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We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.
Written by Joseph Roux
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Written by Abraham Lincoln
You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.
Written by Charles A. Beard
If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul.
Written by Khalil Gibran
Freud is the father of psychoanalysis. It had no mother.
Written by Germaine Greer
My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.
Written by Lee Iacocca
Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature.
Written by Harold Coffin
I bet after seeing us, George Washington would sue us for calling him 'father.'
Written by Will Rogers
It is a pity that instead of the Pilgrim Fathers landing on Plymouth Rock, Plymouth Rock had not landed on the Pilgrim Fathers.
Written by Chauncey Depew
It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.
Written by Harper Lee
My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, 'You're tearing up the grass'; 'We're not raising grass,' Dad would reply. 'We're raising boys.'
Written by Harmon Killebrew
One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.
Written by George Herbert
A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.
Written by Enid Bagnold
Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.
Written by Bill Cosby
Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
Written by Aristotle
My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
Written by Aldous Huxley
You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.
Written by Abraham Lincoln
Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away.
Written by Laurence J. Peter
My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.
Written by Clarence Budington Kelland
Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
Written by Margaret Mead
Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.
Written by John F. Kennedy
It is impossible to read for pleasure from something to which you are both father and mother, born in such travail that the writer despises the thing that enslaved him.
Written by Jim Bishop
In my view, far from deserving condemnation for their courageous reporting, the New York Times, the Washington Post and other newspapers should be commended for serving the purpose that the Founding Fathers saw so clearly.
Written by Hugo Black
The Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to bare the secrets of government and inform the people.
Written by Hugo Black
Father told me that if I ever met a lady in a dress like yours, I must look her straight in the eyes.
Written by Prince Charles
Congress is functioning the way the Founding Fathers intended-not very well. They understood that if you move too quickly, our democracy will be less responsible to the majority.
Written by Barber Conable
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.
Written by Marlene Dietrich
My son is 7 years old. I am 54. It has taken me a great many years to reach that age. I am more respected in the community, I am stronger, I am more intelligent and I think I am better than he is. I don't want to be a pal, I want to be a father.
Written by Clifton Fadiman
My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.
Written by Harry S Truman
Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
Written by Evelyn Waugh

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