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For in the baby lies the future of the world. Mother must hold the baby close so that the baby knows it is his world. Father must take him to the highest hill so he can see what his world is like. Mayan Indian Proverb

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Your son is at five your master, At ten your servant At fifteen your double, And after that, your friend or foe, depending On his bringing up. Hasdai Ibn Crescas (c. 1230)

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I enjoy talking to old men, for they have gone before us, as it were, on a road that we too must probably tread, and it seems to me that we can find out from them what it is like and whether it is rough and difficult or broad and easy. -Socrates in Plato’s Republic

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Your son is at five your master, At ten your servant At fifteen your double, And after that, your friend or foe, delending On his bringing up. -Hasdai Ibn Crescas (c. 1230)

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For in the baby lies the future of the world. Mother must hold the baby close so that the baby knows it is his world. Father must take him to the highest hill so he can see what his world is like. _Mayan Indian Proverb

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Train up a child in the way he should go, And when he is old he will not depart from it.” -Proverbs 22.6

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Teach your children well, Their father's hell did slowly go by, And feed them on your dreams The one they picked, the one you'll know by. And you, of tender years, Can't know the fears that your elders grew by, And so please help them with your youth, They seek the truth before they can die. -Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young

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When a father gives to his son, both laugh. When a son gives to his father, both cry. -Yiddish Proverb

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I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection. -Sigmund Freud

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"A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again." - Enid Bagnold

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When my father didn't have my hand....he had my back. - Linda Poindexter

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Being a great father is like shaving. No matter how good you shaved today, you have to do it again tomorrow. - Reed Markham, American educator

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It is a wise father that knows his own child. - William Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice (Launcelot at II, ii)

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Dad taught me everything I know. Unfortunately, he didn't teach me everything he knows. - Al Unser, Jr.

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When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years. - Mark Twain

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Fatherhood is pretending the present you love the most is soap-on-a-rope. - Bill Cosby

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"I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work fifteen and sixteen hours a day. I saw him once literally bleed from the bottoms of his feet, a man who came here uneducated, alone, unable to speak the language, who taught me all I needed to know about faith and hard work by the simple eloquence of his example." - Mario Cuomo

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“Any man can be a Father but it takes someone special to be a dad.” -Anne Geddes

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“The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them.” -Confucius

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“By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong.” -Charles Wadsworth

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“One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.” -English Proverb

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“It is a wise father who knows his own child.” -William Shakespeare

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“My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.” -Jim Valvano

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“The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.” -Robert Frost

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“If you know his father and grandfather you may trust his son.” -Moroccan proverb

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“When a man has done his best, has given his all, and in the process supplied the needs of his family and his society, that man has made a habit of succeeding.” -Mack R. Douglas

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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.” -Samuel Johnson

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“He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.” -Clarence Budington Kelland

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“Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance.” -Ruth E. Renkel

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A man never stands as tall as when he kneels to help a child. -Knights of Pythagoras

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Aeneas carried his aged father on his back from the ruins of Troy and so do we all, whether we like it or not, perhaps even if we have never known them. -Angela Carter

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A father is someone that holds your hand at the fair, makes sure you do what your mother says, holds back your hair when yor are sick, brushes that hair when it is tangled because mother is too busy, and lets you eat ice cream for breakfeast but only when mother is away. He walks you down the aisle and tells you everythings gonna be ok. - Unknown

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They say that from the instant he lays eyes on her, a father adores his daughter. Whoever she grows up to be, she is always to him that little girl in pigtails. She makes him feel like Christmas. In exchange, he makes a secret promise not to see the awkwardness of her teenage years, the mistakes she makes or the secrets she keeps. - Unknown

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A child looks up at the stars and wonders. Great fathers put a child on his shoulders and helps them to grab a star. - Reed Markham, American Educator

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A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty. -unknown

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Fathering is the most masculine thing a man can do. Frank Pittman

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A father is someone you look up to no matter how tall you grow.

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