Home » Quote » Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva » „I am the son of an illiterate father and mother.“ „I am the son of an illiterate father and mother.“ — Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva Related quotes „A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.“ — Solomon „You don’t have to deserve your mother’s love. You have to deserve your father’s. He’s more particular…. The father is always a Republican towards his son, and his mother’s always a Democrat.“ — Robert Frost „I am the son of an emancipated slave and the stories of old father are vivid on the tablets of my memory.“ — Paul Robeson „What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret of the father.“ — Friedrich Nietzsche „In peace sons bury fathers, but in war fathers bury sons.“ — Herodotus