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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

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

—Herodotus, 440 BC

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

—Gertrude Stein, 1940

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

—Edward, Duke of Windsor, 1957

One race there is of men, one of gods, but from one mother we both draw our breath.

—Pindar, c. 450 BC

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

—V.S. Pritchett, 1968

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

—Pope John Paul II, 1986

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

—Albert Camus, 1942

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

—André Gide, 1897

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

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

—Friedrich Schiller, 1781
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