The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, is in its loyalty to each other.
—Mario Puzo, 2001Quotes
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, 1955My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
—Quentin Crisp, 1968Families, I hate you! Shut-in homes, closed doors, jealous possessions of happiness.
—André Gide, 1897A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy till they die!
—Philip Roth, 1969Family! 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 most socially subversive institution of our time is the one-parent family.
—Paul Johnson, 1989The 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, 1939A family’s photograph album is generally about the extended family—and, often, is all that remains of it.
—Susan Sontag, 1977As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.
—Pope John Paul II, 1986I cannot bear a parent’s tears.
—Virgil, c. 25 BCThe 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 BCMother died today. Or maybe it was yesterday, I don’t know.
—Albert Camus, 1942