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

—Herodotus, 440 BC

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.

—Oscar Wilde, 1895

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

—Tecumseh, 1810

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

—Mario Puzo, 2001

Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had.

—Aristotle, c. 350 BC

As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.

—Pope John Paul II, 1986

The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.

—Edward, Duke of Windsor, 1957

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

—André Gide, 1897

One race there is of men, one of gods, but from one mother we both draw our breath.

—Pindar, c. 450 BC

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

—Gertrude Stein, 1940

The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended—and not to take a hint when a hint isn’t intended.

—Robert Frost, 1939
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