Filial Responsibility Quotes

A boy is not free to find a partner of his own as long as he must be the partner to his mother.

I think that being Jewish has generated an extremely strong sense of the importance of family. If I look at my Scandinavian colleagues, they don't have that urgency about family. All my movies are about that.

Could we betray our parents by going back to them?

Can serving the mother be a favour? A son is only dedicated to serve the mother....The favour has been done by the party.

But a mother-son relationship is not a coequal one, is it? He is lonely with only you just as you are lonely with only him.

I was closest to my dad and he always knew that I am responsible and would look after my family. For him, I was always the boy child and not his girl.

A real man doesn't have to run from his mother, and may even have to face the reality that no great deed is going to be great enough for him to ransom himself completely, and he may always be in his mother's debt. If he understands that . . . he won't have to feel guilty, and he won't have to please her completely. He can go ahead and be nice to her and let her be part of his life.

For a wonderful physical tie binds the parents to the children; and - by some sad, strange irony - it does not bind us children to our parents. For if it did, if we could answer their love not with gratitude but with equal love, life would lose much of its pathos and much of its squalor, and we might be wonderfully happy.

I think there comes a point in probably most father-son relationships where the son kind of starts becoming the parent.

Sometimes children do forget their filial responsibilities.

It doesn't bother me whether I am or I'm not compared to my dad. I do not feel any pressure at all from being his son.

My fatherhood made me understand my parents and to honor them more for the love they gave. My sonhood was revealed to me in its own perfection and I understood the reason the Chinese so value filiality, the responsibility of the son to honor the parents.

I really do feel guilty that I don't visit me mum enough.

I had one request when I started doing the plays. My prayer was: God let me do well enough to be able to take care of my mother. I was able to do that 'til the day she died because of my audience. So, they've already done enough. All I ask for now is their continued support.