Quotes about Fathers

Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents. Votes: 4

Let our Fathers and Grandfathers be valued for their Goodness, ourselves for our own. Votes: 4

Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life. Votes: 4

Fathers, like mothers, are not born. Men grow into fathers and fathering is a very important stage in their development. Votes: 4

Fathers should make you feel safe. Votes: 3

Fathers should speak with their children. Votes: 3

Fathers can find great inspiration in faith. Votes: 3

... the moral equal of our Founding Fathers. Votes: 3

Fathers, provoke not your children to wrath. Votes: 3

Fathers teach their best lessons to their children Votes: 3

Fathers should start teaching the boys how to punch. Votes: 3

Fathers in today's modern families can be so many things. Votes: 3

I fell in love with Twitter. Fathers, lock up your deadlines. Votes: 3

Real Fathers are men of integrity & honour. Their word is their bond. Votes: 3

Fathers have a unique and irreplaceable role in the lives of children. Votes: 3

Fathers, yours is an eternal calling from which you are never released. Votes: 3

Fathers always play mahagurus to their children, and I am no exception. Votes: 3

Your former Fathers the Spaniards have now no further Authority over you. Votes: 3

Fathers have a lot to do to make up for having sons. Votes: 3

The Founding Fathers were nothing more than a bunch of snobby English shits. Votes: 3

Fathers and sons are much more considerate of one another than mothers and daughters. Votes: 3

Biology makes us Mothers & Fathers, whats in the heart makes us Mom's and Dad's Votes: 3

Second, marriage is an issue that our Founding Fathers wisely left to the states. Votes: 3

Fathers are ironic, they want democracy in their country but dictatorship in their home. Votes: 3

Fathers represent another way of looking at life - the possibility of an alternative dialogue. Votes: 3

Fathers. Mothers. With all their caring and attention. They will f--- you up, every time. Votes: 3

Real Fathers are Solution Providers and not a part of the problem to be solved. Votes: 3

Well, I have the same vision I think that the Founding Fathers of this country had. Votes: 3

At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks. Votes: 3

This view of the text comports with the all but unanimous understanding of the Founding Fathers.... Votes: 3

On this special Fathers Day, we'd like to wish all of you a very Happy Birthday. Votes: 3

Thousands of present day students, like many of our Founding Fathers, are being taught at home. Votes: 3

The Founding Fathers would be sorry to see that America had become so divided and factionalized. Votes: 3

My taking a seat on the Council of the Fathers caused a desperate fluttering among my ghosts. Votes: 3

Real Fathers are Role Models worthy of emulation. They choose to live exemplary lifestyles of leadership and excellence Votes: 3

Fathers are the geniuses of the house because only a person as intelligent as we could fake such stupidity. Votes: 3

Whatever the era...one thing will never change: Fathers and mothers, if you have children, they must come first. Votes: 3

In the name of the Fathers, and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost, here goes-I mean Amen. Votes: 3

As there were no black Founding Fathers, there were no founding mothers - a great pity on both counts. Votes: 3

Fathers die.You keep on loving them in any way you can.You can't hide him away in your heart. Votes: 3

This is the gay agenda: equality. Not special rights, but the rights that are already written by [our Founding Fathers]. Votes: 3

Fathers, sons, brothers, men everywhere: Your legacy will not perish if you take your partner's surname, or she keeps hers. Votes: 3

Many men have children, but not many children have 'Fathers'. Age releases to you reproductive skills. Fatherhood requires LEADERSHIP skills Votes: 3

Our Founding Fathers would be proud of all that America has achieved, and will continue to achieve, in the coming years. Votes: 3

If we expect to inherit the blessings of our Fathers, we should return a little more to their primitive Simplicity of Manners. Votes: 3

The Founding Fathers set up a system that heavily relied upon self-reliance and competition, with only a small dose of government intrusion. Votes: 3

The Bible and its teachings helped form the basis for the Founding Fathers' abiding belief in the inalienable rights of the individual... Votes: 3

Our Founding Fathers drafted the Bill of Rights to ensure that We the People could determine how best to protect our communities. Votes: 3

The Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to bare the secrets of government and inform the people. Votes: 3

If our Founding Fathers wanted us to care about the rest of the world, they wouldn't have declared their independence from it. Votes: 3

...[O]ur Founding Fathers enshrined a constitutional separation of powers for the ages undeluded by the fantasy that angels would win elections. Votes: 3

Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to. Votes: 3

You gave me your curse, holy Fathers. I give you a blessing: May you be as moral and religious as I am. Votes: 3

Mothers tend to be more direct. Fathers talk to other fathers about their kids more metaphorically. It's a different way of communication. Votes: 3

We should not be surprised that the Founding Fathers didn't foresee everything, when we see that the current Fathers hardly ever foresee anything. Votes: 3

In the summer of 1776 our Founding Fathers sought to secure our independence and the liberties that remain the foundation of our nation today. Votes: 3

Fathers like to have children good-natured, well-behaved, and comfortable, but how to put them in that desirable condition is out of their philosophy. Votes: 3

Our Founding Fathers created the Executive Branch to implement and enforce the laws written by Congress, and vested this power in the president. Votes: 3

The Founding Fathers believed that faith in God was the key to our being a good people and America's becoming a great nation. Votes: 3

It is a pity that instead of the Pilgrim Fathers landing on Plymouth Rock, Plymouth Rock had not landed on the Pilgrim Fathers. Votes: 3

Fathers and mothers," she found herself saying, "leave their mark, no matter if we've known them a lifetime or only a day. Votes: 3

Real Fathers make a positive impact on their generation, and so give the next generation the advantage of a better nation to live in Votes: 3

One thing is clear: The Founding Fathers never intended a nation where citizens would pay nearly half of everything they earn to the government. Votes: 3

Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world. Votes: 3

I believe that only through a truly educated citizenry can the ideals that inspired the Founding Fathers of our nation be preserved and perpetuated. Votes: 3

Fathers, your are the head and strength of the family unit. If you are not in place, there is a weakness in the link. Votes: 3

Fathers are men who give daughters away to other men who aren't nearly good enough...so they can have grandchildren who are smarter than anybody's. Votes: 3

