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I think that the best thing we can do for our children is to allow them to do things for themselves, allow them to be strong, allow them to experience life on their own terms, allow them to take the subway... let them be better people, let them believe more in themselves.
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motherhood
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life-and-living
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parenting-children
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parenting
children
childhood
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C. JoyBell C. |
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To be the father of growing daughters is to understand something of what Yeats evokes with his imperishable phrase 'terrible beauty.' Nothing can make one so happily exhilarated or so frightened: it's a solid lesson in the limitations of self to realize that your heart is running around inside someone else's body. It also makes me quite astonishingly calm at the thought of death: I know whom I would die to protect and I also understand that nobody but a lugubrious serf can possibly wish for a father who never goes away.
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fathers
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death
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Christopher Hitchens |
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It was the kind of promise a father makes easily and sincerely, knowing at the same time that it will be impossible to keep. The truth of some promises is not as important as whether or not you can believe in them, with all your heart. A game of baseball can't really make a summer day last forever. A home run can't really heal all the broken places in our world, or in a single human heart. And there was no way that Mr. Feld could keep his promise never to leave Ethan again. All parents leave their children one day.
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summerland
fatherhood
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Michael Chabon |
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A few days after we came home from the hospital, I sent a letter to a friend, including a photo of my son and some first impressions of fatherhood. He responded, simply, 'Everything is possible again.' It was the perfect thing to write because that was exactly how it felt.
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motherhood
family
love
fatherhood
parenthood
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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"Why do men like me want sons?" he wondered. "It must be because they hope in their poor beaten souls that these new men, who are their blood, will do the things they were not strong enough nor wise enough nor brave enough to do. It is rather like another chance at life; like a new bag of coins at a table of luck after your fortune is gone."
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failed-ambition
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expectation
parenthood
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John Steinbeck |
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Anyone can make a baby, but it takes a man to be a father.
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fatherhood
parenting
parents
father
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Ta-Nehisi Coates |
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"Incidentally, I have also learned a bit about the importance of avoiding feminine embarrassment ('Daddy,' wrote Sophia when she enrolled at the New School where I teach, 'people will ask "why is old Christopher Hitchens kissing that girl?"') and shall now cease and desist."
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women
fatherhood
fathers-and-daughters
the-new-school
kisses
parenthood
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Christopher Hitchens |
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You never would get through to the end of being a father, no matter where you stored your mind or how many steps in the series you followed. Not even if you died. Alive or dead a thousand miles distant, you were always going to be on the hook for work that was neither a procedure nor a series of steps but, rather, something that demanded your full, constant attention without necessarily calling you to do, perform, or say anything at all.
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death-and-dying
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fatherhood
father
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Michael Chabon |
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[Nathan] wasn't blindly obsessed with a possession. He wasn't crazy. He was a hero--a father who'd risked his life to rescue his son.
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fiction
courageous
fatherhood
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Randy Alcorn |
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When you're a dad, there's no one above you. If I don't do something that has to be done, who is going to do it?
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fathers
fatherhood
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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He was like my father. They each wanted me to be their audience, to hear the things they needed to express.
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fatherhood
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Richard Ford |
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,,Ako s'lzite mogat da izplatiat nashite grekhove, bikh plakal, za da kupia oproshchenie za vsichki tvoi m'ki v b'deshchiia ti zhivot, ako mozhekh sega da izplacha vsichko vmesto teb, bikh plakal, dokato iztekat ochite mi.
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love-quotes
love
africa
death-of-a-loved-one
sean-courtney
български
fatherhood
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Wilbur Smith |
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"You are born into a family and those are your people, and they know you and they love you, and if you are lucky they even on occasion manage to understand you. And that ought to be enough. But it is never enough. Abe had not been dressing up, styling himself, for all these years because he was trying to prove how different he was from everyone else. He did it in the hope of attracting the attention of somebody else--somewhere, someday--who was the same. He was not flying his freak flag; he was sending up a flare, hoping for rescue, for company in the solitude of his passion. "You were with your people. You found them," I said. He nodded. "That's good," I said. "You're early." --
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finding-your-people
tribes
fatherhood
parenting
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Michael Chabon |
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"Father to teenage son: "My relationship with you is more important than anything I've got to say to you."
