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Today's fathers are having a rough go being kindly portrayed in the media. Thank God, we do we have President Barack Obama for a national model. He both dotes on and takes a firm loving hand to our first-family daughters.

~Donna Brazile

Topics: Barack Barack Obama Being Both Daughters Fathers Firm Go God Hand Having He Kindly Loving Media Model National Obama Our Portrayed President President Barack Obama Rough Takes Thank Thank God Today

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I would never, ever desert my child. A lot of my friends didn't have fathers growing up, and they were very upset that their fathers weren't around. I was lucky to have mine around.

~Dwight Howard

Topics: Around Child Desert Ever Fathers Friends Growing Growing Up Lot Lucky Mine Never Up Upset Very Were Would

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All children need their fathers, but boys especially need fathers to teach them how to be men.

~Dwyane Wade

Topics: Boy Children Fathers How Men Need Teach Them

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I think people have had the understanding for many years that whatever happens with the separation of parents, that the kids automatically go to the mother. The fathers don't know their rights.

~Dwyane Wade

Topics: Automatically Fathers Go Had Happens Kids Know Many Mother Parents People Rights Separation Think Understanding Whatever Years I Think

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The land of my fathers. My fathers can have it.

~Dylan Thomas

Topics: Fathers Land

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At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.

~E. E. Cummings

Topics: Children Clocks Fathers Indians Least Merely Pilgrim Punch Shoot Time Used

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The modern minds in each generation are the critics who preserve us from a petrifying world, who will not leave us to walk undisturbed in the ways of our fathers.

~Edith Hamilton

Topics: Critics Each Each Generation Fathers Generation Leave Minds Modern Our Preserve Undisturbed Us Walk Ways Who Will World

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Throughout his long career, Washington earned the adulation not merely of ordinary people but of the other luminaries whom we now hail as 'founding fathers.'

~Edmund Morgan

Topics: Adulation Career Earned Fathers Founding Founding Fathers Hail His Long Long Career Merely Now Ordinary Ordinary People Other People Throughout Washington Whom

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Franklin was the best known of the Founding Fathers. His death could not go without some sort of official notice. The House of Representatives, after listening to a brief tribute by James Madison, voted to wear badges of mourning for two months and then got on with business.

~Edmund Morgan

Topics: After Best Brief Business Could Death Fathers Founding Founding Fathers Franklin Go Got His House House Of Representatives James Known Listening Madison Months Mourning Notice Official Representatives Some Sort Then Tribute Two Voted Wear Without

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Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire.

~Edna O'Brien

Topics: Countries Either Emotional Fathers Mothers Reserved Secretly

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