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

—Pindar, c. 450 BC

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

—Pope John Paul II, 1986

It is impossible to please all the world and one’s father.

—Jean de La Fontaine, 1668

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

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

—Pope John Paul I, 1978

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

—Oscar Wilde, 1895

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

—H.L. Mencken, 1919

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

I cannot bear a parent’s tears.

—Virgil, c. 25 BC

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

—Aristotle, c. 350 BC

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
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