Fathers Quotes
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All we have of freedom All we use or know This our fathers bought for us Long and long ago.
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Work alone isn't enough for me and mine; we know how to break our backs, but the great dream Of my fathers was to be good at doing nothing.
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Hope is a thing with feathers.
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For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers.
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Fathers like to have children good-natured, well-behaved, and comfortable, but how to put them in that desirable condition is out of their philosophy.
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Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith and go forward.
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The so-called Church Fathers are not some theologians as we know them nowadays. They were close to the teaching of the Apostles conveying the teaching of those who were close to Jesus. Their theology and wisdom is close to everyday life. We have to thank John Michael Talbot that he has been able to unearth the treasures of those times. This was only possible because he himself in his community experiences the Gospel lived out in our times.
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When there is a respect for small things, there will be an even greater respect towards the bigger things. When there is no respect for small things, then neither will there be for the bigger ones. This is how the Fathers maintained Tradition.
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Without fathers you would have no civilization.
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All women who kill or have sexual obsessions or who are prostitutes have trouble with their fathers.
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Few sons are like their fathers - many are worse, few better.
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As fathers, we know what a force for life children can be. They represent all of our futures.
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Fathers should make you feel safe.
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When I see daughters with their fathers I wonder what that would be like, although not in a way that immobilises me.
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Our plan is to follow the example of the prophets and the ancient fathers of the church, and to compose psalms...so that the Word of God may be among the people also in the form of music.
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The United States is the only advanced economy with no paid parental leave for either mothers or fathers.
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The kind of love that these young men have and the respect that they have for their fathers, I don't see that as much in America as you see in the Latino community, and it's really something to behold.
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Some fathers and sons don't get along that well when they're younger because they can't find a way to reach each other, ... A father loves you dearly but you don't see it and so you're always trying to please your father, but your father doesn't let you know how he feels, which is, you don't have to please him because he already loves you.
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Fathers, yours is an eternal calling from which you are never released. Callings in the Church, as important as they are, by their very nature are only for a period of time, and then an appropriate release takes place. But a father's calling is eternal, and its importance transcends time. It is a calling for both time and eternity.
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Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.
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Because the world needs sons and daughters with the courage of their fathers, and you are a courageous man.
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You know, fathers just have a way of putting everything together.
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My friends and I were all deathly afraid of our fathers, which was right and proper and even biblically ordained. Fathers were angry; it was their job.
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Baseball is sunshine, green grass, fathers and sons, our rural past.
