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Source: THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING

“When my mother died, and when my father died, it's big. Our parents are giants; they're titans of our lives, so of course it's going to be a big deal.”

Bigs Mother Courses Father Parent Deals Our Lives Died Giants Big Deal Father Died Titans Mother Died My Father Died

Author:Loudon Wainwright III

“Basically, my parents messed up because it was the Sixties, and they both had affairs, but they had a great love for each other. I saw that when my father flew over from Los Angeles when he knew my mother was going to die.”

Mother Dies Father Parent Saws Affair Los Angeles Sixty Flew Great Love Messed Up

Author:Saffron Aldridge

“As my own father was sick, and miserably tied to his invalid's chair, he would have been abandoned had not an old servant performed for him a so-called service of love. My mother gave parties while he was perishing in solitude, and amused herself while he was suffering bitter agonies”

Has Beens Mother Suffering Father My Own Party Solitude Sick Bitter Servant Chairs Abandoned Tied Agony Amused Perishing

Author:Arthur Schopenhauer

“The woman who fights against her father still has the possibility of leading an instinctive, feminine existence, because she rejects only what is alien to her. But when she fights against the mother she may, at the risk of injury to her instincts, attain to greater consciousness, because in repudiating the mother she repudiates all that is obscure, instinctive, ambiguous, and unconscious in her own nature.”

Source: The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious

“Every father is given the opportunity to corrupt his daughter's nature, and the educator, husband, or psychiatrist then has to face the music. For what has been spoiled by the father can only be made good by a father, just as what has been spoiled by the mother can only be repaired by a mother. The disastrous repetition of the family pattern could be described as the psychological original sin, or as the curse of the Atrides running through the generations.”

Source: Mysterium coniunctionis, an inquiry into the separation and synthesis of psychic opposites in alchemy

“Some people misunderstand evil and believe it will relent, and because their misplaced hope inspires dark hearts to dream darker dreams, they are the fathers and mothers of all wars. Evil does not relent; it must be defeated. And even when defeated, uprooted, and purified by fire, evil leaves behind a seed that will one day germinate and, in blooming, again be misunderstood.”

People Believe Heart Doe War Dream Mother Evil Father Dark Behinds Fire Inspire One Day Seeds Defeated Misunderstood Blooming Misplaced

Book:Odd Apocalypse: An Odd Thomas Novel

Source: Odd Apocalypse: An Odd Thomas Novel

“The North African mule talks always of his mother's brother, the horse, but never of his father, the donkey, in favor of others supposedly more reputable.”

Mother Father Brother Horse Favors Donkey Mules

Book:Works and Lives: The Anthropologist as Author

Source: Works and Lives: The Anthropologist as Author

“When I was a kid, my father didn't really have much hope for me. He thought I was a dreamer; he didn't think I would amount to anything. My mother also.”

Thinking Kids Mother Father Amount Dreamer

Author:Frank Gehry

“Has a philosopher like you failed to discover that our country is more to be valued and higher and holier far than mother or father or any ancestor, and more to be regarded in the eyes of the gods and of men of understanding?”

Men Country Eye Mother Father Understanding Like You Higher Philosopher Our Country Ancestor

Author:Socrates

“I greatly doubt whether the men who become pirate chiefs are those who are filled with retrospective terror of their fathers, or whether Napoleon , at Austerlitz, really felt that he was getting even with Madame Mère. I know nothing of the mother of Attila , but I rather suspect that she spoilt the little darling, who subsequently found the world irritating because it sometimes resisted his whims.”

Knows Men World Littles Sometimes Mother Found Father Felt Doubt He Man Filled Terror Chiefs Suspects Darling Pirate Whim Irritating Retrospective Spoilt

Book:Power: A New Social Analysis

Source: Power: A New Social Analysis

“We could almost believe that we are destined by Providence to an unsettled position on the globe, so invariably is a love of change implanted in the young. It seems as if the eternal Lawgiver intended that, at a certain age, man should leave father, mother, and the dwelling of his infancy, to seek his fortunes over the wide world.”

Ifs Men World Should Believe Seems Age Young Mother Certain Father Position Eternal Fortune Wide Providence Globes Destined Dwelling Infancy Father Mother

Book:Lodore

Source: Lodore

“Meditation on the chance which led to the meeting of my mother and father is even more salutary than meditation on death.”

