"You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's."
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"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."
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"Noble fathers have noble children."
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"I just owe almost everything to my father and it's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election."
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"One father is enough to govern one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father."
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"Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never are."
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"When you have kids, there's no such thing as quality time. There's just time. There's no, 'Ooh, his graduation's better than going to the mall.' It's all kind of equal. Changing her diaper and her winning a contest - it's all good."
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"Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other."
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"The most amazing feeling I feel Words can't describe what I'm feeling for real Maybe I paint the sky blue My greatest creation was you."
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"My father probably thought the capital of the world was wherever he was at the time. It couldn't possibly be anyplace else. Where he and his wife were in their own home, that, for them, was the capital of the world."
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"What a father says to his children is not heard by the world, but it will be heard by posterity."
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"Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes."
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""Reverence for parents" stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness."
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"Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers."
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"Being a father is sometimes my hardest but always my most rewarding job. Happy Father's Day to all the dads out there."
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"There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence."
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"For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers."
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"I think my mom put it best. She said, 'Little girls soften their daddy's hearts.'"
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"To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years."
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"The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft."
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