"Each Fall the graves of my grandfathers call me, the brown hills and red gullies of Mississippi send out their electric messages, galvanizing my genes." Etheridge Knight (1931 - 1991) US "poet, educator"
"""The Idea of Ancestry."""
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"I'm not convinced that the world is in any worse shape than it ever was. It is just in this age of almost instantaneous communication, we bear the weight of problems our forefathers only read about after they were solved." Burton Hillis (0 - ____) 0 0
"In ""Webster's Electronic Quotebase,"" ed. Keith Mohler, 1994."
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"My father died many years ago, and yet when something special happens to me, I talk to him secretly not really knowing whether he hears, but it makes me feel better to half believe it." Natasha Josefowitz (1916 - ____) US radio script writer
"Is This Where I Was Going?,"" Warner 83"
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"One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland -- and no other." Emile M. Cioran (0 - ____) 0 0
"Anathemas and Admirations, ""On the Verge of Existence"" (1986)."
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Providing for one's family as a good husband and father is a water-tight excuse for making money hand over fist. Eva Figes (1932 - ____) German-English writer
"""A View of My Own,"" in Nova (Jan. 1973)."
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"Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance." Hippocrates (460BC - 370BC) Greek physician
"""The Canon Law,"" IV."
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"Shortly after the turn of the century, America marshalled her resources, contracted painfully, and gave birth to the New Technology. The father was a Corporation, and the New Technology grew up in the Corporate image." Alice Embree (19?? - ????) US "writer, activist"
"""Media Images 1: Madison Avenue Brainwashing The Facts;"" in ""Sisterhood Is Powerful,"" ed. Robin Morgan, 1970."
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"The average man will bristle if you say his father was dishonest, but he will brag a little if he discovers that his great-grandfather was a pirate." Bern Williams (0 - ____) 0 0
"In ""National Enquirer."""
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"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 (1937 - ____) US writer
"My Mother/ My Self, 1977"
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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 (384BC - 322BC) Greek "writer, philosopher"
"In The Ultimate Success Quotations Library, 1997."
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Any father whose son raises his hand against him is guilty of having produced a son who raised his hand against him. Charles Peguy (1873 - 1914) French "philosopher, poet"
"In ""The Fourth 637 Best Things Anybody Ever Said,"" ed. Robert Byrne, 1990."
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"That is the thankless position of the father in the family -- the provider for all, and the enemy of all." J. August Strindberg (1849 - 1912) Swedish "playwright, novelist, short-story write
"The Son of a Servant (1886; tr. by Claud Field, 1913)."
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"There was a young man in Rome that was very like Augustus Caesar; Augustus took knowledge of it and sent for the man, and asked him ""Was your mother never at Rome?"" He answered ""No Sir; but my father was.""" Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626) English "philosopher, statesman, essayist"
"Apothegms, no. 87 (1624)."
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"The result was magnificent . . . I became the father of two girls and two boys, lovely children by good fortune they all look like my wife." Artur Rubinstein (1887 - 1982) Polish-US virtuoso pianist
"In ""A Little Nightmusic,"" by Samuel Chotzinoff, 1964."
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"The time has gone by for colored people to talk of patriotism: . . . He used to be proud that his grandfather, on his mother's side, fought for liberty in the Revolutionary War. But that time had passed by." Charles Lenox Remond (1810 - 1873) US abolitionist
"Anti-Slavery Discourse to the Massachusetts Antislavery Society; in ""The Liberator,"" 10 Jul 1857."
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"It was a maxim with Foxey - our revered father, gentlemen - 'Always suspect everybody'." Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870) English "novelist, dramatist"
"(Sampson Brass) Old Curiosity Shop, Ch. 66"
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"Take example by your father, my boy, and be wery careful o' vidders all your life, specially if they've kept a public house, Sammy." Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870) English "novelist, dramatist"
"Mr. Weller, in The Pickwick Papers, ch. 20 (1836 --37)."
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"Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal." Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865) US "president, lawyer"
"Address at Gettysburg, Nov. 19, 1863 [See also government.]"
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I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be. Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865) US "president, lawyer"
"In ""Webster's Electronic Quotebase,"" ed. Keith Mohler, 1994."
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"My father taught me to work, he did not teach me to love it." Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865) US "president, lawyer"
"In ""Quotable Business,"" ed. Louis E. Boone, 1992."
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The Americans are violently oral. . . . That's why in America the mother is all-important and the father has no position at all -- isn't respected in the least. W. H. Auden (1907 - 1973) English-US "poet, dramatist, editor"
"The Table Talk of W. H. Auden, ""Halloween 1947"" (comp. by Alan Ansen, ed. by Nicholas Jenkins, 1990)."
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"My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me." Jim Valvano (1946 - 1993) US "basketball coach, sportscaster"
"In The Ultimate Success Quotations Library, 1997."
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"The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education." John Updike (1932 - 2009) US "novelist, short-story writer, poet"
"George Caldwell, in ""The Centaur,"" ch. 4, 1963."
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Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his son the hardships that made him rich. Robert Frost (1874 - 1963) US poet
"In ""Webster's Electronic Quotebase,"" ed. Keith Mohler, 1994."