Mother Father Chance Meditation Meetings Mother And Father

Author:Simone Weil

“The only engine big enough to impact Mother Nature is Father Greed.”

Enough Bigs Mother Father Impact Greed Engines Mother Nature

Author:Thomas Friedman

“Since, though I do not repent my amorous exploits, I am far from wanting my example to contribute to the corruption of the fair sex, which deserves our homage for so many reasons, I hope that my observations will foster prudence in fathers and mothers and thus at least deserve their esteem.”

Reason Mother Father Sex Example Deserve Fairs Corruption Esteem Observation Repent Prudence Exploits Homage Amorous

Book:History of My Life

Source: History of My Life

“Father and Mother had told their own little lies very well, and I realized immediately that the Gerrisens didn't know a thing. And yet, my realization that they didn't know what I'd been through was like a cold shower for just a moment. Here I was looking at the first really familiar faces I'd seen in over a year, and they acted as though I'd merely been on vacation.”

Knows Years Firsts Wells Littles Moments Faces Lying Mother Father Cold I Realized Familiar Realization Vacation Showers Familiar Faces

Author:Diet Eman

“All of my decisions I made when I was a kid were decisions, would my mother and father be proud of.”

Made Kids Mother Father Decision Proud Be Proud Mother And Father

Author:Ken Venturi

“I cannot shift the blame for Chechnya, for the sorrow of numerous mothers and fathers. I made the decision, therefore I am responsible.”

Made Mother Father Decision Sorrow Responsible Blame Mother And Father Chechnya

Author:Boris Yeltsin

“Anthony's father was a mad baronet and his mother a very beautiful woman. That's Anthony-half mad baronet, half beautiful woman.”

Beautiful Mother Father Half Mad Beautiful Women Very Beautiful

Author:Anthony Eden

“I don't write about the intimate details of my cousins and aunts and uncles, and my mother and my father because it's not right to, for me.”

Writing Mother Father Details Intimate Uncles Cousin Aunt My Cousin Aunts And Uncles

Author:Anne Lamott

“We're travelling through space and time, we're dealing with gods and monsters, but at the heart of the film, from my perspective, is a family - a father, two sons, two brothers, a mother and the fractious, intimate interaction that they have.”

Heart Two Film Mother Father Space Son Brother Perspective Monsters Intimate Interaction Time And Space Two Brothers Gods And Monsters

Author:Tom Hiddleston

“When I'm on stage, I'm not me playing me. I'm somebody else doing me. I could never go on stage and be like, "Hey, I'm Mike Tyson. My mother and father was in the sex industry." That's the politically correct way to say it, but I would really say, "My mother and father were pimps and whores. This is my life." I could never do that as Mike Tyson. Because I'd feel sorry for myself. But if I could be objective about it and be somebody else, portraying Mike Tyson, saying this story, then it's easy sailing.”

Ifs Way Feels Stories Mother Father Sex Easy Stage Goes On Industry Sorry Objectives Hey If I Could Sailing Mike Mother And Father Politically Correct Tyson Portraying Doing Me Pimp

Author:Mike Tyson

“I think that at some point everybody turns into their mother or their father, it's just not normally from morning to afternoon.”

Thinking Mother Turns Father Morning Afternoon

Author:Kate Beckinsale

“In fact if you're a mother or a father, you're filled with oxytocin when you have a child. It makes you love the baby, even though they look like a lizard .You'll think it's the beautiful thing in the world.”

Ifs Thinking World Looks Children Facts Beautiful Mother Father Baby Filled Beautiful Things Lizards Oxytocin

Author:Tony Robbins

“So if you don't like your life, change it. How would you change it? You decide. There's no action without first decision. Decision is the mother or the father of action, and action is what changes your life.”

Ifs Firsts Action Mother Father Decision Like You Life Changing Changing Your Life

Author:Tony Robbins

“My mother was a teacher, my father was a community organizer. I come from a working class background.”

Mother Father Community Class Teacher Backgrounds Working Class Organizer

Author:Chris Hayes

“Honor thy Father and thy Mother was once said, but then someone said: What if I don't know your Father? A still voice said: Does that makes him the devil? He is still someone's Father, his name has been changed, but his story is the same. Why hate when we should Celebrate. In this world of two's, you got the Mourning Son, and the Daughter of the Night. They both equal light once you make it through the night. Now, wake the funk up!”

