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“If not for sports, I do not think my father would have ever talked to me.”

“My mother was a Bible student, and when I was a youngster, both my mother and father would say, 'If people would only live by the Golden Rule, there wouldn't be the problems that there are.' In other words, 'treat people the way you want to be treated.' If somebody mistreats you, two wrongs won't make a right.”

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Author:Monte Irvin

“Tradition is only democracy extended through time; it may be defined as an extension of the franchise. Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who are merely walking about. All democrats object to men being disqualified by accident of birth; tradition objects to their being disqualified by accident of death. Democracy tells us not to neglect a good man's opinion, even if he is our father.”

“My father was furious with me, absolutely furious. I'm sure he wouldn't have been so mad if I'd have volunteered to join the army. Anything but this. He couldn't believe it. I agree with him: It wasn't a viable career opportunity.”

Ifs Believe Has Beens Father Opportunity Careers Army Agree Mad Furious Joining The Army Career Opportunities

Author:Mick Jagger

“Trouble comes looking for you. Lots of times I just stay in the house and enjoy my family. I try to be a father to my child, I'll stay out of trouble if I can, because I have lots to do. Other folks have different hardships. It's hard for a black man to raise a family.”

Ifs Men Trying Children I Can Different Hard Father House Enjoy Black Trouble My Family Raises Folks My Children Hardship

Author:Snoop Dogg

“If a woman makes a unilateral decision to bring pregnancy to term, and the biological father does not, and cannot, share in this decision, he should not be liable for 21 years of support. Or, put another way, autonomous women making independent decisions about their lives should not expect men to finance their choice.”

Ifs Men Should Years Doe Choices Father Term Decision Support Share Independent Finance Pregnancy Liable Autonomous Biological Fathers

Author:Karen DeCrow

“Im lucky that its about fashion and perfume and cosmetics. If my father had owned a tire company, I dont know what I would have done.”

Ifs Knows Done Father Company Fashion Lucky Perfume Tire Cosmetics

Author:Delphine Arnault

“What everybody misses here is that we are doing the same thing my father did. He licensed and litigated and protected his property, and we have to follow the same tradition, because the way the law reads, if you dont protect it, you lose it.”

Ifs Way Law Father Loses Missing Protect Tradition Property Protected

Author:Dexter Scott King

“Often, city fathers blamed prostitutes for the disease, and some threatened to brand their cheeks with hot iron if they did not desist from their vices.”

Ifs Father Cities Disease Hot Vices Brands Iron Cheeks Threatened

Author:Peter B. Lewis

“Because even if the whole world was throwing rocks at you, if you still had your mother or father at your back, you'd be okay.”

Ifs World Stills Whole Mother Father Rocks Okay Whole World Throwing Throwing Rocks

Author:Jojo Moyes

“Ron Reagan amazingly qualifies as an honest broker. I asked him if he was a mamas boy and he said no, more of a papas boy. At the same time he was willing to say that his father had many shortcomings and needed to be held accountable.”

Ifs Said Father Boys Honest Willing Needed Mama Shortcomings Papa Brokers

Author:Eugene Jarecki

“The loving and much loved wife is satisfied with the love of her husband; his smile is her joy, she cares little for any other. So, if you have come to Christ, thy Maker is thine husband - His free love to you is all you need, and all you can care for - there is no cloud between you and God - there is no veil between you and the Father; you have access to Him who is the fountain of happiness - what have you to do any more with idols? Oh! If your heart swims in the rays of God's love, like a little mote swimming in the sunbeam, you will have no room in your heart for idols.”

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Author:Robert E. Murray

“"Well," said my aunt, "this is his boy - his son. He would be as like his father as it's possible to be, if he was not so like his mother, too."”

Ifs Wells Said Would Be Funny Mother Father Boys Son Humorous Aunt Well Said

Book:The Works of Charles Dickens

Source: The Works of Charles Dickens

“On every hand there seems to be design to defeat design. If God created man - if he is the father of us all, why did he make the criminals, the insane, the deformed and idiotic? Should the mother, who clasps to her breast an idiot child, thank God?”

