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“I learned a lot in those first years in Miami, while struggling just for survival, by observing my father's fortitude.”

Years Firsts Father Struggle Survival Observing Fortitude Miami

Book:A Book

Source: A Book

“My father so appropriately put it that we are certainly the only animal that makes conscious choices that are bad for our survival as a species.”

Choices Father Animal Survival Conscious Species

Author:Louise Leakey

“It is evident from their writings that the Founding Fathers would never have tolerated the separation that we have embraced today. They knew that religious principles provided morality and self-control - the lifeblood for the survival of any self-governing community.”

Writing Self Today Christian Father Community Religious Principles Morality Survival Separation Self Control Evident Founding Governing

Author:David Barton

“Government is necessary for our survival. We need government in order to survive. The Founding Fathers created a special place for government. It is called the Constitution.”

Needs Government Order Father Special Survival Constitution Founding Special Places

Author:Michael Badnarik

“I was the fifth child in a family of six, five boys and one girl. Bless that poor girl. We were very poor; it was the 30s. We survived off of the food and the little work that my father could get working on the roads or whatever the WPA provided. We were always in line to get food. The survival of our family really depended on the survival of the other black families in that community. We had that village aspect about us, that African sense about us. We always shared what we had with each other. We were able to make it because there was really a total family, a village.”

Children Girl Father Black Community Poor Boys Survival Our Family Bless Black Family

Author:Cecil Williams

“Our Father who art in nature, who has given the gift of survival to the coyote, the common brown rat, the English sparrow, the house fly and the moth, must have a great and overwhelming love for no-goods and blots-on-the-town and bums, and Mack and the boys. Virtues and graces and laziness and zest. Our Father who art in nature.”

Art Father House Given Common Boys Virtue Grace Survival Towns Brown Goods Overwhelming Laziness Rats Our Father Moths Sparrows Zest Coyotes Mack

Book:Novels, 1942-1952

Source: Novels, 1942-1952

“And now a chill settled over them where they stood, and Harry heard the rasping breath of the dementors that patrolled the outer trees. They would not affect him now. The fact of his own survival burned inside him, a talisman against them, as though his father's stag kept guardian in his heart.”

Heart Facts Father Heard Tree Survival Breaths Mentor Burned Chill Guardian Talismans Stags Dementors

Author:J. K. Rowling

“There is no institution more vital to our Nation's survival than the American family. Here the seeds of personal character are planted, the roots of public virtue first nourished. Through love and instruction, discipline, guidance and example, we learn from our mothers and fathers the values that will shape our private lives and our public citizenship.”

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Ronald Reagan, 1981

“The only perfect love to be found on earth is not sexual love, which is riddled with hostility and insecurity, but the wordless commitment of families, which takes as its model mother-love. This is not to say that fathers have no place, for father-love, with its driving for self-improvement and discipline, is also essential to survival, but that uncorrected father-love, father-love as it were practiced by both parents, is a way to annihilation.”

Source: The Madwoman's Underclothes: Essays and Occasional Writings

“Women, I learned, adapted. At first..they seemed so fragile, so dependent on fathers and husbands and brothers and lovers. Gradually, though, I noticed how supple their lives were beneath the surface. Then I realized it was this flexibility that enabled them to survive...that sooner or later, by choice or by chance, most women faced the task of adapting to a future on their own. When at my most optimistic, I thought of it as independence; in darker moods, as survival. Either way women had to do it.”

“My father was a lorry driver, very rarely at home. The house was run by my mother, and because there were 10 or so kids, there was no time for individual attention. It was about survival. It was about where the next meal was coming from.”

Home Running Kids Mother Next Father House Individual Attention Survival Meals Drivers Lorry

Author:Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje