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To be a successful father… there’s one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don’t look at it for the first two years.

—Ernest Hemingway, 1954

It’s frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself… it seems unfair. You can’t assume the responsibility for everything you do—or don’t do.

—Simone de Beauvoir, 1966

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

—Pope John Paul I, 1978

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

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

He that raises a large family, does indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand…a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too. 

—Benjamin Franklin, 1786

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

—Mario Puzo, 2001

If parents would only realize how they bore their children!

—George Bernard Shaw, c. 1910

Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one’s own Trojan horse.

—Rebecca West, 1959

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

—Oscar Wilde, 1895

Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had.

—Aristotle, c. 350 BC
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