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

—Quentin Crisp, 1968

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

—Gertrude Stein, 1940

Familiarity breeds contempt—and children.

—Mark Twain, c. 1900

If parents would only realize how they bore their children!

—George Bernard Shaw, c. 1910

Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.

—H.L. Mencken, 1919

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

—Friedrich Schiller, 1781

To 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, 1954

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

—André Gide, 1897

Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one’s own Trojan horse.

—Rebecca West, 1959

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

—Tecumseh, 1810

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

—Pope John Paul I, 1978

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

—Mario Puzo, 2001

Nobody, 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, 1815