If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.
James A. BaldwinRead
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If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.
It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.
Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never are.
My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.
For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers.
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
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