Men are what their mothers made them.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1860Quotes
As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.
—Pope John Paul II, 1986Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had.
—Aristotle, c. 350 BCIt is impossible to please all the world and one’s father.
—Jean de La Fontaine, 1668Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.
—Gertrude Stein, 1940Family! Thou art the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children.
—August Strindberg, 1886The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.
—Edward, Duke of Windsor, 1957Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one’s own Trojan horse.
—Rebecca West, 1959There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
—Michel de Montaigne, 1580In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.
—Herodotus, 440 BCOne race there is of men, one of gods, but from one mother we both draw our breath.
—Pindar, c. 450 BC