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

—Homer, c. 750 BC

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

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

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

—Quentin Crisp, 1968

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

—Friedrich Schiller, 1781

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

—Gertrude Stein, 1940

There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.

—Michel de Montaigne, 1580

I cannot bear a parent’s tears.

—Virgil, c. 25 BC

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

It’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, 1966
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