#fathers

My dad kept giving me "love pats." Love pats are soft punches of encouragement that are administered on the knee, shoulder, and arm. ↗

— Stephen Chbosky

#love #love

Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers. ↗

— Lewis Mumford

#every #fathers #friends #generation #grandfathers

Most Americans aren't the sort of citizens the Founding Fathers expected; they are contented serfs. Far from being active critics of government, they assume that its might makes it right. ↗

— Joseph Sobran

#assume #being #citizens #contented #critics

When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#destiny #divine #down #fathers #fatigue

The offers I get are for grandfathers, uncles - and they often die very quickly in the script. ↗

— Max von Sydow

#get #grandfathers #i #offers #often

Fathers in today's modern families can be so many things. ↗

— Oliver Hudson

#families #fathers #many #modern #things

Our Founding Fathers would be proud of all that America has achieved, and will continue to achieve, in the coming years. ↗

— John Linder

#achieved #america #coming #continue #fathers

So the news that divorced fathers are to be denied a legal right to a relationship with their children, in the long overdue review of family law published this week, fills me with horror and despair. ↗

— Louis de Bernieres

#denied #despair #divorced #family #fathers

It helps when 1 can send the children off to their fathers so I can support my new book with a national publicity tour. I started writing the book when my daughter was 5. It took me almost four years. ↗

— Meg Tilly

#book #children #daughter #fathers #four

If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too;! ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

#ataraxy #coming-of-age #fathers-and-sons #philosophical #age