Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes, Father Quotes, Boys Quotes

Do we indeed desire the dead Should still be near us at our side ? Is there no baseness we would hide ? No inner vileness that we dread ? How many a father have I seen A sober man, among his boys Whose youth was full of foolish noise.

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Poor Desdemona! I am glad thy father's dead. Thy match was mortal to him, and pure grief Shore his old thread in twain.

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This caste system had grown by the practice of the son always following the business of the father.

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I continued to do arithmetic with my father, passing proudly through fractions to decimals. I eventually arrived at the point where so many cows ate so much grass, and tanks filled with water in so many hours. I found it quite enthralling.

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If by chance I talk a little wild, forgive me; I had it from my father.

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You are old Father William,' the young man said, 'and your hair has become very white; and yet you incessantly stand on your head-do you think, at your age, it is right?

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Tags : Lewis Carroll Quotes , Father Quotes , Thinking Quotes

I say things, like every other parent, that reminds you of your own parents. One thing I do know about being a parent, you understand why your father was in a bad mood a lot.

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Let us first fulfill Christ's injunction ourselves and only then venture to expect it of our children. Otherwise we are not fathers, but enemies of our children, and they are not our children, but our enemies, and we have made them our enemies ourselves.

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Tags : Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes , Children Quotes , Father Quotes

[My father] taught me (at least he showed me) a dignified way to be a former president is that once you're off the stage, you're off the stage.

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Tags : George W. Bush Quotes , Father Quotes , President Quotes

My father's voice had nevertheless remained untainted, inspiring, rebuking, granting or withholding approval. 'You do not work hard enough, Barry. You must help in your people's struggle. Wake up, black man!

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What people can't possibly imagine is what it's like to have two presidents who have a relationship as father and son.

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The past is the father of the present.

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From '41 to '51I was my folk's contrary son;I bit my father's hand right throughAnd broke my mother's heart in two.

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Tags : John Masefield Quotes , Mother Quotes , Father Quotes

I used to think my father was an idiot, until I turned twenty-one... Then I thought he was a genus.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Father Quotes , Thinking Quotes

...it ought not to appear wonderful if many, both Jews and others, who lived before Christ, and many also who have lived since his time, but to whom he has never been revealed, should be saved by faith in God alone: still however, through the sole merits of Christ, inasmuch as he was given and slain from the beginning of the world, even for those to whom he was not known, provided they believed in God the Father.

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A magistrate is not a father; he must be just and severe. Only tyrants are fathers.

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When I was fourteen years old, I was amazed at how unintelligent my father was. By the time I turned twenty-one, I was astounded how much he had learned in the last seven years.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Father Quotes , Science Quotes

PILGRIM, n. A traveler that is taken seriously. A Pilgrim Father was one who [was] not permitted to sing psalms through his nose [in Europe], followed it to Massachusetts, where he could personate God according to the dictates of his conscience.

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Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Father Quotes , Taken Quotes

"Ecod, you may say what you like of my father, then, and so I give you leave," said Jonas. "I think it's liquid aggravation that circulates through his veins, and not regular blood..."

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Father Quotes , Character Quotes

The person who is working on his or her family history fits the description of one who is fulfilling his or her duty. I know the effort, I know the expense. I know the difficulties through which one may go to uncover one name. I know our Heavenly Father is aware of these efforts. And those for whom we perform sacred ordinances are aware of our efforts. Oftentimes, in a miraculous way, there shall appear before us a clear pathway through a field of turbulence.

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