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When one has not had a good father, one must create one. Friedrich Nietzsche
When one has not had a good father, one must create one.
Friedrich Nietzsche
I talk and talk and talk, and I haven’t taught people in fifty years what my father taught me by example in one week. Mario Cuomo
I talk and talk and talk, and I haven’t taught people in fifty years what my father taught me by example in one week.
Mario Cuomo
When one makes children unhappy, one is a criminal and runs the risk of killing them. When one makes them happy, one does right, but one runs the risk of making them silly, presumptuous, and insolent. Charles Peguy
When one makes children unhappy, one is a criminal and runs the risk of killing them. When one makes them happy, one does right, but one runs the risk of making them silly, presumptuous, and insolent.
Charles Peguy
Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Always take out your watch when a child asks you the time. J.A. Spender
Always take out your watch when a child asks you the time.
J.A. Spender
Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father. Gloria Steinem
Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
Gloria Steinem
Fear was my father, Father Fear His look drained the stones. Theodore Roethke
Fear was my father, Father Fear His look drained the stones.
Theodore Roethke
When the Nandi men are away on a foray, nobody at home may pronounce the names of the absent warriors; they must be referred to as birds. Sir James Frazer
When the Nandi men are away on a foray, nobody at home may pronounce the names of the absent warriors; they must be referred to as birds.
Sir James Frazer
Father’s birthday. He would have been ninety-six, ninety-six, yes, today; and could have been ninety-six, like other people one has known: but mercifully was not. His life would have utterly ended mine. Virginia Woolf
Father’s birthday. He would have been ninety-six, ninety-six, yes, today; and could have been ninety-six, like other people one has known: but mercifully was not. His life would have utterly ended mine.
Virginia Woolf
A man can deceive his fiancée or his mistress as much as he likes, and in the eyes of the woman he loves, an ass may pass for a philosopher; but a daughter is a different matter. Anton Chekhov
A man can deceive his fiancée or his mistress as much as he likes, and in the eyes of the woman he loves, an ass may pass for a philosopher; but a daughter is a different matter.
Anton Chekhov
What was it, this being “a good father”? To love one’s sons and daughters was not enough; to carry in one’s bone and blood a pride in them, a longing for their growth and development — this was not enough. One had to be a ready companion to games and jokes and outings to earn from the world this accolade. The devil with it. Laura Z. Hobson
What was it, this being “a good father”? To love one’s sons and daughters was not enough; to carry in one’s bone and blood a pride in them, a longing for their growth and development — this was not enough. One had to be a ready companion to games and jokes and outings to earn from the world this accolade. The devil with it.
Laura Z. Hobson
I could not point to any need in childhood as strong as that for a father’s protection. Sigmund Freud
I could not point to any need in childhood as strong as that for a father’s protection.
Sigmund Freud
Everything is relevant. I call it loving. James Tate
Everything is relevant. I call it loving.
James Tate
Look. This is your world! You can’t not look. There is no other world. This is your world; it is your feast. You inherited this; you inherited these eyeballs; you inherited this world of color. Look at the greatness of the whole thing. Look! Don’t hesitate — look! Open your eyes. Don’t blink, and look, look — look further. Chögyam Trungpa
Look. This is your world! You can’t not look. There is no other world. This is your world; it is your feast. You inherited this; you inherited these eyeballs; you inherited this world of color. Look at the greatness of the whole thing. Look! Don’t hesitate — look! Open your eyes. Don’t blink, and look, look — look further.
Chögyam Trungpa
Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself out of those values. Ralph Ellison
Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself out of those values.
Ralph Ellison
Her father was waiting. When she saw him, she felt the usual shift in her feelings. A lift, a jump, a tug. Pleasure, but not totally. Love, but not completely. Dependence. Fear, familiarity, identification. That’s part of me there, walking along. Tree from which I sprang. His spasm produced me. Shake of his body and here I am. . . . Shirley Ann Grau
Her father was waiting. When she saw him, she felt the usual shift in her feelings. A lift, a jump, a tug. Pleasure, but not totally. Love, but not completely. Dependence. Fear, familiarity, identification. That’s part of me there, walking along. Tree from which I sprang. His spasm produced me. Shake of his body and here I am. . . .
Shirley Ann Grau
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his. Oscar Wilde
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.
Oscar Wilde
You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets, and wonder when you have done that they do not delight in your company. Samuel Johnson
You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets, and wonder when you have done that they do not delight in your company.
Samuel Johnson
The thing to remember about fathers is, they’re men. Phyllis McGinley
The thing to remember about fathers is, they’re men.
Phyllis McGinley