— Henry Louis Gates"My father and I made genetics history. We were the first African-Americans and the first father and son anywhere to have their genomes sequenced."
Family Quotes
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Authors on Family
— Dag Hammarskjold"Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates."
— William Butler Yeats"Out of Ireland have we come, great hatred, little room, maimed us at the start. I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic heart."
— Victor Hugo"The three great problems of this century the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson"Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved."
— Mark Twain"My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it."
— Benjamin Disraeli"Diligence is the mother of good fortune."
— Benjamin Franklin"Diligence is the mother of good luck."
— Chanakya"A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night."
— Martin Luther"To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer."
— Alice Walker"In search of my mother's garden, I found my own."
— Craig Ferguson"I've started looking at my own father a bit funny. He assures me, though, that I really am the son of a Scottish postman."
— Gertrude Stein"It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that any man can do and doing does in the same way, that is being drunk and being the father of their son."
— Groucho Marx"A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five."
— Bill Cosby"Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry."
— Dag Hammarskjold"Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again."
— Friedrich Nietzsche"Fear is the mother of morality."
— Jeff Bridges"Whenever you're the child of a famous person, you get judged in odd ways because of that."
— Ron Wyden"While Free Choice Vouchers didn't fulfill my vision of a health care system in which every American would be empowered to hire and fire their insurance company, they were a foothold for choice and competition and a safety valve for Americans whose employers are already forcing them to bear more and more of their family's health insurance costs."
— Janet Jackson"I have a very strong family."