Quotes with fathers

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  • Ben Roethlisberger I've seen fathers criticizing their sons the moment a game's over. Not my dad. It doesn't matter if I threw an interception or a Hail Mary, he always says, 'Good job, son, I'm proud of you.' Then he shakes my hand and gives me a hug. Every time.
    Ben Roethlisberger
    American football player (1982 - )
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  • Joseph Rudyard Kipling If any question why we died, tell them, because our fathers lied.
    Joseph Rudyard Kipling
    English writer (1865 - 1936)
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  • James Baldwin 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
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Croesus In peace the sons bury their fathers, but in war the fathers bury their sons.
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  • Louis de Bernieres In reality the world is as full of bad mothers as it is of bad fathers, and it is not the motherless children who become delinquent but the fatherless ones.
    Louis de Bernieres
    British novelist (1954 - )
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  • Friedrich von Schiller It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.
    Friedrich von Schiller
    German poet and playwright (1759 - 1805)
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  • Mario Puzo Italians have a little joke, that the world is so hard a man must have two fathers to look after him, and that's why they have godfathers.
    The Godfather
    Mario Puzo
    American author, screenwriter and journalist (1920 - 1999)
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  • Arna Bontemps Let us keep the dance of rain our fathers kept and tread our dreams beneath the jungle sky.
    Arna Bontemps
    American poet, novelist and librarian
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  • Miguel de Cervantes No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Euripides Noble fathers have noble children.
    Euripides
    Greek tragedian and poet (480 - 406)
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  • Alice Meynell Our fathers valued change for the sake of its results; we value it in the act.
    Alice Meynell
    British poet, writer (1847 - 1922)
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  • Birch Bayh People are concerned, here again, about life, and haven't given a whole lot of attention to how you make fathers responsible for the lives they bring into the world.
    Birch Bayh
    American politician (1928 - 2019)
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  • Giuseppe Mazzini Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.
    Giuseppe Mazzini
    Italian writer (1805 - 1872)
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  • Augustus William Hare Some men treat the God of their fathers as they treat their father's friend. They do not deny him; by no means: they only deny themselves to him, when he is good enough to call upon them.
    Augustus William Hare
    British writer (1792 - 1834)
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  • Aldous Huxley Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Bob Ney The bottom line in my view is that America's mothers and fathers deserve to have confidence in law enforcement's ability to ensure that their children are being raised in the safest possible environment.
    Bob Ney
    American politician (1954 - )
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  • Bertrand Russell The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.
    Sceptical Essays
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Bertrand Russell The fundamental defect with fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Oscar Wilde The longer I live the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Benjamin Spock The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mother and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is the best after all.
    Benjamin Spock
    American doctor (1903 - 1998)
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