Sophocles Quotes
Oh child, may you be happier than your father, but in all other respects alike. And then you would not be bad.
Quotes to Explore
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It takes three to make a child.
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I visited my father for the full ten years that he was in prison, so we already had a deep and loving relationship, and remembered our mother at those times.
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The angel of mercy, the child of love, together had flown to the realms above.
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My parents were divorced and I would spend weekends with my father.
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I didn't feel very attractive as a child and actually I wasn't.
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It sounds super cliche, but my sister is 12 years younger than me, and I remember when I was there holding her in my arms for the first time. And that kind of responsibility you feel when you hold a child in your arms.
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I had such a great mom and I know that I'd never be that mom. I wouldn't want to bring a child into this world unless I could be.
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There is no mistaking the dismay on the face of a writer who has just heard that his brain child is a deformed idiot.
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I was lucky. My father raced bikes. He gave me the passion very early. I had my first bike when I was three or four years old.
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I've never been around pets. I didn't have pets as a child.
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My father has been a voice of encouragement in times of desperation for so many people. But he died when I was so young that, for me, his music has been a way for me to get to know him better.
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Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.
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A startup for entrepreneurs is like a baby, and I have five babies so far - experienced father.
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I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back.
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I was a very imaginative child, and my parents were very encouraging of that. My sister and I would put on plays; I would write my own stories.
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The best thing anyone can do in life is to give opportunities to a child.
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We still have a soft approach on the perpetrators of crimes like worst forms of child labour.
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Growing up in eastern Turkey, I was not really involved with the family business - sheep and cow farming, yogurt and cheese making. But I think I learned from my father the unspoken business language or instincts that go back thousands of years.
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It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.
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My grandmother made her home at Fox How under the shelter of the fells, with her four daughters, the youngest of whom was only eight when their father died.
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Let me say for now that we knew once the Creation was broken, true fathering would be much more lacking than mothering. Don't misunderstand me, both are needed- but an emphasis on fathering is necessary because of the enormity of its absence
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Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
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Oh child, may you be happier than your father, but in all other respects alike. And then you would not be bad.
