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Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children
William Makepeace Thackeray1811–1863Vanity Fair (1848), Chapter XXXVIIIn context
- Children
- God
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
Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Leo Tolstoy1828–1910Anna Karenina (1878), Part One, Chapter 1In context
- Happiness
Unhappy that I am, I cannot heave
My heart into my mouth: I love your majesty
According to my bond; no more nor less.
William Shakespeare1564–1616King Lear (c. 1606), Act I, Scene I, spoken by CordeliaIn context
- Love
Ingratitude, thou marble-hearted fiend,
More hideous when thou show’st thee in a child
Than the sea-monster!
William Shakespeare1564–1616King Lear (c. 1606), Act I, Scene IV, spoken by LearIn context
- Children
Ah! that must be Aunt Augusta. Only relatives, or creditors, ever ring in that Wagnerian manner.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900The Importance of Being Earnest (1895), First Act, spoken by AlgernonIn context
- Comedy
Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven’t got the remotest knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest instinct about when to die.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900The Importance of Being Earnest (1895), First Act, spoken by AlgernonIn context
- Clever Jabs
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900The Importance of Being Earnest (1895), First Act, spoken by AlgernonIn context
- Men
- Women
When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember, that virtue is not hereditary.
Thomas Paine1737–1809Common Sense (1776), Part 3In context
- Virtue
For there is no friend like a sister
In calm or stormy weather;
To cheer one on the tedious way,
To fetch one if one goes astray,
To lift one if one totters down,
To strengthen whilst one stands.
Christina Rossetti1830–1894Goblin Market (1862)In context
- Friendship
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
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
When my mother died I was very young,
And my father sold me while yet my tongue,
Could scarcely cry weep weep weep weep.
So your chimneys I sweep & in soot I sleep.
William Blake1757–1827The Chimney Sweeper (1789)In context
- Children
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