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Home is the place where, when you have to go there,
They have to take you in.
Robert Frost1874–1963The Death of the Hired Man (1914), North of Boston (1914)In context
Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.
Kahlil Gibran1883–1931The Prophet (1923), On ChildrenIn context
- Children
What from your fathers’ heritage is lent,
Earn it anew, to really possess it!
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe1749–1832Faust (1808), Scene I, spoken by FaustIn context
- Work
The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men, — from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.1809–1894The Professor at the Breakfast Table (1859), Ch. 5
- Religion
- Women
I have endured what no one on earth has ever done before⁠—
I put to my lips the hands of the man who killed my son.
Homer900–800 BCIliad, XXIV. 505–506 (tr. Robert Fagles); Priam to Achilles
There is nothing dearer to a man than his own country and his parents, and however splendid a home he may have in a foreign country, if it be far from father or mother, he does not care about it.
Homer900–800 BCThe Odyssey (8th century BC), Book IXIn context
- Patriotism
Well, son, I’ll tell you:
Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.
Langston Hughes1901–1967Mother to Son (1922)In context
- Life & Death
So boy, don’t you turn back.
Don’t you set down on the steps
’Cause you finds it’s kinder hard.
Langston Hughes1901–1967Mother to Son (1922)In context
- Motivation & Goals
The father of a woman whom we love is never a stranger to us.
Victor Hugo1802–1885Les Misérables (1862), Volume III: Marius, Book Eighth: The Wicked Poor Man, Chapter XXIn context
- Love
Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to “jump at de sun.” We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.
Zora Neale Hurston1891–1960Dust Tracks on a Road (1942), Ch.2: My Folks, p. 13
- Motivation & Goals
To each other, we were as normal and nice as the smell of bread, we were just a family. In a family even exaggerations make perfect sense.
John Irvingborn 1942The Hotel New Hampshire (1981), ch. 6
That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?
Samuel Johnson1709–1784The Rambler (1750–1752), No. 148 (17 August 1751)
A father, Stephen said, battling against hopelessness, is a necessary evil.
James Joyce1882–1941Ulysses (1922), Part II, Episode 9In context
Paternity may be a legal fiction. Who is the father of any son that any son should love him or he any son?
James Joyce1882–1941Ulysses (1922), Part II, Episode 9In context
Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother’s love is not.
James Joyce1882–1941A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916), Chapter V (3 of 3)In context
- Love