In search of my mother’s garden, I found my own.
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I hate science. It denies a man's responsibility for his own deeds, abolishes the brotherhood that springs from God's fatherhood. It is a hectoring, dictating expertise, which makes the least lovable of the Church Fathers seem liberal by contrast. It is far easier for a Hitler or a Stalin to find a mock-scientific excuse for persecution than it was for Dominic to find a mock-Christian one.
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It is admirable for a man to take his son fishing, but there is a special place in heaven for the father who takes his daughter shopping.
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Home is where your mom is.
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Motherhood is a biological fact, while fatherhood is a social invention
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She’s my teacher, my adviser, my greatest inspiration.
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Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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I've had a hard life, but my hardships are nothing against the hardships that my father went through in order to get me to where I started.
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Always kiss your children goodnight - even if they're already asleep.
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Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.
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There's something like a line of gold thread running through a man's words when he talks to his daughter, and gradually over the years it gets to be long enough for you to pick up in your hands and weave into a cloth that feels like love itself. Long enou
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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them
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I felt something impossible for me to explain in words. Then, when they took her away, it hit me. I got scared all over again and began to feel giddy. Then it came to me... I was a father.
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Old as she was, she still missed her Daddy sometimes.
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My mother used to have an expression. There’s only one woman around this house, it’s me.
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There are three stages of a man's life: There are three stages of a man's life: He believes in Santa Claus, he doesn't believe in Santa Claus, he is Santa Claus.
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A mother's love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible.
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The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.
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Daughters teach mothers to enjoy girl time, especially hair braiding. Mothers teach daughters that they are beautiful just the way they are.
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It is a wise father that knows his own child
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Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever.
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It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.
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Only a mother as perfect as you, could have a daughter as perfect as me.
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The greatest gift I ever had came from God, and I call him Father.
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Mother's can look through a child's eyes and see tomorrow.
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Any man can be a father. It takes someone special to be a Dad.
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