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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

Families, I hate you! Shut-in homes, closed doors, jealous possessions of happiness.

—André Gide, 1897

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

—Gertrude Stein, 1940

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

—Albert Camus, 1942

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

—Edward, Duke of Windsor, 1957

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

—Jean de La Fontaine, 1668

My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.

—Quentin Crisp, 1968

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

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

—V.S. Pritchett, 1968

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

—Mario Puzo, 2001
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