#father

When I seemed to be irritable or sad, my father would quote the learned Dr. Knight, and then say, 'Just go to sleep.' Like all smart aleck kids, I thought the advice was silly. But as I've grown older, I've realized just how smart Knight was. ↗

— Ben Stein

#dr #father #go #grown #how

It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that any man can do and doing does in the same way, that is being drunk and being the father of their son. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#being #does #doing #drunk #father

There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#about #depressing #doubt #fathering #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

I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me. ↗

— Laurence Sterne

#both #bound #duty #either #equally

I grew up all over the world. My father was in the army and was posted to a new place every two and a half years. I have no geographical roots. ↗

— Juliet Stevenson

#every #father #geographical #grew #half

Fatherhood is great because you can ruin someone from scratch. ↗

— Jon Stewart

#fatherhood #great #ruin #scratch #someone

I didn't hesitate to kiss my father in public. And that's how I tried to raise my children. We're physical. ↗

— Payne Stewart

#father #hesitate #how #i #i tried

At my age you don't go into fatherhood lightly. ↗