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• In the formative days of the Republic, the directing influence the Bible exercised upon the fathers of the Nation is conspicuously evident.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Republic, Influence, Nations

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1935, Volume 4”, p.419, Best Books on

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• I shall need, too, the favor of that Being in whose hands we are, who led our fathers, as Israel of old, from their native land and planted them in a country flowing with all the necessaries of comforts of life.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Israel, Hands

  Thomas Jefferson (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private : Published by the Order of the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library, from the Original Manuscripts, Deposited in the Department of State”, p.45

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• The problems of rebellious youth can be traced to homes where the mother disobeyed the father or showed lack of respect for his authority.

  Helen Andelin

  Mother, Home, Youth

  Helen Andelin (2013). “Fascinating Womanhood: The Updated Edition of the Classic Bestseller That Shows You How to Strengthen our Marriage and Enrich Your Life”, p.125, Bantam

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• When I was nine years old, living on the south side of Chicago, my father was a minister and my mother used to scrub floors. I had seven brothers and four sisters. I told my mama, 'One of these days I'm going to be big and strong and buy you a beautiful house.' That's all I've ever wanted to do with my life, is to take care of my mother.

  Mr. T

  Beautiful, Mother, Strong

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• My father wasn't perfect. He had a temper. I took some of that. He would snap, but the older he got, he started calming down. He learned about life, but the thing that he taught my whole family was that family was the most important thing and, no matter what, if a family member needs you, you go and help them out; you get there.

  Adam Sandler

  Perfect, What If, Important

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Win for yourself that which your fathers have won.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Winning

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• The kind uncles and aunts of the race are more esteemed than its true spiritual fathers and mothers.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Mother, Spiritual, Uncles

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.194, Penguin

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• What thing, in honor, had my father lost,
  That need to be revived and breathed in me?

  William Shakespeare

  Children, Honor, Needs

  William Shakespeare, Barry Cornwall (1857). “King John. King Richard II. King Henry IV, part 1. King Henry IV, part 2. Henry V. King Henry VI, part 1. King Henry VI, part 2. King Henry VI, part 3. King Richard III. King Henry VIII. Titus Andronicus. Pericles. Glossary”, p.164

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• Poor Desdemona! I am glad thy father's dead.
  Thy match was mortal to him, and pure grief
  Shore his old thread in twain.

  William Shakespeare

  Grief, Poor, Desdemona

  Shane Barnes, Aidan Coleman, William Shakespeare (2011). “Othello”, p.193, Insight Publications

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• My father, Charles Seeger, got me into the Communist movement. He backed out around '38. I drifted out in the 50's.

  Pete Seeger

  Movement, Communist

  "The Old Left". New York Times Magazine Interview (Section 6, p. 13), www.nytimes.com. January 22, 1995.

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• Some summers my father would take us down to visit our grandmother in Louisville, who was an ex-slave, Susan Jones, and she had a shotgun shack they call it, and no electricity, a well in the back, a coal stove, kerosene lamps.

  Quincy Jones

  Summer, Grandmother, Lamps

  "Grammy Legend Award". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. October 28, 2000.

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• My father... never required me to study anything, but he knew how to inspire in me a great desire for knowledge. Before learning to read, my greatest pleasure was to listen to passages from Buffon's natural history. I constantly requested him to read me the history of animals and birds.

  Andre-Marie Ampere

  Animal, Bird, Inspire

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• When I was four or five, my father had a general store in Winchester and I don't think the farmers could ever leave on Saturday afternoon until I had been placed up on the counter to sing.

  Dinah Shore

  Thinking, Afternoon, Four

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• Jesus Christ accomplished everything that God the Father started at the creation, and that includes total health.

  Rod Parsley

  Jesus, Christ, Creation

  Rod Parsley (2003). “At the Cross: Where Healing Begins”, Creation House

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• False gods - the gods of human understanding - despise sinners, but the Father of Jesus loves all, no matter what they do. But of course this is almost too incredible for us to accept.

  Brennan Manning

  Jesus, Understanding, Matter

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• Our Father in heaven, Reveal who you are. Set the world right; Do what's best - As above, so below. Keep us alive with three square meals. Keep us forgiven with you and forgiving others. Keep us safe from ourselves and the Devil. You're in charge!

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Squares, Heaven, Forgiving

  Eugene H. Peterson, Jim Lyster, John Sharon, Peter Santucci (1997). “Subversive Spirituality”, p.263, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• The people who know God well - the mystics, the hermits, those who risk everything to find God - always meet a lover, not a dictator. God is never found to be an abusive father or a tyrannical mother, but always a lover who is more than we dared hope for. How different than the "account manager" that most people seem to worship. God is a lover who receives and forgives everything.

  Richard Rohr

  Mother, People, Risk

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• Later in life, the memories I have of my mother are of constant work balanced with caring for my ailing father.

  Gloria Estefan

  Mother, Memories, Caring

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• I've been a long-distance father.

  Phil Collins

  Distance, Long Distance, Long

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• It is a fascinating fact that father and son have given the most striking evidence for the apparently contradictory properties of the electron: the father proving its character as a particle, the son its character as a wave... Thomson was extremely proud of his son's success and tried to assimilate the new results into his old convictions.

  Max Born

  Character, Son, Proud

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• I grew up without a father, and my mother grew up without a father and her mother grew up without a father. So we have this long heritage of growing up without fathers.

  Gloria Gaynor

  Mother, Growing Up, Long

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• Everything comes from one thing, everything comes from the Spirit. Jazz would not exist had it not been for gospel music, the blues would not exist had it not been for spiritual blues, which goes back to slave songs our fore fathers were singing while they were out in the field. So it's all one continuous growth from one group of people. Of course jazz now is played by various cultures and colors around the world. But the stimulus is One Voice.

  Ramsey Lewis

  Spiritual, Song, Color

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• My father was a classical musician and my mother was a writer.

  John Sebastian

  Mother, Musician, Classical Music

  Interview with Gary James, www.theharbinger.org. October 7, 1997.

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• My father was invited to play on a television show when I was 17 or 18, that was an early equivalent of educational television. Sunday afternoon kind of variety art show.

  John Sebastian

  Art, Educational, Sunday

  Interview with Gary James, www.theharbinger.org. October 7, 1997.

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• My father had played cornet, although I never saw him play it. I found his mouthpiece when I was a kid. I used to buzz it. And my mother played piano and sang in the church choir for different functions. So there was always music in the house, jazz, gospel, or whatever. Especially jazz records.

  Johnny Griffin

  Mother, Kids, Church Choir

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