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As the field, so the crops; as the father, so the sons.

Proverbs and old sayings German

Every country is a fatherland.

Proverbs and old sayings Greek about country

My fathers planted for me, and I planted for my children.

Proverbs and old sayings about children

A wise son makes his father happy; a foolish one grieves his mother.

Proverbs and old sayings about happiness, mother

The washerman never tears his father's clothes.

Proverbs and old sayings about clothes, tears

It is a fine thing to die for one's fatherland, but a still finer thing to live for it.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian about things, death

One half our fatherlands is the ocean.

Proverbs and old sayings Icelandic

Few are like father, no one is like mother.

Proverbs and old sayings Icelandic about mother

The prince is never guilty in his father's court.

Proverbs and old sayings Igbo

Whichever son is able should bury his father. The first son did not kill him.

Proverbs and old sayings Igbo

If a young man is not prudent in seeking what killed his father, what killed his father may also kill him.

Proverbs and old sayings Igbo about prudence, man

If they don't exchange a few words, father and son will never know one another.

Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian about word

The father a saint the son a devil.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about saints, devil

Any man can be a father, but it takes a special person to be a dad.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about people, man

A priest is a man who is called Father by everyone except his own children who are obliged to call him Uncle.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about children, man

Earthquakes, thunderbolts, fires, fathers.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about fire

If the father is a frog, the son will be a frog.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese

The goodness of the father reaches higher than a mountain; that of the mother goes deeper than the ocean.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about mother

Your father is part of you always.

Proverbs and old sayings about contentment

The dishonor of the father dishonors his sons and their sons for three generations.

Proverbs and old sayings