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"It is a
wise father that knows his own child." ~
William Shakespeare |
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"That
is the thankless position of the father in the family-the provider
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and
the enemy of all. ~ J. August Strindberg |
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"Sometimes the poorest
man leaves his children the richest inheritance. ~ Ruth E.
Renkel |
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"I cannot tell a lie.
I did it with my little hatchet. ~ George Washington |
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"Those
who trust us educate us" ~ . T. S. Eliot |
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"When
I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could
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around.
But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much
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seven years. " ~ Mark
Twain |
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"
I've had a hard life, but my hardships are nothing against
the hardships
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through
in order to get me to where I started. ~ Bartrand Hubbard " |
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"By
the time a man
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he
usually has a son who thinks he's wrong." ~ Charles Wadsworth |
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"I
cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need
for a father's protection." ~ Sigmund Freud |
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"One
father is more than a hundred schoolmasters." ~ 17th century
English proverb |
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"Any
man can be a father. It takes someone special to be a dad."
~ Anonymous |
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"A
man's children and his garden both reflect the amount of weeding
done during the growing season." ~ Anonymous |
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"A father is always making
his baby into a little woman. |
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And when she is a woman he
turns her back again." ~ Enid Bagnold |
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"Blessed indeed is the man
who hears many gentle voices call him father! ~ Lydia M.
Child" |
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"A father is a man who
expects his children to be as good as he meant to be." ~
Carol Coats |
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"The father who does not teach
his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects
them." ~ Confucius |
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"If the new American father
feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the
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that whatever
he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance
of being right." ~ Bill Cosby |
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"Fatherhood is pretending the
present you love most is soap-on-a-rope." ~ Bill Cosby |
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"You know, fathers just
have a way of putting everything together." ~ Erika Cosby |
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"Be kind to thy father, for
when thou wert young, who loved thee so fondly as he? |
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He caught the first accents
that fell from thy tongue, and joined in thy innocent glee."
~ Margaret Courtney |
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"It is impossible to please
all the world and one's father." ~ Jean de La Fontaine |
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"To her the name of father
was another name for love." ~ Fanny Fern |
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"How true Daddy's words were
when he said: "All children must look after their own upbringing." |
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'Parents can only give good
advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a
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person's character lies in
their own hands.' ~
Anne Frank |
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"A father is a banker provided
by nature." ~ French Proverb |
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"A man knows when he is growing
old because he begins to look like his father." ~ Gabriel
GarcÌa M·rquez |
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"Fathers, like mothers, are
not born. Men grow into fathers and fathering is a very important
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stage in their development."
~ David Gottesman |
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"To My Father It matters not
that Time has shed His thawless snow upon your head, |
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For he maintains, with wondrous
art, Perpetual summer in your heart." ~ William Hamilton Hayne |
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"To be a successful father...there's
one absolute rule: when you have a kid, |
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don't look at it for the first
two years." ~ Ernest Hemingway |
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"What a dreadful thing it must
be to have a dull father." ~ Mary Mapes Dodge |
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"The thing to remember about
fathers is, they're men. A girl has to keep it in mind: They are
dragon-seekers, |
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bent on improbable rescues.
Scratch any father, you find someone chock-full of qualms
and romantic terrors, |
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believing change is a threat
- like your first shoes with heels on, like your first bicycle
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it took such months to get
it right." ~ Phyllis McGinley |
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"It is much easier to become
a father than to be one." ~ Kent Nerburn |
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"He who is taught to live upon
little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a
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great deal left him does to
his father's care." ~ William Penn |
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"A wise son maketh a glad father
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"None of you can ever be proud
enough of being the child of such a Father who has not his
equal in this world - |
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so great, so good, so faultless.
Try, all of you, to follow in his footsteps and don't be
discouraged, for to be really in |
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everything like him none of
you, I am sure, will ever be. Try, therefore, to be like
him in some points, and you |
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and you will have acquired
a great deal" . ~ Queen Victoria of England |
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"It doesn't matter who my father
was; it matters who I remember he was." ~ Anne Sexton |
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"For thousands of years, father
and son have stretched wistful hands across the canyon of
time". ~ Alan Valentine |
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"It no longer bothers me that
I may be constantly searching for father figures; |
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by this time, I have found
several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all." ~ Alice Walker |
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"The most important thing a
father can do for his children is to love their mother."
~ Henry Ward Beecher |
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"Sherman made the terrible
discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later...that
the man before him was not |
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an aging father but a boy,
a boy much like himself, a boy who grew up and had a child
of his
own and, as best he could, |
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out of a sense of duty and,
perhaps love, adopted a role
called Being a Father so that his child would have something
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mythical and infinitely important:
a Protector, who would keep a lid on all the chaotic and
catastrophic possibilities of life." |
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~ Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire
of the Vanities
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