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

—Pope John Paul II, 1986

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

—Friedrich Schiller, 1781

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

—Albert Camus, 1942

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

—Susan Sontag, 1977

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

—Oscar Wilde, 1895

Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.

—H.L. Mencken, 1919

If parents would only realize how they bore their children!

—George Bernard Shaw, c. 1910

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

Men are what their mothers made them.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1860

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

—V.S. Pritchett, 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
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