The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, is in its loyalty to each other.
—Mario Puzo, 2001Quotes
A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy till they die!
—Philip Roth, 1969Men are what their mothers made them.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1860A family’s photograph album is generally about the extended family—and, often, is all that remains of it.
—Susan Sontag, 1977One race there is of men, one of gods, but from one mother we both draw our breath.
—Pindar, c. 450 BCFamilies, I hate you! Shut-in homes, closed doors, jealous possessions of happiness.
—André Gide, 1897Few sons are equal to their fathers; most fall short, all too few surpass them.
—Homer, c. 750 BCIt is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.
—Friedrich Schiller, 1781All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.
—Oscar Wilde, 1895The 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, 1939Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.
—Gertrude Stein, 1940