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"You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father s. He's more particular. The father is always a Republican towards his son, and his mother's always a Democrat." Robert Frost (1874 - 1963) US poet
"Interview in Writers at Work (Second Series, ed. by George Plimpton, 1963)."
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Our father is more than a hundred schoolmasters. George Herbert (1593 - 1633) English "author, poet"
"In ""1,911 Best Things Anybody Ever Said,"" ed. Robert Byrne, 1988."
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The child is father of the man; And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety. William Wordsworth (1770 - 1850) English poet
My heart leaps up
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"My father taught me that the only way you can make good at anything is to practice, and then practice some more." Pete Rose (1941 - ____) US baseball player
"In The Ultimate Success Quotations Library, 1997."
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"Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition; but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express." Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719) English "poet, essayist, playwright"
"In The Ultimate Success Quotations Library, 1997."
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The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is the best after all. Benjamin Spock (1903 - 1998) US "physician, author"
"In ""The Book of Quotes,"" by Barbara Rowes, 1979."
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"I m moved by contraries, by opposites, the strength that was my mother's eyes, the beauty of my father's hands." Judith Jamison (1944 - ____) US modern dancer
"""Dancing Spirit,"" 1993."
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"We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers -- but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change." Katharine Hepburn (1907 - 2003) US actress
"In The Ultimate Success Quotations Library, 1997."
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"My son is 7 years old. I am 54. It has taken me a great many years to reach that age. I am more respected in the community, I am stronger, I am more intelligent and I think I am better than he is. I don't want to be a pal, I want to be a father." Clifton Fadiman (1904 - 1999) US "radio performer, author"
"In ""Newsweek,"" 16 Jun 58"
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"In quibbles angel and archangel join, And God the Father turns a school divine." Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744) English poet
"Satires and Epistles of Horace Imitated, Bk ii. Epistle I. 101, on Paradise Lost"
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"We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow; Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so." Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744) English poet
Essay on Criticism.
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"My father was frightened of his mother. I was frightened of my father, and I'm damned well going to make sure that my children are frightened of me." George V (1865 - 1936) English ruler
Attributed.
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True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends' boyfriends --and he accepts it. Larry McMurtry (1936 - ____) US "scriptwriter, novelist"
"Danny Deck, in ""Some Can Whistle,"" pt. 1, ch. 12, 1989."
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"I asked [my father] what there was to make doctoring more disgusting than nursing, which women were always doing, and which ladies had done publicly in the Crimea. He could not tell me." Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (1836 - 1917) English physician
" Letter, 15 Jun 1860, to her Emily Davies; found at www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/WandersonE.htm."
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[My son] will have a fairly stable future. Not one where the schoolyard talk is whose father grossed $8 million on his last picture. Michael J. Fox (1961 - ____) US actor
"In ""The Almanac of Quotable Quotes from 1990,"" by Ronald D. Pasquariello, 1991."
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"I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in 50 years what my father taught by example in one week." Mario Cuomo (1932 - ____) US "politician, lawyer, talk show host"
"In ""Time,"" 2 Jun 1986."
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"Wherever the citizen becomes indifferent to his fellows, so will the husband be to his wife, and the father of a family toward the members of his household." Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767 - 1835) German "scholar, philosopher, diplomat, educato
"""Limits of State Action,"" ch. 3, 1792."
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"PILGRIM, n. A traveler that is taken seriously. A Pilgrim Father was one who [was] not permitted to sing psalms through his nose [in Europe], followed it to Massachusetts, where he could personate God according to the dictates of his conscience." Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914) US "journalist, short-story writer"
"The Devil's Dictionary, 1911."
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"ZOOLOGY, n. The science and history of the animal kingdom, including its king, the House Fly (""Musca maledicta""). The father of Zoology was Aristotle, as is universally conceded, but the name of its mother has not come down to us." Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914) US "journalist, short-story writer"
"The Devil's Dictionary, 1911."
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"No one really understood music unless he was a scientist, her father had declared, and not just a scientist, either, oh, no, only the real ones, the theoreticians, whose language was mathematics." Pearl Buck (1892 - 1973) US author
"""The Goddess Abides,"" Pt. I."
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"Our grandfathers had to run, run, run. My generation's out of breath.We ain't running no more." Stokely Carmichael (1941 - 1998) US civil rights leader
c. 1963.
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"No gray hairs streak my soul, no grandfatherly fondness there! I shake the world with the might of my voice, and walk --handsome, twentytwoyearold." Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893 - 1930) Soviet-Georgian poet
The cloud in trousers (tr. by George Reavey).
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The brotherhood of man under the fatherhood of God. Nelson A. Rockefeller (1908 - 1979) US politician
Attributed.
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"In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways." June Jordan (1936 - 2002) US "writer, poet, journalist"
"""Old Stories: New Lives,"" keynote address, 1978, to Child Welfare League of America; in ""Moving Towards Home: Political Essays,"" 1989."
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My father must have had some elementary education for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950) Irish "dramatist, critic"
"In The Ultimate Success Quotations Library, 1997."
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"Fathers and sons arrive at that relationship only by claiming that relationship: that is by paying for it. If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons." James Baldwin (1924 - 1987) US "novelist, essayist"
"In ""Famous Black Quotations,"" ed. Janet Cheatham Bell, 1995."
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