(1365 quotes found)
“What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.”
Benjamin Spock
“When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.”
William Shakespeare
“The people to whom your fathers told of the living God, and taught to call 'Father,' and whom the sons now seek to despoil and destroy, are crying aloud to Him in their time of trouble; and He will keep His promise, and will listen to the voices of His Hawaiian children lamenting for their homes.”
Queen Liliuokalani of Hawaii
“A greedy father has thieves for children”
Serbian Proverb
“Jamestown with her wild train she as freely frequented, as her fathers habitation; and during the time of two or three years, she next under God, was still the instrument to preserve this colony from death, famine and utter confusion; which if in those times, had once been dissolved, Virginia might have lain as it was at our first arrival to this day.”
John Smith
“No one would be foolish enough to choose war over peace--in peace sons bury their fathers, but in war fathers bury their sons.”
Croesus of Lydia
“Father I cannot tell a lie. I did it with my little hatchet.”
George Washington
“The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge.”
Bible
“Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise - specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine”
Allan Bloom
“Treat your superior as a father, your equal as a brother, and your inferior as a son.”
Persian Proverb
Bookmark
