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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

The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.

—G.K. Chesterton, 1919

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

If parents would only realize how they bore their children!

—George Bernard Shaw, c. 1910

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

—Susan Sontag, 1977

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

—Quentin Crisp, 1968

Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had.

—Aristotle, c. 350 BC

By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.

—Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1955

To be a successful father… there’s one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don’t look at it for the first two years.

—Ernest Hemingway, 1954

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
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