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

—Edward, Duke of Windsor, 1957

To be a successful father… there’s one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don’t look at it for the first two years.

—Ernest Hemingway, 1954

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

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

—Mario Puzo, 2001

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

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

—V.S. Pritchett, 1968

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

—Herodotus, 440 BC

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

If parents would only realize how they bore their children!

—George Bernard Shaw, c. 1910

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

Mother died today. Or maybe it was yesterday, I don’t know. 

—Albert Camus, 1942
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