When family relations are no longer harmonious, we have filial children and devoted parents. — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
A dewdrop is a perfect integrity that has no filial memory of its parentage. — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
Filial Piety is the principle of Heaven, The righteousness of Earth, And the (proper) conduct of the people. — Zengzi Copy Share Image
A youth, when at home, should be filial, and, abroad, respectful to his elders. — Confucius Copy Share Image
The paternal and filial duties discipline the heart, and prepare it for the love of all mankind. The intensity of private attachment… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
There are three degrees of filial piety. The highest is being a credit to our parents, the second is not disgracing them;… — Confucius Copy Share Image
The law of nature instructs most animals to cherish and educate their infant progeny. The law of reason inculcates to the human… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Emotional damage is never easy to measure, but mothers who are alive but psychically absent impose filial burdens which knot their children's… — Eileen Simpson Copy Share Image
God has given you your child, that the sight of him, from time to time, might remind you of His goodness, and… — Christian Scriver Copy Share Image
A lively and lasting sense of filial duty is more effectually impressed on the mind of a son or daughter by reading… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In your reaction to an imagined attack on your country or an insult to its government, you draw closer to the herd… — Randolph Bourne Copy Share Image
I could express my feelings more easily if they could be put into the notes of music, but as the very best… — Frederic Chopin Copy Share Image
Back then, things were plainer: less money, no electronic devices, little fashion tyranny, no girlfriends. There was nothing to distract us from… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
... professing myself moreover convinced that the general's unjust interference, so far from being really injurious to their felicity, was perhaps rather… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
There is little mysticism without an element of transcendence, and conversely, there is no transcendence without a certain degree of egocentrism. It… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
There is such a thing as caste, even in the West; but it is comparatively faint; it is conservatism here. It says,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
One who was born in the house of a warrior, regardless of his rank or class, first acquaints himself with a man… — Takeda Shingen Copy Share Image
…for no matter how lost and soiled and worn-out wandering sons may be, mothers can forgive and forget every thing as they… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Filial obedience is the first and greatest requisite of a state; by this we become good subjects to our emperors, capable of… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
One should put forth great effort in matters of learning. One should read books concerning military matters, and direct his attention exclusively… — Kato Kiyomasa Copy Share Image
The following proposition seems to me in a high degree probable—namely, that any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked social instincts, the parental… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
This insistence on "having his say upon the universe" is the profoundest motive of William James thinking as well as of his… — Ralph Barton Perry Copy Share Image
A good man regards the root; he fixes the root, and ail else flows out of it. The root is filial piety;… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Ancestor worship, or filial piety so characteristic of Asian cultures, for example, does not really resonate with Americans who favor children, not… — Alan Dundes Copy Share Image
I leave it to be settled, by whomsoever it may concern, whether the tendency of this work be altogether to recommend parental… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
ORPHAN, n. A living person whom death has deprived of the power of filial ingratitude . . . — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Worse, the deadly accuracy of filial faultfinding is facilitated by access, by trust, by willing disclosure, and so constitutes a double betrayal. — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
Land of my sires! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band That knits me to thy rugged strand! — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Prayer is not a vain attempt to change God's will; it is a filial desire to learn God's will and to share… — George Arthur Buttrick Copy Share Image
Nature seemed to me benign and good; I thought she loved me, outcast as I was; and I, who from man could… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
When the great Tao is forgotten, goodness and piety appear. When the body's intelligence declines, cleverness and knowledge step forth. When there… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
That’s the thing with the young these days, isn’t it? They watch too many happy endings. Everything has to be wrapped up,… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Very well, then, where do we arrive? Where do we arrive with our respect, our homage, our filial affection? At Adam! At… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
