Family

"We have to face the consequences of the fact that the family has long since ceased to have any higher meaning, or been cemented by living forces that go beyond the merely individual. The organic and, to a certain degree, "heroic" character that its unity presented in the past has been lost in the modern world, just as the institution's residual veneer of "sacrality" bestowed by religious marriage has disappeared, or nearly so. In reality, in the great majority of cases the modern family is presented as a petit bourgeois institution determined almost exclusively by conformist, utilitarian, primitive, or at best sentimental factors. Above all, its essential fulcrum has disappeared, which was constituted by the primarily spiritual authority of its head, the father: that is shown by the etymological meaning of the word pater as "lord," or "sovereign." […] How could the family continue to have a firm, binding center, if its natural head, the father, is so often estranged from it today—even physically, when the practical mechanism of material life takes him away from it? What authority can the father have, especially in the so-called upper classes, if he is reduced to a money-making machine, a busy professional, and the like?"

"When success is essential to keeping a family together there is nothing a man won't do. Nothing."

"If... a man had a godless father or son or brother, who became a hindrance to his faith and an obstacle to the life above, let him not live in fellowship or agreement with him, but let him dissolve the fleshly relationship on account of the spiritual antagonism."

"Heirlooms we don't have in our family. But stories we've got."

"The family is the original cell of social life. ...Authority, stability, and a life of relationships within the family constitute the foundations for freedom, security, and fraternity within society. The family is the community in which, from childhood, one can learn moral values, begin to honour God, and make good use of freedom. Family life is an initiation into life in society"

"Health is the greatest gift, contentment is the greatest wealth, a trusted friend is the best relative, Nibbana is the greatest bliss."

"God made all the creatures, and gave them our love and our fear, To give sign we and they are his children, one family here."

"The Court must never forget, and will never forget, first of all, the rights of family life which are sacred."

"Eine Familie, die keine schwarzen Schafe hat, ist keine charakteristische Familie."

"Your mother's dead, before long I'll be dead, and you and your brother and your sister and all of her children. All of us dead, all of us rotting in the ground. It's the family name that lives on. It's all that lives on. Not your honor, not your personal glory, family."

"He made the people follow the proper path. [...] That fathers should be feared and mothers respected, that sons should pay heed to the words of their fathers, and that mercy, compassion and pity should be shown, that one should provide even one's paternal grandparents with food and drink -- all this he established in and ."

"companion not to escape your hand, no matter what happens the fixed wall that you use with adversity brother a father and a half friend in the distress."

"If anyone says, "I love God," yet hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen."

"But whoever has this world’s means for supporting life and beholds his brother having need and yet shuts the door of his tender compassions upon him, in what way does the love of God remain in him?"

"So someone said to him: “Look! Your mother and your brothers are standing outside, seeking to speak to you.” 48 In reply he said to the one who spoke to him: “Who is my mother, and who are my brothers?” 49 And extending his hand toward his disciples, he said: “Look! My mother and my brothers! 50 For whoever does the will of my Father who is in heaven, that one is my brother and sister and mother.”"

"You have heard that men were told long ago, ‘You must not kill another person. If someone does kill, he will be guilty and will be punished for his wrong-doing.’ But I tell you that whoever is angry with his brother will be guilty and have to suffer for his wrong-doing. Whoever says to his brother, ‘You have no brains,’ will have to stand in front of the court. Whoever says, ‘You fool,’ will be sent to the fire of hell. If you take your gift to the altar and remember your brother has something against you, leave your gift on the altar. Go and make right what is wrong between you and him. Then come back and give your gift."

"Abraham said, "Because I thought, surely there is no fear of God in this place, and they will kill me because of my wife. "Besides, she actually is my sister, the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother, and she became my wife; and it came about, when God caused me to wander from my father's house, that I said to her, 'This is the kindness which you will show to me: everywhere we go, say of me, "He is my brother.""

"Cain told Abel his brother. And it came about when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother and killed him.9Then the LORD said to Cain, "Where is Abel your brother?" And he said, "I do not know. Am I my brother's keeper?" He said, "What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood is crying to Me from the ground."

"There’s no other love like the love for a brother. There’s no other love like the love from a brother."

"A younger brother should honour an older brother. He should treat him with human dignity."

"This story shall the good man teach his son; And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by, From this day to the ending of the world, But we in it shall be remembered, We few, we happy few, we band of brothers. For he to-day that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother"

"The brother is that mountain that Iassigned to myself at adversity, how loved ones and the Lord of the universe Shenad said to your brother your brother is the bond and the companion of the soul is the first friend and the most important thing in life."

"You'll have me. No matter how thick the night, I will always be there to light your way.You'll have me. No matter how thick the night, I will always be there to light your way."

"Not only had my brother disappeared, but--and bear with me here--a part of my very being had gone with him. Stories about us could, from them on, be told from only one perspective. Memories could be told but not shared."

"Maggie Stiefvater"

"When Ronan thought of Gansey, he thought of moving into Monmouth Manufacturing, of nights spent in companionable insomnia, of a summer searching for a king, of Gansey asking the Gray Man for his life. Brothers"

"What strange creatures brothers are."

"As the elders sing, so will the young ones twitter."

"We pride ourselves on being far better men than our fathers."

"Ημεῖς τοι πατέρων μέγ᾽ ἀμείνονες εὐχόμεθ᾽ εἶναι."

"No more shall thy family welcome thee home, Nor around thee thy wife and sweet little ones come; All clamouring joyous to snatch the first kiss, Transporting thy bosom with exquisite bliss."

"Nam jam non domus accipiet te læta, neque uxor Optuma, nec dulces occurrent oscula nati Præripere, et tacita pectus dulcedine tangent."

"Jane weeps not for her dad when none is by, Yet when one enters she begins to cry. Not by its wish for praise is true grief shown: He mourns indeed who mourns when he’s alone."

"Amissum non flet, quum sola est Gellia, patrem; Si quis adest jusse prosiliunt lacrymæ. Non dolet hie quisquis laudari, Gellia, quærit, Ille dolet vere, qui sine teste dolet."

"Parent and father of the fatherland, Was Cicero styled by liberated Rome."

"Roma parentem, Roma patrem patriæ Ciceronem libera dixit."

"Wie die Alten sungen, so zwitschern auch die Jungen."

"When you do worse yourself, can you expect Your son should hold your grey hairs in respect?"

"Unde tibi frontem libertatemque parentis, Quum facias pejora senex?"

"A bad crow lays a bad egg."

"Κακοῦ κόρακος κακὸν ὠὸv."

"He is to be envied who has prospered with his children."

"Ζηλωτὸς ὅστις εὐτύχησεν ἐς τέκνα."

"Who gives his children all his bread, And comes himself to grievous need, Shall with the club be smitten dead."

"Wer seinen Kindern giebt das Brot, Und leidet nachmals selber Not. Den soll man schlagen mit der Keule tot."

"A brother is a friend given us by nature."

"Un frére est un ami donné par la nature."

"He follows his father with unequal steps."

"Sequiturque patrem non passibus æquis."

"The picture of paternal affection."