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The joke used to be that in every Indian home, there is the mother, father, children, grandparents, and the anthropologist. -- Elizabeth Cook-Lynn
Breast cancer is not just a woman's issue - it affects all of us: the brothers, husbands, fathers, children and friends. -- Ralph Lauren
Children are a sacred gift from a loving Heavenly Father. Children are an heritage of the Lord (Ps. 127:3). The more I think about children, the more I worry about parents. -- Patricia P. Pinegar
Writing is like sex. You have to save your love for the love object. If you go around spouting about your idea, there'll be no "charge" left. You can't father children that way. -- Ray Bradbury
Do we approach God from a beggar's perspective or as His cherished child? If we have any difficulty seeing Him as our loving Father, we need to ask Him to help us develop a healthy Father/child relationship. -- David Jeremiah
And everything else will then turn out to be unimportant and inessential except this: father, child, and love. And then, looking at the simplest things, we will all say, Could we have not learned this long ago? Has this not always been embedded in everything that is? -- Pope John Paul II
Knowledge is the key to stopping the spread of AIDS. Yet millions of children are missing an education. Missing their teachers who have died of the disease. Missing from class as they stay home to care for their dying mothers and fathers. Children are missing your support. United for Children. Unite against AIDS. -- Susan Sarandon
There is nothing that moves a loving father's soul quite like his child's cry. -- Joni Eareckson Tada
It is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief. -- George Washington
See all living beings as your father or mother, and love them as if you were their child -- Atisa
A child's cry touches a father's heart. -- Charles Spurgeon
The child is the father of man. -- William Wordsworth
The child is father of the man. -- William Wordsworth
The child shall become father to the man. -- William Wordsworth
It is a wise father that knows his own child -- William Shakespeare
It is a wise father that knows his own child. -- William Shakespeare
Child-rearing is my main interest now. I'm a hands-on father. -- Sean Penn
Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance. -- Laurie Halse Anderson
I was 28 when my father died, and I was an only child. -- Don Rickles
As the child outlives the father,so must the character bury the author. -- Chuck Palahniuk
Answered prayer is the interchange of love between the Father and His child. -- Andrew Murray
As a child I was middle-aged and cautious compared to my impulsive father. -- Mason Cooley
The first service a child doth his father is to make him foolish. -- George Herbert
The best gift from a father to his child is Education and Upbringing. -- Muhammad
My father taught in the wise way which unfolds what lies in the child -- Louisa May Alcott
A father knows his child's heart, as only a child can know his fathers. -- Kazuo Koike
It behooves a father to be blameless if he expects his child to be. -- Homer
My child, wilt thou not at this time cry unto me, 'Abba, Father?' -- Alexander MacLaren
The group consisting of mother, father and child is the main educational agency of mankind. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
And no child deserved to die for defending her father, no matter who she was -- Janice Hardy
It's just not right to make an innocent child suffer because of the father's misdeeds. -- Emily Yoffe
Someday I'd like to be a father, not of a human child, but something more reasonable. -- Dov Davidoff
Sometimes the father feels pushed out because of the connection between the mother and the child. -- Yoko Ono
It now costs more to amuse a child than it once did to educate his father. -- Vaughn Monroe
Perhaps that is what it means to be a father-to teach your child to live without you. -- Nicole Krauss
Humility is the mother of all virtues, courage the father, integrity the child and wisdom the grandchild. -- Stephen Covey
Fanaticism is the child of false zeal and of superstition, the father of intolerance and of persecution. -- John William Fletcher
Every labourer is a father, his labour is his child. Choose your project carefully and achieve it worthily -- Haile Selassie
It is a wise child that knows his own father. [Lat., Nondum enim quisquam suum parentem ipse cognosvit.] -- Homer
Prayer means rushing to the Father as His child. It means asking and receiving, loving and thanking Him. -- Basilea Schlink
Don't be a pal to your son. Be his father. What child needs a 40-year-old for a friend? -- Al Capp
You will find that if you really try to be a father, your child will meet you halfway. -- Robert Breault
A father may turn his back on his child, â?¦ . but a mother's love endures through all. -- Washington Irving
It is a wise child that knows its own father, and an unusual one that unreservedly approves of him. -- Mark Twain