Ifs Men Should Children Hands Seems Mother Father Atheism Design Defeat Positive Atheism Criminals Insane Idiot Breasts Thank God Idiotic

Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“You cannot show real respect to your parents by perpetuating their errors.... Do you consider that the inventor of a steel plow cast a slur upon his father who scratched the ground with a wooden one? I do not consider that an invention by the son is a slander upon the father; I regard each invention simply as an improvement; and every father should be exceedingly proud of an ingenious son. If Mr. Talmage has a son, it will be impossible for him to honor his father except by differing with him.”

Source: Ingersoll the Magnificent: To which Has Been Added a Special Arrangement of Some Gems from Ingersoll for Inspiration, Wisdom, and Courage

“My father, OK, when we first got old enough to hunt, this was his rule: If you shoot it, you come home and eat it. Otherwise you do not shoot it, OK? You don't just kill something for the sake of killing it, OK? If you kill it, you gotta grill it, so to speak.”

Ifs Firsts Enough Home Father Speak Killing Sake Coming Home Hunts Killing It

Author:Si Robertson

“I often imagine what it would be like if my father were still here to mark his 100th birthday, if Alzheimer's hadn't clawed away years, possibilities, hopes. What would he think of all the commemorations and celebrations?”

Ifs Thinking Years Stills Would Be Father Imagine Possibility Mark Celebration Alzheimer Alzheimer's Commemoration

Author:Patti Davis

“My father, for his part, was not a man to begrudge anyone a divergent opinion; he'd have been fine if I had written some articles disagreeing with his policies, or even given interviews, as long as I was respectful and civil.”

Ifs Men Long Has Beens Father Given Opinion Written Policy Fine Interviews Articles Respectful Divergent

Author:Patti Davis

“If zeal had been appropriate for putting humanity right, why did God the Word clothe himself in the body, using gentleness and humility in order to bring the world back to his Father?”

Ifs World Body Humanity Order Father Humility Appropriate Gentleness Zeal

Author:Isaac of Nineveh

“I often saw weary little women coming to the table after most exhausting labors, and large, bumptious husbands spreading out their hands and thanking the Lord for the meals that the dear women had prepared, as if the whole came down like manna from heaven. So I preached a sermon in the blessing I gave. You will notice that it has three heresies in it: Heavenly Father and Mother, make us thankful for all the blessings of this life, and make us ever mindful of the patient hands that oft in weariness spread our tables and prepare our daily food. For humanity's sake, Amen.”

“A very wise father once remarked, that in the government of his children, he forbid as few things as possible; a wise legislature would do the same. It is folly to make laws on subjects beyond human prerogative, knowing that in the very nature of things they must be set aside. To make laws that man cannot and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt. It is very important in a republic, that the people should respect the laws, for if we throw them to the winds, what becomes of civil government?”

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Author:Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“If we are to say that religion cannot be concerned with politics then we are really saying that there is a substantial part of human life in which God's writ does not run. If it is not God's, then whose is it? Who is in charge if not the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.”

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Book:Hope and suffering: sermons and speeches

Source: Hope and suffering: sermons and speeches

“My son is the reason why I write music. He's the reason why everything is different for me. Because when he came into the picture, my priorities changed. I can risk possibly being incarcerated because the only person pays for it is me. I know that if I'm not physically available to take care of him, nobody else will. I want to have the relationship with him that me and my father never had.”

Ifs Knows Want Writing Persons I Can Different Reason Care Father Pay Risk Changed Son Available Take Care Priorities Reason Why My Son

Author:Curtis Jackson

“For me, I never knew what addiction was. I just knew my heroes, like [New York Dolls guitarist] Johnny Thunders, did heroin. I didn't have a father, it looked good to me. If I had read Johnny Thunders' book The Heroin Diaries, I don't think I would have done heroin.”

Ifs Thinking Book Done Father New York Hero Addiction Thunder Diaries Dolls Heroin My Hero Guitarist

Author:Nikki Sixx

“Why, just a couple of economic seasons ago, was idle cash considered an indication of bad management or lazy management? Because it meant that management didn't have this money out at work ... Now look. Presto! A new fashion! Cash is back in! Denigrating liquidity has dropped quicker than hemlines. A management is now saluted if it has some cash, some liquidity, doesn't have to go to the money market at huge interest rates to get the wherewithal to keep going and growing. Along with Ben Franklin, my father and your father would understand and applaud this new economic fashion.”

