Τα παιδιά σου θα σου κάνουν ό,τι έκανες στους γονείς σου.

Αν δεν τιμάς τους γονείς σου, ποιος πρόκειται να τιμήσει εσένα;

Αν θέλεις να είσαι άγιος, δίδαξε καλά τα τέκνα σου. Διότι, σε διαφορετική περίπτωση, οι κακές πράξεις που αυτά θα κάμουν, σε σένα πρόκειται ν' αποδοθούν μετά.

Για τη μητέρα, το παιδί είναι το παν, ενώ, γι' αυτό, η μητέρα είναι ένας κρίκος μόνο στην όλη αλυσίδα της ζωής του.

Γιατί αγαπάμε τόσο πολύ τα παιδιά μας και τόσο λίγο τα παιδιά των άλλων; Γιατί είναι δικά μας και μέσω αυτών αγαπάμε τον εαυτό μας.

Δεν είναι περίεργο ότι από καλούς γονείς βγαίνουν καλά παιδιά κι από ανάξιους γονείς καλά παιδιά.

Είναι όμορφο να κληρονομείς τη δόξα και την υπόληψη του πατέρα.

Είναι σοφός ο πατέρας που γνωρίζει το ίδιο του το παιδί.

Η σοφία του πατέρα είναι η καλύτερη συμβουλή για τα παιδιά του.

Μεταχειρίσου τους γονείς σου με τον τρόπο που επιθυμείς να σου συμπεριφέρονται τα παιδιά σου.

Μια γυναίκα προτιμάει πάντοτε το παιδί της από τον άνδρα της.

Να είσαι πάντα πρώτος και καλύτερος από όλους και ποτέ να μη ντροπιάζεις τους προγόνους σου.

Ό,τι προσφέρεις στους γονείς σου θα λάβεις από τα παιδιά σου.

Οι τιμές και η δόξα των γονέων αποτελούν ανεκτίμητο θησαυρό για τα παιδιά.

Όποιου δεν του χαμογέλασαν οι γονείς του, δεν του αξίζει να δειπνήσει με τους θεούς, ούτε να πλαγιάσει με τις θεές.

Όσο ζουν οι γονείς σου μην ταξιδεύεις μακριά. Αν όμως χρειαστεί να ταξιδέψεις, να ξέρουν τον προορισμό σου.

Πολλά παιδιά - πολλές φροντίδες. Κανένα παιδί - καμία ευτυχία.

Τα παιδιά στην αρχή αγαπούν τους γονείς τους – όταν μεγαλώνουν τους κρίνουν – κάποιες φορές τους συγχωρούν.

Την ηλικία του πατέρα και της μητέρας σου δεν γίνεται να μην την έχεις στο μυαλό σου: αφ' ενός με χαρά, αφ' ετέρου με φόβο.

Υπάρχει καλύτερο κόσμημα για το παιδί από τη δόξα του πατέρα του και για τον πατέρα από τη δόξα του γιου του;

A diamond with a flaw is worth more than a pebble without imperfections.

There are problems with nursing - such as the issue of nurses all having to do degrees these days. But that doesn't mean to say the entire infrastructure of nursing is falling about and that it is populated by unfeeling psychopaths, which is, frankly, the implication sometimes.

Yankees don't understand that the Southern way of talking is a language of nuance. What we can do in the South is we can take a word and change it just a little bit and make it mean something altogether different.

I have found people don't want to be told. That they can figure it out.

My job is to sell clothes to very rich women.

I like the course, the history - everything about St. Andrews.

Whatever happened to a good pie-in-the-face joke?

I am also a writer. That is a fact not known by the public in general.

A lot of people ask me, 'Are you going to do a sequel to 'The Guest' or 'You're Next?' - those movies weren't financially viable, so even though there are a lot of fans of it, it'd be a pretty small market we'd be appealing to. It's got to be a big hit for you to really justify that.

I'm too busy for relationships.

The continuous drip polishes the stone.

I'm one of those pesky Brits.

I'm always writing something. There's always some structure sitting around someplace. There's always things on the computer, things scratched on score paper, legal tablets full of lyrics. It's never not buzzing around me all the time. I'm always doing it.

I really believe guilt finds its way out of a person.

It isn't only a new year, it is a new chance for everyone to restart.

The claim that too many criminals are being jailed, that there is over-incarceration, ignores an unfortunate fact: For the vast majority of crimes, a perpetrator is never identified or arrested, let alone prosecuted, convicted and jailed.

I remember once when I told Lindsay Anderson at a party that acting was just a sophisticated way of playing cowboys and Indians he almost had a fit.

An instructed and intelligent people are always more decent and orderly than an ignorant and stupid one.

People forget how outcast 'They Might Be Giants' can be. They have a reputation for writing really deft, funny, clever melodies, and they also make a lot of music for kids, which is terrific, but when you see them in concert, they can rock the house.

We make decisions every day about what we're going to eat. And some people want to buy Nike shoes - two pairs, and other people want to eat Bronx grapes and nourish themselves. I pay a little extra, but this is what I want to do.

When you have confidence, that's what becomes attractive to other people and makes them want to work with you and spend time with you.

People don't know that New York really is just made up of a group of very small neighborhoods.

There were challenges with production because of the special effects. There are just some things that, although written, special effects just isn't able to do.

Too late, the ordinary German realized that the violence which before had been directed against 'other' people could now equally land on him.