"Mr Cobb would acquaint him, that when he was his age, his father thought no more of giving him a parental kick, or a box on the ears, or a cuff on the head, or some little admonition of that sort, than he did of any other ordinary duty of life; and he would further remark, with looks of great significance, that but for this judicious bringing up, he might have never been the man he was at that present speaking; which was probable enough, as he was, beyond all question, the dullest dog of the party."

Family, Father, Discipline, Motivational, Man

1

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"Mr Cobb would acquaint him, that when he was his age, his father thought no more of giving him a parental kick, or a box on the ears, or a cuff on the head, or some little admonition of that sort, than he did of any other ordinary duty of life; and he would further remark, with looks of great significance, that but for this judicious bringing up, he might have never been the man he was at that present speaking; which was probable enough, as he was, beyond all question, the dullest dog of the party."

Exlpore more Family quotes

"Never give up your wife, husband, children and families. Believe that people can change. Give others opportunity to change."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Family, Give, Up, Believe

"Blessed is the womb that born you."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Family, Blessed, Womb, Birth, Mother

"Father, I know you will hear me, I will speak."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Family, Father, Speak, Hear, Trust

"When we sat down on the couch again, you curled up against my side, like you used to when you were a tod."

Jodi Picoult, American Novelist

Family, Nostalgia, Memory, Comfort, Love

"Children are angels."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Family, Children, Angels, Blessing, Divine

"We come into the world through a man and a woman. But life blessings us with many fathers and mothers."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Family, World, Man, Woman, Blessings

"Wrapped in a mother's love is the most beautiful and safest place on earth for a child."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Family, Mother, Love, Child, Safety

"A new baby is a bundle of hope, a smiling imagination, and a dancing dreams."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Family, Baby, Hope, Dreams

"The real beauty of a house is always the happiness inside that house!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

Family, Happiness, Home, Wisdom, Truth

"A philanderer cannot be a parent - a parent cannot be a philanderer."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

Family, Truth, Power, Life, Regret

Explore more quotes by Charles Dickens

"We must leave the discovery of this mystery, like all others, to time, and accident, and Heaven's pleasure."

Mystery

"Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image."

Society

"It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away."

Happiness

"It's my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained."

Wisdom

"May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs?"

Wisdom

"A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other."

Identity

1

Standard

Customized

Exlpore more Family quotes

"Never give up your wife, husband, children and families. Believe that people can change. Give others opportunity to change."

"Blessed is the womb that born you."

"Father, I know you will hear me, I will speak."

"When we sat down on the couch again, you curled up against my side, like you used to when you were a tod."

"Children are angels."

"We come into the world through a man and a woman. But life blessings us with many fathers and mothers."

"Wrapped in a mother's love is the most beautiful and safest place on earth for a child."

"A new baby is a bundle of hope, a smiling imagination, and a dancing dreams."

"The real beauty of a house is always the happiness inside that house!"

"A philanderer cannot be a parent - a parent cannot be a philanderer."

Explore more quotes by Charles Dickens

"We must leave the discovery of this mystery, like all others, to time, and accident, and Heaven's pleasure."

"Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image."

"It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away."

"I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul."

"The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself."

"We forge the chains we wear in life."

"This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in."

"It's my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained."

"May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs?"

"A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other."