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"My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn." -- Louis Adamic |
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'Honour thy father and thy mother' stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness." -- Aeschylus |
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"Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never are." -- Louisa May Alcott |
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"I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well." -- Alexander the Great |
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"If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right." -- Bill Cosby |
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"Be kind to thy father, for when thou wert young, Who loved thee so fondly as he? He caught the first accents that fell from thy tongue, And joined in thy innocent glee." -- Margaret Courtney |
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"I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work fifteen and sixteen hours a day. I saw him once literally bleed from the bottoms of his feet, a man who came here uneducated, alone, unable to speak the language, who taught me all I needed to know about faith and hard work by the simple eloquence of his example." -- Mario Cuomo |
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"A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither. If only sons could see the paradox, they would understand the dilemma." -- Marlene Dietrich |
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"Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes. " -- Euripedes |
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"My father always told me, 'Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life." -- Jim Fox |
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"The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat." -- Robert Frost |
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