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

—Homer, c. 750 BC

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

—André Gide, 1897

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

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.

—Francis Bacon, 1625

Mother died today. Or maybe it was yesterday, I don’t know. 

—Albert Camus, 1942

The most socially subversive institution of our time is the one-parent family.

—Paul Johnson, 1989

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

—Quentin Crisp, 1968

He that raises a large family, does indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand…a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too. 

—Benjamin Franklin, 1786

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

—Edward, Duke of Windsor, 1957
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