Quotes · Skopia

34 quotes

Anna Karenina · 1877

★ 9.2

Scripture · Religious literature

Honor thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

God

Exodus 20:12 · 1405 BC

★ 7.1

Poem

For the hand that rocks the cradle Is the hand that rules the world.

William Ross Wallace

1865

★ 6.9

Film · Psychological drama (film) · Drama (film) · Psychological drama · Drama

You may keep one of your children. The other one must go.

SS Doctor

Sophie's Choice · 1982

★ 6.9

Are you lost daddy I asked tenderly. Shut up he explained.

Ring Lardner

1920

★ 6.0

Scripture · Religious literature

And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.

Genesis 22:2

1405 BC

★ 5.4

Scripture · Religious literature

My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

Proverbs 6:20

686 BC

★ 5.3

Scripture · Religious literature

A wise son brings joy to his father, but a foolish son brings grief to his mother.

Proverbs 10:1

686 BC

★ 4.6

Scripture · Religious literature

Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. Honour thy father and mother.

Ephesians 6:1-2

★ 3.7

Satire · Travel writing

They will never allow that a child is under any obligation to his father for begetting him, or his mother for bringing him into the world - which, considering the miseries of human life, was neither a benefit in itself nor intended so by his parents, whose thoughts in their love encounters were otherwise employed.

Jonathan Swift

Gulliver's Travels · 1726

★ 3.7

Play

Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

Oscar Wilde

A Woman of No Importance · 1893

★ 3.7

Essay · Magazine

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. They must, they have no other models.

James Baldwin

1960

★ 3.7

Film · Teen (film) · Coming of age (film) · Teen · Coming of age

My God, are we gonna be like our parents?

Andrew Clark

The Breakfast Club · 1985

★ 3.7

TV program · Sitcom · Comedy (TV) · Comedy

George, we’ve had it with you. Understand? We love you like a son, but even parents have limits.

Frank Costanza

Seinfeld · 1997

★ 3.7

Interview

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.

Harry Truman

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.

Atticus Finch

To Kill a Mockingbird · 1962

★ 3.6

Novel

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

Peter De Vries

1954

★ 3.5

Magazine

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

Roger Lewin

1974

★ 3.5

Play · Tragedy (play)

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

William Shakespeare

King Lear · 1606

★ 3.2

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.

Bob Harris

Lost in Translation · 2003

★ 2.9

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

Scripture · Religious literature

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

Colossians 3:20

★ 2.2

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

★ 2.1

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.

Fred Rogers

2003

★ 1.9

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.

Thomas Kyd

1592

★ 1.9

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

Sam Levenson

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.

Fred Rogers

2003

★ 1.9

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.

Carl Jung

1939

★ 1.8

Poem

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.

Philip Larkin

1971

★ 1.8

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.

Sophocles

Phaedra · 400 BC

★ 1.3

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."

Muhammad

The Quran, The Koran, 17:23-24 · 632

★ 1.3

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