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76 quotesWhen one has not had a good father, one must create one.
Fathers
Friedrich Nietzsche
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I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.
Fathers
Anais Nin
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The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father.
Fathers
Austin O'Malley
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Treat your superior as a father, your equal as a brother, and your inferior as a son.
Manners
Persian Proverb
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To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship
Imitation
Wendell Phillips
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We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.
Fathers and Sons
Alexander Pope
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If necessity is the mother of invention, discontent is the father of progress.
Discontent
David Rockerfeller
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The fundamental defect with fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them.
Fathers
Bertrand Russell
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Clever father, clever daughter; clever mother, clever son.
Ancestry
Russian Proverb
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It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.
Heart
Johann Friedrich Von Schiller
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It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.
Fathers
Anne Sexton
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It is a wise father that knows his own child.
Fathers
William Shakespeare
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Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
Parents and Parenting
Gloria Steinem
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An angry father is most cruel toward himself.
Fathers
Publilius Syrus
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What harsh judges fathers are to all young men!
Fathers
Terence
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I believe that our Heavenly Father invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey.
Evolution
Mark Twain
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My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.
Belief
Jim Valvano
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Work is often the father of pleasure.
Pleasure
Voltaire
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Youth today must be strong, unafraid, and a better taxpayer than its father.
Youth
H. V. Wade
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Obedience to our Heavenly Father starts with our loving service to a needy brother.
Service
William A. Ward
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It is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief.
Gambling
George Washington
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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
Time and Time Management
H.G. Wells
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Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.
Fathers
Oscar Wilde
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To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.
Professions and Professionals
Virginia Woolf
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The child is the father of the man.
Children
William Wordsworth
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun