#fathers

Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers' granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#back #civilization #dark #dark ages #does

Hey, our Founding Fathers wore long hair and powdered wigs - I don't see anybody trying to look like them today, either... But we do look to them as role models. ↗

— Leigh Steinberg

#either #fathers #founding #founding fathers #hair

Today, Arizona's sons and daughters, mothers and fathers are proudly serving their country. ↗

— Jane D. Hull

#country #daughters #fathers #mothers #proudly

America used to live by the motto "Father Knows Best." Now we're lucky if "Father Knows He Has Children." We've become a nation of sperm donors and baby daddies. ↗

— Stephen Colbert

#children #fathers #funny #humor #funny

If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union, or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated, where reason is left free to combat it. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#freedom-of-speech #thomas-jefferson #change

Pray without ceasing on behalf of other men...For cannot he that falls rise again? ↗

— St. Ignatius of Antioch

#early-christianity #patristics #saints #men

My father said this to me: "Israelmore, if you don't make any impact on earth, you will die before you die. But if you impress hearts with what you do, you still live even after you are gone ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

#die #do-something #father #fathers-day #hearts

My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy! ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#founding-fathers #freedom #liberty #thomas-jefferson #freedom

...Obyann, you're talking about the Landemere-Ramaldah border dispute of 1416. Damn it, man, that was in the time of our grandfathers. ↗

— Andrew Ashling

#borders #feuds #grudges #land-disputes #sins-of-the-fathers

Dads. Do you not realize that a child is what you tell them they are? That people almost always become what they are labeled? Was whatever your child just did really the “dumbest thing you’ve ever seen somebody do”? Was it really the “most ridiculous thing they ever could have done”? Do you really believe that your child is an idiot? Because she now does. Think about that. Because you said it, she now believes it. Bravo. ↗

— Dan Pearce

#arguing #break #child #children #dads