I want to congratulate all the men out there who are working diligently to be good fathers whether they are stepfathers, or biological fathers or just spiritual fathers.
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Related Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents. MARGARET MEAD What harsh judges fathers are to all young men! TERENCE All women who kill or have sexual obsessions or who are prostitutes have trouble with their fathers. CATHERINE DENEUVE It does not always follow that good men are good fathers. KATHRYN L. NELSON English history is all about men liking their fathers, and American history is all about men hating ... MALCOLM BRADBURY Fathers, like mothers, are not born. Men grow into fathers and fathering is a very important stage i... DAVID GOTTESMAN When I was a teenager, most fathers tended to go berserk when I asked their daughters on a date.... ... GARY REILLY For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their father... HOMER I hear many condemn these men [Founding Fathers] because they were so few. When were the good and th... HENRY DAVID THOREAU The new generation of fathers is interested in doing this, and fathers are taking more time to be wi... CINDY CHU the land of my fathers . . . . I leave it to my fathers. DYLAN THOMAS There are no greater or truer lords, gods, fathers, sons or holy spirits, than the humans. Humans ar... ABHIJIT NASKAR I don't usually get to play fathers or grandfathers or uncles. Now that I'm older, maybe I c... CHRISTOPHER WALKEN Fathers are ironic, they want democracy in their country but dictatorship in their home. AMIT KALANTRI Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or they didn't. L. L. HENDREN At the gambling table, there are no fathers and sons. CHINESE PROVERB Boys do not long for fathers who will usher them through the gauntlet of psychological disconnect. T... T. REAL My volunteers are all ages. I have students from Palm Beach Atlantic University, working mothers and... JUDY HILLBERG The fathers are not active parents. AMY KINZLEY Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or because they didn't. L. L. HENDERSON Many are dying every day. They deserve to know what happened to their fathers or their uncles. This ... ARTHUR BERGER Working mothers do an hour more per day than working fathers do and working mothers do on average an... JAMES LEVINE Good fathers make good sons LILLIAN HELLMAN Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for ei... EDNA O'BRIEN Both of our fathers are veterans. CARL HOFFMAN There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his gra... VICTOR HUGO There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his gra... VICTOR HUGO Just that sons and fathers Are like mirrors and daughters are soft RICHARD L. RATLIFF The land of my fathers. My fathers can have it. DYLAN THOMAS The fundamental defect with fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them. BERTRAND RUSSELL Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had. ARISTOTLE No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly. MIGUEL DE CERVANTES To be, or not to be, that is the question. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for
ever? BIBLE There are fathers who do not love their children, but there is no grandfather who does not adore his... VICTOR HUGO Many of the founding fathers either traveled through or at some point stayed here in our city. BILL BRAY Congress is functioning the way the Founding Fathers intended-not very well. They understood that if... BARBER B. CONABLE JR. Could anyone look into the faces of (the founding fathers) and tell them it really doesn't matter th... BOB BARR Yes here's to the founding fathers—slave-owners, British citizens who didn't want to pay taxes... DAVID MAZZUCCHELLI There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing. GERTRUDE STEIN Rich men's sons are seldom rich men's fathers HERBERT KAUFMAN Wales is the land of my fathers. And my fathers can have it. DYLAN THOMAS Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. ARISTOTLE In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons. HERODOTUS He will turn the hearts of the fathers to their children, and the hearts of the children to their fa... GREG VAUGHN Wherever you are, be all there. CRAIG GROESCHEL To be or not to be. That's not really a question. JEAN-LUC GODARD When I walk into my kitchen today, I am not alone. Whether we know it or not, none of us is. We brin... MOLLY WIZENBERG In peace, sons bury their fathers; in war, fathers bury their sons. -Herodotus. HERODOTUS In peace the sons bury their fathers, but in war the fathers bury their sons. CROESUS There would be fewer absent fathers, if straight men were turned on only by women with whom they wou... MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA