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The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended—and not to take a hint when a hint isn’t intended.

—Robert Frost, 1939

My father! The sun is my father, and the earth is my mother, and on her bosom I will recline.

—Tecumseh, 1810

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

Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.  

—Gertrude Stein, 1940

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, 1919

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

—Pindar, c. 450 BC

By 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, 1955

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

—Susan Sontag, 1977

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

—Pope John Paul I, 1978

In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.

—V.S. Pritchett, 1968

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
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