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“What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret of the father.”

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Book:The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs

Source: The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs

“It's a father's duty to give his sons a fine chance.”

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Book:Middlemarch

Source: Middlemarch

“I'm so proud of you that it makes me proud of me. I hope you know that.”

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Author:John Green

“The truth now.He was disappointed in human beings.He had seen too many betrayals,too many pitiful weaknesses,too much greed for money and fame.The falseness between lovers,husbands and wifes,fathers,sons,mothers,daughters”

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Author:Mario Puzo

“Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.”

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Author:Louisa May Alcott

“Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.”

“There is nothing that moves a loving father's soul quite like his child's cry.”

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Book:A Quiet Place in a Crazy World: Drawing Near to God Through Prayer and Praise

Source: A Quiet Place in a Crazy World: Drawing Near to God Through Prayer and Praise

“That was when the world wasn't so big and I could see everywhere. It was when my father was a hero and not a human.”

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Book:I Am the Messenger

Source: I Am the Messenger

“Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later... that the man before him was not an aging father but a boy, a boy much like himself, a boy who grew up and had a child of his own and, as best he could, out of a sense of duty and, perhaps love, adopted a role called Being a Father so that his child would have something mythical and infinitely important: a Protector, who would keep a lid on all the chaotic and catastrophic possibilities of life. ~Tom Wolfe”

“Deciding whether or not to trust a person is like deciding whether or not to climb a tree, because you might get a wonderful view from the highest branch, or you might simply get covered in sap, and for this reason many people choose to spend their time alone and indoors, where it is harder to get a splinter.”

“It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.”

“No love is greater than that of a father for His son.”

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Book:Angels & Demons

Source: Angels & Demons

“[My father] loved me tenderly and shyly from a distance, and later on took a naive pride in seeing my name in print.”

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Book:Arrow in the blue: an autobiography

Source: Arrow in the blue: an autobiography

“Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition, but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.”

“The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart.”

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Book:The works of mencius

Source: The works of mencius

“A good father is one of the most unsung, unpraised, unnoticed, and yet one of the most valuable assets in our society.”

“By the time a man realizes that his father was right, he has a son who thinks he's wrong.”

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Author:Charles Wadsworth

“No one is so foolish as to prefer to peace, war, in which, instead of sons burying their fathers, fathers bury their sons.”

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Author:Croesus

“Any man can be a father. It takes someone special to be a dad.”

“There are three stages of man: he believes in Santa Claus; he does not believe in Santa Claus; he is Santa Claus.”

“All fathers are invisible in daytime; daytime is ruled by mothers and fathers come out at night. Darkness brings home fathers, with their real, unspeakable power. There is more to fathers than meets the eye.”

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Author:Margaret Atwood

“Fathers, like mothers, are not born. Men grow into fathers and fathering is a very important stage in their development.”

“I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work 15 and 16 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.”

“There's something like a line of gold thread running through a man's words when he talks to his daughter, and gradually over the years it gets to be long enough for you to pick up in your hands and weave into a cloth that feels like love itself.”

Source: Decorations in a Ruined Cemetery

“Many a man wishes he were strong enough to tear a telephone book in half - especially if he has a teenage daughter.”

“Worship is about something we do. It involves sacrifice. But at the heart of the gospel is this truth, we are called and chosen by God to join in with the dance of the trinity, Father, Son and Holy Spirit.”

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Author:Tim Hughes

“As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run of sons, as seldom a misfortune to be childless.”

Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters

“There should be a children's song: 'If you're happy and you know it, keep it to yourself and let your dad sleep'.”

“I found out that I'm a pretty bad father. I make a lot of mistakes and I don't know what I'm doing. But my kids love me. Go figure.”

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Author:Louis C. K.

“I want my son to wear a helmet 24 hours a day. If it was socially acceptable I'd be the first one to have my kid in a full helmet and like a cage across his face mask.”

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Author:Will Arnett

“Having a kid is like falling in love for the first time when you're 12, but every day.”

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Author:Mike Myers

“The older I get, the smarter my father seems to get.”

“If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.”

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Author:Antonio Gramsci

“When I was a kid, I said to my father one afternoon, 'Daddy, will you take me to the zoo?' He answered, 'If the zoo wants you, let them come and get you.”

“That is the thankless position of the father in the family-the provider for all, and the enemy of all.”

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Book:The Son of a Servant

Source: The Son of a Servant

“He's [Harry S. Truman] just your dad, and you love him. It's only when you grow up, and step back from him, or leave him for your own career and your own home - it's only then that you can measure his greatness and fully appreciate it. Pride reinforces love. My father was a great man.”

“For thousands of years, father and son have stretched wistful hands across the canyon of time, each eager to help the other to his side, but neither quite able to desert the loyalties of his contemporaries. The relationship is always changing and hence always fragile; nothing endures except the sense of difference.”

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Author:Alan Valentine

“There will always be a few people who have the courage to love what is untamed inside us. One of those men is my father.”

“To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship.”

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Book:Speeches, Lectures, and Letters

Source: Speeches, Lectures, and Letters

“It is much easier to become a father than to be one.”

“The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them.”

“There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence.”

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Book:Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a Journey Into North Wales

Source: Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a Journey Into North Wales

“You don't raise heroes, you raise sons. And if you treat them like sons, they'll turn out to be heroes, even if it's just in your own eyes.”

“Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name.”

Source: The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England, Now First Published with His Works ...

“To sit patiently with a yearning that has not yet been fulfilled, and to trust that, that fulfillment will come, is quite possibly one of the most powerful "magic skills" that human beings are capable of. It has been noted by almost every ancient wisdom tradition”

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Author:Elizabeth Gilbert

“Henry James once defined life as that predicament which precedes death, and certainly nobody owes you a debt of honor or gratitude for getting him into that predicament. But a child does owe his father a debt, if Dad, having gotten him into this peck of trouble, takes off his coat and buckles down to the job of showing his son how best to crash through it.”

“To her, the name of father was another name for love.”

“Anyone who tells you fatherhood is the greatest thing that can happen to you, they are understating it.”

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Author:Mike Myers

“No music is so pleasant to my ears as that word-father.”

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Author:Lydia M. Child

“A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be.”

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Author:Frank A. Clark