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Think of your forefathers! Think of your posterity.
Past
John Adams

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To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.
Death and Dying
Red Auerbach

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He followed in his father's footsteps, but his gait was somewhat erratic.
Sons
Nicolas Bentley

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Be ye therefore perfect, eve as your Father who is in heaven is perfect.
Perfection
Bible

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Call no man your father upon the earth, for one is your Father, which is in heaven.
Fathers
Bible

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He that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death. [Exodus 21:17]
Parents and Parenting
Bible

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I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
Truth
Bible

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Tobacco and alcohol, delicious fathers of abiding friendships and fertile reveries.
Vice
Luis Bunuel

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No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.
Parents and Parenting
Miguel De Cervantes

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Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies.
Ostentation
Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father!
Fathers
Lydia M. Child

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Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
Losers and Losing
Galeazzo Ciano

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Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law.
Humor
Dick Clark

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The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them.
Fathers
Confucius

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You know, fathers just have a way of putting everything together.
Fathers
Erika Cosby

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My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
Parents and Parenting
Quentin Crisp

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In peace the sons bury their fathers, but in war the fathers bury their sons.
Fathers and Sons
Croesus

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At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.
America
E.E. (Edward. E.) Cummings

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What a dreadful thing it must be to have a dull father.
Fathers
Mary Mapes Dodge

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Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.
Children
English Proverb

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Noble fathers have noble children.
Fathers
Euripides

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To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.
Fathers
Euripides

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When we say a woman is of a certain social class, we really mean her husband or father is.
Class
Zoe Fairbairns

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My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.
Work
Jim Fox

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A father is a banker provided by nature.
Fathers
French Proverb

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun