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“It's always seemed to me that black people's grace has been with what they do with language. In Lorrain, Ohio, when I was a child, I went to school with and heard the stories of Mexicans, Italians, and Greeks, and I listened. I remember their language, and a lot of it is marvelous. But when I think of things my mother or father or aunts used to say, it seems the most absolutely striking thing in the world.”

People Thinking World Children Has Beens Stories Seems School Remember Used Mother Father Language Black Grace Heard Greek Black People Marvelous Aunt Ohio

Author:Toni Morrison

“A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all; in good repute, in bad repute, in the face of the world's condemnation, a mother still loves on, and still hopes that her child may turn from his evil ways, and repent; still she remembers the infant smiles that once filled her bosom with rapture, the merry laugh, the joyful shout of his childhood, the opening promise of his youth; and she can never be brought to think him all unworthy.”

“A father may turn his back on his child, … . but a mother's love endures through all.”

May Children Mother Turns Father Endure My Mom Sister Mother Love Mother's Love Mother And Child Mother Proverbs Love For My Mother Mom And Child Love My Mom

Author:Washington Irving

“It has always been my belief that children inherit the suppressed tendencies of their parents. A clergyman's son frequently shows abnormal tastes for the pleasures that his father denied himself.”

Children Shows Father Belief Parent Pleasure Generations Son Taste Tendencies Denial Denied Abnormal Clergymen

Book:The Story of a Literary Career

Source: The Story of a Literary Career

“it is not only unfair but disgustingly cruel that the mother is always held responsible for the illegitimate child, while the father goes scot-free.”

Children Mother Father Responsible Unfair Scots Illegitimate Child

Author:Dale Evans

“Fathers and mothers are too absorbed in business and housekeeping to study their children, and cherish that sweet and natural confidence which is a child's surest safeguard, and a parent's subtlest power.”

Children Mother Father Parent Natural Study Sweet Cherish Housekeeping

Book:Eight Cousins & Rose in Bloom - A Sequel (Children’s Classic): A Story of Rose Campbell

Source: Eight Cousins & Rose in Bloom - A Sequel (Children’s Classic): A Story of Rose Campbell

“Happy is it to place a daughter; yet it pains a father's heart when he delivers to another's house a child, the object of his tender care.”

Heart Children Care Pain Father House Objects Daughter

Book:The Plays of Euripides

Source: The Plays of Euripides

“The religion of our fathers overhung us children like the shadow of a mighty tree against the trunk of which we rested, while we looked up in wonder through the great boughs that half hid and half revealed the sky. Some of the boughs were already decaying, so that perhaps we began to see a little more of the sky than our elders; but the tree was sound at its heart.”

Heart Children Littles Religion Father Sound Half Wonder Tree Sky Shadow Elders Our Father Trunks

Author:Lucy Larcom

“I wanted him [my father] to cherish and approve of me, not as he had when I was a child, but as the woman I was, who had her own mind and had made her own choices.”

Mind Children Made Wanted Choices Father Cherish

Book:Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose 1979-1985

Source: Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose 1979-1985

“It is a wise child that knows his own father. [Lat., Nondum enim quisquam suum parentem ipse cognosvit.]”

Knows Children Father Wise Childhood

Author:Homer

“I have heard from my father and mother all the answers that faith in God could offer to those who doubt and search for the truth. In our home and in many other homes the eternal questions were more actual than the latest news in the Yiddish newspaper. In spite of all the disenchantments and all my skepticism I believe that the nations can learn much from those Jews, their way of thinking, their way of bringing up children, their finding happiness where others see nothing but misery and humiliation.”

Source: Aspects of I.B. Singer

“Sensible fathers and mothers, when their children marry, go back to the old days and renew their youth.”

Children Mother Father Youth Sensible Old Days

Book:Green Dolphin Street

Source: Green Dolphin Street

“You don't want the children to know how afraid / you are. You want to be sure their hold on life / is steady, sturdy. Were mothers and fathers / always this anxious, holding the ringing / receiver close to the ear: / 'Why don't they answer where could they be?”