Our mothers and fathers want change. They worked all of their lives, but today live in destitution. VIKTOR YUSHCHENKO Few sons are like their fathers--most are worse, few better. HOMER It's a good, healthy hobby to have, because there are so many other things you could do. We try to g... CHRIS BROOKS These kids are all really close, and they've proved that all year by being a fantastic team. They pr... BILL VERBETEN mothers and fathers are sick and tired of seeing the values assaulted that they are trying to teach ... DAN QUAYLE To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship WENDELL PHILLIPS To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship. WENDELL PHILLIPS Our Founding Fathers, who are cited so frequently and appropriately on this floor, believed deeply t... BILL FRIST Most Americans aren't the sort of citizens the Founding Fathers expected; they are contented serfs. ... JOSEPH SOBRAN an apocalyptic turn of events, one that would not have been anticipated or appreciated by our foundi... BOB COSTAS the series of checks and balances that exemplify the genius of our founding fathers. HENRY HYDE They won’t turn away a father who has come to find his son. T.K. NALIAKA The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to b... BERTRAND RUSSELL People are supossed to aspire to become their fathers, not shudder at the thought. VERONICA ROTH I always wondered why God was supposed to be a father," she whispers. Fathers always want you to mea... JODI PICOULT It is why 50% of car mechanics are Muslims. The fathers just hand over the business to the son. ABUSALEH SHARIFF After all, we've been saying for a generation that fathers aren't really necessary. Why is it so sho... DAVID BLANKENHORN Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; ... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If we are to give working mothers, fathers and their children an opportunity to live the American dr... BLANCHE LINCOLN No one would be foolish enough to choose war over peace--in peace sons bury their fathers, but in wa... CROESUS OF LYDIA No love to a Fathers. GEORGE HERBERT We want to make sure people are aware of the sacrifices that our fathers made and to keep that tradi... WYNELLE GUIDRY Interactions between fathers and children are the starting point of education. YOSHIHIKO NODA Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you! for so did
their fathers to the false prophets... BIBLE Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad. JACK BRUCE Men are all right for friends, but as soon as you marry them they turn into cranky old fathers, even... WILLA SIBERT CATHER I don't see people. I don't see men and women at all. When I see them, I see... their mother... JEFF BUCKLEY Children learn to smile from their parents. SHINICHI SUZUKI Every father should remember that one day his son will follow his example instead of his advice HENRY WARD BEECHER I'm so ugly - My father carries around a picture of the kid who came with his wallet RODNEY DANGERFIELD Any man can be a father, but it takes a special person to be a dad PROVERB My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing. ALDOUS HUXLEY She is curled up inside his smell. He always made her feel both safer and smaller – the latter the... GLENN HAYBITTLE Breast Feeding should not be attempted by fathers with hairy chests, since they can make the baby sn... MIKE HARDING Fathers should make you feel safe. KAREN CUSHMAN Father! My father knows the proper way The nation should be run; He tells us childr... EDGAR A. GUEST Head Start believes in father involvement and literacy enhancement, and this event celebrates the im... MARY REED My father was always getting excited about something. It's genetically inside me somewhere. NICOLAS CAGE If any question why we died, Tell them, because our fathers lied RUDYARD KIPLING Summer has come and passedThe innocent can never lastwake me up when september endslike my fathers c... GREEN DAY I think what distinguishes this fair is the fact that everybody is involved -- city fathers, townshi... CRAIG ROBERTS Oh yeah fathers been in it, grandfather and all of them have been in it for years. It's a good job a... DANIEL MARTIN It occurred to me that the man I really wanted to hurt was safely out of my reach, standing behind a... STEPHEN KING Boot Camp For New Dads is an innovative, proven approach to assisting new fathers through this criti... KATHY MOORE Well the beauty of 'Iyanla: Fix My Life' is that men are in every show. To our surprise, som... IYANLA VANZANT I wish all the mothers, fathers and children out there realize how much I need them and how much I v... PRINCESS OF WALES DIANA To all those mothers and fathers who are struggling with teen-agers, I say, just be patient: even th... MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN Farmers are always conservative. They stick to what they have learned from their fathers and from th... HELMUT SCHMIDT There's a stigma. It's a macho thing for the fathers. They don't want to take their boys to ballet. HERCI MARSDEN
