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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

A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy till they die!

—Philip Roth, 1969

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

—Pope John Paul II, 1986

Familiarity breeds contempt—and children.

—Mark Twain, c. 1900

Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one’s own Trojan horse.

—Rebecca West, 1959

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

—Pope John Paul I, 1978

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

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

The 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 BC

In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.

—V.S. Pritchett, 1968

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

—Quentin Crisp, 1968
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