As a father, I understand the importance of the bond that develops through reading picture books with your child. -- Anthony Browne
I think that's a bit unfair. I'm a father with a 2-year-old child and I feel pretty young, actually. -- Gordon Brown
There was one thing my murderer didn't understand; he didn't understand how much a father could love his child. -- Alice Sebold
Born through hard times, Ghetto child of mine. I wonder if you have to suffer for your father's crimes. -- Tupac Shakur
When a man makes up a story for his child, he becomes a father and a child together, listening. -- Rumi
No child can repay his father unless he finds him enslaved and then buys him and sets him free. -- Muhammad
To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies. -- Red Auerbach
The triangle of truisms, of father, mother and child, cannot be destroyed; it can only destroy those civilizations which disregard it. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Just as the child is father to the man, so the impressions of one's youth remain the most vivid in manhood. -- Gustav Stresemann
I feel about New York as a child whose father is a bank robber. Not perfect, but I still love him. -- Woody Allen
It's not convincing to say you are a child of God if you have none of the characteristics of your Father. -- Kevin DeYoung
Every child of Heavenly Father born in the world is given at birth, as a free gift, the Light of Christ. -- Henry B. Eyring
Death was kind.He drew a sharp breath. But no father should have to give such a kindness to his child. -- Mark Lawrence
I would much rather be the trusting child of a rich Father, than a beggar at the door of worldly men. -- Corrie Ten Boom
My father is a poet, my stepmother is a poet, and so I always had encouragement as a child to write. -- Natasha Trethewey
My father was the king of the joke-tellers. I was so impressed as a child watching him, holding people in rapt attention. -- Carol Leifer
Oh child, may you be happier than your father, but in all other respects alike. And then you would not be bad. -- Sophocles
No matter how old we become, we can still call them 'Holy Mother' and 'Father' and put a child-like trust in them. -- Desmond Morris
You are who God says you are. Spiritually alive. Heavenly positioned. Connected to the Father. A billboard of mercy. An honored child. -- Max Lucado
The child is father of the man: And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety. -- William Wordsworth
My father was not scientific, and I was left to struggle with a child's blindness, added to a student's thirst for knowledge. -- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Without the support from religion--remember, we talked about it--no father, using only his own resources, would be able to bring up a child. -- Leo Tolstoy
The more the father is involved, the more easily the child makes open, receptive, and trusting contact with new people in its life. -- Warren Farrell
When I see someone like Richard Dawkins, I see my father. I grew up with that. I'm basically the child of Richard Dawkins. -- Alain de Botton
When we call on God, he bends down His ear to listen, as a father bends down to listen to his little child. -- Elizabeth Charles
A wise man once said that next to losing its mother, there is nothing more healthy for a child than to lose its father. -- HalldÃ³r Laxness
When a child grows up without a father, there is an empty place where someone must stand, providing an example of character and confidence. -- Steve Largent
A wise man once said that next to losing its mother, there is nothing more healthy for a child than to lose its father. -- HalldÃ³r Laxness
My first failure was to be born a child not wanted by his father or mother, as they parted shortly after I was born. -- Jeremy Lloyd
Oh, I guess I'm physically able to father a child. That's not what I'm thinking. I'm too closely married to a quiet reading lamp. -- John Steinbeck
Whatever they may say, your story is truly your own. You have a responsibility to it, the way a father has to a child -- Miguel Syjuco
What will we answer to Him about that child, that old father and mother, because they are His creation, they are children of God. -- Mother Teresa
it is not only unfair but disgustingly cruel that the mother is always held responsible for the illegitimate child, while the father goes scot-free. -- Dale Evans
Any fool can have a child. That doesn't make you a father. It's the courage to raise a child that makes you a father. -- Barack Obama
All the feeling which my father could not put into words was in his hand-any dog, child or horse would recognize the kindness of it. -- Freya Stark
Nothing can ever overcome that one enormous sex (female) superiority that even the male child is born closer to his mother than to his father. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
A father who denies a child of his attention is no better than a fully-equipped medic who watches idly as a soldier bleeds to death. -- Wes Fesler
Come with me to the Winged Isle- Northern father's Western child Where the Dance of Ages is playing still through far marches of Acres Wild. -- Ian Anderson
