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If parents would only realize how they bore their children!

—George Bernard Shaw, c. 1910

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

It is impossible to please all the world and one’s father.

—Jean de La Fontaine, 1668

Men are what their mothers made them.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1860

In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.

—Herodotus, 440 BC

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

—Albert Camus, 1942

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

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

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

—Paul Johnson, 1989

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.

—Oscar Wilde, 1895

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

—Friedrich Schiller, 1781
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