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Letter "F" » Family
«In 20 or 30 years, you'll be able to hold in your hand as much computing knowledge as exists now in the whole city, or even the whole world.»
«I've got cousins galore. Mexicans just spread all their seeds. And the women just pop them out.»
«If I wanted a loving father, a faithful husband, an honorable neighbor, and a just citizen, I would seek him among the band of Atheists»
«In any culture, subculture, or family in which belief is valued above thought, and self-surrender is valued above self-expression, and conformity is valued above integrity, those who preserve their self-esteem are likely to be heroic exceptions»
Author: Nathaniel Branden
| About:
Belief,
Culture,
Family,
Self-esteem
| Keywords:
conformity, exceptions, family values, heroic, self-expression, self esteem, subculture, valued
«If you treat your children at home in the same way you treat your animals in the lab, your wife will scratch your eyes out. My wife ferociously warned me against experimenting on her babies.»
Author: Abraham Maslow
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| About:
Children,
Family,
Parents
| Keywords:
babies, experimenting, ferociously, home in, lab, scratch, The Lab, warned
«If you really want to make a friend, go to someone's house and eat with him...The people who give you their food give you their heart.»
«Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserved; it is life's undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room, from which we go forth to more careful and guarded intercourse, leaving behind...cast-off and everyday clothing.»
Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe
(Author, Philanthropist, Writer)
| About:
Family,
Family love,
Home
| Keywords:
affections, backroom, cast off, clothing, dressing, dressing room, dress rehearsal, go forth, intercourse, off guard, rehearsal, rehearsals, undress, undressed, undresses, undressing, unreserved
«If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents and all generations of your ancestors. All of them are alive in this moment. Each is present in your body. You are the continuation of each of these people.»
Author: Thich Nhat Hanh
(Activist, Monk, Writer)
| About:
Family,
Generations,
Parents
| Keywords:
ancestors, continuation, deeply, generations, palm, palmed
«How can children credit the assertions of parents, which their own eyes show them to be false? Few parents act in such a manner as much to enforce their maxims by the credit of their lives»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Children,
Eyes,
Family,
Parents
| Keywords:
assertions, enforce
«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 which he has planted.»
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