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Scripture · Religious literature

Set not up with God another god, or thou wilt sit condemned and forsaken. The Lord has decreed you shall not serve any but Him, and be good to parents... Speak unto them words respectful, and lower to them the wing of humbleness out of mercy and say, "My Lord, have mercy upon them, as they raised me up when I was little."

The Quran, The Koran, 17:23-24 · 632

★ 1.3

Scripture · Religious literature

He who spares his rod hates his son, But he who loves him disciplines him promptly.

Proverbs 13:24

686 BC

★ 1.3

Play · Greek tragedy · Tragedy (play)

Sons are the anchors of a mother's life.

Phaedra · 400 BC

★ 1.3

Psychological literature

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

1939

★ 1.8

They fuck you up, your mum and dad. They may not mean to, but they do. They fill you with the faults they had And add some extra just for you.

1971

★ 1.8

Play · Tragedy (play)

My son-and what's a son? A thing begot Within a pair of minutes, thereabout, A lump bred up in darkness.

1592

★ 1.9

Insanity is hereditary. You can get it from your children.

1961

★ 1.9

It's not always easy for a father to understand the interests and ways of his son. It seems the songs of our children may be in keys we've never tried. The melody of each generation emerges from all that's gone before. Each one of us contributes in some unique way to the composition of life.

2003

★ 1.9

Scripture · Religious literature

Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

Proverbs 22:6

686 BC

★ 1.9

We want to raise our children so that they can take a sense of pleasure in both their own heritage and the diversity of others.

2003

★ 1.9

Scripture · Religious literature

As is the mother, so is her daughter.

Ezekiel 16:44

570 BC

★ 2.1

Scripture · Religious literature

And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

Ephesians 6:4

62

★ 2.1

Scripture · Religious literature

Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.

Colossians 3:20

62

★ 2.2

Political literature · Feminist literature

Till society is very differently constituted, parents, I fear, will still insist on being obeyed, because they will be obeyed, because they will be obeyed, and constantly endeavor to settle that power on a Divine right which will not bear the investigation of reason.

Mary Wollstonecraft

A Vindiction of the Rights of Woman · 1792

★ 2.9

Film · Romantic comedy (film) · Comedy drama (film) · Romantic comedy · Comedy drama

It's the most terrifying day of your life the day the first one is born.

Lost in Translation · 2003

★ 2.9

Play · Tragedy (play)

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child.

William Shakespeare

King Lear · 1606

★ 3.2

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.

1954

★ 3.5

Too often we give our children the answers to remember rather than the problems to solve.

1974

★ 3.5

I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want, and then advise them to do it.

1955

★ 3.6

Film · Drama (film) · Drama

There's a lot of ugly things in this world, son. I wish I could keep 'em all away from ya. That's never possible.

To Kill a Mockingbird · 1962

★ 3.6

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