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Ceremony is a vehicle for belonging⁠—to a family, to a people, and to the land.
Robin Wall Kimmererborn 1953Braiding Sweetgrass (2013), p. 37
If I were damned of body and soul,
I know whose prayers would make me whole,
Mother o’ mine, O mother o’ mine.
Rudyard Kipling1865–1936Mother o’ Mine (1891).
- Prayer
The family you come from isn’t as important as the family you’re going to have.
Ring Lardner1885–1933
Our family are an alternate stratification of poetry and mathematics.
Ada Lovelace1815–1852In a letter to Andrew Crosse, as quoted in Eugen Kölbing’s Englische Studien, Volume 19 (1894), Leipzig
- Poetry
Basically, my whole life is a competition with my dad to see who’s cooler. He’s still winning, but I’m almost there.
Post Maloneborn 1995From SoundCloud to Success with Post Malone: Noisey Raps, 2017
Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we’ve put it in an impossible situation.
Margaret Mead1901–1978Culture and Commitment: A Study of the Generation Gap (1970), p. 72
A very quiet and tasteful way to be famous is to have a famous relation. Then you can not only be nothing, you can do nothing, too.
POP. J. O'Rourke1947–2022
With every word we utter, with every action we take, we know our kids are watching us. We as parents are their most important role models.
Michelle Obamaborn 19642016 Democratic National Convention (2016)
- Children
If you bungle raising your children I don’t think whatever else you do well matters very much.
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis1929–1994Interview with NBC News Correspondent Sander Vanocur (1 October 1960)
- Children
When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember, that virtue is not hereditary.
Thomas Paine1737–1809Common Sense (1776), Part 3In context
- Virtue
I mean, they don’t grade fathers. But if your daughter’s a stripper, you fucked up.
Chris Rockborn 1965Never Scared (HBO, 2004)
- Comedy
The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name.
Theodore Roosevelt1858–1919
For there is no friend like a sister
In calm or stormy weather;
To cheer one on the tedious way,
To fetch one if one goes astray,
To lift one if one totters down,
To strengthen whilst one stands.
Christina Rossetti1830–1894Goblin Market (1862)In context
- Friendship
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one – particularly if he plays golf, which he usually does.
Bertrand Russell1872–1970Introduction to The New Generation (1930)
- Comedy
It doesn’t matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.
Anne Sexton1928–1974“The Poet’s Story,” January 1, 1972 entry