The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.
—Edward, Duke of Windsor, 1957Quotes
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, 1919If parents would only realize how they bore their children!
—George Bernard Shaw, c. 1910God is our father, but even more is God our mother.
—Pope John Paul I, 1978The root of the kingdom is in the State. The root of the State is in the family. The root of the family is in the person of its Head.
—Mencius, c. 270 BCMy mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
—Quentin Crisp, 1968By 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, 1955Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.
—Gertrude Stein, 1940Families, I hate you! Shut-in homes, closed doors, jealous possessions of happiness.
—André Gide, 1897Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had.
—Aristotle, c. 350 BCThe strength of a family, like the strength of an army, is in its loyalty to each other.
—Mario Puzo, 2001