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Author:Malcolm Forbes

“The mother may be doing ninety percent of the disciplining, but the father still must have a full-time acceptance of all the children. He never must say, "Get these kids out of here; I'm trying to watch TV." If he ever does start saying this, he is liable to see one of his kids on the six o'clock news.”

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Author:Bill Cosby

“The Washington press corps thinks that Julie Nixon Eisenhower is the only member of the Nixon Administration who has any credibility--and, as one journalist put it, this is not to say that anyone believes what she is saying but simply that people believe she believes what she is sayingit is almost as if she is the only woman in America over the age of twenty who still thinks her father is exactly what she thought he was when she was six.”

People Ifs Thinking Believe Stills Age America Father Members Six Twenties Presses Administration Journalist Credibility

Book:Crazy Salad Plus Nine

Source: Crazy Salad Plus Nine

“Every thing in this world, said my father, is big with jest,--and has wit in it, and instruction too,--if we can but find it out.”

Ifs World Said Bigs Father Education Knowledge This World Wit Instruction Jest

Book:The Works of Laurence Sterne: Containing The Life and Opinions of Tristan Shandy ... [etc.] ; with a Life of the Author Written by Himself

Source: The Works of Laurence Sterne: Containing The Life and Opinions of Tristan Shandy ... [etc.] ; with a Life of the Author Written by Himself

“I went to my father's at night. He spoke of poor John [Boswell's brother] with disgust. I was shocked and said, "He's your son, and God made him." He answered very harshly, "If my sons are idiots, can I help it?”

Ifs Made Said Helping Night Father Poor Son Brother Idiot Spokes My Son Disgusting Shocked Your Son

Author:James Boswell

“It is the same for all men. None of us can escape this shadow of the father, even if that shadow fills us with fear, even if it has no name or face. To be worthy of that man, to prove something to that man, to exorcise the memory of that man from every corner of our life--however it affects us, the shadow of that man cannot be denied.”

Ifs Men Faces Father Names Memories Our Lives Prove Shadow Corners Worthy Denied

Book:Letters to My Son: A Father's Wisdom on Manhood, Life, and Love

Source: Letters to My Son: A Father's Wisdom on Manhood, Life, and Love

“We become male automatically because of the Y chromosome and the little magic peanut, but if we are to become men we need the helpof other men--we need our fathers to model for us and then to anoint us, we need our buddies to share the coming-of-age rituals with us and to let us join the team of men, and we need myths of heroes to inspire us and to show us the way.”

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Author:Frank Pittman

“Our father has an even more important function than modeling manhood for us. He is also the authority to let us relax the requirements of the masculine model: if our father accepts us, then that declares us masculine enough to join the company of men. We, in effect, have our diploma in masculinity and can go on to develop other skills.”

Ifs Men Important Enough Father Company Accepting Effects Goes On Skills Authority Models Function Relax Requirements Manhood Masculinity Masculine Modeling Our Father Diploma

Author:Frank Pittman

“Anyone who has ever been a mother or father and is at all honest knows from experience how difficult it can be for parents to accept certain aspects of their children. It is especially painful to have to admit this if we really love our child and want to respect his or her individuality yet are unable to do so.”

Ifs Knows Want Children Mother Certain Father Parent Difficult Accepting Honest Aspect Our Children Individuality Painful Love Our Children

Book:For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence

Source: For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence

“People ask me if I ever see my father and I say yes, because he puts in the effort. He calls all the time to tell us he's proud of us.”

People Ifs Asks Father Effort Proud Ask Me

Author:Jenna Bush

“If we are negative by nature, we Americans are more human than most. The Founding Fathers loved going negative. Heck, the Declaration of Independence is one long negative ad.”

Ifs Humans Long Father Negative Independence Ads Declaration Founding Declaration Of Independence

Author:Paul Begala

“What if tomorrow someone digs up definitive proof that Jesus had a real, earthly, biological father named Larry, and archeologists find Larry's tomb and do DNA samples and prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that the virgin birth was just a bit of mythologizing the Gospel writers threw in to appeal to the followers of the Mithra and Dionysian religious cults that were hugely popular at the time of Jesus, whose gods had virgin births? Could you still be a Christian? Is the way of Jesus still the best possible way to live?”

“I came out of a culture in which my uncle, my father - they were all salesmen of one kind or another. My father was a manufacturer. He also, in effect, had to sell that stuff. And if he didn't literally do it, his men did. So, selling was in the air through my boyhood. The whole idea of successfully selling was very important.”

