It was `` Duty '' he said that his parents had given him as a rule -- beyond even the love that suffused his being and the sense of humor with which he was largely supplied -- and it was duty he would perform, though it cost him acute pain and exhausted him by the age of fifty.

Mencius says: " When being a child, yearn for and love your parents ; when growing mature, yearn for and love your lassie ; when having wife and child ( ren ), yearn for and love your wife and child ( ren ); when being an official ( or a staffer ), yearn for and love your sovereign ( and / or boss ).

The Scottish Hebrides, particularly in the Isle of Skye, show some records of a ' Handfast " or " left-handed " marriage taking place as recently as the late 1600s where the Gaelic scholar, Martin Martin, notes " It was an ancient custom in the Isles that a man take a maid as his wife and keep her for the space of a year without marrying her ; and if she pleased him all the while, he married her at the end of the year and legitimatised her children ; but if he did not love her, he returned her to her parents.

Adams professes his love of other genres other than classical music ; his parents were jazz musicians, and he has also listened to rock music, albeit only passively.

In his autobiographical essay, published in 1973 in Les Prix Nobel ( winners of the prizes are requested to provide such essays ), Lorenz credits his career to his parents, who " were supremely tolerant of my inordinate love for animals ," and to his childhood encounter with Selma Lagerlof's The Wonderful Adventures of Nils, which filled him with a great enthusiasm about wild geese.

Early on, her parents encouraged her to read, leading to what would become her love of reading.

A person can love a god, a person, parents, or family.

If a Turk says that he is in love ( Aşık ) with somebody, it is not a love that a person can feel for his or her parents ; it is just for one person, and it indicates a huge infatuation.

Birr is also used by the Qur ' an in describing the love and kindness that children must show to their parents.

His fascination for language was nurtured by his parents: his mother, Winifred, had studied French, and his father, Wilfred, was a dialectologist, a dialect poet, and an English teacher with a love for grammar and Elizabethan drama.

For example, children should hold a greater love for their parents than for random strangers.

It was written from the perspective of Roger Wilco sending journals on disks back into the past, so that his adventures could be made into video games so that his great grand parents ( x-times removed ) would have a chance to meet each other and fall in love through their mutual love of the games.

Inspired by her daughter, who appeared on the album cover, the album featured lullabies and love songs for parents and their children.

A couple of years later Bolívar returned to the love and care of his parents, but this traumatic experience would have a severe effect on Bolívar's life.

His view of himself is of one who yearned greatly for the love of his parents while receiving none.

Claver's parents were devout Catholics, teaching Peter from early childhood to let nothing come between him and the love of God.

Although thousands of inscriptions were lost as time passed, many of those remaining indicate the social rank or job title of its inhabitants ; however, most of the inscriptions simply indicate how loving a couple was, or the love of parents and such.

He also talked about three of his grandchildren whose parents were unmarried when they were born, saying his sons " were not happy at the time but they came to love these children.

In contrast, the " strict father " family revolves around the idea that parents teach their children how to be self-reliant and self-disciplined through " tough love ".

Peter van Pels, love interest of famous diarist Anne Frank, and his parents Auguste van Pels and Hermann van Pels, who would later gain fame from their roles in Anne's diary, all hailed from Osnabrück.

When he was 15, his parents finally allowed him to attend classes at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna.

His parents talked seriously and lengthily to their own doctor and to a specialist at the University Hospital -- Mr. McKinley was entitled to a discount for members of his family -- and it was decided it would be best for him to take the remainder of the term off, spend a lot of time in bed and, for the rest, do pretty much as he chose -- provided, of course, he chose to do nothing too exciting or too debilitating.

Far from discouraging Henri, his parents urge him on to greater and greater accomplishments.

The young child learns from parents and teachers that temper tantrums, screaming, kicking, and hitting will not get him what he wants ; ;

When Richard's parents told him they wanted to take him to an orthodontist -- a dentist who specializes in realigning teeth and jaws -- their young son was interested.

Although he still didn't speak to anyone, he grew fond of saying, `` The future lies in Asia '', when the opportunity arose, and when he graduated from high school his parents sent him to New York to give him a foundation, they said, for his life in Asian studies.

his foster parents had taught him to see.

