"For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers."

Family, Fathers, Sons

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"I confess that in 1901 I said to my brother Orville that man would not fly for fifty years."

Wilbur Wright, American Inventor

Family, Brother, Man, Years

"Almost everything in 'A Day With Wilbur Robinson' has some basis in truth. And yes, my sister did pay me to feed her grapes while she talked to her boyfriend on the phone."

William Joyce, American Author

Family, Sister, Truth, Boyfriend, Day

"As much as I transferred my mother to Elizabeth Shore of The Black Dahlia, as much as her dad mutated into an obsession with crime in general, well, I have thought about other things throughout the years."

James Ellroy, American Writer

Family, Dad, Mother, Thought, Crime

"It is going to be special to drive in the Netherlands because it means I can take part in a Formula One demonstration in a country where I have a lot of family and friends."

Nelson Piquet, Brazilian Celebrity

Family, Country, Formula, Friends

"Perhaps because my relationship with my father went through such a long, bumpy time, it's been very important for me to work to try to keep lines of communication open between my sons and myself to try to avoid my father's mistakes. At least if you're making mistakes, make different mistakes."

Salman Rushdie, Indian Novelist

Family, Parenting, Communication, Love

"A daughter is a rainbow - a curve of light through scattered mist that lifts the spirit with her prismatic presence. Is a shadow - a reminder of something brilliant ducking out of sight, too easily drawn away. She is an aria, swelling within the concern chamber, an echo reverberating across a miniature sea. She is a secret, whispered, a hint of what we cannot know until it finds us. She is a sliver of her father, a shard of her mother. A daughter is a promise, kept."

Ellen Hopkins, American Novelist

Family, Daughter, Love, Promise

"I am extraordinarily lucky, I was born in a family of strong moral values, and in my life I was able to do what I liked best: debuts, great theatres, but above all, inner and deep satisfaction."

Jose Carreras, Spanish Musician

Family, Life, Values, Deep

"But, as my mother used to tell me, two wrongs don't make a right. But I soon figured out that three left turns do."

Jim Hightower, American Activist

Family, Mother, Right, Wrongs

"There's nothing that makes you more insane than family. Or more happy. Or more exasperated. Or more . . . secure."

Jim Butcher, American Author

Family, Emotion, Security, Happiness

"That great Cathedral space which was childhood."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

Family, Childhood, Space

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"And when long years and seasons wheeling brought around that point of time ordained for him to make his passage homeward, trials and dangers, even so, attended him even in Ithaca, near those he loved."

Journey, Trials, Home, Love

"Yea, and if some god shall wreck me in the wine-dark deep,even so I will endure For already have I suffered full much,and much have I toiled in perils of waves and war.Let this be added to the tale of those."

Philosophy, Endurance, Truth, Life, Faith

"Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another."

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"Men grow tired of sleep love singing and dancing sooner than of war."

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"How vain, without the merit, is the name."

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"Even were sleep is concerned, too much is a bad thing."

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"I confess that in 1901 I said to my brother Orville that man would not fly for fifty years."

"Almost everything in 'A Day With Wilbur Robinson' has some basis in truth. And yes, my sister did pay me to feed her grapes while she talked to her boyfriend on the phone."

"As much as I transferred my mother to Elizabeth Shore of The Black Dahlia, as much as her dad mutated into an obsession with crime in general, well, I have thought about other things throughout the years."

"It is going to be special to drive in the Netherlands because it means I can take part in a Formula One demonstration in a country where I have a lot of family and friends."

"Perhaps because my relationship with my father went through such a long, bumpy time, it's been very important for me to work to try to keep lines of communication open between my sons and myself to try to avoid my father's mistakes. At least if you're making mistakes, make different mistakes."

"I am extraordinarily lucky, I was born in a family of strong moral values, and in my life I was able to do what I liked best: debuts, great theatres, but above all, inner and deep satisfaction."

"But, as my mother used to tell me, two wrongs don't make a right. But I soon figured out that three left turns do."

"There's nothing that makes you more insane than family. Or more happy. Or more exasperated. Or more . . . secure."

"That great Cathedral space which was childhood."

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"Labor conquers all things."

"But sing no more this bitter tale that wears my heart away."

"A decent boldness ever meets with friends."

"Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing, sooner than war."

"And when long years and seasons wheeling brought around that point of time ordained for him to make his passage homeward, trials and dangers, even so, attended him even in Ithaca, near those he loved."

"Yea, and if some god shall wreck me in the wine-dark deep,even so I will endure For already have I suffered full much,and much have I toiled in perils of waves and war.Let this be added to the tale of those."

"Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another."

"Men grow tired of sleep love singing and dancing sooner than of war."

"How vain, without the merit, is the name."

"Even were sleep is concerned, too much is a bad thing."