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lecturing
relationship
fatherhood
parenting
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Randy Alcorn |
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Their lifelong love of learning, their remarkable wide-ranging intellectual curiosity, was fostered primarily by their father. He read aloud to them at night, eliciting their responses to works of history and literature. He organized amateur plays for them, encourage pursuit of special interests, prompted them to write essays on their readings, and urge them to recite poetry.
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fatherhood
parenthood
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Doris Kearns Goodwin |
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"Of Teddy Roosevelt and his siblings, the author writes they were, "armed with an innate curiosity and discipline fostered by his remarkable father."
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fatherhood
parenthood
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Doris Kearns Goodwin |
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"This book consists not only of my stories of mistakes, rather it's all our stories of mistakes and heart aches. It's the plight of all of us who were rebelling, and kicking against the social messes we found ourselves in. Yet there are so many others who are not alive today, and I feel obligated in not allowing the lessons of their mistakes to lie in the grave with them. It was the United States Senator, Al Franken, who stated, "Mistakes are a part of being human. Precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from." I'm revealing all of those mistakes and more, sadly a lot of them are fatal. In an attempt to have these real life lessons obtained in blood, prevent the blood-shedding of so many others. These stories are ones that young people can understand and identify with. While at the same time empowering them, to make better decisions about their choice of friends, the proper use of their time and how one wrong move can be fatal. I guess the major question that we all have to ask ourselves at the end of the day would be: how could I and so many others have been prevented from becoming monsters? You be the judge. I now extend my hand to you, and personally invite you to take a journey with me into the heartlands of innocence to menacing, from a youngster to a monster, and the making of a predator. I will safely walk you down the deserted and darkened street corners which were once my world of crime, gang violence and senseless murders. It's a different world unto itself, one which could only be observed up close by invitation only. Together we will learn the motivation behind hard-core gangsters, and explore the minds of cold-blooded murderers. You will discover the way they think about their own lives, and why they are so remorseless about the taking of another's life. So, if you will, please journey with me as we discover together how the fight of our lives were wrapped up in our fathers."
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deserted
die-hard-gangsters
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menacing
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senseless-murders
under-ground-world
rebelling
social-ills
harden-criminals
at-risk-youth
crime-prevention
social-science
fatherhood
friendships
mistakes
choices
monsters
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Drexel Deal |
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"The return to the "Father from whom all fatherhood takes its name" allows me to let my dad be no less than the good, loving, but limited human being he is, and to let my heavenly Father be the God whose unlimited, unconditional love melts away all resentments and anger and makes me free to love beyond the need to please or find approval."
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god
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parents
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Henri J.M. Nouwen |
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"Dad called it "enlightenment" but to me, it just felt lonely."
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loneliness
family
love
wisdom
fatherhood
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Ta-Nehisi Coates |
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I knew a lot of fellas who live in Lizzy and never got involved in some of the stuff that we were getting into. This was because they had a strong father figure at home, so they couldn't have gotten involved. The few of those who did end up in the gang even though their father was in the home, their father was just there as a provider, but he was not directly involved in their lives. Shelton 'Apples' Burrows reform gang leader
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fathers
gang-prevention
home-but-absent
involved-fathers
father-figure
gang-members
rebellion-raiders
fatherless-homes
fatherhood
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Drexel Deal |
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BONN: I thought fatherhood was hard, and some people weren't suited for it. But it's not. Being a father, a good one, I mean, is about making a choice.
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mc-romance
fatherhood
second-chances
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Bijou Hunter |
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What I came to dislike about Little League that spring was not the regulation per se, or the fathers--whose consciousness had generally been raised at least a little bit--or the tedium, or the low quality of play, or the pain of watching my son strike out a lot. It was the way I got reminded, every game, that this was the world my children lived in: the world in which the wild watershed of childhood had been brought fully under control of the adult Corps of Engineers.
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Michael Chabon |
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Before I was born my father disowned me. You know those ones who get the females pregnant, and then say the baby is not theirs? He rejected me, told my mother that I am not his child, so I never had a relationship with my father. Shelton 'Apples' Burrows reform gang leader
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broken-lives
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disown
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fatherless-homes
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hurting-people
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Drexel Deal |