Knows Want Children Life Is Mother Father Answers Know How Ears Anxious Steady Mother And Father Receiver Sturdy

Book:The Common

Source: The Common

“Today, what most people live in, or with, is the less-than-nuclear family. Working fathers are absent from home during most of the day, the children are schooled outside it, and practically all women who work for money must go outside to earn their living.”

People Children Home Today Father Family Nuclear Absent Schooled Nuclear Families

Author:Elizabeth Janeway

“[On her UNICEF work:] I'm glad I've got a name, because I'm using it for what it's worth. ... I do not want to see mothers and fathers digging graves for their children.”

Want Children Mother Father Names Activism Glad Graves Digging Mother And Father Unicef

Author:Audrey Hepburn

“We are pushed forward by the social forces, reluctant and stumbling, our faces over our shoulders, clutching at every relic of the past as we are forced along; still adoring whatever is behind us. We insist upon worshipping 'the God of our fathers.' Why not the God of our children? Does eternity only stretch one way?”

Way Children Doe Stills Past Faces Father Force Social Change Behinds Eternity Our Children Shoulders Resistance One Way Why Not Status Quo Our Father Reluctant Stumbling Relics

Book:The Home

Source: The Home

“Dear gourmands! my bowels yearn towards them as a father's toward his children. They are so good natured! They have such sparkling eyes!”

Children Eye Father Food Cooking Dear Culinary Sparkling Good Nature Bowels

Author:Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

“I'm a big proponent of open adoption, because it allows a relationship between the birth mother and her child so that the kid isn't like, "Where did I come from?" And to have it be like, "Look, you have a bunch of people who love you." Not just the parents who are raising you on a day-to-day basis, but also to have contact with your birth mother and hopefully your birth father. So that you can be like, "Oh, they love me too, and they love me so much that they knew they couldn't take care of me but they're still in my life to some extent."”

People Looks Children Stills Bigs Care Kids Mother Father Parent Love You Birth Bases Take Care Bunch Contact Hopefully Adoption Day To Day Take Care Of Me Birth Mother Open Adoption

Author:Kathleen Hanna

“I love to hug my children. I love to tell them I love them every day before they leave for school or before I leave for work. And I think that's the most important thing you can do as a father is to make sure that your children know they're loved.”

Thinking Knows Children Important School Father Can Do Our Children Important Things My Children Your Children Hug

Author:Chris Christie

“I grew to resent the way my father treated his furniture like children, and his children like furniture.”

Way Children Father Grew Treated Furniture Resent

Author:Alison Bechdel

“Like all children I had taken my father for granted. Now that I had lost him, I felt an emptiness that could never be filled. But I did not let myself cry, believing as a Muslim that tears pull a spirit earthward and won't let it be free.”

Believe Children Spirit Father Lost Felt Grief Taken Cry Tears Filled Granted Emptiness

Book:Daughter of Destiny: An Autobiography

Source: Daughter of Destiny: An Autobiography

“Almighty Father! let thy lowly child, Strong in his love of truth, be wisely bold,-- A patriot bard, by sycophants reviled. Let him live usefully, and not die old!”

Children Dies Father Strong Prayer Truth Is Almighty Patriot His Love Bards Sycophants

Book:The Poetical works

Source: The Poetical works

“Motherhood, to be sure, receives a great deal of sentimental adulation, but only if it is committed in accordance with rules which have been prescribed by a predominantly masculine society. Per se it is accorded no respect whatever. When it results from a sexual relationship which has been duly sanctioned by organized society, it is holy, no matter how much it may transgress the rules of decency, health, or common sense. Otherwise it is a sin meriting social ostracism for the mother and obloquy for the child - an ostracism and obloquy, significantly enough, in which the father does not share.”

“Be ever gentle with the children God has given you; watch over them constantly; reprove them earnestly, but not in anger. In the forcible language of Scripture, "Be not bitter against them." "Yes, they are good boys," I once heard a kind father say. "I talk to them very much, but do not like to beat my, children--the world will beat them." It was a beautiful thought not elegantly expressed.”

