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It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.

—Friedrich Schiller, 1781

Families, I hate you! Shut-in homes, closed doors, jealous possessions of happiness.

—André Gide, 1897

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

—Pope John Paul I, 1978

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

If parents would only realize how they bore their children!

—George Bernard Shaw, c. 1910

There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.

—Michel de Montaigne, 1580

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

—Pindar, c. 450 BC

A family’s photograph album is generally about the extended family—and, often, is all that remains of it.

—Susan Sontag, 1977

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

—Edward, Duke of Windsor, 1957

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

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

—Pope John Paul II, 1986
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