Families, I hate you! Shut-in homes, closed doors, jealous possessions of happiness.
—André Gide, 1897Quotes
It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.
—Friedrich Schiller, 1781The 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 BCBy 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, 1955Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.
—H.L. Mencken, 1919The 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, 1939Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one’s own Trojan horse.
—Rebecca West, 1959Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had.
—Aristotle, c. 350 BCThe most socially subversive institution of our time is the one-parent family.
—Paul Johnson, 1989Men are what their mothers made them.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1860As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.
—Pope John Paul II, 1986