"Sundays too my father got up early and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold, then with cracked hands that ached from labor in the weekday weather made banked fire blazes. No one ever thanked him." Robert Hayden (1913 - 1980) US "educator, poet"
"""Those Winter Sundays,"" ""A Ballad of Remembrance,"" 1962."
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"My father is my idol, so I always did everything like him. He used to work two jobs and still come home happy every night. He didn't do drugs or drink, and he wouldn't let anyone smoke in his house. Those are rules I adopted, too." \"Earvin \"\"Magic\"\" Johnson\" (1959 - ____) US basketball player
"In ""Michigan Living,"" Apr 1989."
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"There are some extraordinary fathers who seem, during the whole course of their lives, to be giving their children reasons for being consoled at their death." Jean de LaBruyere (1645 - 1696) French "philosopher, writer"
'Les Caractères'
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I prefer to forget both pairs of glasses and pass my declining years saluting strange women and grandfather clocks. Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971) US poet
"Peekaboo, I Almost See You."""
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Every father expects his boy to do the things he wouldn't do when he was young. Kin Hubbard (1868 - 1930) US "journalist, humorist, homespun philosop
"In ""Correct Quotes for DOS,"" WordStar International, 1991."
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"Let not the spirit of the father behold the son robbed of that liberty which he died to establish, but let the motto of our legislature be: ""The law knows no distinction.""" James Forten (1766 - 1842) US "businessman, abolitionist"
"Protesting proposed legislation based on race, ""A Series of Letters by a Man of Color,"" 1813."
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"My father had always said there are four things a child needs: plenty of love, nourishing food, regular sleep, and lots of soap and water. After that, what he needs most is some intelligent neglect." Ivy Baker Priest (1905 - 1975) US government official
"""Green Grows Ivy,"" Ch. 11, 1958."
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"He was not all a father's heart could wish; But oh, he was my son! my only son." Joanna Baillie (1762 - 1851) Scottish "poet, dramatist"
"""Orra."" Act III, Sc. 2, 1812."
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"If the man who turnips cries, Cry not when his father dies, 'Tis a proof that he had rather Have a turnip than his father." Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784) English "lexicographer, critic"
"Johnsonian Miscellanies,"" (ed. G. B. Hill), Vol. I"
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"I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well." Alexander the Great (356BC - 323BC) Macedonian ruler
"In ""20,000 Quips and Quotes"" by Evan Esar, 1968."
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"The books I have read were composed by generations of fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, teachers and disciples. I am the sum total of their experiences, and so are you." Elie Wiesel (1928 - ____) Romanian-US novelist
"In ""Parade."""
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The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father. Austin O\'Malley (1858 - 1932) US "physician, humorist"
"In ""The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection,"" AApex Software, 1994."
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"When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It's not enough, but it helps." Dick Gregory (1932 - ____) US "comedian, author, political activist"
"""Nigger,"" 1964."
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"My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life." Lee Iacocca (1924 - ____) US auto business executive
"In The Ultimate Success Quotations Library, 1997."
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Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life. Oscar Wilde (1856 - 1900) Anglo-Irish "playwright, novelist"
"Lord Goring, in ""An Ideal Husband,"" act 4."
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The American father. . . is never seen in London. He passes his life entirely in Wall Street and communicates with his family once a month by means of a telegram in cipher. Oscar Wilde (1856 - 1900) Anglo-Irish "playwright, novelist"
"""The American Invasion,"" in Court and Society Review (London, 23 March 1887)."
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"My forefather didn't come over on the Mayflower, but they were there to meet the boat." Will Rogers (1879 - 1935) US "actor, lecturer, humorist"
"Quoted in Evan Esar (ed.), Treasury of Humorous Quotations"
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It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was. Anne Sexton (1928 - 1974) US poet
"""The Poet's Story,"" ""A Small Journal,"" ed. by Howard Moss, 1974; entry for 1 Jan 1972."
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My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition. Indira Gandhi (1917 - 1984) Indian political leader
"In ""The Last Word: A Treasury of Women's Quotes,"" by C. Warner, 1992."
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It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father. Pope John XXIII (1881 - 1963) Roman religious leader
Women's News Service
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"By his father he is English, by his mother he is American -- to my mind the blend which makes the perfect man." Mark Twain (1835 - 1910) US "novelist, journalist, river pilot"
Introducing Winston Churchill.
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"When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years." Mark Twain (1835 - 1910) US "novelist, journalist, river pilot"
"There are to us no ties at all just in being a father. A son is distinctly an acquired taste. It's the practice of parenthood that makes you feel that, after all, there may be something in it." Heywood C. Broun (1888 - 1939) US "journalist, author"
"""Pieces of Hate,"" 1922."
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"With a firm and steadfast mind one should hold under all conditions, that everywhere the earth is below and the sky above, and to the energetic man, every region is his fatherland." Tycho Brahe (1546 - 1601) Danish astronomer
"In ""Isaac Asimov's Book of Science and Nature Quotations,"" ed. Jason Shulman & Isaac Asimov, 1988."
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"My mother is Irish, my father is black and Venezuelan, and me -- I'm tan, I guess." Mariah Carey (1970 - ____) US singer
http://www.brainyquote.com
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Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. Aristotle (384BC - 322BC) Greek "writer, philosopher"
"In ""1,911 Best Things Anybody Ever Said,"" ed. Robert Byrne, 1988."
