"All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other."

Family, Father, End

41

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other."

Exlpore more Family quotes

"I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars."

E. M. Forster, English Novelist

Family, Mothers, Nations

"Mother is the center of the family, everyone else surrounds her."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Family, Mother, Center, Surrounds

"If you don't have the support and love and caring and connection that you get from a family, you don't have much at all."

Mitch Albom, American Writer

Family, Support, Love, Caring

"I tell you, families are definitely the training ground for forgiveness."

Anne Lamott, American Author

Family, Forgiveness, Training, Life

"Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds."

Victor Hugo, French Author

Family, Children, Deeds

"Right, except I'm not going to lie to my mom, because what kind of bastard lies to his own mother?"

John Green, American Author

Family, Honesty, Respect, Truth

"Whenever we were on a plane, we had a family."

Liza Minnelli, American Actress

Family,

"My family was very supportive of my acting. They didn't really have a choice because I got jobs acting before anyone could really say anything. It paid my way through college and helped my family out."

Ajay Naidu, American Actor

Family, Acting, Choice, College

"My mother is my friendWho shares with me her breadAll my hopelessness cured!Her company makes me secured!"

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

Family, Mother, Love, Support, Friendship

"All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes, proportioned to our years and views."

Samuel Richardson, English Novelist

Family, Childhood, Trifles, Years

Explore more quotes by George Eliot

"Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder."

Life

"I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same mind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear."

Love

"There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows."

Life

"Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return."

Love

"Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms."

Friendship

"An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry."

Peace

"He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow."

Thought

"And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment."

Strength

"Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet."

Death

"I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best."

Fear