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Sometimes you struggle so hard to feed your family one way, you forget to feed them the other way, with spiritual nourishment. Everybody needs that.
James Brown1933–2006Brown, J. & Tucker, B.B. (1986). James Brown: The Godfather of Soul. Macmillan: New York.
My mother didn’t try to stab my father until I was six.
Alan Aldaborn 1936Never Have Your Dog Stuffed: And Other Things I’ve Learned (2005)
On the day Billy was born, it was like walking through a mirror and everything was Technicolor. My life had been very work-orientated, and all in close-up. Once I had the family it went into sudden widescreen.
Helena Bonham Carterborn 1966Guardian interview 3 Nov 2006
- Children
Our family are an alternate stratification of poetry and mathematics.
Ada Lovelace1815–1852In a letter to Andrew Crosse, as quoted in Eugen Kölbing’s Englische Studien, Volume 19 (1894), Leipzig
- Poetry
Basically, my whole life is a competition with my dad to see who’s cooler. He’s still winning, but I’m almost there.
Post Maloneborn 1995From SoundCloud to Success with Post Malone: Noisey Raps, 2017
I can’t help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), Chapter IIn context
Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), Chapter VIn context
- Children
- Forgiveness
Accidents will occur in the best-regulated families
Charles Dickens1812–1870David Copperfield (1850), Chapter 28In context
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
Charles Dickens1812–1870Bleak House (1853), Chapter XXVIIIIn context
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
Dorothy lived in the midst of the great Kansas prairies, with Uncle Henry, who was a farmer, and Aunt Em, who was the farmer’s wife.
L. Frank Baum1856–1919The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900), Chapter IIn context
There is no place like home.
L. Frank Baum1856–1919The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900), Chapter IVIn context
Yes, if a man’s character is to be abused, say what you will, there’s nobody like a relation to do the business.
William Makepeace Thackeray1811–1863Vanity Fair (1848), Chapter XIXIn context
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