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

—Pope John Paul II, 1986

Familiarity breeds contempt—and children.

—Mark Twain, c. 1900

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

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

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

—Pindar, c. 450 BC

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

—Herodotus, 440 BC

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

—Albert Camus, 1942

I cannot bear a parent’s tears.

—Virgil, c. 25 BC

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

—Pope John Paul I, 1978

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

—Paul Johnson, 1989

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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