#fathers

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

Let us form one body, one heart, and defend to the last warrior our country, our homes, our liberty, and the graves of our fathers. ↗

— Tecumseh

#country #defend #fathers #form #graves

What harsh judges fathers are to all young men! ↗

— Terence

#fathers #harsh #judges #men #young

What I really want to tell him is to pick up that baby of his and hold her tight, to set the moon on the edge of her crib and to hang her name up in the stars. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#fathers #moon #stars #sisters

I wanted to ask my father about his regrets. I wanted to ask him what was the worst thing he'd ever done. His greatest sin. I wanted to ask him if there was any reason why the Catholic Church would consider him for sainthood. I wanted to open up his dictionary and find the definitions for faith, hope, goodness, sadness, tomato, son, mother, husband, virginity, Jesus, wood, sacrifice, pain, foot, wife, thumb, hand, bread, and sex. "Do you believe in God?" I asked my father. "God has lots of potential," he said. "When you pray," I asked him. "What do you pray about?" "That's none of your business," he said. We laughed. We waited for hours for somebody to help us. What is an Indian? I lifted my father and carried him across every border. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#dying #fathers #life #loss #regrets

They'd drink like men, like their fathers and uncles, like George fucking Washington... ↗

— Claire Vaye Watkins

#inspiration #man-o-war #inspirational

Often, city fathers blamed prostitutes for the disease, and some threatened to brand their cheeks with hot iron if they did not desist from their vices. ↗

— Peter Lewis Allen

#brand #cheeks #city #desist #did

In my experience, it's all wonderful with girls until about 16. Around that time, boys kind of calm down and start focusing their testosterone. Girls get a little challenging, especially for fathers. ↗

— Tim Allen

#around #calm #calm down #challenging #down