A clear rule for self-control handed down by the Fathers is this: stop eating while still hungry and do not continue until you are satisfied. Votes: 3

Fathers have skills that they never use at home. You run a landscaping business and you can't dress and feed a four-year-old? Take it on! Votes: 3

The Founding Fathers of America never intended to stop people expressing their faith in the public square. But unfortunately that is the way it is happened. Votes: 3

Of all the things I have been privileged to do and experience in life, the highest honor has been fatherhood. Wishing Fathers everywhere a wonderful day. Votes: 3

Those who enjoy the blessings of liberty under a divinely inspired constitution should promote morality, and they should practice what the Founding Fathers called civic virtue. Votes: 3

Fathers need to be tough and tender...you be tough for your family, be tender with your family. You protect them, and you be a safe place. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Government is necessary for our survival. We need government in order to survive. The Founding Fathers created a special place for government. It is called the Constitution. Votes: 3

Fathers be good to your daughters, daughters will love like you do. Girls become lovers, who turn into mothers, so mothers be good to your daughters, too. Votes: 3

The word "freewill" (as also "self-determining power" [autexousiou] used by the Greek Fathers) does not occur in Scripture ... I Cor 7:37 does not mean freedom of the will. Votes: 3

Fathers be good to your daughters. Daughters will love like you do. Girls become lovers who turn into mothers. So, mothers be good to your daughters too. Votes: 3

My friends and I were all deathly afraid of our fathers, which was right and proper and even biblically ordained. Fathers were angry; it was their job. Votes: 3

Fathers be good to your daughters. Daughters will love like you do. Girls become lovers who turn in mothers. So, mothers be good to your daughters too. Votes: 3

A judicial activist is a judge who interprets the Constitution to mean what it would have said if he, instead of the Founding Fathers, had written it. Votes: 3

To the Pilgrim Mothers, who not only had their full share of the hardships and privations of pioneer life but also had the Pilgrim Fathers to endure. Votes: 3

Congress is functioning the way the Founding Fathers intended-not very well. They understood that if you move too quickly, our democracy will be less responsible to the majority. Votes: 3

When I was growing up in the 50s it wasn't quite the same. Fathers were more protective and now they see all of the possibilities for their daughters. Votes: 3

Congress is functioning the way the Founding Fathers intended-not very well. They understood that if you move too quickly, our democracy will be less responsible to the majority Votes: 3

If you read our Founding Fathers, people like Benjamin Franklin and Jefferson - what we're doing now in this country is making them roll over in their graves. Votes: 3

I see happiness as a by-product. I don't think you can pursue happiness. I think that phrase is one of the very few mistakes the Founding Fathers made Votes: 3

I see happiness as a by-product. I don't think you can pursue happiness. I think that phrase is one of the very few mistakes the Founding Fathers made. Votes: 3

Fathers and husbands! do ye not also understand this fact? Do ye not see how, in the mental bondage of your wives and fair companions, ye yourselves are bound? Votes: 3

If we are negative by nature, we Americans are more human than most. The Founding Fathers loved going negative. Heck, the Declaration of Independence is one long negative ad. Votes: 3

The Founding Fathers worried that 'some common impulse of passion' might lead many to subvert the rights of the few. It's a rational fear, one that is played out endlessly. Votes: 3

The Founding Fathers worried that some common impulse of passion might lead many to subvert the rights of the few. Its a rational fear, one that is played out endlessly. Votes: 3

Some of the Fathers went so far as to esteem the love of music a sign of predestination, as a thing divine, and reserved for the felicities of heaven itself. Votes: 3

Yeah. You've seen The Sun today; I've got myself a big house, settled down. Apart from the odd night out with the New Fathers' Club, I'm a family man now. Votes: 3

My arm was extended upward pleading for peace and the Union of our Fathers. When my hand came down, it fell slowly and sadly by the side of a Secessionist. Votes: 3

Maintaining checks and balances on the power of the Judiciary Branch and the other two branches is vital to keep the form of government set up by our Founding Fathers. Votes: 3

Hey, our Founding Fathers wore long hair and powdered wigs - I don't see anybody trying to look like them today, either... But we do look to them as role models. Votes: 3

I accept with sincere belief the doctrine of faith as handed down to us from the Apostles by the orthodox Fathers, always in the same sense and with the same interpretation. Votes: 3

If we are to continue to have the freedoms that came of the inspiration of the Almighty to our Founding Fathers, we must return to the God who is their true Author. Votes: 3

You can look forward with hope, because one day there will be no more separation, no more scars, and no more suffering in My Fathers House. It's the home of your dreams! Votes: 3

My first soldier role was in 'Flags of Our Fathers.' Casting director Jay Binder saw that movie and was looking for soldiers for 'Journey's End,' which led to 'Generation Kill.' Votes: 3

The land of my fathers. My fathers can have it. Votes: 2

Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan. Votes: 2

Interactions between fathers and children are the starting point of education. Votes: 2

In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons. Votes: 2

Let us keep the dance of rain our fathers kept and tread our dreams beneath the jungle sky. Votes: 2

There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson. Votes: 2

Babies don't need fathers, but mothers do. Someone who is taking care of a baby needs to be taken care of. Votes: 2

Let us form one body, one heart, and defend to the last warrior our country, our homes, our liberty, and the graves of our fathers. Votes: 2

I want to congratulate all the men out there who are working diligently to be good fathers whether they are stepfathers, or biological fathers or just spiritual fathers. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Four score 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. Votes: 2

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! Votes: 2

Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine. Votes: 2

Mothers play an important role as the heart of the home, but this in no way lessens the equally important role fathers should play, as head of the home, in nurturing, training, and loving their children. Votes: 2

Since God had commanded it, it was necessary that I do it. Since God commanded it, even if I had a hundred fathers and mothers, even if I had been a King's daughter, I would have gone nevertheless. Votes: 2

To all those mothers and fathers who are struggling with teen-agers, I say, just be patient: even though it looks like you can't do anything right for a number of years, parents become popular again when kids reach 20. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism. Votes: 2

There is something inexpressibly sad in the thought of the children who crossed the ocean with the Pilgrims and the fathers of Jamestown, New Amsterdam, and Boston, and the infancy of those born in the first years of colonial life in this strange new world. Votes: 2