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ICE T The right to bear arms is because it's the last form of defense against tyranny. ICE T My father's family came from Virginia and Philadelphia. He wasn't a brother who talked a lot... ICE T Being cool is when you win, you don't get too happy; and when you lose, you don't get too ma... ICE T If somebody wants to kill people, they don't need a gun to do it. ICE T You can't come out on a record dissing the system and be on a label that's connected to the ... ICE T An MC is somebody who can control the crowd. An MC is a master of ceremonies so not only can you say... ICE T AIDS is such a scary thing and it's also the kind of thing that you think won't happen to yo... ICE T Some music comes from a real place; some music comes from your imagination. It's difficult to fi... ICE T Ultimately I am happy that everybody is embracing hip hop and the sounds from the streets. ICE T A good emcee will rhyme a lot of different ways. Don't limit yourself. ICE T I think singing and acting go hand in hand. Take an R&B singer: one song says, 'I love you,&... ICE T My father was a dark-skinned brother, but my mother was a very fair-skinned lady. From what I unders... ICE T I think everybody wants to redeem themselves after they've done something that might be consider... ICE T I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the ... ICE T WWE asked me to be in the Hall of Fame, and I turned it down. You know why? They put Pete Rose in th... MR. T I'll treat myself every now and then. Like if I get $100,000, I'll spend $20,000 and put the... T-PAIN They can sonically sound like me, but nobody's ever gonna be able to write songs like T-Pain. Th... T-PAIN I'm still a person, a human being, no matter what religion I am. T-PAIN There's not much money in Tallahassee. Not many people can leave Tallahassee because they don... 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T-PAIN People think a Muslim has to have a turban or a big beard. It's stupid. T-PAIN You can't hate Britney Spears because, you know what, no matter what Britney Spears been doing, ... T-PAIN Kanye is the weirdest... He is the weirdest person I know other than me. I've told him that befo... T-PAIN Those who get stuck doing the same things for too long are bound to get left behind the strong who p... T-PAIN 'Nappy' is a state of mind, not an appearance. T-PAIN To be a bodyguard is to be a kamikaze pilot. Dedicated. MR. T The pain and hurt which i feel,
go as deep as it is real;
to be around and yet unseen,
takes the ... JAY T Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place. ICE T I have the Midas touch, in the way that when I hook up with a project, I feel, not speaking cocky or... MR. T My mood board says that there should be a G.O.O.D. Music festival. Why not? Like, we haven't - I... PUSHA T Every once in a while, I hear somebody call me Tracy to try to let me know that they know me, you kn... ICE T I love vintage cars because you can do so much more to them. T-PAIN Back in the day, I would wear up to 45 pounds of gold. It would take me four hours to get dressed! MR. T Redemption just means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you w... ICE T I believe in the Golden Rule - The Man with the Gold... Rules. MR. T Diet food is for lazy people. ICE-T God is on my side, and that's all I need. I get up in the morning, I pray to God. I don't pr... MR. T A good villain exudes charisma and power. He has principles, though; that just gives him a level of ... PUSHA T My celebrity status allows me an opportunity, allows me a pulpit to preach and reach out to the peop... MR. T I'm a child of God first. Before I became a celebrity, I was baptized a Christian. MR. T I ain't got no beef with east coast, I think it's just being hyped up. ICE T You'll never have any trouble with Mr. T, I'm just a big, calm teddy bear kind of guy. Mr. T... MR. T I'm just disillusioned with the hip-hop sound right now. It's too materialistic. You know, I... ICE T The next day, I got a phone call from him and he told me to come and read for a movie called New Jac... ICE T I've evolved, but I'm the same dude, I'm just in a different place. We all change, we al... ICE T It's not about vein' mad at everything. It's about bein' REALLY mad at the right stuff. ICE T. Biggie is my favorite rapper, for sure. No other artist has impacted me that much. PUSHA T I'm a big fan of all styles, even Biggie and Wu-Tang, but I gotta do my thing. ICE T My vision for G.O.O.D. Music is