Father Quotes - Page 17

• I'll tell you what you can expect from an Irishman named Wellington whose father was a bookmaker. You can expect that anything he says or writes may be repeated aloud in your own home in front of your children. You can believe he was taught to love and respect all mankind, but to fear no man.

  Wellington Mara

  Children, Believe, Home

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• The Founding Fathers knew a government can't control the economy without controlling people. And they knew when a government sets out to do that it must use force and coercion to achieve its purpose.

  Ronald Reagan

  Government, People, Purpose

  Ronald Reagan, Michael Reagan (2016). “The Last Best Hope: The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan”, p.3, Humanix Books

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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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• Thomas Jefferson understood the greater purpose of the liberty that our Founding Fathers sought during the creation of our Nation. Although it was against the British that the colonists fought for political rights, the true source of the rights of man was clearly stated in the Declaration of Independence. Jefferson wrote that all humans are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights . . . . It was self-evident to him that denying these rights was wrong and that he and others must struggle to win what was theirs.

  William J. Clinton

  Struggle, Winning, Men

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• Our salvation is not in some father or human instruments. It is sad to see people so blinded, worshiping the creature more than the Creator.

  William J. Seymour

  People, Salvation, Instruments

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• In fact, I take the view that God, in his infinite wisdom, didn't bother to spring for two joints - heaven and hell. They're the same place, but heaven is when you get everything you want and you meet Mummy and Daddy and your best friends and you all have a hug and a kiss and play your harps. Hell is the same place - no fire and brimstone - but they just all pass by and don't see you. There's nothing, no recognition. You're waving, “It's me, your father,” but you're invisible. You're on a cloud, you've got your harp, but you can't play with nobody because they don't see you. That's hell.

  Keith Richards

  Spring, Kissing, Views

  "Life". Book by Keith Richards, October 26, 2010.

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• My father was a psychiatrist and a social worker but he was a very talented painter and musician and writer on the side.

  Babatunde Adebimpe

  Musician, Sides, Social Worker

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• My father has a beautiful, beautiful voice. His father was a pastor of a church. He sang in church. My mother sang in a church choir. I can take no credit for my vocal talent, because, both my father, and mother have beautiful, beautiful voices.

  Deniece Williams

  Beautiful, Mother, Church Choir

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• It was ironic but somehow fitting that the 1905 Revolution should have been started by an organisation dreamed up by the tsarist regime itself. No-one believed more than Father Gapon in the bond between Tsar and people.

  Orlando Figes

  Should Have, People, Ironic

  Orlando Figes (1997). “A people's tragedy: a history of the Russian Revolution”, Viking Pr

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• My father had a very violent temper, and he was never home. So I was kind of a mama's boy.

  Marilyn Manson

  Home, Boys, Mama's Boy

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• Boys and girls need chances to be around their father, to be enjoyed by him and if possible to do things with him. Better to play fifteen minutes enjoyably and then say, 'Now I'm going to read my paper' than to spend all day at the zoo crossly.

  Benjamin Spock

  Girl, Zoos, Boys

  Benjamin Spock (1956). “The Pocket Book of Baby and Child Care”

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• When you can't do any housecleaning because everything that goes on is a damned secret, then we're on our way to something the Founding Fathers didn't have in mind. Secrecy and a free, democratic government don't mix.

  Harry S. Truman

  Government, Secret, Mind

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• I met my father for the first time when I was 28 years old. I made up my mind that when I had children, my children were going to know who their father was.

  Will Smith

  Children, Years, Mind

  "Fictional character: Christopher Gardner". "The Pursuit of Happyness", www.imdb.com. 2006.

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• The Bible and its teachings helped form the basis for the Founding Fathers' abiding belief in the inalienable rights of the individual.

  Ronald Reagan

  Teaching, Rights, Abiding

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan)., Ronald Reagan, United States. Office of the Federal Register (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I've been a long-distance father.

  Phil Collins

  Distance, Long Distance, Long

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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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• Jesus Christ has now done all He can do, and He waits at the right hand of the His Father, until you and I as sons of God become manifest and make this world His footstool. He is waiting for us to say, "Jesus, we have made the kingdoms of this world the Kingdom of our God, and are ruling and reigning in your world."

  Earl Paulk

  Jesus, Son, Hands

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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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• I'm the only Red in our family! You know my father, my brother, my brother-in-law, my 14-year-old niece and two of my uncles are all City season ticket holders. So I'm gonna say 5-0 to United!

  Ian Brown

  Brother, Uncles, Niece

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