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"Alone, alone, about the dreadful wood Of conscious evil runs a lost mankind, Dreading to find its Father." W. H. Auden (1907 - 1973) English-US "poet, dramatist, editor"
"For the Time Being,"" 'Chorus'"
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"I hate Science. It denies a man's responsibility for his own deeds, abolishes the brotherhood that springs from God's fatherhood. It is a hectoring, dictating expertise, which makes the least lovable of the Church Fathers seem liberal by contrast." Basil Bunting (1900 - 1985) English poet
"Letter, 1 Jan. 1947, to poet Louis Zukofsky; in ""The Poetry of Basil Bunting, ch. 6, ed. Victoria Forde, 1991."
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"I felt something impossible for me to explain in words. Then when they took her away, it hit me. I got scared all over again and began to feel giddy. Then it came to me -- I was a father." Nat King Cole (1919 - 1965) US "singer, bandleader"
"In ""Ebony,"" Mar 1950."
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"Nothing, it appears to me is of greater value in a man than the power of judgement; and the man who has it may be compared to a chest fulled with books, for he is the son of nature and the father of art." Pietro Aretino (1492 - 1556) Italian "poet, writer, dramatist"
From an Internet collection of quotations.
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Zounds! I was never so bethumped with words Since I first called my brother's father dad. William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616) English "dramatist, poet"
"""King John,"" II. i. (466)."
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The hardest part of raising a child is teaching them to ride bicycles. A father can only ride beside the bicycle or stand yelling directions while the child falls. A shaky child on a bicycle for the first time needs both support and freedom. Sloan Wilson (1920 - 2003) US novelist
"""What Shall We Wear to This Party?."""
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The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. Theodore M. Hesburgh (1917 - ____) US "clergy, university administrator"
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Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing. Giuseppe Mazzini (1805 - 1872) Genoese "propagandist, revolutionary"
"In The Ultimate Success Quotations Library, 1997."
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"I suppose you think that persons who are as old as your father and myself are always thinking about very grave things, but I know that we are meditating the same old themes that we did when we were ten years old, only we go more gravely about it." Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862) US "essayist, poet, naturalist"
"Letter, 31 Jul 1849, to Ellen Emerson (then 10 years old), eldest child of Ralph Waldo Emerson."
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"He didn't dare to, because his father had a weak heart and habitually threatened to drop dead if anybody hurt his feelings. You may have noticed that people with weak hearts are the tyrants of English married life." George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950) Irish "dramatist, critic"
"In The Ultimate Success Quotations Library, 1997."
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"[He] didn't dare to, because his father had a weak heart and habitually threatened to drop dead if anybody hurt his feelings. You may have noticed that people with weak hearts are the tyrants of English married life." George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950) Irish "dramatist, critic"
"The Bishop of Chelsea, in Getting Married."
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"Government, obviously, cannot fill a child's emotional needs. Nor can it fill his spiritual and moral needs. Government is not a father or mother. Government has never raised a child, and it never will." William J. Bennett (1943 - ____) US government officer
"From ""Kevin Harris' Quotation Collections"" found on the Internet."
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Fishing is much more than fish. ... It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers. Herbert Hoover (1874 - 1964) US "president (31st), engineer"
"Recalled on his 90th birthday; in NY ""Times,"" 9 Aug 1964."
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"English history is all about men liking their fathers, and American history is all about men hating their fathers and trying to burn down everything they ever did." Malcolm Bradbury (1932 - 2000) English novelist
"""Stepping Westward,"" bk. 2, ch. 5, 1965."
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Let us keep the dance of rain our fathers kept And tread our dreams beneath the jungle sky. Arna Bontemps (1902 - 1973) US "poet, writer"
"""The Return."""
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His father's sister had bats in the belfry and was put away. Eden Phillpotts (1862 - 1960) English "novelist, playwright, dramatist"
"""My First Murder,"" ""Peacock House."""
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My father dealt in stocks and shares and my mother also had a lot of time on her hands. Hermione Gingold (1897 - 1987) English actress
"""The World is Square,"" Pt. 1, 1945."
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"When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching." Robert Bly (1926 - ____) US poet
"In ""The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection,"" AApex Software, 1994."
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"His father, Vincent, took him to La Coupole in Paris and, after sitting on the terrace for a while, walked off and forgot him. It was the perfect start in life for a writer." Anatole Broyard (1920 - ____) US literary critic
"On Michael Korda, in review of ""Charmed Lives,"" Random House 79, in NY ""Times,"" 3 Nov 79"
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My father invented a cure for which there was no disease and unfortunately my mother caught it and died of it. Victor Borge (1909 - 2000) US "pianist, comedian"
"In Concert."""
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"In the creative process there is the father, the author of the play; the mother, the actor pregnant with the part; and the child, the role to be born." Konstantin Stanislavsky (1863 - 1938) Russian "actor, director"
"In ""Shorter Bartlett's Familiar Quotations,"" by John Bartlett, 1937, 1980, 1992."
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"[E]very action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement." Antonio Gramsci (1891 - 1937) Italian "intellectual, politician"
"Letter, 15 June 1931, to his mother; in ""Letters from Prison,"" by Gramsci; tr. by Raymond Rosenthal, 1993."
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"My father always wanted to be the corpse at every funeral, the bride at every wedding and the baby at every christening." Alice Roosevelt Longworth (1884 - 1980) US "author, socialite, celebrity relative"
"On President Theodore Roosevelt; in ""Celebrity Register,"" by Cleveland Amory and Earl Blackwell, 1963."
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Doubt is the father of invention. Galileo (1564 - 1642) Italian "physicist, astronomer"
"In ""Wisdom of the Ages at Your Fingertips,"" MCR software, 1995."
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