As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.
—Pope John Paul II, 1986Quotes
It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.
—Friedrich Schiller, 1781Nobody, 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, 1815A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy till they die!
—Philip Roth, 1969It’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, 1966To 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, 1954Few sons are equal to their fathers; most fall short, all too few surpass them.
—Homer, c. 750 BCIn our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.
—V.S. Pritchett, 1968There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
—Michel de Montaigne, 1580It is impossible to please all the world and one’s father.
—Jean de La Fontaine, 1668The 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 BCFamiliarity breeds contempt—and children.
—Mark Twain, c. 1900One race there is of men, one of gods, but from one mother we both draw our breath.
—Pindar, c. 450 BC