You don't want to engage in road rage when the person in the next car might be your child's future teacher or your dentist's father. -- Kim Edwards
As for the American child's classic problem - too much mother, too little father - that would be cured by an equalization of parental responsibility. -- Gloria Steinem
There aren't many fathers around here...If someone is old enough to father a child, he should be old enough to help bring it up. -- John Redwood
I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction. -- James Joyce
I was born an only child in Vienna, Austria. My father found hours to sit by me by the library fire and tell fairy stories. -- Hedy Lamarr
My father was a painter and he taught art. He once said to me, 'I never knew an Indian child who could not draw.' -- N. Scott Momaday
I've learned... That simple walks with my father around the block on summer nights when I was a child did wonders for me as an adult. -- Andy Rooney
Just as a father hates cancer, because of what it does to his child, so God hates divorce, because of what it does to His children. -- Kyle Idleman
You are not the child of the people you call mother and father, but their fellow-adventurer on a bright journey to understand the things that are. -- Richard Bach
I've always taken my love of children from my father. He was a children magnet. Suddenly, having my first child hit home what my dad went through. -- Robert Carlyle
Surely no child should fear his own father - especially a priesthood father. A father's duty is to make his home a place of happiness and joy. -- Ezra Taft Benson
I abandoned her. It's the one capital crime of fatherhood. Mothers can fail a thousand different ways. A father's only job is: do not abandon this child. -- Catherynne M. Valente
Happy is it to place a daughter; yet it pains a father's heart when he delivers to another's house a child, the object of his tender care. -- Euripides
Not what you would call a musical family, but my father used to play saxophone, and I discovered many genres of music when I was a child. -- Rokia Traore
As a child, my father's architecture seemed to me to be industrial in a way. It seemed harsh and kind of chilly; I didn't respond to it. -- Nathaniel Kahn
I hadn't thought about the fact that I was a foster child but, did notice that (in films) I'm often without a mother or father or both. -- Sophie Nelisse
My father was this big, tough guy, almost heroic in proportion to me as a child. It was only later that I saw how fearful he was. -- John Burnside
When people are hungry, when a mother or father is facing a child that they can't feed, you can't ask that family to lay down their arms. -- Ertharin Cousin
When I was a child, my father taught me to put up my fists like a boy and to be prepared to defend myself at all times. -- Camille Paglia
O God... make me a child again, even before I die; give me back the simple faith, the clear vision of the child that holds its father's hand. -- Israel Zangwill
A father can pass on his nose and eyes and even his intelligence to his child, but not his soul. In every human being the soul is new -- Hermann Hesse
I was a very defiant child, and my father encouraged that. He wanted me to be as wild and creative as possible and didn't believe in disciplining children. -- Sadie Frost
My father moved through theys of we, singing each new leaf out of each tree, (and every child was sure that spring danced when she heard my father sing)... -- Mitch Albom
There's nothing more noble than a father and mother making an opportunity for their child, knowing that their life is gonna be hard. There's something incredibly heroic about that. -- Kevin Costner
The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created a child and then, by his absence, left the child fatherless and then Godless. -- Anais Nin
I happen temporarily to occupy this big White House. I am living witness that any one of your children may look to come here as my father's child has. -- Abraham Lincoln
He can neither read nor write and in him broods already a taste for mindless violence. All history present in that visage, the child the father of the man. -- Cormac McCarthy
In the creative process there is the father, the author of the play; the mother, the actor pregnant with the part; and the child, the role to be born. -- Constantin Stanislavski
Why should we assume the faults of our friend, or wife, or father, or child, because they sit around our hearth, or are said to have the same blood? -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sleep, Silence's child, sweet father of soft rest, Prince whose approach peace to all mortals brings Indifferent host to shepherds and kings Sole comforter to minds with grief oppressed. -- William Drummond
Almighty Father! let thy lowly child, Strong in his love of truth, be wisely bold,-- A patriot bard, by sycophants reviled. Let him live usefully, and not die old! -- Ebenezer Elliott

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