God is our father, but even more is God our mother.
—Pope John Paul I, 1978Quotes
Mother died today. Or maybe it was yesterday, I don’t know.
—Albert Camus, 1942As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.
—Pope John Paul II, 1986Men are what their mothers made them.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1860Few sons are equal to their fathers; most fall short, all too few surpass them.
—Homer, c. 750 BCEvery adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.
—Gertrude Stein, 1940The 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, 1919All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.
—Oscar Wilde, 1895A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy till they die!
—Philip Roth, 1969The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, is in its loyalty to each other.
—Mario Puzo, 2001It is impossible to please all the world and one’s father.
—Jean de La Fontaine, 1668If parents would only realize how they bore their children!
—George Bernard Shaw, c. 1910My father! The sun is my father, and the earth is my mother, and on her bosom I will recline.
—Tecumseh, 1810