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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, 1969

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

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

—Herodotus, 440 BC

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

—Quentin Crisp, 1968

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

—Oscar Wilde, 1895

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

—Pope John Paul II, 1986

The most socially subversive institution of our time is the one-parent family.

—Paul Johnson, 1989

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

—Friedrich Schiller, 1781

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

—Pope John Paul I, 1978

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

A family’s photograph album is generally about the extended family—and, often, is all that remains of it.

—Susan Sontag, 1977
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