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“My father required me to honor my father and my mother too much to put up games on them. I did on occasion.”

Mother Father Games Too Much Honor Occasions

Book:The World of Lincoln Steffens

Source: The World of Lincoln Steffens

“Mother love has been much maligned. An over mothered boy may go through life expecting each new woman to love him the way his mother did. Her love may make any other love seem inadequate. But an unloved boy would be even more likely to idealize love. I don't think it's possible for a mother or father to love a child too much.”

Thinking Way May Children Has Beens Seems Would Be Mother Father Family Boys Too Much Expecting Inadequate Mother Love Unloved

Author:Frank Pittman

“There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing. Everybody now-a-days is a father, there is father Mussolini and father Hitler and father Roosevelt and father Stalin and father Trotsky and father Blum and father Franco is just commencing now and there are ever so many more ready to be one. Fathers are depressing. England is the only country now that has not got one and so they are more cheerful there than anywhere. It is a long time now that they have not had any fathering and so their cheerfulness is increasing.”

Long Country Father Doubt Too Much Ready Long Time England No Doubt Depressing Cheerful Cheerfulness Franco Fathering Trotsky

Author:Gertrude Stein

“Every father knows at once too much and too little about his own son.”

Knows Littles Father Too Much Son

Book:Fern Leaves from Fanny's Port-folio: Second Series

Source: Fern Leaves from Fanny's Port-folio: Second Series

“Woman's work as a listener is never done. ... I thought I'd spent too much of my life listening for some damn man - for my father and now for my husband.”

Men Done Father Too Much Listening Husband Damn My Husband Listeners

Author:Adela Rogers St. Johns

“I have a feeling of reverence about my father being in his 80s - a feeling that I want to whisper, take soft steps, not intrude too much. He's like a stately old cathedral to me now.”

Want Feelings Father Steps Too Much Reverence 80s Cathedrals

Author:Patti Davis

“The blood of Abraham, God's father of the chosen, still flows in the veins of Arab, Jew, and Christian, and too much of it has been spilled in grasping for the inheritance of the revered patriarch in the Middle East. The spilled blood in the Holy Land still cries out to God--an anguished cry for peace.”

Has Beens Stills Christian Religion Father Too Much Blood Land Middle Cry Holy Flow Jew East Chosen Middle East Veins Inheritance Abraham Grasping Holy Land Patriarch

Book:We Can Have Peace in the Holy Land

Source: We Can Have Peace in the Holy Land

“Father sticks to it that anything that promises to pay too much can't help being risky.”

Helping Father Pay Too Much Promise Sticks

Author:Dorothy Canfield Fisher

“It's not that we have too much mother, but too little father. We can't forgive our mothers for taking the place of our fathers until we are ready to see that the point of a man's life is to be a father and a mentor, and we can't do that because we don't know how we would be a father or a mentor when we never had one.”

Knows Men Littles Would Be Life Is Mother Father Know How Too Much Ready Forgiving Mentor Our Father Can't Forgive

Author:Frank Pittman

“We perversely see mother love as the problem--when it is all we have to sustain us--rather than blaming the fathers who have run out on our mothers and on us. We seem willing to forgive fathers for loving too little even as we still shrink in terror from mothers who love too much.”

Littles Stills Problem Seems Running Mother Father Too Much Willing Blame Forgiving Terror Shrinks Mother Love

Author:Frank Pittman

“Mothers have not always had the most important role in their children's upbringing, when they had other economic roles to play. Inpast centuries, fathers were the key parent in the upbringing of the next generation, because moral training, not emotional sensitivity, was thought to be central to successful child-rearing. Mothers were thought to corrupt their little ones with too much affection and not enough stern training.”