on her bosom I will recline.
—Tecumseh, 1810Mother died today. Or maybe it was yesterday, I don’t know.
—Albert Camus, 1942The 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, 1919A family’s photograph album is generally about the extended family—and, often, is all that remains of it.
—Susan Sontag, 1977By 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