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

—Edward, Duke of Windsor, 1957

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

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

—V.S. Pritchett, 1968

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.

—Francis Bacon, 1625

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

—Pindar, c. 450 BC

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

—Friedrich Schiller, 1781

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

—Herodotus, 440 BC

Men are what their mothers made them.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1860

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

—Mario Puzo, 2001

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

—Pope John Paul I, 1978
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