Homer
Homer
Homeris best known as the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey. He was believed by the ancient Greeks to have been the first and greatest of the epic poets. Author of the first known literature of Europe, he is central to the Western canon...
NationalityGreek
ProfessionPoet
fathers-day dad son
For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers.
children dad father
It behooves a father to be blameless if he expects his child to be.
dad father son
Few sons are like their fathers - many are worse, few better.
lying motherhood fatherhood
I won't lie to you, fatherhood isn't easy like motherhood.
father thinking compassion
Fear, O Achilles, the wrath of heaven; think on your own father and have compassion upon me, who am the more pitiable
memories father grief
And overpowered by memory Both men gave way to grief. Priam wept freely For man - killing Hector, throbbing, crouching Before Achilles' feet as Achilles wept himself, Now for his father, now for Patroclus once again And their sobbing rose and fell throughout the house.
mother children father
If you are one of earth’s inhabitants, how blest your father, and your gentle mother, blest all your kin. I know what happiness must send the warm tears to their eyes, each time they see their wondrous child go to the dancing! But one man’s destiny is more than blest—he who prevails, and takes you as his bride. Never have I laid eyes on equal beauty in man or woman. I am hushed indeed.
father fall son
Few sons are equal to their fathers; most fall short, all too few surpass them.
mother father thee
Yet while my Hector still survives, I see My father, mother, brethren, all in thee.
father believe moving
Nothing feebler than a man does the earth raise up, of all the things which breathe and move on the earth, for he believes that he will never suffer evil in the future, as long as the gods give him success and he flourishes in his strength; but when the blessed gods bring sorrows too to pass, even these he bears, against his will, with steadfast spirit, for the thoughts of earthly men are like the day which the father of gods and men brings upon them.
wise children father
It is a wise child that knows his own father. [Lat., Nondum enim quisquam suum parentem ipse cognosvit.]
child father knows wise
It is a wise child that knows his own father
blameless expects father son
It behooves a father to be blameless if he expects his son to be
abide academic dining federal felt guidelines hall jobs positions served worthwhile
We really abide by the federal guidelines that students' work-study jobs should be meaningful, worthwhile positions for them from an academic perspective, ... We've never really felt that dining hall jobs have served them in an academic way.