Filial Quotes: top 28 famous quotes about Filial

Filial Quotes & Sayings

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Commitment is a word invented in our abstract modernity to signify the absence of any real motives in the soul for moral dedication. — Allan Bloom

As a novelist, you have to be free. Books can't be an act of filial duty. — Richard Flanagan

The librarians know the secrets, not the historians — Dee Brown

The thing most consistently on my desk as I write is a cat - a different one at different times of the day. I think I'm more a part of their ritual. — Sarah Addison Allen

Look for loyal ministers in homes with filial sons — Thomas Cleary

Filial Piety, which is considered one of the two wheels of the chariot of Japanese ethics - Loyalty being the other. — Inazo Nitobe

Land of my sires! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band That knits me to thy rugged strand! — Walter Scott

If we could renounce our benevolence and discard our righteousness, the people would again become filial and kindly. — Lao-Tzu

Filial Piety is the principle of Heaven, The righteousness of Earth, And the (proper) conduct of the people. — Zengzi

There are no enemies in science, professor. Only phenomena to study. — Charles Lederer

My style is quite clean, vintage, and almost French in a way. — India De Beaufort

ORPHAN, n. A living person whom death has deprived of the power of filial ingratitude ... — Ambrose Bierce

A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler. — Han Fei

Education should be gentle and stern, not cold and lax. — Joseph Joubert

Christianity has always been the hope of God through Jesus played out in the lives of real people living in real circumstances. — Doug Pagitt

A dewdrop is a perfect integrity that has no filial memory of its parentage. — Rabindranath Tagore

What is the biggest thing that stops people from living their lives in the present moment? Fear - and we must learn how to overcome fear. — Brian Weiss

This insistence on "having his say upon the universe" is the profoundest motive of William James thinking as well as of his filial gratitude. — Ralph Barton Perry

Sometimes children do forget their filial responsibilities. — Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

There must only be two, No more and no less — Drew Karpyshyn

I tell people that going for a run is like taking a little bit of Prozac and a little bit of Ritalin because, — John J. Ratey

The walls could fall away, even the whole city, and the brightness of that feeling would not wane. The — Anthony Doerr

That which a man takes for himself no one can deny him. — Amitav Ghosh

A good man regards the root; he fixes the root, and ail else flows out of it. The root is filial piety; the fruit brotherly love. — Confucius

Fathers, provoke not your children to wrath. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Suffering is wisdom's school teacher. — Lauren Kate

When family relations are no longer harmonious, we have filial children and devoted parents. — R.D. Laing

Worse, the deadly accuracy of filial faultfinding is facilitated by access, by trust, by willing disclosure, and so constitutes a double betrayal. — Lionel Shriver