Quotes About Parricide

#1. As someone very sagely said during the parricide trials of the Menendez Brothers: anytime your kids kill you, you are at least partly to blame.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

#2. That the enthusiasm which characterizes youth should lift its parricide hands against freedom and science would be such a monstrous phenomenon as I cannot place among possible things in this age and country.

Thomas Jefferson

#3. If weakness may excuse, What murderer, what traitor, parricide, Incestuous, sacrilegious, but may plead it? All wickedness is weakness; that plea, therefore, With God or man will gain thee no remission.

John Milton

#4. Do you mean that the tyrant will dare to use violence against the people who fathered him, and raise his hand against them if they oppose him? So the tyrant is a parricide, and little comfort to his old parent.

Plato

#5. If a parricide is more wicked than anyone who commits homicide-because he kills not merely a man but a near relative-without doubt worse still is he who kills himself, because there is none nearer to a man than himself.

Saint Augustine

#6. For Man's grim Justice goes its way, And will not swerve aside: It slays the weak, it slays the strong, It has a deadly stride: With iron heel it slays the strong, The monstrous parricide!

Oscar Wilde

#7. The nails from a suicide's coffin, and the skull of the parricide, were of course no trouble; for Vesquit never traveled without these household requisites.

Aleister Crowley

#8. On the whole, stories don't write themselves.

Neil Gaiman

#9. We are what we wear, we wear what we are

Macklemore

#10. You shouldn't own common stocks if a 50 per cent decrease in their value in a short period of time would cause you acute distress.

Warren Buffett

#11. Novelists don't have answers and ones that do I'm not sure you should trust.

David Mitchell

#12. You have to believe in yourself when no one else does.

Serena Williams

#13. You have a choice. You can just go on the facts and form your own opinions. Or you can hold the truth in your hands, and see it for the gift it is.

Jodi Picoult

#14. Perseverance is capital for success.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#15. The establishment of Christianity ... arrested the normal development of the physical sciences for over fifteen hundred years.

Andrew Dickson White

#16. I have to say I've worked very few days of my life. I used to have to cut the lawn, and when I was in junior high school, I worked at a concession stand at a stadium.

Steve Nash

#17. There is nothing as bitter as this moment when you go out to the morning roll call--in the dark, in the cold, with a hungry belly, to face a whole day of work. You lose your tongue. You lose all desire to speak to anyone.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#18. Behind every successful woman, there's a big prick.

James Patterson

#19. The situation in the sciences is this: A concept or an idea which cannot be measured or cannot be referred directly to experiment may or may not be useful. It need not exist in a theory.

Richard P. Feynman