A family’s photograph album is generally about the extended family—and, often, is all that remains of it.
—Susan Sontag, 1977Quotes
There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
—Michel de Montaigne, 1580Mother died today. Or maybe it was yesterday, I don’t know.
—Albert Camus, 1942It’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, 1966Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.
—Jane Austen, 1815The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, is in its loyalty to each other.
—Mario Puzo, 2001To 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, 1954God is our father, but even more is God our mother.
—Pope John Paul I, 1978It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.
—Friedrich Schiller, 1781In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.
—V.S. Pritchett, 1968My 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, 1886The 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