In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.
—V.S. Pritchett, 1968Quotes
As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.
—Pope John Paul II, 1986To 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, 1954In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.
—Herodotus, 440 BCFew sons are equal to their fathers; most fall short, all too few surpass them.
—Homer, c. 750 BCThe strength of a family, like the strength of an army, is in its loyalty to each other.
—Mario Puzo, 2001It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.
—Friedrich Schiller, 1781Men are what their mothers made them.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1860If parents would only realize how they bore their children!
—George Bernard Shaw, c. 1910A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy till they die!
—Philip Roth, 1969One race there is of men, one of gods, but from one mother we both draw our breath.
—Pindar, c. 450 BCI cannot bear a parent’s tears.
—Virgil, c. 25 BCAgain, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had.
—Aristotle, c. 350 BC