Mother died today. Or maybe it was yesterday, I don’t know.
—Albert Camus, 1942Quotes
Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one’s own Trojan horse.
—Rebecca West, 1959Men are what their mothers made them.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1860My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
—Quentin Crisp, 1968In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.
—Herodotus, 440 BCThe thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.
—Edward, Duke of Windsor, 1957It is impossible to please all the world and one’s father.
—Jean de La Fontaine, 1668To 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, 1954A family’s photograph album is generally about the extended family—and, often, is all that remains of it.
—Susan Sontag, 1977Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had.
—Aristotle, c. 350 BCAs the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.
—Pope John Paul II, 1986