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~ I want to die in my sleep like my grandfather... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his car. ~

Will Shriner

~ That is the thankless position of the father in the family-the provider for all, and the enemy of all. ~

J. August Strindberg

~ Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name. ~

William Wordsworth

~ It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons. ~

Friedrich von Schiller

~ The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children. ~

Nancy Friday

~ The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf. ~

Bertrand Russell

~ Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. ~

Aristotle

~ There is a religion in all deep love, but the love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father. ~

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

~ The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. ~

Theodore Hesburgh

~ Doubt is the father of invention. ~

Galileo

~ Children always know when company is in the living room - they can hear their mother laughing at their father's jokes ~

Unknown

~ It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was. ~

Anne Sexton

~ One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters. ~

George Herbert

~ Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents. ~

Margaret Mead

~ When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry. ~

William Shakespeare

~ The departure of our boys to foreign parts with the ever-present possibility that they might never return, taught the real value of photography to every father and mother. To many a mother the photograph of her boy in his country's uniform was the one never-failing consolation. ~

Louis Fabian Bachrach

~ My dad taught me to switch-hit. He and my grandfather, who was left-handed, pitched to me everyday after school in the back yard. I batted lefty against my dad and righty against my granddad ~

Mickey Mantle

~ Our country was founded on a distrust of government. Our founding fathers gave power to the people to keep an eye on government. So when politicians say, Trust me, they're actually being very un-American. ~

David Duchovny

~ The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat ~

Robert Lee Frost

~ In a husband there is only a man; in a married woman there is a man, a father, and mother, and a woman. ~

Honore de Balzac

~ Fear is the father of courage and the mother of safety ~

Henry H. Tweedy

~ One father is enough to govern one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father. ~

George Herbert

~ By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong. ~

Charles Wadsworth

~ The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat. ~

Robert Frost

~ Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away. ~

Laurence J. Peter

~ My father was a simple man. My mother was a simple woman. You see the result standing in front of you, a simpleton. ~

Chic Murray

~ One of life's greatest mysteries is how the boy who wasn't good enough to marry your daughter can be the father of the smartest grandchild in the world. ~

Proverb

~ Galileo called doubt the father of invention; it is certainly the pioneer. ~

Bovee

~ [America is] a rebellious nation. Our whole history is treason; our blood was attained before we were born; our creeds were infidelity to the mother church; our constitution treason to our fatherland. ~

Theodore Parker

~ Youth today must be strong, unafraid, and a better taxpayer than its father. ~

H. V. Wade

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