Ifs Knows World Should Doe Has Beens Said Stills Two Stories Light Mother Night Hate Father Names Voice This World Changed Son Honor Equal Daughter Devil Celebrate Mourning What If Funk

Author:Bootsy Collins

“I'm not saying that men make better fathers than women do mothers.”

Men Mother Father

Author:Warren Farrell

“We are all so broken. Pick up a person, shake them around and you'll hear the rattling of their broken pieces. Pieces our fathers broke, or our mothers, or our friends, strangers, or our loves.”

Persons Mother Father Pieces Broken Picks Stranger Broke Shakes Our Love Our Father Broken Pieces

Author:Tarryn Fisher

“My mother spoke of Christ to my father, by her feminine and childlike virtues, and, after having borne his violence without a murmur or complaint, gained him at the close of his life to Christ.”

Mother Father Christ Virtue Violence Spokes Feminine Complaints Childlike

Author:Saint Augustine

“So much of our early gladness vanishes utterly from our memory: we can never recall the joy with which we laid our heads on our mother's bosom or rode on our father's back in childhood; doubtless that joy is wrought up into our nature, as the sunlight of long-past mornings is wrought up in the soft mellowness of the apricot; but it is gone forever from our imagination, and we can only believe in the joy of childhood.”

Believe Long Past Joy Mother Father Imagination Memories Morning Gone Forever Childhood Sunlight Recalls Our Father Bosoms Our Memories Gladness Apricots Joys Of Childhood

Book:Four Novels of George Eliot

Source: Four Novels of George Eliot

“When I was born, my father wanted to drown me, but my mother persuaded him to let me live in disguise, to see if I could bring any wealth to the household.”

Ifs Wanted Mother Father Born Wealth Let Me If I Could Household Disguise

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“When my mother died I was very young, And my father sold me while yet my tongue Could scarcely cry weep weep weep weep. So your chimneys I sweep, and in soot I sleep.”

Young Mother Father Sleep Cry Died Tongue Chimneys Mother Tongue Mother Died

Author:William Blake

“Sean Óg ó Hailpín.... his father's from Fermanagh, his mother's from Fiji, neither a hurling stronghold.”

Mother Father Sean Strongholds Fiji Hurling

Author:Micheal O Muircheartaigh

“I didn't like what was on TV in terms of sitcomsit had nothing to do with the color of themI just didn't like any of them. I saw little kids, let's say 6 or 7 years old, white kids, black kids. And the way they were addressing the father or the mother, the writers had turned things around, so the little children were smarter than the parent or the caregiver. They were just not funny to me. I felt that it was manipulative and the audience was looking at something that had no responsibility to the family.”

Way Years Children Littles Kids Mother Father Felt Parent Black Term White Responsibility Audience Saws Color Tvs Smarter Little Kid Sitcom Manipulative Caregivers

Author:Bill Cosby

“Each person is entitled to some version of God that seems real, yet many versions contradict one another. The God of any religion is only a fragment of God. This has to be true, because a being who is unbounded has no image, no role to play, no location either inside or outside the cosmos, whereas religions offer many images--father, mother, lawgiver, judge, ruler of the universe.”

Persons Real Play Seems Mother Universe Father Roles Judging Offers Versions Being True Cosmos Rulers Entitled Location Fragments Father Mother

Author:Deepak Chopra

“Turn up the TV. No one listening will suspect, even your mother won't detect it, no your father won't know. they think that I've got no respect but everything means less than zero.”

Thinking Knows Mean Mother Turns Father Tvs Listening Suspects Zero No Respect No One Listening Less Than Zero

Author:Elvis Costello

“Surely it is a matter of joy, that your faith in Jesus has been preserved; the Comforter that should relieve you is not far from you. But as you are a Christian, in the name of that Saviour, who was filled with bitterness and made druken with wormwood, I conjre you to have recourse in frequent prayer to 'his God and your God,' the God of mercies, and father of all comfort. Your poor father is, I hope, almost senseless of the calamity; the unconscious instrument of Divine Providence knows it not, and your mother is in heaven.”

Source: The Letters of Charles Lamb: To which are Added Those of His Sister, Mary Lamb. Edited by E.V. Lucas

“[Among the Arapeh... both father and mother are held responsible for child care by the entire community...] If one comments upon a middle-aged man as good-looking, the people answer: 'Good-looking? Ye-e-e-s? But you should have seen him before he bore all those children'.”