Most fathers don't see the war within the daughter, her struggles with conflicting images of the idealized and flawed father, her temptation both to retreat to Daddy's lap and protection and to push out of his embrace to that of beau and the world beyond home. Votes: 2

I hate to generalize, but in general, both men and women suffer from ageism. Men much less because men gain power as they get older. Women lose power as they get older. Men are seen as gaining experience and being distinguished. Sons look forward to replacing their fathers. Votes: 2

I believe we have become paralyzed, paralyzed by our desire to be loved. Now our founding fathers had the wisdom to know that social acceptance and popularity were fleeing, and that this country's principles needed to be rooted in strengths greater than the passions and the emotions of the times. Votes: 2

Even though the money is great and the fame is great, you still have a lot of disenfranchised young men that are participating in the NFL that are not very happy. A lot of them are very bitter. A lot them are very angry. So many of them have had no fathers and no home life, and basically, no education. Votes: 2

Let me tell you that the children from their very birth are born to evil. Satan seems to have control of them. He seems to take possession of their young minds, and they are corrupted. Why do fathers and mothers act as though a lethargy was upon them? They do not mistrust that Satan is sowing evil seed in their families. Votes: 2

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. Votes: 1

The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf Votes: 1

I'm just tryna stay alive and take care of my people And they don't have no award for that Trophies, trophies Votes: 1

Whatever I did would be something they'd already done. I mean, my Dad would welcome it if I got a nose ring Votes: 1

To be a successful father there's one absolute rule when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years Votes: 1

Success has many fathers. Votes: 0

Good fathers make good sons Votes: 0

Noble fathers have noble children. Votes: 0

Our fathers never leave us. Ever. Votes: 0

Who doesn't desire his fathers death? Votes: 0

Victory has 1,000 fathers; defeat has 1,000 kibitzers. Votes: 0

Success has many fathers; failures have none. Votes: 0

See! This our fathers did for us. Votes: 0

Success has many fathers, failure many sons. Votes: 0

Without fathers you would have no civilization. Votes: 0

Same-sex marriage will lead to "fathers marrying sons." Votes: 0

Don't fear the terrorists. They're mothers and fathers. Votes: 0

Posterity pays for the sins of their fathers. Votes: 0

Rich men's sons are seldom rich men's fathers. Votes: 0

We are all children until our fathers die. Votes: 0

As the fathers live, so the children play. Votes: 0

All you single fathers got to man up. Votes: 0

Shout out to the fathers that didn't raise us Votes: 0

Win for yourself that which your fathers have won. Votes: 0

No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly. Votes: 0

Mothers are a biological necessity; fathers are a social invention Votes: 0

These gentlemen are the moral equivalents of America's founding fathers. Votes: 0

Loving fathers give their children a sense of their history. Votes: 0

Our founding fathers never intended that Congress be a career. Votes: 0

Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan. Votes: 0

So much of 'Fight Club' was a rant against fathers. Votes: 0

Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers. Votes: 0

Thank God for the iron in the blood of our fathers Votes: 0

I encourage all Americans to express admiration and appreciation to fathers. Votes: 0

Reaper of enemies; strong of grip; One kind with his fathers. Votes: 0

Fatherhood makes you cute. Women find bumbling fathers cute and attractive. Votes: 0

Tobacco and alcohol, delicious fathers of abiding friendships and fertile reveries. Votes: 0

Sometimes we wait too long for the forgiveness of our fathers. Votes: 0

The gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children. Votes: 0

Baseball is sunshine, green grass, fathers and sons, our rural past. Votes: 0

You know, fathers just have a way of putting everything together. Votes: 0

Our fathers were demons,' Catarina said. 'Our mothers were heroes. Votes: 0

Life doesn't come with an instruction book; that's why we have fathers. Votes: 0

Perpetuity is stamped upon the Constitution by the blood of our fathers. Votes: 0

I think the founding fathers believed religion shouldn't interact directly with government. Votes: 0

A great many political speeches are literary parricides; they kill their fathers. Votes: 0

Children will imitate their fathers in their vices, seldom in their repentance. Votes: 0

Mothers and fathers do really crazy things with the best of intentions. Votes: 0

As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan. Votes: 0

I have students whose fathers are voting for Sarah Palin. It's wild. Votes: 0

I'm not saying that men make better fathers than women do mothers, Votes: 0

Good fathers not only tell us how to live, they show us. Votes: 0

Father of fathers, make me one, A fit example for a son. Votes: 0

Few sons are like their fathers - many are worse, few better. Votes: 0

Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith and go forward. Votes: 0

Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing. Votes: 0

Natural law. Sons are put on this earth to trouble their fathers. Votes: 0

Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers. Votes: 0

In Kabul, hot running water had been like fathers, a rare commodity. Votes: 0

Cling to thy native land, for it is the land of thy fathers? Votes: 0

If our founding fathers were alive today, they'd roll over in their graves. Votes: 0

Good mothers and good fathers and good families don't always have great children. Votes: 0

Today, Arizona's sons and daughters, mothers and fathers are proudly serving their country. Votes: 0

You can't convince me that the founding fathers wouldn't allow you to secede. Votes: 0

Commonly men will only be brave as their fathers were brave, or timid. Votes: 0

Men in general desire the good and not merely what their fathers had. Votes: 0

Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad. Votes: 0

We never get over our fathers, and we're not required to. (Irish Proverb) Votes: 0

The world is not given by our fathers, but borrowed from our children. Votes: 0

As our fathers said, you can tell a ripe corn by its look. Votes: 0

Though mothers and fathers give us life, it is money alone which preserves it. Votes: 0

Greater Germany - the dream of our fathers and grandfathers - is finally created. Votes: 0

People are supossed to aspire to become their fathers, not shudder at the thought. Votes: 0

Children can find other children to be pals. Children need fathers to be fathers. Votes: 0

I had to escape the destruction of my fathers bankruptcy and all that difficulty. Votes: 0

It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons. Votes: 0

Europe as a whole is increasingly jesttisoning the old path of the Christian fathers. Votes: 0

Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later... Votes: 0

A father knows his child's heart, as only a child can know his fathers. Votes: 0

Mothers hold close, fathers let go. Maybe that’s the way of the world. Votes: 0

Sexism is not the fault of women - kill your fathers, not your mothers Votes: 0

Most pro bodybuilders have bad relationships with their fathers. We want to prove something. Votes: 0

Yes here's to the founding fathers—slave-owners, British citizens who didn't want to pay taxes... Votes: 0

Only the Lord knows how many children lose heart because their fathers have hard days. Votes: 0

Baseball is fathers and sons. Football is brothers beating each other up in the backyard. Votes: 0

Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers. Votes: 0

I had a wonderful father, and I couldn't bear that television virtually ignored black fathers. Votes: 0

Many fathers go their entire lives without announcing how sexy their son's old girlfriends are. Votes: 0

Most fathers and... Mothers. Only your grandmother and Ghengis Khan know how to do it. Votes: 0

Our fathers and ourselves sowed dragon's teeth. Our children know and suffer the armed men. Votes: 0

The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were the general principles of Christianity Votes: 0

People resemble still more the time in which they live, than they resemble their fathers. Votes: 0

I will move gently down the stream of life until I sleep with my fathers. Votes: 0

If I could choose from all the fathers in the world, Dad, I'd choose you! Votes: 0

To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship. Votes: 0

I ask for a lot of advice from different fathers - all kinds of dads. Votes: 0

I met my fathers in prison, they too a part of a scene; digging death. Votes: 0

Few sons are equal to their fathers; most fall short, all too few surpass them. Votes: 0

Men are more like the time they live in than they are like their fathers. Votes: 0

If I do something for my kids, I get a medal, because most fathers don't. Votes: 0

They (the poets) are to us in a manner the fathers and authors of the wisdom. Votes: 0

Land where my fathers died, Land of the pilgrims' pride, From every mountainside Let freedom ring! Votes: 0

With sons and fathers, there's an inexplicable connection and imprint that your father leaves on you. Votes: 0

Our fathers valued change for the sake of its results; we value it in the act. Votes: 0

A magistrate is not a father; he must be just and severe. Only tyrants are fathers. Votes: 0

That which thy fathers have bequeathed to thee, earn it anew if thou wouldst possess it. Votes: 0

But the world hinges on good fathers and those who would be the merchants of confidence. Votes: 0

The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible. Votes: 0

Coercion by government, the main fear of our founding fathers, is now its most common attribute. Votes: 0

Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire. Votes: 0

My father loves his country and is ready to lead it. In my fathers gut: integrity. Votes: 0

In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons. Votes: 0

Almost all the fathers of socialism were members of the upper middle class or of the professions. Votes: 0

The curse of fatherhood is distance, and the good fathers spend their lives trying to overcome it. Votes: 0

When husbands and fathers leave, their wives and daughters tend to value themselves less as a result. Votes: 0

Our mothers and fathers want change. They worked all of their lives, but today live in destitution. Votes: 0

Our age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories and criticism. Votes: 0

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. Votes: 0

All women who kill or have sexual obsessions or who are prostitutes have trouble with their fathers. Votes: 0

Anyone who reads my work will see that there are often difficult relationships between fathers and sons. Votes: 0

Fierce invectives against women form a conspicuous and grotesque portion of the writings of the Church fathers. Votes: 0

[One] principle that actuated the lives of the fathers who founded our Constitution was faith in God. Votes: 0

My fathers peripatetic career also gave me critical perspective when it came to my own career choices. Votes: 0

What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all. Votes: 0

Our fathers gave us many laws which they had learned from their fathers. These laws were good. Votes: 0

All children need their fathers, but boys especially need fathers to teach them how to be men. Votes: 0

One of the fathers saith . . . that old men go to death, and death comes to young men. Votes: 0

If fathers were to be mothers, then there will never have a family of more than three. Votes: 0

The moral code which was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for our children. Votes: 0

Employee fathers need to step up to the plate and put their family needs on the table. Votes: 0

It's time for fathers to war for their kids more than the culture wars for your kids. Votes: 0

The fathers, if they got me alone, would try to kiss and fondle me. I hated it. Votes: 0

Its hard for me to grasp that I might somehow be my fathers equal in any way. Votes: 0

Many very strong fathers have turned out ineffectual sons by not allowing them to grow as men. Votes: 0

Loving fathers give their children guidance on how to deal with all the hard things in life. Votes: 0

Football is multigenerational. It used to be about fathers taking their sons. Now we're taking our daughters, too. Votes: 0

The most powerful teaching a child will ever receive will come from concerned and righteous fathers and mothers. Votes: 0

I felt like I had two fathers. I had my real father and the father in my head. Votes: 0

The founding fathers never once rationalized getting in power and having control so they could stay in power. Votes: 0

Loyalty of the law-making power to the executive power was one of the dangers the political fathers foretold. Votes: 0

All the warnings the founding fathers gave us about government proved to be true. We should have listened. Votes: 0

Loving fathers give their children boundaries so they won't get hurt and can live with peace and purpose. Votes: 0

The United States is the only advanced economy with no paid parental leave for either mothers or fathers. Votes: 0

Throughout American history our presidents have invoked our nation's founding fathers. This is particularly true of recent presidents. Votes: 0

Sensible fathers and mothers, when their children marry, go back to the old days and renew their youth. Votes: 0

More than 72 percent of children in the African-American community are born out of wedlock. That means absent fathers. Votes: 0

You know how it is with fathers, you never escape the idea that maybe after all they're right. Votes: 0

Our fathers were Englishmen which came over this great ocean, and were ready to perish in this wilderness. Votes: 0

We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so. Votes: 0

The kind uncles and aunts of the race are more esteemed than its true spiritual fathers and mothers. Votes: 0

Ev'n them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipp'd stocks and stones. Votes: 0

As fathers, we know what a force for life children can be. They represent all of our futures. Votes: 0

Our first relationship with a male is with our fathers. It affects how we relate to men forever. Votes: 0

Orphans are the only ones who get to choose their fathers, and they love them twice as much. Votes: 0

Man will return to his origins. Goethe has finally become as squiggly as the city of his fathers. Votes: 0

I want to check the record books and see how many fathers and daughters have won Grammys together. Votes: 0

I hope the film will help mothers and fathers to be aware that 15 is a very vulnerable age. Votes: 0

