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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

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

Nobody, 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, 1815

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

—Edward, Duke of Windsor, 1957

The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.

—G.K. Chesterton, 1919

My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.

—Quentin Crisp, 1968

It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.

—Friedrich Schiller, 1781

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

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

—Gertrude Stein, 1940

Few sons are equal to their fathers; most fall short, all too few surpass them. 

—Homer, c. 750 BC

Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.

—H.L. Mencken, 1919

My father! The sun is my father, and the earth is my mother, and on her bosom I will recline.

—Tecumseh, 1810

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

—Pope John Paul II, 1986