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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

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

—Pindar, c. 450 BC

My father! The sun is my father, and the earth is my mother, and on her bosom I will recline.

—Tecumseh, 1810

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

—Edward, Duke of Windsor, 1957

The most socially subversive institution of our time is the one-parent family.

—Paul Johnson, 1989

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

—H.L. Mencken, 1919

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

—Gertrude Stein, 1940

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

—Quentin Crisp, 1968

It’s frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself… it seems unfair. You can’t assume the responsibility for everything you do—or don’t do.

—Simone de Beauvoir, 1966

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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