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

Anne Sexton

~ What cause have we to complain about their fierce hatred to us? For eight years now, they sit in their refugee camps in Gaza, and before their eyes we turn into our homestead the land and villages in which they and their forefathers have lived. ~

Moshe Dayan

~ I don’t know who my grandfather was; I’m much more concerned to know what his grandson will be. ~

Abraham Lincoln

~ There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson. ~

Victor Hugo

~ One of the most powerful handclasps is that of a new grandbaby around the finger of a grandfather. ~

Joy Hargrove

~ Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had. ~

Aristotle

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

Henry H. Tweedy

~ Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance ~

Hippocrates

~ I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection. ~

Sigmund Freud

~ To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter. ~

Euripides

~ My grandfather, along with Carnegie, was a pioneer in philanthropy, which my father then practiced on a very large scale. ~

David Rockefeller

~ As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan. ~

Galeazzo Ciano

~ I inherited that calm from my father, who was a farmer. You sow, you wait for good or bad weather, you harvest, but working is something you always need to do.† ~

Miguel Indurain

~ WEATHER,†The climate of an hour. A permanent topic of conversation among persons†whom it does not interest, but who have inherited the tendency to chatter about it from naked arboreal ancestors whom it keenly concerned. The setting up of official weather bureaus and their maintenance in mendacity prove that even governments are accessible to suasion by the rude forefathers of the jungle ~

Ambrose Bierce

~ Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine. ~

Allan Bloom

~ Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise - specialized competence and success are all that they can imagineî ~

Allan Bloom

~ As a little boy of eleven I entered the Cadet Corps. I was not particularly eager to become a Cadet, but my father wished it. So my wishes were not consulted. ~

Manfred von Richthofen

~ I hated Chris, my brother. I would pull his hair and kick him, until one day my father gave him permission to fight back. I'll be apologizing to him for the rest of my life. ~

Stevie Nicks

~ The day is past when schools could afford to give sufficient time and attention to the teaching of the ancient languages to enable the student to get that enjoyment out of classical literature that made the lives of our grandfathers so rich. ~

James Loeb

~ Your enjoyment of the world is never right, till every morning you awake in Heaven: see yourself in your Father's palace; and look upon the skies, the earth, and the air as celestial joys: having such a reverend esteem of all, as if you were among the angels. ~

Thomas Traherne

~ Fanaticism is the child of false zeal and superstition, the father of intolerance and persecution. ~

Fletcher, Samuel

~ When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine. ~

Robert Louis Stevenson

~ Employee fathers need to step up to the plate and put their family needs on the table. ~

James Levine

~ A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither. If only sons could see the paradox, they would understand the dilemma. ~

Marlene Dietrich

~ The best of our theater is standing on tiptoe, striving to see over the shoulders of father and mother. The worst is exploiting and wallowing in the self-pity of adolescence and obsessive keyhole sexuality. The way out, as the poet says, is always through. ~

Arthur Miller

~ We are 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

~ The territorial state is such an ancient form of society - here in Europe it dates back thousands of years - that it is now protected by the sanctity of age and the glory of tradition. A strong religious feeling mingles with the respect and the devotion to the fatherland. ~

Christian Lous Lange

~ This is the reason why mothers are more devoted to their children than fathers: it is that they suffer more in giving them birth and are more certain that they are their own. ~

Aristotle

~ So great is the modesty of your mind and face, Sophronius that I wonder you should ever have become a father. ~

Marcus Aurelius

~ Fatherhood is telling your daughter that Michael Jackson loves all his fans, but has special feelings for the ones who eat broccoli. ~

Bill Cosby

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