Our Fathers Quotes
126 quotes by 107 authors
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Let us keep the dance of rain our fathers kept and tread our dreams beneath the jungle sky.
— Arna Bontemps
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This is our home and this is our country. Beneath its soil lie bones of our fathers; for it some of them fought, bled, and…
— Paul Robeson
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The Americans say that we are ungrateful-but I ask them for heaven's sake, what should we be grateful to them for-for murdering our fathers and…
— David Walker
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To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship.
— Wendell Phillips
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Greater Germany - the dream of our fathers and grandfathers - is finally created.
— Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach
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The path towards sustainable energy sources will be long and sometimes difficult. But America cannot resist this transition, we must lead it. We cannot cede…
— Barack Obama
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In the first place, I insist that our fathers did not make this nation half slave and half free, or part slave and part free.…
— Abraham Lincoln
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In the way our Fathers originally left the slavery question, the institution was in the course of ultimate extinction, and the public mind rested in…
— Abraham Lincoln
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I can express no better hope for my country than that the kind Providence which smiled upon our fathers may enable their children to preserve…
— Franklin Pierce
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We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.
— Alexander Pope
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O, that our fathers would applause our loves, To seal our happiness with hteir consents!
— William Shakespeare
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For all parts of the body that we see fit to expose to the wind and air are found fit to endure it: face, feet,…
— Michel de Montaigne
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Hear me, people: We have now to deal with another race- small and feeble when our fathers first met them, but now great and overbearing.…
— Sitting Bull
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It goes without saying that the Jewish people can have no other goal than Palestine and that, whatever the fate of the proposition may be,…
— Theodor Herzl
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Be on guard against any tampering with the Word, whether disguised as a search for truth, or a scholarly attempt at apparently hidden meanings; and…
— M R DeHaan
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Let us consider, brethren, we are struggling for our best birthrights and inheritance, which being infringed, renders all our blessings precarious in their enjoyments, and,…
— Samuel Adams
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Now we have no God. We have had two: the old God that our fathers handed down to us, that we hated, and never liked;…
— Olive Schreiner
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We never get over our fathers, and we’re not required to. (Irish Proverb)
— Martin Sheen
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This isn't the Democratic party of our fathers and grandfathers. This is the party of Woodstock hippies. I was at Woodstock--I built the stage. And…
— John Ratzenberger
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Honor is a simple word; it means to give special respect and to pay tribute. It means to respond to teachings that have been patiently…
— Hugh W. Pinnock
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