… I suppose that it is not so easy to go home and it takes a bit of time to make a son out of a stranger.”

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Carl Sandburg

2 quotes

A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.”

Sigmund Freud

1 quote

A man who has been the indisputable favourite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.”

Pope John Paul II

1 quote

As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.”

Sir Francis Bacon

1 quote

He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune for they are impediments to great enterprises either o...”

Charles R. Swindoll

1 quote

A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living.”

John Updike

1 quote

Who'll hold families together, if everybody has to live? Living is a compromise, between doing what you want and doing w...”

Thich Nhat Hanh

1 quote

The son needs the father to have access to his source, and the father needs the son to have access to the future and the...”

Euripides

1 quote

Noble fathers have noble children.”

Jonathan Safran Foer

1 quote

Parents are always more knowledgeable than their children, and children are always smarter than their parents.”

Sir Walter Scott

1 quote

How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak...”

G.K. Chesterton

1 quote

It was his home now. But it could not be his home till he had gone from it and returned to it. Now he was the Prodigal S...”

Leo Tolstoy

1 quote

Toate familiile fericite se aseamănă între ele. Fiecare familie nefericită este nefericită în felul ei.”