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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
Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.
Jane Austen1775–1817Emma (1815), Volume I, Chapter XVIIIIn context
I am on the hilltop and must go down into the valley; and when Uncas follows in my footsteps there will no longer be any of the blood of the Sagamores, for my boy is the last of the Mohicans.
James Fenimore Cooper1789–1851The Last of the Mohicans (1826), Chapter IIIIn context
- Life & Death
I’ve bought the estate where my grandfather and my father were slaves, where they weren’t even allowed into the kitchen.
Anton Chekhov1860–1904The Cherry Orchard (1904), Act Three, spoken by LopakhinIn context
- Success
Woe to boys who refuse to obey their parents and run away from home! They will never be happy in this world, and when they are older they will be very sorry for it.
Carlo Collodi1826–1890The Adventures of Pinocchio (1881–1883), Chapter 4In context
- Children
If you bungle raising your children I don’t think whatever else you do well matters very much.
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis1929–1994Interview with NBC News Correspondent Sander Vanocur (1 October 1960)
- Children
Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it
The Bible (King James Version)Genesis 1:28 (KJV)In context
- Children
Am I my brother’s keeper?
The Bible (King James Version)Genesis 4:9 (KJV)In context
- Responsibility
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
The Bible (King James Version)Genesis 2:24 (KJV)In context
- Marriage