Filial Quotes
Filial Quote of the day
Ancestor worship, or filial piety so characteristic of Asian cultures, for example, does not really resonate with Americans who favor children, not grandparents.
There are three degrees of filial piety. The highest is being a credit to our parents, the second is not disgracing them; the lowest is being able simply to support them.
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.
The parental, and filial affections seem to be as ardent, their sensibility and attachment, as active and faithful, as those observed to be in human nature.
When family relations are no longer harmonious, we have filial children and devoted parents.
Filial Piety is the principle of Heaven, The righteousness of Earth, And the (proper) conduct of the people.
ORPHAN, n. A living person whom death has deprived of the power of filial ingratitude . . .
Land of my sires! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band That knits me to thy rugged strand!
God has given you your child, that the sight of him, from time to time, might remind you of His goodness, and induce you to praise Him with filial reverence.
The paternal and filial duties discipline the heart, and prepare it for the love of all mankind. The intensity of private attachment encourages, not prevents, universal benevolence.
The law of nature instructs most animals to cherish and educate their infant progeny. The law of reason inculcates to the human species the returns of filial piety.
Emotional damage is never easy to measure, but mothers who are alive but psychically absent impose filial burdens which knot their children's feelings in a way biologic orphans are spared.
Worse, the deadly accuracy of filial faultfinding is facilitated by access, by trust, by willing disclosure, and so constitutes a double betrayal.
This insistence on "having his say upon the universe" is the profoundest motive of William James thinking as well as of his filial gratitude.
