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“[My father] was generous with his affection, given to great, awkward, engulfing hugs, and I can remember so clearly the smell of his hugs, all starched shirt, tobacco, Old Spice, and Cutty Sark. Sometimes I think I've never been properly hugged since.”

Thinking I Can Sometimes Remember Father Given Friendship Affection Smell Generous Shirts Awkward Hug Spices Tobacco Engulfing Old Spice

Book:Move On

Source: Move On

“A man cannot speak to his son, but as a father; to his wife, but as a husband; to his enemy, but upon terms: whereas a friend may speak, as the case requires, and not as it sorteth with the person.”

Men May Persons Father Speak Term Friendship Enemy Cases Wife Son Husband Bitterness Father Son

Book:The Essays ... Revised ... by Thomas Markby ... Second Edition

Source: The Essays ... Revised ... by Thomas Markby ... Second Edition

“My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.”

Source: Iacocca: An Autobiography

“To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.”

People Christian Father Friendship Prayer United Friends Praying Worship Christian Life Adoration

Author:Martin Luther

“We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.”

“These are the things which might conceivably and truly make men forgive their enemies. We can only turn hate to love by understanding what are the things that men have loved; nor is it necessary to ask men to hate their loves in order to love one another. Just as two grocers are most likely to be reconciled when they remember for a moment that they are two fathers, so two nationals are most likely to be reconciled when they remember (if only for a moment) that they are two patriots.”

Ifs Men Two Moments Might Remember Hate Order Turns Asks Father Understanding Friendship Enemy Forgiving Ask Me Patriot Love Hate Love One Another Grocers

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Dad needs to show an incredible amount of respect and humor and friendship toward his mate so the kids understand their parents are sexy, they're fun, they do things together, they're best friends. Kids learn by example. If I respect Mom, they're going to respect Mom.”

“I have always looked at life as a voyage, mostly wonderful, sometimes frightening. In my family and friends I have discovered treasure more valuable than gold.”

Love Sometimes Father Friendship Wonderful My Family Gold Valuable Treasure Generosity Frightening Family And Friends Voyages Old Friends

Author:Jimmy Buffett

“My mother, father, stepmother and surrogate mother have all died of cancer; my best friend has got terminal cancer and at least five of my other friends have had cancer but survived it.”

Mother Father Friendship Five Died Cancer Survived My Best Friend Terminal Surrogates Stepmothers Terminal Cancer

Author:Arabella Weir

“For the spouse of someone in the service, you are your own provider, your own lover, you own best friend while that person's gone - the mother and father if you have kids.”

Ifs Persons Kids Mother Father Friendship Gone Lovers Over You Spouse Mother And Father Providers

Author:Jessy Schram

“Johnny Mercer was my father's best friend and became mine as well. And Harold Arlen, whom I would call Uncle Harry, and Harry Warren: those were ones who I really became close to.”

Wells Father Friendship Mines Uncles

Author:Margaret Whiting

“He's by best friend and the father of my children. He's a great ex.”

Children Father Friendship My Children Exes

Author:Sarah Ferguson

“My father and he had cemented one of those English friendships which begin by avoiding intimacies and eventually eliminate speech altogether.”

Father Friendship Tears Speech Intimacy Avoiding Courtesy

Author:Jorge Luis Borges