World Kind Children Beautiful Father Language Given Boys Watches Heard Beats Scripture Bitter Gentle My Children Good Boy Beautiful Thoughts

Author:Elihu Burritt

“The child--a skilled actor with a hundred masks: a different one for his mother, father, grandmother or grandfather, for a stern or lenient teacher, for the cook or maid, for his own friends, for the rich and poor. Naive and cunning, humble and haughty, gentle and vengeful, well behaved and willful, he disguises himself so well that he can lead us by the nose.”

“Parents and children were put on earth to give each other grief. You were my punishment for how I behaved to my own father. And I'll have my revenge when you have children of your own.”

Giving Children Earth Father Parent My Own Grief Generations Revenge Punishment Children And Parents

Book:The Wild Child

Source: The Wild Child

“The joke used to be that in every Indian home, there is the mother, father, children, grandparents, and the anthropologist.”

Children Home Used Mother Father Jokes Used To Be Indian Grandparent Anthropologists Father Child

Book:From the River's Edge

Source: From the River's Edge

“The tracing of a child's lineage and its name with reference to the father, though it has lasted for many thousands of years, has not become any the more natural or reasonable as a result.”

Years Children Father Names Natural Results Reasonable Sexism Patriarchy Lineage Tracing

Book:The Hidden Face of Eve: Women in the Arab World, Second Edition

Source: The Hidden Face of Eve: Women in the Arab World, Second Edition

“Tender expressions of love and affection toward children are as much the responsibility of the father as the mother. Tell your children you love them.”

Children Mother Father Responsibility Expression Our Children Affection Your Children Love And Affection Expressions Of Love

Author:Howard W. Hunter

“In your morning prayer each new day, ask Heavenly Father to guide you to recognize an opportunity to serve one of His precious children.”

Children Asks Father Opportunity Prayer Morning Guides Heavenly New Day Heavenly Father Pollen Each New Day Morning Prayer Precious Children

Author:M. Russell Ballard

“My definition of a father is someone who empowers their children.”

Children Father Definitions Empowering

Author:Nicolas Cage

“I respect the Kennedy family. I respect their service. They do a tremendous amount of good. You don't blame the children for the sins of the father and all of that.”

Children Father Sin Amount Blame Sins Of The Father Kennedy Family

Author:Bernard Goldberg

“Poisinet's verses are like spoiled children - loved only by their father.”

Children Father Verses Spoiled Spoiled Children

Author:Sophie Arnould

“My mother's one idea was to sacrifice her life to her children and she had done nothing else since the death of my father. We wished that she had married again instead.”

Children Ideas Done Mother Father Sacrifice Married

Book:Out of This Century: The Informal Memoirs of Peggy Guggenheim

Source: Out of This Century: The Informal Memoirs of Peggy Guggenheim

“My perception of life is not to ask Francois Hollande, who isn't the father of my children, to support me financially.”

Children Life Is Asks Father Support Perception My Children Support Me Perception Of Life

Author:Valerie Trierweiler

“A mother deserves a day off to care for a sick child or sick parent without running into hardship - and you know what, a father does, too. It's time to do away with workplace policies that belong in a 'Mad Men' episode.”

Knows Men Children Doe Care Running Mother Father Parent Policy Deserve Sick Mad Hardship Episodes Workplace Days Off Mad Men Sick Children

Author:Barack Obama

“Oprah is signed on to help, and a lot of celebrity friends have agreed to help me raise money for Make-A-Wish. We want to make the world a better place for innocent children. I cried my heart out when my father died from cancer. I wish I was smarter, wiser like a doctor, to save these children from dying.”

“[After her 18-day disappearance in 1974:] I love my husband very, very much, but he didn't ask me when he ran for mayor and he didn't consult me about running for governor. It would be nice to be asked. ... You know, I've been my mother's daughter, my father's daughter, the wife of my husband, the mother of my six children, and grandmother to my eleven grandchildren, but I have never been me. But I am now because I went away. I am a changed woman.”

“I'd like to hope you end up a miserable, lonely woman. But actually, I hope you have children one day, Ellie Haworth. Then you'll know how it feels to be vulnerable. And to have to fight, to be constantly vigilant, just to make sure your children get to grow up with a father.”

