Fathers Quotes

But it is obvious that our fathers, whose efforts have planted these great and prosperous cities along the once lonely trails of our own broad land, received all the fundamentals of civilization as a heritage from their European ancestors.
James H. Breasted

Great, Lonely, Once

We have a tremendous lack of knowledge of how far we have gotten away from the Constitution of the United States. Democrats and Republicans alike have taken us away from the original intent. You see, I believe in this document as our founding fathers intended it.
Paul Broun

Knowledge, Away, Far

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

Age, Hope, Help

Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.
Jack Bruce

Dad, Musicians, Fantastic

Will you permit the sacred fire of liberty, brought by your fathers from the venerable temples of Britain, to be quenched and trodden out on the simple altars they have raised?
Joseph Howe

Simple, Fire, Liberty

We were not fathers also to convey the promise, as Abraham was; nor although the promise, as collectively taken, had belonged to us, as to Abraham it did.
Thomas Goodwin

Promise, Nor, Taken

Past conference topics have included strengthening the role of fathers in children's lives, the impact of the media culture on children, the delicate balance between work and family, and family involvement in education.
Tipper Gore

Education, Work, Family

I have seen him set fire to his wigwam and smooth over the graves of his fathers... clap his hand in silence over his mouth, and take the last look over his fair hunting ground, and turn his face in sadness to the setting sun.
George Catlin

Sadness, Fire, Silence

It is a pity that instead of the Pilgrim Fathers landing on Plymouth Rock, Plymouth Rock had not landed on the Pilgrim Fathers.
Chauncey Depew

Rock, Pity, Instead

Therefore we examine with considerable diligence the consensus of the true, learned, and purer antiquity, and we love and praise the testimonies of the fathers which agree with the Scripture.
Martin Chemnitz

Love, True, Learned

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.
Edith Hamilton

Minds, Leave, Walk

Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire.
Edna O'Brien

Emotional, Mothers, Either

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.
Roger Ascham

Time, End, Nothing

Many very strong fathers have turned out ineffectual sons by not allowing them to grow as men.
John Noble

Men, Strong, Grow

Our fathers valued change for the sake of its results; we value it in the act.
Alice Meynell

Change, Act, Value

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

Dreams, Cannot, Generation

So the news that divorced fathers are to be denied a legal right to a relationship with their children, in the long overdue review of family law published this week, fills me with horror and despair.
Louis de Bernieres

Family, Legal, Children

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

Men, History, Everything

I would never, ever desert my child. A lot of my friends didn't have fathers growing up, and they were very upset that their fathers weren't around. I was lucky to have mine around.
Dwight Howard

Friends, Around, Child

Our mothers and fathers want change. They worked all of their lives, but today live in destitution.
Viktor Yushchenko

Change, Today, Live

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.
Peter Lewis Allen

Often, Hot, City

Rich men's sons are seldom rich men's fathers.
Herbert Kaufman

Men, Rich, Seldom

Good mothers and good fathers and good families don't always have great children.
Cissy Houston

Good, Great, Children

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.
James Meredith

Made, America, Problem

Let us keep the dance of rain our fathers kept and tread our dreams beneath the jungle sky.
Arna Bontemps

Dreams, Rain, Dance

Even now, after whatever gains feminism has made in involving fathers in the rearing of their children, I still think virtually all of us spend the most formative years of our lives very much in the presence of women.
Reynolds Price

Women, Children, Made

Reaper of enemies; strong of grip; One kind with his fathers.
Taliesin

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