What you have inherited from your fathers, earn over again for yourselves, or it will not be yours. Votes: 0

The one phrase you can use is that success has a thousand fathers, and failure is an orphan. Votes: 0

Our minorities alone are in a position to know what the fathers of our democracy were talking about. Votes: 0

When fathers are tongue tied religiously with their offspring, need they wonder if their children's hearts remain sin tied? Votes: 0

One encounters very capable fathers abashed by their piano-playing daughters. Three measures of Schumann make them red with embarrassment. Votes: 0

For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers. Votes: 0

I started writing serious books so late because I knew Id be accused of riding on my fathers coattails. Votes: 0

No people ever lived by cursing their fathers, however great a curse their fathers might have been to them. Votes: 0

Women have always been the primary victims of war. Women lose their husbands, their fathers, their sons in combat. Votes: 0

There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing. Votes: 0

Christ was Begotten by an immortal Father in the same way that mortal men are begotten by mortal fathers. Votes: 0

The message was that .. fathers can go ahead and have children, but they don't have to raise the children. Votes: 0

I hope the fathers and mothers of little girls will look at them and say 'yes, women can.' Votes: 0

If we can just get young people to do the same as their fathers did, that is, wear condoms Votes: 0

We need our Dads right now, we need strong fathers. I really want fathers to get close to their children. Votes: 0

I put the Scriptures above all the sayings of the fathers, angels, men and devils. Here I take my stand. Votes: 0

Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong. Votes: 0

It's a fathers job to spoil his daughters shamelessly, it's their husbands job to tame them. Prince Zehava-The Dragon Prince Votes: 0

How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son's offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance! Votes: 0

You were born to lead as mothers and fathers, because nowhere is righteous leadership more crucial than in the family. Votes: 0

We come into the world through a man and a woman. But life blessings us with many fathers and mothers. Votes: 0

The notion of a world government to defend our rights would have sent the founding fathers running for their muskets. Votes: 0

Sons or fathers, poor men or rich men, sacred or secular: all are homosexual in their worship of everything phallic. Votes: 0

All we have of freedom All we use or know This our fathers bought for us Long and long ago Votes: 0

It's the way our founding fathers would have wanted it, if they had founded corporations instead of just a country. Votes: 0

Relationships are interesting to me. Not just between men and women, but fathers and sons, brothers and sisters and friends. Votes: 0

The truth is that all great men have had great mothers. Great women have had, as a rule, great fathers. Votes: 0

All fathers are liars If you want to be a father, you have to be prepared to become a liar. Votes: 0

Negro leaders sought to negotiate with the city fathers. But the political leaders consistently refused to engage in good-faith negotiation. Votes: 0

A poet may be a good companion, but, so far as I know, he is ever the worst of fathers. Votes: 0

OK, I admit it. I was just a front-man for the real fathers of Linux, the Tooth Fairy and Santa Claus. Votes: 0

I no longer want to see others as humans. I want to learn to see others as brothers, sisters, mothers, & fathers. Votes: 0

I feel about lending a book the way most fathers feel about their daughters living with a man out of wedlock. Votes: 0

I have always said that a studious perusal of the sacred volume will make better citizens, better fathers, and better husbands. Votes: 0

Breast cancer is not just a woman's issue - it affects all of us: the brothers, husbands, fathers, children and friends. Votes: 0

Men err when they think they can be inhuman exploiters in their business life, and loving husbands and fathers at home. Votes: 0

The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them. Votes: 0

The lore of our fathers is a fabric of sentences. A pale gray lore, black with fact and white with convention. Votes: 0

And, to help society at large to understand that in the equation of life, fathers are of equal importance as mothers. Votes: 0

A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers. Votes: 0

In the formative days of the Republic, the directing influence the Bible exercised upon the fathers of the Nation is conspicuously evident... Votes: 0

There's an old saying that victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan.... I'm the responsible officer of the Government. Votes: 0

I'm a Progressive. Much in the same way our founding fathers - who, oddly enough, wouldn't get elected today - were Progressives. Votes: 0

Violence never settles anything should be debated by the ghosts of Hitler and Stalin, with the city fathers of Carthage as referees. Votes: 0

Thank God for the founding fathers, who set up three separate branches of government. And the media acting as the Fourth Estate. Votes: 0

I use the phrase 'sibling society' to suggest a culture fundamentally without fathers, mothers, grandfathers, grandmothers, or ancestors. The thinking is horizontal. Votes: 0

May those principles, which were so honorably and nobly defended, namely, the Constitution of our land, by our fathers, be established forever. Votes: 0

Attractive Etonians who go straight onto the Stock Exchange missing University on their fathers advice: the raw material of the great bores. Votes: 0

Follow in the footsteps of your fathers' virtue! How could you hope to climb high unless your fathers' will climbs with you? Votes: 0

Family the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children. Votes: 0

The founding fathers were not only brilliant, they were system builders and systematic thinkers. They came up with comprehensive plans and visions. Votes: 0

Family . . . the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children. Votes: 0

I ask you...to adopt the principles proclaimed by yourselves, by your revolutionary fathers, and by the old bell in Independence Hall.... Votes: 0

And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods? Votes: 0

Breast Feeding should not be attempted by fathers with hairy chests, since they can make the baby sneeze and give it wind. Votes: 0

When I see daughters with their fathers I wonder what that would be like, although not in a way that immobilises me. Votes: 0

It is the lesbian in us who is creative, for the dutiful daughter of the fathers in us is only a hack. Votes: 0

And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods? Votes: 0

A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children. Votes: 0

She said that her father's death had been the hardest thing in her life. "We are all children until our fathers die. Votes: 0

Most mothers and fathers will shop more for a TV set than they will for a child care center for their child. Votes: 0

In truth, the care and expense of our fathers aims only at furnishing our heads with knowledge; of judgement and virtue, little news. Votes: 0

The declaration which says that God visits the sins of the fathers upon the children is contrary to every principle of moral justice. Votes: 0

Franklin may . . . be considered one of the founding fathers of American democracy, since no democratic government can last long without conciliation and compromise. Votes: 0

If the devil take a less hateful shape to us than to our fathers, he is as busy with us as with them. Votes: 0

