Our Father Quotes - Page 3

• Nearly all literature, in one sense, is made up of guide-books. Old ones tell us the ways our fathers went, through the thoroughfares and courts of old; but how few of those former places can their posterity trace, amid avenues of modern erections; to how few is the old guide-book now a clew! Every age makes its own guide-books, and the old ones are used for waste paper.

  Herman Melville

  Father, Book, Age

  Herman Melville (1963). “Works: Redburn, his first voyage”

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• Truth is one of the realities covered in the eclectic religion of our fathers by the idea of God. Awe very properly hangs about it, since it is the immovable standard and silent witness of all our memories and assertions; and the past and the future, which in our anxious life are so differently interesting and so differently dark, are one seamless garment for the truth, shining like the sun.

  George Santayana

  Truth, Memories, Father

  George Santayana (2013). “Scepticism and Animal Faith”, p.268, Courier Corporation

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• He is our Father - the Father of our Spirits, and was once a man in mortal flesh as we are, and is now an exalted being.

  Brigham Young

  Father, Men, Flesh

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• We are pushed forward by the social forces, reluctant and stumbling, our faces over our shoulders, clutching at every relic of the past as we are forced along; still adoring whatever is behind us. We insist upon worshipping 'the God of our fathers.' Why not the God of our children? Does eternity only stretch one way?

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Change, Children, Father

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (2015). “The Home”, p.54, eKitap Projesi

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• To be as good as our fathers, we must be better. Imitation is not discipleship. When some one sent a cracked plate to China to have a set made, every piece in the new set had a crack in it.

  Wendell Phillips

  Father, Cracks, Pieces

  Wendell Phillips (1864). “Speeches, Lectures, and Letters”, p.231

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• Time is hastening on, and we
  What our fathers are shall be,--
  Shadow-shapes of memory!
  Joined to that vast multitude
  Where the great are but the good.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Time, Memories, Father

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.174

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• But let the good old corn adorn
  The hills our fathers trod;
  Still let us, for his golden corn,
  Send up our thanks to God!

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Father, Agriculture, Golden

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1857*). “Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.117

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• Our fathers were Englishmen which came over this great ocean, and were ready to perish in this wilderness.

  William Bradford

  Father, Ocean, Plymouth

  Nathaniel Morton, William Bradford, Thomas Prince, Edward Winslow (1669). “New-England's Memorial”, p.23

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• Our fathers and grandfathers who poured over the Midwest were self-reliant, rugged, God-fearing people of indomitable courage...They asked only for freedom of opportunity and equal chance. In these conceptions lies the real basis of American democracy. They and their fathers give a genius to American institutions that distinguished our people from any other in the world.

  Herbert Hoover

  Lying, Father, Real

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Every boy was supposed to come into the world equipped with a father whose prime function was to be our father and show us how tobe men. He can escape us, but we can never escape him. Present or absent, dead or alive, real or imagined, our father is the main man in our masculinity.

  Frank Pittman

  Father, Real, Boys

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• We become male automatically because of the Y chromosome and the little magic peanut, but if we are to become men we need the helpof other men--we need our fathers to model for us and then to anoint us, we need our buddies to share the coming-of-age rituals with us and to let us join the team of men, and we need myths of heroes to inspire us and to show us the way.

  Frank Pittman

  Father, Team, Hero

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• My plea therefore is this: Let us get our instruments tightly strung and our melodies sweetly sung. Let us not die with our music still in us. Let us rather use this precious mortal probation to move confidently and gloriously upward toward the eternal life which God our Father gives to those who keep his commandments.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Father, Moving, Giving

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• Count not the cost of honour to the dead!The tribute that a mighty nation paysTo those who loved her well in former daysMeans more than gratitude for glories fled;For every noble man that she hath bred,Lives in the bronze and marble that we raise,Immortalised by art's immortal praise,To lead our sons as he our fathers led.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Gratitude, Art, Father

  Henry Van Dyke (2018). “The Poems of Henry Van Dyke”, p.158, BoD – Books on Demand

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• Our fathers waged a bloody conflict with England, because they were taxed without being represented. This is just what unmarried women of property are now.

  Angelina Grimke

  Father, England, Conflict

  Sarah Grimke, Angelina Grimke (2015). “On Slavery and Abolitionism: Essays and Letters”, p.188, Penguin

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• 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.

  Frank Pittman

  Mother, Father, Men

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• Most of us have felt barriers between ourselves and our fathers and had thought that going it alone was part of what it meant to be a man. We tried to get close to our children when we became fathers, and yet the business of practicing masculinity kept getting in the way. We men have begun to talk about that.

  Frank Pittman

  Children, Father, Men

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• What we men share is the experience of having been raised by women in a culture that stopped our fathers from being close enough to teach us how to be men, in a world in which men were discouraged from talking about our masculinity and questioning its roots and its mystique, in a world that glorified masculinity and gave us impossibly unachievable myths of masculine heroics, but no domestic models to teach us how to do it.

  Frank Pittman

  Father, Men, Talking

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• We long for our father. We wear his clothes, and actually try to fill his shoes. . . . We hang on to him, begging him to teach ushow to do whatever is masculine, to throw balls or be in the woods or go see where he works. . . . We want our fathers to protect us from coming too completely under the control of our mothers. . . . We want to be seen with Dad, hanging out with men and doing men things.

  Frank Pittman

  Mother, Dad, Father

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• Our father has an even more important function than modeling manhood for us. He is also the authority to let us relax the requirements of the masculine model: if our father accepts us, then that declares us masculine enough to join the company of men. We, in effect, have our diploma in masculinity and can go on to develop other skills.

  Frank Pittman

  Father, Men, Skills

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• Todayart is moving in a direction of which our fathers would never even have dreamed.We stand before the new pictures as in a dream and we hear the apocalyptic horsemen in the air.

  Franz Marc

  Dream, Father, Moving

  1912 Subscription prospectus of the Blaue Reiter Almanac, Jan.

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• He guides us into pastures green, He leads to bowers of bliss, Our Father lives, the God unseen, and Christ our Shepherd is.

  Cecil Frances Alexander

  Father, Unseen, Shepherds

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• Our father the novelist; my husband the poet. He belongs to the ages - just don't catch him at breakfast. Artists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.

  Alan Bennett

  Husband, Father, Artist

  Alan Bennett (2009). “Alan Bennett Plays 2: Kafka's Dick; Insurance Man; Old Country; Englishman Abroad; Question of Attribution”, p.18, Faber & Faber

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• We are all so broken. Pick up a person, shake them around and you'll hear the rattling of their broken pieces. Pieces our fathers broke, or our mothers, or our friends, strangers, or our loves.

  Tarryn Fisher

  Mother, Father, Broken

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• If we are in tune with the Spirit, if we are seeking the Lord and His guidance, if our direction is to return to our Father in Heaven, the sweet moments will come. And we will treasure them, for we have become instruments in the hands of God

  Bonnie D. Parkin

  Sweet, Father, Hands

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• True testimonies bring the light of the restored gospel of Jesus Christ into our lives and focus all of us toward the same goal of returning to our Father in Heaven--yet our individual testimonies come through varied experiences and at different stages in our lives.

  Donald L. Staheli

  Jesus, Father, Light

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