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Men are what their mothers made them.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1860

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

—Pindar, c. 450 BC

A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy till they die!

—Philip Roth, 1969

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

Family! Thou art the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children.

—August Strindberg, 1886

Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had.

—Aristotle, c. 350 BC

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

—Oscar Wilde, 1895

Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one’s own Trojan horse.

—Rebecca West, 1959

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

—Homer, c. 750 BC

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

—H.L. Mencken, 1919
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