Knows Feels Children Ends Fighting Father Grows Know How Growing Up One Day Lonely Our Children Vulnerable Miserable Your Children Vigilant Lonely Women

Author:Joanna Noelle Levesque

“How strange it is that Socrates, after having made the children common, should hinder lovers from carnal intercourse only, but should permit love and familiarities between father and son or between brother and brother, than which nothing can be more unseemly, since even without them love of this sort is improper. How strange, too, to forbid intercourse for no other reason than the violence of the pleasure, as though the relationship of father and son or of brothers with one another made no difference.”

Source: Aristotle's Politics: Writings from the Complete Works: Politics, Economics, Constitution of Athens

“I wanted to write something in a voice that was unique to who I was. And I wanted something that was accessible to the person who works at Dunkin Donuts or who drives a bus, someone who comes home with their feet hurting like my father, someone whos busy and has too many children, like my mother.”

Writing Children Persons Home Wanted Mother Father Voice Hurt Feet Unique Busy Coming Home Bus Donuts Dunkin Donuts

Author:Sandra Cisneros

“The most powerful teaching a child will ever receive will come from concerned and righteous fathers and mothers.”

Children Mother Father Powerful Teaching Concerned Most Powerful Righteous

Author:L. Tom Perry

“I would want my children to grow up and do what they wish to in a field that they choose to step in. They should not have to use the shadow of their father's name. I think that is a bit of a downer for a movie star's children.”

Thinking Want Should Children Use Father Names Wish Stars Grows Bits Steps Growing Up Fields Shadow My Children Movie Star Downers

Author:Shahrukh Khan

“God never punishes his children in the sense of avenging justice. He chastens as a father does his child, but he never punishes his redeemed as a judge does a criminal. It is unjust to exact punishment from redeemed souls since Christ has been punished in their place. How shall the Lord punish twice for one offense?”

Children Doe Has Beens Soul Father Christ Justice Lord Judging Criminals Punishment Offense Unjust Redeemed Avenging

Author:Charles Spurgeon

“I never suffered from the absence of a father. On the contrary, as a child I was more inclined to see men as a disturbing factor. It made things difficult for me when I started working as a director.”

Men Children Made Father Difficult Directors Absence Contrary Factors Disturbing

Author:Michael Haneke

“A father can pass on his nose and eyes and even his intelligence to his child, but not his soul. In every human being the soul is new”

Humans Children Soul Eye Father Human Beings Noses

Author:Hermann Hesse

“There's a natural tendency for children to, in some sense, inherit the cultural values of their parents. I'm not against that, that's fine, that's wonderful. What I am against is labelling. Nobody ever labels a child a cricketer because his father is a cricketer, but they do label a child a Catholic because his parents are Catholic. I think it's more or less unique. Nobody ever labels a child a socialist or a conservative or a liberal because that's what their parents are.”

Thinking Children Values Father Parent Natural Wonderful Fine Unique Catholic Conservative Tendencies Labels Socialist Cricketers

Author:Richard Dawkins

“Trouble comes looking for you. Lots of times I just stay in the house and enjoy my family. I try to be a father to my child, I'll stay out of trouble if I can, because I have lots to do. Other folks have different hardships. It's hard for a black man to raise a family.”

Ifs Men Trying Children I Can Different Hard Father House Enjoy Black Trouble My Family Raises Folks My Children Hardship

Author:Snoop Dogg

“The first service a child doth his father is to make him foolish.”

Firsts Children Father Foolish

Book:The works of George Herbert. containing Parentalia, the 2nd copy wanting the 1st sheet of vol.2].

Source: The works of George Herbert. containing Parentalia, the 2nd copy wanting the 1st sheet of vol.2].

“I was a big reader as a child. My father is a great book lover and a librarian, but he forbid me to read bad literature. I was not allowed to read Nancy Drew or books like that. I often say to him that me becoming a crime author is both a way of pleasing him and annoying him.”

Way Children Book Bigs Father Literature Crime Reader Becoming Lovers Annoying Librarian Great Book Nancy Book Lover Nancy Drew

Author:Asa Larsson

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