(38 quotes found)
“Be kind to thy father, for when thou were 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
“That is the thankless position of the father in the family-the provider for all, and the enemy of all.”
August Strindberg
“You know, fathers just have a way of putting everything together.”
Erika Cosby
“It is impossible to please all the world and one's father”
Jean de La Fontaine
“For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers.”
Homer
“I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.”
Sigmund Freud
“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
“It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.”
Friedrich von Schiller
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