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Topic·Parents and children✕clear

Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

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.

Exodus 20:12 · 1405 BC

★ 7.1

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.

Sophie's Choice · 1982

★ 6.9

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

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

62

★ 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.

Gulliver's Travels · 1726

★ 3.7

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

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.

1960

★ 3.7

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

My God, are we gonna be like our parents?

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.

Seinfeld · 1997

★ 3.7

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

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

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.

Lost in Translation · 2003

★ 2.9

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