It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.
—Friedrich Schiller, 1781Quotes
Families, I hate you! Shut-in homes, closed doors, jealous possessions of happiness.
—André Gide, 1897God is our father, but even more is God our mother.
—Pope John Paul I, 1978The root of the kingdom is in the State. The root of the State is in the family. The root of the family is in the person of its Head.
—Mencius, c. 270 BCIf parents would only realize how they bore their children!
—George Bernard Shaw, c. 1910There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
—Michel de Montaigne, 1580One race there is of men, one of gods, but from one mother we both draw our breath.
—Pindar, c. 450 BCA family’s photograph album is generally about the extended family—and, often, is all that remains of it.
—Susan Sontag, 1977The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.
—Edward, Duke of Windsor, 1957A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy till they die!
—Philip Roth, 1969As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.
—Pope John Paul II, 1986