 | "Sooner or later we all quote our mothers."
- Bern Williams
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| "The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf."
- Bertrand Russell
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| "The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found."
- Calvin Trillin
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| "My parents only had one argument in forty-five years. It lasted forty-three years."
- Cathy Ladman
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| "By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong."
- Charles Wadsworth
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| "The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children."
- Clarence Darrow
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| "If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either."
- Dick Cavett
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| "The gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children."
- Euripides
, Phrixus. |
| "For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers."
- Homer
, The Odyssey. |
| "The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children."
- King Edward VIII
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