Quotes with fathers

Quotes 41 till 57 of 57.

  • Bill Moyers The property qualifications for federal office that the framers of the Constitution expressly chose to exclude for demonstrating an unseemly veneration of wealth are now de facto in force and higher than the Founding Fathers could have imagined.
    Moyers on Democracy
    Bill Moyers
    American journalist (1934 - )
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  • Audre Lorde The white fathers told us: I think, therefore I am. The black goddess within each of us - the poet - whispers in our dreams: I feel, therefore I can be free.
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Mary Elizabeth Hewitt Then hail! thou noble conqueror! That, when tyranny oppressed, hewed for our fathers from the wild. A land wherein to rest.
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  • Victor Hugo There are fathers who do not love their children, but there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Aristotle 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
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Wendell Phillips To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship
    Wendell Phillips
    American Reformer, Orator (1811 - 1884)
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  • Luis Bunuel Tobacco and alcohol, delicious fathers of abiding friendships and fertile reveries.
    Luis Bunuel
    Spanish director (1900 - 1983)
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  • Horace Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • John F. Kennedy Victory has a hundred fathers, but defeat is an orphan.
    Press conferentie, 21-04-1961 (na de Bay of Pigs)
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Blake Farenthold We all went up to Washington on a mission to change things. What I found is that the Founding Fathers set it up where it's a little more difficult to do. We've got the Senate and the president to deal with.
    Blake Farenthold
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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  • Alexander Pope We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Terence What harsh judges fathers are to all young men!
    Terence
    Roman writer of comedies (190 - 159)
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  • Cate Blanchett When I see daughters with their fathers I wonder what that would be like, although not in a way that immobilises me.
    Cate Blanchett
    Australian actress and theatre (1969 - )
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson 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
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Charles Austin Beard You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.
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  • Thomas Alva Edison Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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  • Bill Cosby In spite of the seven thousand books of expert advice, the right way to discipline a child is still a mystery to most fathers and... mothers. Only your grandmother and Ghengis Khan know how to do it.
    Bill Cosby
    American actor, comedian, producer (1937 - )
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