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

—Mario Puzo, 2001

I cannot bear a parent’s tears.

—Virgil, c. 25 BC

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

Familiarity breeds contempt—and children.

—Mark Twain, c. 1900

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

—Pindar, c. 450 BC

If parents would only realize how they bore their children!

—George Bernard Shaw, c. 1910

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

—Edward, Duke of Windsor, 1957

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

—Susan Sontag, 1977

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

—Gertrude Stein, 1940

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

By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.

—Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1955
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