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• Every man is the son of his own works.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Acceptance, Men, Literature

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Quixote de la Mancha (don, fict.name.) (1847). “The history of don Quixote de la Mancha. From the Span. To which is prefixed a sketch of the life and writings of the author. Select libr. ed”, p.14

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• Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.

  James Thurber

  Thank You, Children, Baby Boy

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• Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Failure, Ideas, Fatherhood

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• The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.

  Robert Frost

  Family, Mom, Fathers Day

  Robert Frost, Elaine Barry (1973). “Robert Frost on writing”, Rutgers Univ Pr

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• Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.

  Aldous Huxley

  Fathers Day, Dad, Wish

  Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2000). “Complete Essays: 1920-1925”, Ivan R Dee

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• One father is enough to govern one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father.

  George Herbert

  Fathers Day, Enough, Hundred

  George Herbert, Robert Eldridge Aris WILLMOTT (1862). “The Works of George Herbert ... Edited by the Rev. Robert Aris Willmott, etc”, p.315

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• We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.

  Alexander Pope

  Funny, Wise, Father

  Alexander Pope (1850*). “The works of Alexander Pope. With notes by dr. Warburton”, p.203

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• My son complains about headaches. I tell him all the time, when you get out of bed, it's feet first!

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Family, Time

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• I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother.

  Martha Gellhorn

  Love, Relationship, Marriage

  Martha Gellhorn, Caroline Moorehead (2006). “The letters of Martha Gellhorn”, Vintage

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• Don't hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take after them.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Family, Parent, Contempt You

  Evelyn Waugh (2012). “A Little Order: Selected Journalism”, p.175, Penguin UK

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• It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Family, Thank You, Fathers Day

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• That strong mother doesn't tell her cub, Son, stay weak so the wolves can get you. She says, Toughen up, this is reality we are living in.

  Lauryn Hill

  Mother, Strong, Reality

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

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• If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it.

  Sigmund Freud

  Confidence, Mother, Men

  "A Childhood Recollection from Dichtung und Wahrheit" (1917)

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• Fathers and sons are much more considerate of one another than mothers and daughters.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Daughter, Mother, Father

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “The Gay Science”, p.111, Courier Corporation

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• A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither. If only sons could see the paradox, they would understand the dilemma.

  Marlene Dietrich

  Fathers Day, Kings, Dad

  Marlene Dietrich (2012). “Marlene Dietrich's ABC: Wit, Wisdom, & Recipes”, p.45, Open Road Media

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• Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars.

  Victor Hugo

  Love, Brother, Stars

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• A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Father, Loss, Lost Friendship

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• Son, we'd like to keep you around this season but we're going to try and win a pennant.

  Casey Stengel

  Baseball, Winning, Trying

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• I can only hope to be 10 percent of the mom mine was to me. She encouraged me to be confident and enjoy life. That's what I want for my son.

  Charlize Theron

  Mom, Mother, Enjoy Life

  FaceBook post by Charlize Theron from Nov 20, 2013

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• From Mary we learn to surrender to God's Will in all things. From Mary we learn to trust even when all hope seems gone. From Mary we learn to love Christ her Son and the Son of God!

  Pope John Paul II

  Gone, Surrender, Christ

  Pope John Paul II, Margaret R. Bunson (1996). “John Paul II's Book of Mary”, p.181, Our Sunday Visitor Publishing

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• Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

  Khalil Gibran

  Daughter, Mother, Children

  The Prophet "On Children" (1923)

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• As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run of sons, as seldom a misfortune to be childless.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Inspirational, Funny, Fathers Day

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.239, Oxford University Press

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• I've started looking at my own father a bit funny. He assures me, though, that I really am the son of a Scottish postman.

  Craig Ferguson

  Funny, Father, Scottish

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• Father was the eldest son and the heir apparent, and he set the standard for being a Rockefeller very high, so every achievement was taken for granted and perfection was the norm.

  David Rockefeller

  Father, Taken, Perfection

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

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• You must be afraid, my son. That is how one becomes an honest citizen.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  House, Citizens, Honest

  Jean-Paul Sartre (2012). “Essays in Aesthetics”, p.14, Open Road Media

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