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Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.


William Shakespeare

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VICTOR HUGO There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his gra...
VICTOR HUGO In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons.
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TAHAR BEN JELLOUN Interactions between fathers and children are the starting point of education.
YOSHIHIKO NODA In peace, sons bury their fathers; in war, fathers bury their sons. -Herodotus.
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MAY-BRITT MOSER Help your father
As he ages
And loses his strength
For it was he who sheltered you RASSOOL JIBRAEEL SNYMAN We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open.
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EUNICE TUCKER Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or because they didn't.
L. L. HENDERSON Fathers. Mothers. With all their caring and attention. They will f--- you up, every time.
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DAVID MCCULLOUGH Fathers, like mothers, are not born. Men grow into fathers and fathering is a very important stage i...
DAVID GOTTESMAN English history is all about men liking their fathers, and American history is all about men hating ...
MALCOLM BRADBURY At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.
E. E. CUMMINGS At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.
E. E. (EDWARD ESTLIN) CUMMINGS All women who kill or have sexual obsessions or who are prostitutes have trouble with their fathers.
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STEPHEN CHBOSKY They won’t turn away a father who has come to find his son.
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T. REAL They waddle and had bad relationships with their fathers, ... Without a masculine figure in his life...
WAYNE BESEN The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to th...
BENJAMIN SPOCK The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to th...
BENJAMIN SPOCK The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to th...
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GEORGE SANTAYANA Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a v...
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A little more than kin, and less than kind!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O! beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock The meat it feeds on.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE But jealous souls will not be answered so; They are not ever jealous for the cause, But jealou...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O, beware, my lord, of jealousy! It is the green-eyed monster, which doth mock The meat it fee...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I do beseech you-- Though I perchance am vicious in my guess (As I confess it is my nature's p...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If I shall be condemned Upon surmises, all proofs sleeping else But what your jealousies awake...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmations strong As proofs of holy writ.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 'Tis mad idolatry To make the service greater than the god.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We defy augury. There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'Tis not to com...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE My plenteous joys, Wanton in fullness, seek to hide themselves In drops of sorrow.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE For bonny sweet Robin is all my joy.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Through tattered clothes, small vices do appear. Robes and furred gowns hide all.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Yet 'tis greater skill In a true hate to pray they have their will; The very devils cannot pla...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE How use doth breed a habit in a man! This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods, I better brook t...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The miserable have no other medicine But only hope.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O world, world! thus is the poor agent despised. O traitors and bawds, how earnestly are you set a-w...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We were not born to sue, but to command.
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