Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards. Robert Orben
[Among the Arapeh... both father and mother are held responsible for child care by the entire community...] If one comments upon a middle-aged man as good-looking, the people answer: 'Good-looking? Ye-e-e-s? But you should have seen him before he bore all those children. Margaret Mead
I am the son of an illiterate father and mother. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
Find as much love as was given by your father and mother many times. Uruguayan Proverb
A crazy father and mother make sensible children. Corsican Proverb
A merry life forgets father and mother. French Proverb