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It is impossible to please all the world and one’s father.

—Jean de La Fontaine, 1668

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

—Edward, Duke of Windsor, 1957

The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, is in its loyalty to each other.

—Mario Puzo, 2001

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

—Pope John Paul II, 1986

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

—Tecumseh, 1810

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

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.

—Oscar Wilde, 1895

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

If parents would only realize how they bore their children!

—George Bernard Shaw, c. 1910

Few sons are equal to their fathers; most fall short, all too few surpass them. 

—Homer, c. 750 BC

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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