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Letter "F" » fathers
«No one would be foolish enough to choose war over peace--in peace sons bury their fathers, but in war fathers bury their sons.»
«The thing to remember about fathers is, they're men. A girl has to keep it in mind: They are dragon-seekers, bent on improbable rescues. Scratch any father, you find someone chock-full of qualms and romantic terrors, believing change is a threat -- like your first shoes with heels on, like your first bicycle I it took such months to get.»
«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.»
«The people to whom your fathers told of the living God, and taught to call 'Father,' and whom the sons now seek to despoil and destroy, are crying aloud to Him in their time of trouble; and He will keep His promise, and will listen to the voices of His Hawaiian children lamenting for their homes.»
Author: Queen Liliuokalani of Hawaii
| About:
Conquest,
Pleas
| Keywords:
aloud, crying, despoil, fathers, Fathers and Sons, Father Time, sons, voices
«Then out spake brave Horatius, / The Captain of the Gate: / `To every man upon this earth / Death cometh soon or late. / And how can man die better / Than facing fearful odds, / For the ashes of his fathers, / And the temples of his Gods?'»
«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.»
«Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our fathers have done them or our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a larger part than what we suspect of what we think.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
(Judge, Jurist)
| Keywords:
fathers, Good Neighbors, larger, neighbors, suspect
«The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge.»
«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»
«Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.»
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