Ifs Men Kind Important Ideas Whole Culture Father Stuff Air Effects Sells Selling Uncles Salesman Boyhood

Author:Arthur Miller

“Quite interesting, North Korea is as if it's an entirely secular dictatorship. In North Korea you might think that was the case since it has an officially Communistic ideology, but it's not, it's the most religious state it's possible to imagine. It's actually two people who have been fused into one, maybe this is reminding you of something, there's the father and there's the son. It's one short of a trinity.”

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Author:Christopher Hitchens

“Sometimes I feel very guilty, so I don't know if I am a clear example of a perfect father, because sometimes I also just punish myself, saying I'm not doing probably the right thing at this particular moment. It's a secret.”

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Author:Antonio Banderas

“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.”

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Author:KRS-One

“Fathers, sons, brothers, men everywhere: Your legacy will not perish if you take your partner's surname, or she keeps hers.”

Ifs Men Father Son Brother Partners Legacy Father Son Surnames

Author:Zoe Saldana

“If need is the mother of all inventions, then curiosity is its genetic father undoubtedly.”

Ifs Needs Mother Father Curiosity Invention

Author:Anuj

“I calculated the amount of time I spent with my father during my entire life... the total amount of time I had with him, if you add up the hours, was about two months. My father was a busy man... we had very few opportunities to really sit down and talk as father and son.”

Ifs Men Two Father Opportunity Hours Son Months Amount Down And Add Busy Two Months Father And Son Busy Man

Author:Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

“So I take my life as I find it, as a life full of grand advantages that are linked indissolubly to my noblest happiness and my everlasting safety. I believe that Infinite Love ordained it, and that, if I bow willingly, tractably, and gladly to its discipline, my Father will take care of it.”

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Author:J. G. Holland

“The dying boy said: " Father, don't you weep for me; when I get to heaven I will go straight to Jesus and tell Him that ever since I can remember you have tried to lead me to Him." I would rather have my children say that of me after I am gone; or if they die before me, I would rather they should take that message to the Master than to have a monument over me reaching to the skies.”

Ifs Should Children Said I Can Remember Dies Father Jesus Heaven Boys Gone Sky Dying Masters Messages My Children Reaching Monument Remember You Remembers You Leading Me

Author:Dwight L. Moody

“This means that if a person fulfills his or her vocation as a steelmaker, attorney, or homemaker coram Deo, then that person is acting every bit as religiously as a soul-winning evangelist who fulfills his vocation. It means that David was as religious when he obeyed God’s call to be a shepherd as he was when he was anointed with the special grace of kingship. It means that Jesus was every bit as religious when He worked in His father’s carpenter shop as He was in the Garden of Gethsemane.”

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Author:R. C. Sproul

“If we claim heritage in Bacon, Shakespeare and Milton, we also acknowledge that it was for liberties guaranteed Englishmen by sacred charters our fathers triumphantly fought. While wisely rejecting throne and caste and privilege and an Established Church in their new-born state, they adopted the substance of English liberty and the body of English law.”

Source: Oration and memorial addresses

“In two or three hundred years life on earth will be unimaginably beautiful, astounding. Man needs such a life and if it hasn't yetappeared, he should begin to anticipate it, wait for it, dream about it, prepare for it. To achieve this, he has to see and know more than did his grandfather and father.”

Ifs Knows Men Needs Should Years Two Dream Earth Beautiful Three Father Waiting Change Generations Achieve Hundred Grandfather Anticipate

Author:Anton Chekhov

“J.P. Morgan, then past 70, was asked by the son of an eminent father why he [Morgan] didn't retire. When did your father retire? asked Mr. Morgan, without looking up from his desk. In 1902. When did he die? Oh, at the end of 1904. Huh! snapped Mr. Morgan, If he had kept on working he would have been alive still. Work is God's best medicine. It is God's medicine for man.”

Ifs Men Has Beens Stills Ends Past Dies Father Work Alive Son Medicine Retiring Desks

Author:B. C. Forbes

“my mother hoped that i would die etcetera bravely of course my father used to become hoarse talking about how it was a privilege and if only he could”

Ifs Used Mother Dies Courses Father Talking Dying Bravery Privilege Etcetera

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

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