But when it came time for Admetus to die, his parents, whom he had assumed would gladly die for him, refused to cooperate.

He hoped the job would earn him enough money to support his parents, " to make their cares, and burdens less ... and get them free from debt ", though he soon spent most of his earnings on a new suit.

We are not certain that the word " democracy " was extant when systems that came to be called democratic were first instituted, but around 460 BC an individual is known whose parents had decided to name him ' Democrates ', a name which may have been manufactured as a gesture of democratic loyalty ; the name can also be found in Aeolian Temnus, not a particularly democratic state.

That same year, both his parents died, leaving him a small inheritance which he quickly spent.

* No foreigner, even if naturalised ( unless they were born of English parents ), shall be allowed to be a Privy Councillor or a member of either House of Parliament, or hold " any office or place of trust, either civil or military, or to have any grant of lands, tenements or hereditaments from the Crown, to himself or to any other or others in trust for him.

It is speculated that his parents were wealthy enough to afford giving him an esteemed secular learning.

When he was about 18 years old, his parents died and left him with the care of his unmarried sister.

His parents recall him as a very quiet and unassuming child, who would spend hours drawing in his room:

He passed this, along with a message, to Watterson's parents and declared he would wait in the hotel for as long as it took Watterson to contact him.

Haley told the story that when he made a simulated guitar out of cardboard, his parents bought him a real one.

His Hellenic Jewish parents called him Joseph ( although the Byzantine text-type calls him, Iōsēs, ' Joses ', a Greek variant of ' Joseph '), but when he sold all his goods and gave the money to the apostles in Jerusalem, they gave him a new name: Barnabas.

In the field of political values, it is certainly true that students are not radical, not rebels against their parents or their peers.

Despite all this, the idea apparently has captured the imagination of countless youths whose parents are probably more surprised by the response than anybody else.

How can we old-fashioned parents, who still feel that adults are due some respect from children, battle the new type of advertising that appears on TV without denying the children the use of television entirely??

Or a bored dog because you are more interested in something else -- maybe the way you look, or the date you have after the Class, or you are just doing this to please the parents.

During early childhood, children are more interested in the approval of their parents and teachers than they are in the approval of other children ; ;

Their experience is quite in contrast with that of children of upper- and upper-middle-class native-born parents, who are more likely to regard education as good for its own sake and to discount the vocational emphases in the curriculum.

These have an upper-middle-class leadership and a middle-class membership, with rare exceptions, where working-class parents are active in local P.-T.A. matters.

and it is better to be shamed and criticized by one's parents, who already consider one different and difficult to understand, than by one's peers, who are also experiencing a similar groping for and denial of adult status.

The older parents continued to teach their children traditional principles, but the younger people, who have lost all faith and convictions, are now parents.

the bridegroom's parents, the Barrett Wendells, who are returning from a winter holiday in Sarasota, Fla., for the occasion ; ;

Since his parents are now renting his room to a lodger, Alex wanders the streets and enters a public library where he hopes to learn a painless way to commit suicide.

" While chemical issues in the brain that result in anxiety ( especially resulting from genetics ) are well documented, this study highlights an additional environmental factor that may result from being raised by parents suffering from chronic anxiety.

His report of life there covers a wide range of topics, such as marriage in heaven ( where all angels are married ), children in heaven ( where they are raised by angel parents ), time and space in heaven ( there are none ), the after-death awakening process in the World of Spirits ( a place halfway between Heaven and Hell and where people first wake up after death ), the allowance of a free will choice between Heaven or Hell ( as opposed to being sent to either one by God ), the eternity of Hell ( one could leave but would never want to ), and that all angels or devils were once people on earth.

When infants are taught to sign, parents are able to converse with them at a developmental stage when they are not yet capable of producing vocal speech, which requires fine control of both breathing and the vocal tract.

Litters are born in the early summer and the parents raise the young in a large den.

Most forms of albinism are the result of the biological inheritance of genetically recessive alleles ( genes ) passed from both parents of an individual, though some rare forms are inherited from only one parent.