In medieval Europe, childbirth was a leading cause of death. So widowed fathers with children were quite common, meaning stepmothers were equally common. Votes: 0

What is called matriarchy is simply moral anarchy, in which the mother alone remains fixed because all the fathers are fugitive and irresponsible. Votes: 0

Our fathers had their dreams; we have ours; the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist. Votes: 0

I say to all fathers - be as good as you can be- because your sons and daughters will follow in your footsteps. Votes: 0

Men are all right for friends, but as soon as you marry them they turn into cranky old fathers, even the wild ones. Votes: 0

At the bottom, all wars are the same because they involve death and maiming and wounding, and grieving mothers, fathers, sons and daughters. Votes: 0

I cannot shift the blame for Chechnya, for the sorrow of numerous mothers and fathers. I made the decision, therefore I am responsible. Votes: 0

No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly; and this self-deceit is yet stronger with respect to the offspring of the mind. Votes: 0

And try to stay out of trouble with the ladies. Remember, they all have fathers and brothers and some of them have armies. Votes: 0

I wish all the mothers, fathers and children out there realize how much I need them and how much I value their support. Votes: 0

No one is so foolish as to prefer to peace, war, in which, instead of sons burying their fathers, fathers bury their sons. Votes: 0

I think, on the whole that scientists make slightly better husbands and fathers than most of us, and I admire them for it. Votes: 0

I have never seen such extreme partisanship, such bitter partisanship, and such forgetfulness of the fate of our fathers and of the Constitution. Votes: 0

What the world really needs is courageous parenting from mothers and fathers who are not afraid to speak up and take a stand. Votes: 0

All of our holy fathers knew this and all with one accord teach that perfection in holiness can be achieved only through humility. Votes: 0

Children need love and discipline. They need mothers and fathers. A welfare check is not a husband. The state is not a father. Votes: 0

Our fathers worshiped the golden calf. The worst you can say of an American now is, he worships the gold of the calf. Votes: 0

There is something special about unions of husband and wife. Unless we bring men and women together, children will not have mothers and fathers. Votes: 0

My fathers a clergyman, and he was in the mission field for a certain amount of time in British Honduras, which is now Belize. Votes: 0

If more husbands and fathers would put as much energy into their marriages and families as they do their jobs, the world would change. Votes: 0

Most fathers don't threaten to disembowel their daughter's boyfriends." "That's not true. And anyway, that's not what I actually said. It was much worse. Votes: 0

As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone. Votes: 0

I have neither permitted, nor shall I permit, the things which have been settled by the holy fathers to be violated by any innovation. Votes: 0

The Lord is a Father, the most tender and best of fathers. He cannot fail to be moved when His children appeal to Him. Votes: 0

I urge the husbands and fathers of this church to be the kind of a man your wife would not want to be without. Votes: 0

All men come to resemble their fathers. That isn't a tragedy. But you need a hell of a sense of humor to handle it. Votes: 0

A band should be more famous than an individual, because all else being equal, the band has more mothers and fathers to lend support. Votes: 0

I love exploring the relationship between fathers and daughters. I think that's a special thing, especially with daughters who are dealing with being adults. Votes: 0

Children today laugh at fathers who tell them about dragons. It is necessary to make fear a required subject; otherwise children will never learn it. Votes: 0

The sentimentality of baseball is very deeply rooted in the American baseball fan. It is the one sport that is transmitted from fathers to sons. Votes: 0

It was dangerous to hit the wrong kid in my neighborhood, because a lot of the guys I played with had fathers in the Mafia. Votes: 0

Our founding fathers could not have foreseen that freedom of the press might eventually be threatened just as much by media consolidation as by government. Votes: 0

It may be hard on some fathers not to have a son, but it is much harder on a boy not to have a father. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The Bible tells us that the sins of the fathers are passed to succeeding generations. The virtues of the fathers can be passed along, too. Votes: 0

Our fathers waged a bloody conflict with England, because they were taxed without being represented. This is just what unmarried women of property are now. Votes: 0

But let the good old corn adorn The hills our fathers trod; Still let us, for his golden corn, Send up our thanks to God! Votes: 0

And fathers are a blessing, too, they give the place a tone; In fact each child should try and have some parents of its own. Votes: 0

Middle-class mothers and fathers turned out to be a very well-defined consumer group, easily gulled into buying almost anything that might remedy their parental deficiencies. Votes: 0

After all, no one is stupid enough to prefer war to peace; in peace sons bury their fathers and in war fathers bury their sons. Votes: 0

There aren't many fathers around here...If someone is old enough to father a child, he should be old enough to help bring it up. Votes: 0

Mothers, of course, are all right. They pay a chap's bills and don't bother him. But fathers bother a chap and never pay his bills. Votes: 0

I feel awful for women who are trying to raise kids on their own, with zero income and no fathers present - that's single motherhood. Votes: 0

Being a godly father requires much perseverance and prayer as we seek God's guidance in being the types of fathers He wants us to be. Votes: 0

Let's get up off our knees, stop cringing before bogeymen and virtual fathers, face reality, and help science to do something constructive about human suffering. Votes: 0

Times change, people change, thought and feeling take new shapes, put on fresh garments, sons bow their heads unwillingly to that which enraptured their fathers. Votes: 0

A child identifies his parents with God, whether or not the adults want that role. Most children 'see' God the way they perceive their earthly fathers. Votes: 0

I think people of my generation became journalists - you know, right after the broadcast pioneer fathers - because we wanted to report the big stories. Votes: 0

Often, city fathers blamed prostitutes for the disease, and some threatened to brand their cheeks with hot iron if they did not desist from their vices. Votes: 0

They were handsome, proper and normal family fathers who built the concentration camps and whipped the prisoners to death. And who was Nietzsche? A narcotized syphilitic." Votes: 0

If homes are going to survive, it will be because husbands and fathers again place their families at the highest level on their system of priorities. Votes: 0

As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run of sons, as seldom a misfortune to be childless. Votes: 0

As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run of sons, as seldom a misfortune to be childless. Votes: 0

Often, city fathers blamed prostitutes for the disease, and some threatened to brand their cheeks with hot iron if they did not desist from their vices. Votes: 0

