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“We carry adolescence around in our bodies all our lives. We get through the Car Crash Age alive and cruise through our early twenties as cool dudes, wily, dashing, winsome . . . shooting baskets, the breeze, the moon, and then we try to become caring men, good husbands, great fathers, good citizens.”

“we do not explain my husband's insane abuse and we do not say why your wild-haired wife has fled or that my father opened like a walnut and then was dead. Your palms fold over me like knees. Love is the only use.”

Use Father Love Is Family Wife Husband Abuse Insane Knees My Husband Palms Folds Walnuts

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“I think it is worse to be poor in mind than in purse, to be stunted and belittled in soul, made a coward, made a liar, made mean and slavish, accustomed to fawn and prevaricate, and "manage" by base arts a husband or a father,--I think this is worse than to be kicked with hobnailed shoes.”

Thinking Mind Mean Art Made Soul Father Poor Husband Shoes Manage Liars Coward Accustomed Purses Fawns

Book:The Duties of Women: A Course of Lectures

Source: The Duties of Women: A Course of Lectures

“... it was not very unusual at Washington for a lady to take the arm of a gentleman, who was neither her husband, her father, norher brother. This remarkable relaxation of American decorum has been probably introduced by the foreign legations.”

Has Beens Father Brother Arms Morality Husband Gentleman Remarkable Unusual Relaxation Decorum

Author:Frances Trollope

“The single most important contribution that I can offer, the strengthening of people's spirit and soul, the strengthening of families, the unity of a husband and a wife. To me, that's most important. Without that, we have nothing. If a son doesn't respect a father, if a child doesn't respect a parent, then we're lost.”

People Ifs Children I Can Important Soul Spirit Father Lost Parent Wife Son Offers Husband Unity Contribution Strengthening Spirit And Soul Important Contributions

Author:KRS-One

“He hasn't shown me anything but how he carries himself as a professional man, husband, father and athlete. Tom Brady is a pro's pro. I love the man and everything he's accomplished.”

Men Father He Man Husband Athlete Accomplished Carrie Toms Brady

Author:Randy Moss

“Providing for one's family as a good husband and father is a water-tight excuse for making money hand over fist.”

Hands Father Water Husband Excuse Making Money Providing Fists Good Husband Husband And Father

Author:Eva Figes

“Contrary to all we hear about women and their empty-nest problem, it may be fathers more often than mothers who are pained by thechildren's imminent or actual departure--fathers who want to hold back the clock, to keep the children in the home for just a little longer. Repeatedly women compare their own relief to their husband's distress”

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Book:Women of a certain age: the midlife search for self

Source: Women of a certain age: the midlife search for self

“To exist as an advertisement of her husband's income, or her father's generosity, has become a second nature to many a woman who must have undergone, one would say, some long and subtle process of degradation before she sunk [sic] so low, or grovelled so serenely.”

Long Father Process Wealth Fashion Husband Lows Income Generosity Subtle Degradation Advertisements

Author:Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

“This is the essence of Kingdom Authority. Fathers can have no authority in the home until they have surrendered to the headship of Jesus. Mothers cannot pray with authority for their children when they have no submissive spirit to their own husbands. Pastors cannot lead, teach, or preach with anointing and supernatural power without being fully broken and surrendered to the lordship of Christ, the authority of the Word, and the commands of the Spirit.”

Source: The Incredible Power of Kingdom Authority: Getting an Upper Hand on the Underworld

“Harrison Ford is a great actor and he's and lovely man and a great father and all of these things, I got to just meet him as a person and someone I respect as an actor.I'd never seen any 'Indiana Jones' movies or 'Star Wars' movies. My husband made me watch the Indiana Jones trilogy, I just was like fanboy Comic-Con geeked out. It was amazing I didn't show up to set with a whip and a hat.”

“I want to be remembered as a great friend, an outstanding father, an amazing husband, and a good soul who always strived to serve God and man. And during that time of service on earth, I would like people to think, "He brought joy, love, opportunity, and fulfillment to millions of people."”

People Thinking Men Want Soul Earth Joy Father Opportunity Millions Husband Remembered Fulfillment Serving God Outstanding Great Friend Good Souls

Author:Tony Robbins