I cannot bear a parent’s tears.
—Virgil, c. 25 BCQuotes
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, 1955The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, is in its loyalty to each other.
—Mario Puzo, 2001In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.
—V.S. Pritchett, 1968My father! The sun is my father, and the earth is my mother, and on her bosom I will recline.
—Tecumseh, 1810As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.
—Pope John Paul II, 1986Few sons are equal to their fathers; most fall short, all too few surpass them.
—Homer, c. 750 BCFamily! 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, 1886One race there is of men, one of gods, but from one mother we both draw our breath.
—Pindar, c. 450 BCIt is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.
—Friedrich Schiller, 1781Families, I hate you! Shut-in homes, closed doors, jealous possessions of happiness.
—André Gide, 1897