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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

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

—Gertrude Stein, 1940

My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.

—Quentin Crisp, 1968

Few sons are equal to their fathers; most fall short, all too few surpass them. 

—Homer, c. 750 BC

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

—Herodotus, 440 BC

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

It is impossible to please all the world and one’s father.

—Jean de La Fontaine, 1668

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

—Friedrich Schiller, 1781

The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, is in its loyalty to each other.

—Mario Puzo, 2001

I cannot bear a parent’s tears.

—Virgil, c. 25 BC

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

—Albert Camus, 1942

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

—V.S. Pritchett, 1968

Families, I hate you! Shut-in homes, closed doors, jealous possessions of happiness.

—André Gide, 1897