God is our father, but even more is God our mother.
—Pope John Paul I, 1978Quotes
Families, I hate you! Shut-in homes, closed doors, jealous possessions of happiness.
—André Gide, 1897Men are what their mothers made them.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1860Mother died today. Or maybe it was yesterday, I don’t know.
—Albert Camus, 1942My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
—Quentin Crisp, 1968Family! Thou art the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children.
—August Strindberg, 1886It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.
—Friedrich Schiller, 1781A family’s photograph album is generally about the extended family—and, often, is all that remains of it.
—Susan Sontag, 1977The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, is in its loyalty to each other.
—Mario Puzo, 2001There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
—Michel de Montaigne, 1580In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.
—Herodotus, 440 BC