People Ifs Men Should Children Care Mother Father Community Answers Middle Should Have Responsible Comment Bores Looking Good Middle Aged Child Care

Author:Margaret Mead

“I have never felt any connection with my family. There isI must say simplysomething in me that is not in my family. That was not visible in my father or mother. I do not know its origin.”

Knows Mother Father Felt My Family Connections Visible

Author:Jean Cocteau

“The father spent his time talking and thinking of religion. He proclaimed himself an agnostic and was so absorbed in destroying the ideas of God that had crept into the minds of his neighbors that he never saw God manifesting himself in the little child that, half forgotten, lived here and there on the bounty of her dead mother's relatives.”

Thinking Mind Children Littles Ideas Mother Father Half Talking Saws Forgotten Neighbor Manifest Destroying Agnostic Here And There Bounty Dead Mother

Book:Winesburg, Ohio

Source: Winesburg, Ohio

“When Christ was about to leave the world, He made His will. His soul He committed to His father; His body He bequeathed to Joseph to be decently interred; His clothes fell to the soldiers; His mother He left to the care of John; but what should He leave to His poor disciples that had left all for Him? Silver and gold He had none; but He left them that which was infinitely better, His peace.”

World Should Made Soul Body Care Mother Father Left Peace Christ Poor Clothes Gold Soldier Committed Silver Disciple

Book:Bible commentary - Gospel of John

Source: Bible commentary - Gospel of John

“At the opening of the Odyssey, Telemachus, inspired by the male-born Athena, searches for his father by turning against his mother. Jesus too publicly spurns his mother to be about his father's business. Male adulthood begins with the breaking of female chains.”

Mother Father Jesus Born Female Inspired Males Opening Chains Adulthood Being A Mother Athena Odyssey

Book:Sexual Personae

Source: Sexual Personae

“I believe in one secret and ineffable Lord; and in one Star in the Company of Stars of whose fire we are created, and to which we shall return; and in one Father of Life, Mystery of Mystery, in His name Chaos, the sole viceregent of the Sun upon the Earth; and in one Air the nourisher of all that breathes. And I believe in one Earth, the Mother of us all, and in one Womb wherein all men are begotten, and wherein they shall rest, Mystery of Mystery, in Her name Babalon.”

Men Believe Earth Mother Father Names I Believe Stars Secret Company Lord Sun Fire Air Mystery Return Chaos I Believe In Breathe Sole Womb Ineffable

Author:Aleister Crowley

“From '41 to '51I was my folk's contrary son;I bit my father's hand right throughAnd broke my mother's heart in two.”

Heart Two Hands Mother Father Bits Son Folks Contrary Broke

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“Sleep, baby, sleep. Thy father's watching the sheep. Thy mother's shaking the dreamland tree, and down drops a little dream for thee.”

Littles Dream Mother Father Sleep Tree Baby Thee Sheep Shaking Dreamland Sleeping Baby

Author:Elizabeth Prentiss

“Being a father ... I can't help feeling that, by comparison with being a mother, being a father is a rather abstract business.”

I Can Helping Feelings Mother Father Abstract Comparison Being A Mother Being A Father

Book:Disgrâce

Source: Disgrâce

“My mother was the one who totally got behind me as far as, do things and ask questions later. My father would say, "I don't care how dirty you are up there, just be funny." Because they knew me offstage. They knew I was a good guy. They knew my whole plan of becoming the most exciting comedian, visually, ever. A real rock-and-roll stand-up comic.”

Real Whole Care Mother Guy Asks Father Behinds Plans Rocks Becoming Exciting Don't Care Comic Comedian I Don't Care Dirty Rock And Roll Good Guy

Author:Andrew Dice Clay

“I don't think God is a gender. He presents himself as a father but he comes to us with the tenderness of a mother. In some of the parables, he is the housewife who cleans the house looking for the lost coin.”

Thinking Mother Father House Lost Gender Tenderness Coins Housewife Parables

Author:Max Lucado

“My father died when I was two years old. But my mother was quite capable. She raised three children with his war pension which was peanuts. Yet we did not want for anything. We grew up with a certain parsimony, which is a nice thing. Then if life gives you more good, otherwise you get used to. I'm still thrifty.”

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