“Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land.”
The Book of Exodus, 1611 · Exodus 20:12, King James Version, the fifth commandment
Chapter 7
On Mothers and Fathers
“My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother.”
The Book of Proverbs, 1611 · Proverbs 1:8, King James Version
“Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.”
The Book of Proverbs, 1611 · Proverbs 23:22, King James Version
“My son, help thy father in his age, and grieve him not as long as he liveth.”
Jesus ben Sirach, 1611 · Sirach 3:12, King James Version Apocrypha
“Honour thy father with thy whole heart, and forget not the sorrows of thy mother.”
Jesus ben Sirach, 1611 · Sirach 7:27, King James Version Apocrypha
“Lower to them the wing of humility out of mercy, and say: My Lord, have mercy on them, as they brought me up when I was little.”
The Qur'an, 1917 · Surah 17, Bani Isra'il, verse 24, translated by Maulana Muhammad Ali
“Filial piety and fraternal submission, are they not the root of all benevolent actions?”
The philosopher Yu, 1861 · disciple of Confucius, Analects book 1, chapter 2, translated by James Legge
“Heaven and Earth are great; father and mother are honourable.”
Chinese proverb, 1875 · recorded in Scarborough's collection
“Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her.”
The Book of Proverbs, 1611 · Proverbs 31:28, King James Version
“I have always felt proud that she refused to go into debt for that which she did not have the money to pay for.”
Booker T. Washington, 1901 · on the cap his mother sewed from two pieces of homespun
Tracking the same men for sixty years, the researchers found that those who had grown up in warm relationships with their parents were the ones most securely attached to their partners in their eighties.
Harvard Study of Adult Development, 2022 · longitudinal study following lives for more than eighty years, directed by Robert Waldinger
“He shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers.”
The Book of Malachi, 1611 · Malachi 4:6, King James Version, the last verse of the Hebrew prophets
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