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Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the father.
— Jean De La Bruyere
The curse of fatherhood is distance, and the good fathers spend their lives trying to overcome it.
— Steve Farrar
Negro leaders sought to negotiate with the city fathers. But the political leaders consistently refused to engage in good-faith negotiation.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
The mother and the father are the causes of this body; so a man must undergo a thousand troubles in order to do good to them.
— Swami Vivekananda
Work alone isn't enough for me and mine; we know how to break our backs, but the great dream Of my fathers was to be good at doing nothing.
— Cesare Pavese
The paradox is, I can't miss the good things about my father while he is alive, but I will of course miss him ... when he is dead.
— Sandra Tsing Loh
The result was magnificent ... I became the father of two girls and two boys, lovely children by good fortune they all look like my wife.
— Arthur Rubinstein
Take a good long look at The Lord's Prayer. It's all 'we', 'us' and 'our'. There is no 'me', 'I' or 'mine' anywhere.
— Anne Hamilton
The only man who can truly handle a woman is a woman, Abban's father had said to him many times before he died. It was good advice.
— Peter V. Brett
In the same way, let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven. MATTHEW 5:16
— Anne Graham Lotz
Sure, occasion is the father of most that is good in us.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
weeks." "Sounds like a good idea. The police may have options for investigating that your father and
— Claire Fogel
I like pretty conservative guys, good guys. I always look for the qualities I find in my father.
— Summer Glau
What good has impatience ever brought? It has only served as the mother of mistakes and the father of irritation.
— Steve Maraboli
When I was maybe 5 or 6 years old, the neighborhood girls would sit on the stoop and sing. I was known as the kid who had a good voice and no father.
— Barbra Streisand
That is a definite no-no in the Good Father Handbook.
— Carrie Jones
Father Brown: ... one can sometimes do good by being the right person in the wrong place
— G.K. Chesterton
A good father is one of the most unsung, unpraised, unnoticed, and yet one of the most valuable assets in our society.
— Billy Graham
The Founding Fathers believed that faith in God was the key to our being a good people and America's becoming a great nation.
— Ronald Reagan
The fact my relationship with my son is so good makes me forgiving of my father and also appreciative.
— Anthony Kiedis
You marry the one who will be a good father, not a good lay.
— Tom Cardamone
Career, his accomplishments, his victories, the kind of friend he was, and the kind of father, except her. But she did a good job. Most of the
— Danielle Steel
The only things that excited her father, the king, more than a good ball were sustainable logging practices
— Shannon Hale
To me, having kids is the ultimate job in life. I want to be most successful at being a good father.
— Nick Lachey
My father was a veteran and my mother a schoolteacher. They taught me the value of a good job and an honest day's work.
— Stephen Pagliuca
But the praises of father or mother do our Selves good, and comfort them and make them beautiful.
— George MacDonald
The moral code which was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for our children.
— Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
But let the good old corn adornThe hills our fathers trod;
Still let us, for his golden corn,
Send up our thanks to God! — John Greenleaf Whittier
Perhaps it's natural for a father, for every parent, to see in his child all that's unspoiled and good.
— Vaddey Ratner
Warfare is the father of all good things, it is also the father of good prose!
— Friedrich Nietzsche
I looked at the faces around me, wondering what was going to happen to me ... wondering when I would see Father again.I will help you. — M.L. LeGette
.....if he's not man enough to stand up to your father, and take the crap he has to dish out, then he's not good enough to be with you.
— Sam Crescent
The best inheritance a father can leave his children is a good example.
— John Walter Bratton
I was a good surfer because we grew up a block from the water, and my father took us to the ocean the way other fathers take their kids to the park.
— Jolene Blalock
Every good & perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the Heavenly Lights.
— Anonymous
Son," his father said. "Run faithfully to the end, and like all good men, you will die of having lived.
— N.D. Wilson
Let me be clear. 'The Good Father' isn't a handbook on how to assassinate the president.
— Noah Hawley
You know how we tell the good guys from the bad guys? The bad guys shoot at us.Best lesson my father ever taught me. — Rick Yancey
I follow my father's philosphy; 'Do what is good, do what is right, and God will take care of the rest.'
— Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
A poet may be a good companion, but, so far as I know, he is ever the worst of fathers.
— Irving Bacheller
My mother and father told me I was god. I was a good Italian boy who hung out with the same four guys. I was a little god.
— Chazz Palminteri
Polite Conversation Why, everyone one as they like; as the good woman said when she kissed her cow.
— Jonathan Swift
The father's role, he says, is to provide the mother with the peace and security she needs to be a good enough mother.
— Massimilla Harris
All my books explore fatherhood. I look at what it means to have a big father figure at the centre: sometimes they're a good father, sometimes bad.
— Monique Roffey
They're politicians," her father pointed out dryly. "A good grip on reality isn't part of the job description.
— Christopher G. Nuttall
A poignant paradox is that sometimes the very desire to be a good mother or father will lead the parent to mistake duty for love.
— William Watson Purkey
Everything good is the transmutation of something evil: every god has a devil for a father.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
My father's rich, my momma's good looking. Right? And I can play the Blues. I've never suffered and don't intend to suffer.
— Miles Davis
You are the reason I want to be good, the reason I have seen the evil in my father. You make me good. You make me whole
— Rebecca Ethington
Good Hamlet, cast thy nighted colour off ... Do not for ever with thy vailed lids Seek for thy noble father in the dust.
— William Shakespeare
My father prayed because he had a good friend with whom to share the problems of the day.
— Corrie Ten Boom
I don't regret the numerous pictures of Brigitte Bardot, but I'd rather have a good photograph of my father.
— Raymond Depardon
My father wears his faith like the bronze breastplate of God's footsoldiers while our mother's is more like a good cloth coat with a secondhand fit.
— Barbara Kingsolver
As a father has pity on his children, so has the Lord had pity on us; because He is good, because His mercy endures forever.
— Peter J. Arnoudt
It occurred to me then that I was the opposite of my father. Because I was very, very good at destroying things.
— Maggie Stiefvater
The fact is that you can't have a good relationship with a girl who hasn't settled things with her father.
— Mort Sahl
