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

—Pope John Paul II, 1986

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

—Homer, c. 750 BC

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

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

In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.

—Herodotus, 440 BC

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

—Mario Puzo, 2001

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.

—Francis Bacon, 1625

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

—Oscar Wilde, 1895

The 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 BC

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

—Quentin Crisp, 1968

God is our father, but even more is God our mother.

—Pope John Paul I, 1978
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