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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

God is our father, but even more is God our mother.

—Pope John Paul I, 1978

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

—Gertrude Stein, 1940

By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.

—Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1955

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

—Homer, c. 750 BC

Familiarity breeds contempt—and children.

—Mark Twain, c. 1900

Men are what their mothers made them.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1860

Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.

—Jane Austen, 1815

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

—Friedrich Schiller, 1781

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

—Edward, Duke of Windsor, 1957

A family’s photograph album is generally about the extended family—and, often, is all that remains of it.

—Susan Sontag, 1977
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