just carrying on with the tradition of putting out high-quality musi... PUSHA T I feel like my lyrics are just dark and scathing. I feel like the lyrics on 'Darkest Before Dawn... PUSHA T Gravity is my best friend. Gravity keeps me and my family together. LEANNE T. When you make albums like I do, and it's based off fanfare and based off touring - I make these ... PUSHA T Jay-Z is like a rap-savant, he doesn't have to write the rhymes down, he can create complex raps... ICE T I don't even know how to think about running out of things to talk about. Certain things are ine... PUSHA T I make a timeless music. I think I've made my mark as a lyricist and as an innovator and as a ta... PUSHA T All I ever wanted to do with my life was own a little house. I did that way back with 'Rocky,... MR. T If I'm going to be a jazz player, I need to understand Miles Davis. ICE T Los Angeles is a microcosm of the United States. If L.A. falls, the country falls. ICE T Any man who doesn't love his mama can't be no friend of mine. MR. T I think the most successful are the most paranoid. The first thing people do when they buy a mansion... ICE T I’m always soft for you, that’s the problem. You could come knocking on my door five years from ... AZRA T. When I was old enough to change my name, I changed it to Mr. T so that the first word out of someone... MR. T Well, I am very happy that I was able to play a part in bringing music from the streets onto the rad... ICE T He didn’t know what beget what, but he quickly learned that people with money to hide were powerfu... T. MOUNTEBANK My mother told me, 'Son, nobody else but God knows.' And that's what I'm about - rea... MR. T I felt like when I got with Kanye, and we discussed me being on G.O.O.D. Music, he just really took ... PUSHA T Time never changes things..It only give us the space to change it. RAMANATHAN T Dog's just want to sniff an ass and eat some food. ICE-T Because I first made my name as a rapper claiming South Central L.A., people often assume I'm st... ICE T As a kid, I got three meals a day. Oatmeal, miss-a-meal and no meal. MR. T I'm tough when I have to be, tender when I should be. When you find a really tough guy, he's... MR. T You have the core hip-hop, which would just be beats and breaks, more something like what you hear w... ICE T Love is always the reason to go on with life. Love is the answer to all the problems. SAKTHIVEL T I think, people look at me, and they say, 'You were very aggressive,' I say, 'Yeah,'... ICE T You can think about killing yourself a thousand times a day and each time it gets just a little bit ... T DOGMAN The cost of electrons and photons is getting cheaper all the time! T. GILLING I feel like I'm the last rap superhero. I really do. I feel like everybody else, they seem to be... PUSHA T If you can't read, the only thing you can do is enjoy the pictures, not the whole story. Reading... MR. T Boys do not long for fathers who will usher them through the gauntlet of psychological disconnect. T... T. REAL I swore on my knees at the altar where you held me that I would kill you. It was an oath you made me... T. MOUNTEBANK My name, my real name, is Tracy. I always thought I was like a boy named Sue. So I made my friends c... ICE T I have no hatred for cops. I have hatred for racists and brutal people, but not necessarily the cops... ICE T My mother passed when I was in the third grade, my father when I was in the seventh, and that's ... ICE T That became the signature Ice-T style - rhymes that were "topical" and "vividly optical." To me it w... ICE-T Frankly, I don't feel the fire anymore from the youth. I miss my era when motherfuckers were fightin... ICE-T If you believe that I'm a cop killer, you believe David Bowie is an astronaut. ICE-T We pretended she'd only gotten lost in the colors of fall. Piper T. GREENWOOD I didn't come to Hollywood. Hollywood came to me. A lot of people wish they could say the things... MR. T I never understood why movies don't have to be as responsible, or the responsibility stops with ... PUSHA T When I was nine years old, living on the south side of Chicago, my father was a minister and my moth... MR. T I think adidas really understands that it's cool to be in business with the right people. It rea... PUSHA T Goblin tea resembles a nice cup of Earl Grey in much the same way that a catfish resembles the commo... T. KINGFISHER Most of us will die twice; Once when we take our last breath, and again when the world forgets your ... T. ARCHMAN I think when people say 'real hip-hop,' they want it more buried in the streets. They want i... ICE T So from an actor's perspective, you really have no idea how you're acting. ICE T I'm competitive in that I would like to outsell my last record. 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