Thomas Jefferson declared, stating that he was speaking on behalf of the other founding fathers, ...(that) we should build a wall between the church and state. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The fundamental human truth underpinning 'Ox Mountain Death Song' is that men so very often turn into their fathers. The way that everything gets passed down. Votes: 0

I always have had, and always shall have, a profound regard for Christianity, the religion of my fathers, and for its rights, its usages and observances. Votes: 0

I started off as many fathers do. I enjoyed the good bits, but I was wary of the responsibility. But now I love being a dad. Votes: 0

We need to insist on fathers and mothers sharing the care of their offspring as well as the opportunity to enjoy the fulfillment of individual rights. Votes: 0

Men! whose boast it is that ye Come of fathers brave and free, If there breathe on earth a slave, Are ye truly free and brave? Votes: 0

I think it must somewhere be written that the virtues of mothers shall be visited on their children, as well as the sins of their fathers. Votes: 0

When Israel, of the Lord belov'd, Out of the land of bondage came, Her fathers' God before her mov'd, An awful guide in smoke and flame. Votes: 0

I'll have your fathers make something special," Holly said serenely. "If it turns out we don't like him, I'll cook the next meal for him. Votes: 0

I was plunged into what was known as the debutante social whirl. This was one of the ways fathers justified their own hard work and sacrifices. Votes: 0

You know how screwed up censorship is, two girls just agreed to make out naked in front of their fathers, and we went wait, don't curse. Votes: 0

I don't usually get to play fathers or grandfathers or uncles. Now that I'm older, maybe I can play people closer to myself. I'd like that. Votes: 0

If fathers who fear fathering and run away from it could only see how little fathering is enough. Mostly, the father just needs to be there. Votes: 0

The task is simple. We will organize children and teach them in a perfect way the things their fathers and mothers are doing in an imperfect way. Votes: 0

To all fathers and mothers of the Church, tell your children that you love them and that you are so happy to have them in your family. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Because religion has such a compelling hold on the deep psyches of so many people, feminists cannot afford to leave it in the hands of the fathers. Votes: 0

The fathers who contrived and passed the Consititution were wise in their generation; as time passes, we come more and more to realize their powers of divination. Votes: 0

Children don't need beating. They need love and encouragement. They need fathers to whom they can look with respect rather than fear. Above all, they need example. Votes: 0

Real Texans believe in looking out for each other. We believe in honoring our mothers and fathers and keeping our smallest residents - our children - healthy. Votes: 0

We must speed up the time table for fathers, brothers and sons to provide their mothers, daughters and sisters with the same opportunities that they give themselves. Votes: 0

My voice as a filmmaker is always about boys searching for their fathers. And not only boys, but all children looking for those figures in their lives. Votes: 0

My answer to the racial problem in America is to not deal with it at all. The founding fathers dealt with it when they made the Constitution. Votes: 0

Explain to the mothers and fathers of American servicemen that may come home in body bags why their son or daughter have to give up their life? Votes: 0

[W]e pity our fathers for dying before steam and galvanism, sulphuric ether and ocean telegraphs, photograph and spectrograph arrived, as cheated out of their human estate. Votes: 0

Death is not a journey into an unknown land; it is a voyage home. We are going, not to a strange country, but to our fathers house. Votes: 0

He was not like Greek fathers. He didn't tell us to get married. My father thought it was very important that we travel, learn languages, be educated. Votes: 0

I am a child of the House of Commons. I was brought up in my fathers house to believe in democracy. Trust the peoplethat was his message. Votes: 0

Baseball is continuous, like nothing else among American things, an endless game of repeated summers, joining the long generations of all the fathers and all the sons. Votes: 0

I'd like to form a club just for fathers. Specifically, fathers of daughters. There would be lots of overstuffed leather chairs, wood paneling, dim lights. The works. Votes: 0

I was a shy, awkward sort of a boy and my fathers frequent absences from home, along with my hero worship for him, made me even shyer. Votes: 0

I completely appreciate the importance of fathers but millions of children are without loving homes. I think a child is lucky with one parent who truly loves her. Votes: 0

Come on fathers, don't hesitate, send them off before it's too late. Be the first one on the block to have your boy come home in a box. Votes: 0

The reservedness and distance that fathers keep, often deprive their sons of that refuge which would be of more advantage to them than an hundred rebukes or chidings. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

We can not overestimate the fervent love of liberty, the intelligent courage, and the sum of common sense with which our fathers made the great experiment of self-government. Votes: 0

Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives; - that is, if men do not neglect the duties of husbands and fathers. Votes: 0

Absolutely father knows best, always do what your fathers say, and if you can't find one then just ask me, I am a father and I know best. Votes: 0

It's true that necessity is the mother of invention. But for those of us without fathers, there is a deeper truth - necessity is the mother of self-invention. Votes: 0

Partly because his life ended before the age of 50, Hamilton was defined by the other founding fathers, and he managed, with amazing consistency, to alienate most of them. Votes: 0

It's too late. Seventeen-year-olds don't need fathers. Oh god. I'm thirty-four years old and I need a father. I can't even begin to think what my daughter needs. Votes: 0

Uncles and aunts, and cousins, are all very well, and fathers and mothers are not to be despised; but a grandmother, at holiday time, is worth them all. Votes: 0

Croesus said to Cambyses; That peace was better than war; because in peace the sons did bury their fathers, but in wars the fathers did bury their sons. Votes: 0

Our wish is that...[there be] maintained that state of property, equal or unequal, which results to every man from his own industry or that of his fathers. Votes: 0

WHAT WE NEED IN AMERICA TODAY IS A VIGOROUS RETURN TO THE GOD OF OUR FATHERS AND A MOST VIGOROUS DEFENSE AGAINST THE MINION OF GODLESSNESS AND ATHEISM. Votes: 0

Happy he who far from business, like the primitive are of mortals, cultivates with his own oxen the fields of his fathers, free from all anxieties of gain. Votes: 0

I know we play a part in the story of progressive music, but for us those influences are the real fathers, the ones that we were interested in. Votes: 0

What will we and our daughters suffer if these degraded black men are allowed to have the rights that would make them even worse than our Saxon fathers? Votes: 0

