Fathers Quotes
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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.
Cesare Pavese -
Come on fathers, don't hesitate, send them off before it's too late. Be the first one on the block to have your boy come home in a box.
Country Joe McDonald
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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.
Notker Wolf -
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.
Kevin Costner -
All we have of freedom All we use or know This our fathers bought for us Long and long ago.
Rudyard Kipling -
Without fathers you would have no civilization.
Michael Gurian -
All women who kill or have sexual obsessions or who are prostitutes have trouble with their fathers.
Catherine Deneuve -
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.
Martin Luther
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Few sons are like their fathers - many are worse, few better.
Homer -
In times of trouble you can count on your self. In times of disaster you can count on your friends. In times of sorrow you can count on your Father.
William C. Richardson -
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.
Ernestine Rose -
Because the world needs sons and daughters with the courage of their fathers, and you are a courageous man.
Beverly Jenkins -
Mothers play an important role as the heart of the home, but this in no way lessens the equally important role fathers should play, as head of the home, in nurturing, training, and loving their children.
Ezra Taft Benson -
And the parents, of course, are aware of this. The fathers come here anxious to look intelligent, amiable and prosperous; the mothers put on their best frocks and hope that their sons’ friends will think them young-looking, attractive, well turned out .
Edmund Crispin
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Sensible fathers and mothers, when their children marry, go back to the old days and renew their youth.
Elizabeth Goudge -
The United States is the only advanced economy with no paid parental leave for either mothers or fathers.
Brigid Schulte -
No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly; and this self-deceit is yet stronger with respect to the offspring of the mind.
Miguel de Cervantes -
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.
Ezra Taft Benson -
Fathers should make you feel safe.
Karen Cushman -
Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.
Simone de Beauvoir
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In case of separation, why should the children be taken from the protecting care of the mother? Who has a better right to them than she? How much do fathers generally do toward bringing them up?
Ernestine Rose -
As fathers, we know what a force for life children can be. They represent all of our futures.
Ewan McGregor -
When I see daughters with their fathers I wonder what that would be like, although not in a way that immobilises me.
Cate Blanchett -
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.
Barbara Holland