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~ A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again. ~

Enid Bagnold

~ He who has made it a practice to lie and deceive his father, will be the most daring in deceiving others. ~

Horace

~ Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan. ~

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

~ Gueorgui love to the forest, the forest as old as a legend, gentle as a mother and stern as a father. ~

Nicolai Levkov

~ You must teach your children that the ground beneath their feet is the ashes of our grandfathers. So that they will respect the land, tell your children that the earth is rich with the lives of our kin. Teach your children what we have taught our childresn--that the earth is our mother. Whatever befalls the earth, befalls the sons of the earth. If men spit upon the ground, they spit upon themselves. This we know. The earth does not belong to man; man belongs to earth. This we know. All things are connected like the blood which unites one family. All things are connected. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of the earth. Man did not weave the web of life; he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himselfÖ ~

Chief Seattle

~ All America lies at the end of the wilderness road, and our past is not a dead past, but still lives in us. Our forefathers had civilization inside themselves, the wild outside. We live in the civilization they created, but within us the wilderness still lingers. What they dreamed, we live, and what they lived, we dream ~

T.K. Whipple

~ Thy wish was father, Harry, to that thought ~

William Shakespeare

~ Then hail! thou noble conqueror! That, when tyranny oppressed, hewed for our fathers from the wild. A land wherein to rest. ~

Mary Elizabeth Hewitt

~ I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it call itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defense the only arms I allow myself to use --silence, exile and cunning. ~

James Joyce

~ The only thing that makes life endurable in this world is human love, and yet, according to Christianity, that is the very thing that we are not to have in the other world. We are to be so taken up with Jesus and angels, that we shall care nothing about our brothers and sisters that have been damned. We shall be so carried away with the music of the harp that we shall not even hear the wail of father and mother. Such a religion is a disgrace to human nature. ~

Robert Green Ingersoll

~ Bush the father did well in placing his sons as governors and did not forget to pass on the expertise in fraud from the leaders of the region to Florida to use it in critical moments. ~

Osama bin Laden

~ DELUSION, n. The father of a most respectable family, comprising Enthusiasm, Affection, Self-denial, Faith, Hope, Charity and many other goodly sons and daughters. ~

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

~ When parents put gold into the hands of youth, when they should put a rod under their girdle--when instead of awe they make them past grace, and leave them rich executors of goods, and poor executors of godliness, then it is no marvel that the son being left rich by his father's will, becomes reckless by his own will. ~

John Lyly

~ We are now about to take our leave and kind farewell to our native land, the country the Great Spirit gave our Fathers, we are on the eve of leaving that country that gave us birth, it is with sorrow we are forced by the white man to quit the scenes of our childhood... we bid farewell to it and all we hold dear. ~

Charles Hicks

~ [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

~ He went home to Kentucky to deal with the loss of his father and the funeral arrangements and so on. ~

Orlando Bloom

~ My father, now in heaven, is a keeper of the birds. And his eye is on his sparrow ~

Don Williams, Jr

~ Gold's father is dirt, yet it regards itself as noble. ~

Yiddish Proverb

~ Clever father, clever daughter; clever mother, clever son. ~

Russian Proverb

~ There is a certain class of people who prefer to say that their fathers came down in the world through their own follies than to boast that they rose in the world through their own industry and talents. It is the same shabby-genteel sentiment, the same vanity of birth which makes men prefer to believe that they are degenerated angels rather than elevated apes. ~

W. Winwood Reade

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

Abraham Lincoln

~ If you ever come to feel any doubt of my character or of my heartfelt devotion to you... the title of Father of My Country will give me no additional honor, but will be a reproach to you, either for your hasty action in conferring the appellation upon me, or for your inconsistency in changing your estimate of my character. ~

Tiberius Caesar

~ My father said: You must never try to make all the money thats in a deal. Let the other fellow make some money too, because if you have a reputation for always making all the money, you wont have many deals. ~

J. Paul Getty

~ Every father should remember that one day his son will follow his example instead of his advice. ~

Unknown

~ A son could bear complacently the death of his father while the loss of his inheritance might drive him to despair. ~

Niccolo Machiavelli

~ Clever father, clever daughter; clever mother, clever son. ~

Russian Proverb

~ His father watched him across the gulf of years and pathos which always must divide a father from his son. ~

John Marquand

~ Every man is responsible only for his own acts. The sons do not inherit the sins of the fathers. But can we say: that was long ago, they were different? ~

Aleksander Kwasniewski

~ Christ took our sins and the sins of the whole world as well as the Father's wrath on his shoulders, and he has drowned them both in himself so that we are thereby reconciled to God and become completely righteous. ~

Martin Luther

~ It behooves a father to be blameless if he expects his child to be. ~

Homer

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