Time is hastening on, and we What our fathers are shall be,-- Shadow-shapes of memory! Joined to that vast multitude Where the great are but the good. Votes: 0

If fathers aren't growing up, I would challenge them to want to be a father that is present in the home, so that their kids have that identity. Votes: 0

There is always so much talk about the sins of the fathers but it is the sins of the mothers that are the most difficult to avoid repeating. Votes: 0

Jews who long have drifted from the faith of their fathers... are stirred in their inmost parts when the old, familiar Passover sounds chance to fall upon their ears. Votes: 0

The thing about fathers is that they are human. But, they stay bent on being heroes to their children, readily willing to give themselves up to effect improbable rescues. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

My country, 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrim's pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring. Votes: 0

Do you think that your fathers are watching? That they weigh you in their ledgerbook? Against what? There is no book and your fathers are dead in the ground. Votes: 0

Man is a venerating animal. He venerates as easily as he purges himself. When they take away from him the gods of his fathers, he looks for others abroad. Votes: 0

Work alone isn't enough for me and mine; we know how to break our backs, but the great dream Of my fathers was to be good at doing nothing. Votes: 0

When in many societies, fathers are usually known by their sons, I am one of the few fathers who is known by his daughter, and I'm proud of it. Votes: 0

When the sins of our fathers visit us We do not have to play host. We can banish them with forgiveness As God, in his His Largeness and Laws. Votes: 0

It's one of the most fundamental desires of man, of being free and flying unhindered, and it really seems to go a lot with our founding fathers' principles of freedom. Votes: 0

In our fathers' time nothing was read but books of feigned chivalry, wherein a man by reading should be led to none other end, but only to manslaughter and bawdry. Votes: 0

The modern minds in each generation are the critics who preserve us from a petrifying world, who will not leave us to walk undisturbed in the ways of our fathers. Votes: 0

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? Votes: 0

Working mothers do an hour more per day than working fathers do and working mothers do on average an hour more per day with the kids than working fathers do. Votes: 0

I want to do something to help those who lost their parents, who lost their mothers and their fathers. Those are our people. Those are our children. Those are our parents. Votes: 0

No marriage or family, no ward or stake is likely to reach its full potential until husbands and wives, mothers and fathers, men and women work together in unity of purpose. Votes: 0

Few fathers care much for their sons, or at least, most of them care more for their money. Of those who really love their sons, few know how to do it. Votes: 0

The European Union Treaty... within a few years will lead to the creation of what the founding fathers of modern Europe dreamed of after the war, the United States of Europe. Votes: 0

If fathers are sometimes sulky at the appearance of the destined son-in-law, is it not a fact that mothers become sentimental and, as it were, love their own loves over again. Votes: 0

The important thing to recognize is that it takes a team, and the team ought to get credit for the wins and the losses. Successes have many fathers, failures have none. Votes: 0

Who is a good man? He who keeps the decrees of the fathers, and both human and divine laws. [Lat., Vir bonus est quis? Qui consulta patrum, qui leges juraque servat.] Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Jesus came to save souls in his fathers name with love and only love that is why he turned up as a man, so why can't we see his real message? Votes: 0

I've played a lot of fathers in my life, and it seems that my kids are getting older and older in films, and I'm always surprised at how good they are. Votes: 0

The fan mail I get from kids are asking me questions which they do not ask their mothers and fathers. Because if they had, why write to me, a perfect stranger? Votes: 0

I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom. Votes: 0

Gone are the days when girls used to cook like their mothers and boys used to dress like their fathers. Now girls drink like their fathers and boys dress like their mothers. Votes: 0

...it is said with such terrible justice that the sins of the fathers are avenged down to the tenth generation. But this applies only to profanation of the blood and the race. Votes: 0

It's never too late to make the right decision in your life. I want fathers to go grab their sons, tell them you love them and be more involved in their lives. Votes: 0

For the freedoms our founding fathers not only dreamed about, but made into reality. It is that same pursuit of freedom today that is helping to make our world a safer place. Votes: 0

I believe in my Mormon faith, and I endeavor to live by it. My faith is the faith of my fathers - I will be true to them and to my beliefs. Votes: 0

I was a good surfer because we grew up a block from the water, and my father took us to the ocean the way other fathers take their kids to the park. Votes: 0

We`re all going to have to learn to live together and develop a greater tolerance and get rid off whatever our fathers gave us in the way of hatred between nations. Votes: 0

Being a role model is the most powerful form of educating...too often fathers neglect it because they get so caught up in making a living they forget to make a life. Votes: 0

Did we risk our lives to defend a just society, where guilt must be proven and not assumed? Or are we no better than the oppressive kings from whom our fathers fled? Votes: 0

[On her UNICEF work:] I'm glad I've got a name, because I'm using it for what it's worth. ... I do not want to see mothers and fathers digging graves for their children. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I grew up without a father, and my mother grew up without a father and her mother grew up without a father. So we have this long heritage of growing up without fathers. Votes: 0

I saw the dudes who would be the gangsta, big-time guys on the block, but would also be dedicated fathers. It was kind of weird to see that dual story that everybody has. Votes: 0

Since my life as a prisoner has begun I have heard the teachings of the white man's religion, and in many respects believe it to be better than the religion of my fathers Votes: 0

Just give me my rights. All I want is the same rights that my fathers died for If I don't deserve no rights, then who does deserve rights? I didn't break no law. Votes: 0

Boys want to grow up to be like their male role models. And boys who grow up in homes with absent fathers search the hardest to figure out what it means to be male. Votes: 0

Be as proud of your race today as our as our fathers were in days of yore. We have beautiful history, and we shall create another in the future that will astonish the world. Votes: 0

Writing stories has given me the power to change things I could not change as a child. I can make boys into doctors. I can make fathers stop drinking. I can make mothers stay. Votes: 0

The fathers greatest folly is that he believes he can be a much more simple person than he is; he is not really able to deal with his own complexity as a human being. Votes: 0

I mean, teenage girls and their fathers don't have a lot in common, but when you add something like comedy into the mix, it just opens up all sorts of doors for them to bond. Votes: 0

This is our home and this is our country. Beneath its soil lie bones of our fathers; for it some of them fought, bled, and died. Here we were born and here we will stay. Votes: 0