"But whoever gives birth to useless children, what would you say of him except that he has bred sorrows for himself, and furnishes laughter for his enemies."

Family, Children, Enemies, Laughter

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"But whoever gives birth to useless children, what would you say of him except that he has bred sorrows for himself, and furnishes laughter for his enemies."

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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

"I came to a happy Jewish family in dark days in Europe."

Roald Hoffmann, Polish Scientist

Family, Europe

"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

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"If it were possible to cure evils by lamentation and to raise the dead with tears, then gold would be a less valuable thing than weeping."

Cure

"CHORUS:You that live in my ancestral Thebes, behold this Oedipus,- him who knew the famous riddles and was a man most masterful; not a citizen who did not look with envy on his lot- see him now and see the breakers of misfortune swallow him!Look upon that last day always. Count no mortal happy till he has passed the final limit of his life secure from pain."

Philosophy

"All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils."

Cure

"I see the state of all of us who live, nothing more than phantoms or a weightless shadow."

Nothing

"How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in the truth."

Truth

"Wisdom is the most important part of happiness."

Philosophy

"One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession."

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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."

"I came to a happy Jewish family in dark days in Europe."

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

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"If it were possible to cure evils by lamentation and to raise the dead with tears, then gold would be a less valuable thing than weeping."

"All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils."

"I see the state of all of us who live, nothing more than phantoms or a weightless shadow."

"How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in the truth."

"Wisdom is the most important part of happiness."

"One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession."

"Who seeks shall find."

"In a just cause the weak will beat the strong."

"To speak much is one thing, to speak to the point another!"