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The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in a period of moral crisis, maintain their neutrality
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Family Quotations Click Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.Aristotle The best inheritance a parent can give to his children is a few minutes of their time each day.Battista, Orlando A One who is proud of ancestry is like a turnip; there is nothing good of him but that which is underground.Butler, Samuel There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One is roots; the other, wings.Carter, Hodding Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy - the motherColbert, Claudette If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being rightCosby, William (Bill) Henry Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's motherDodd, Ken I grew up to have my father’s looks - my fathers speech patterns - my father’s posture - my father’s walk - my father’s opinions and my mother’s contempt for my father.Feiffer, Jules A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.Fisher, Dorothy Canfield A man who has been the indisputable favourite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.Freud, Sigmund Nor need we power or splendor, wide hall or lordly dome;The good, the true, the tender - these form the wealth of home Hale, Sarah Josepha Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own future, and he inherits his own pastHedge, H. F « Previous Page | Next Page » |
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