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• From childhood on I have had the dream of life lived as a sacrament... the dream implied taking life ritually as something holy.

  Bernard Berenson

  Dream, Childhood, Holy

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• It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens.

  Fran Drescher

  Queens, Growing Up, People

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• I can't just sit on my daughter's bed and just say 'n---' all night and then put her to sleep. I just ain't gonna do that... I told the girls that these boys are racists, and they're not nice boys. But I think we can still enjoy the stories about the fishin' and the tradin'.

  Louis C. K.

  Girl, Daughter, Nice

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• I think I know how to raise a kid. You just play catch with 'em. You just talk about life, and you distract them by throwing the ball. They don't even notice that you're filling up their heads with your theories.

  Bill Burr

  Kids, Thinking, Filling Up

  "The Best Fatherhood Advice (from Comedians)" by Chris Giblin, www.esquire.com. August 28, 2013.

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• What happened to our friendship? I really think it's our obligation as friends to be brutally honest and be frank with them and say, 'Look, I'm sorry, but your baby is fking boring.'

  David Cross

  Baby, Sorry, Thinking

  The Best Fatherhood "Advice (from Comedians)" by Chris Giblin, www.esquire.com. August 28, 2013.

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• So my reaction to hearing this corny-ass, horrible song ["With Arms Wide Open" by Creed] is violent, uncontrollable, sustained weeping.

  Michael Ian Black

  Song, Arms, Hearing

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• My advice to you is be boring, square, asshole parents... When I have kids, the most recent CD I will own - Phil Collins, No Jacket Required, and I'll rave about it. 'Do you like rock 'n' roll? 'Cause this is rockin' good stuff, kid.'

  Patton Oswalt

  Kids, Squares, Rocks

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• My relationship with my daughter is gonna affect her relationship with men for the rest of her life... Sometimes I'm walking with my daughter. I'm pushing her in the stroller, and sometimes I just pick her up and stare at her, and I realize, my only job in life is to keep her off the pole.

  Chris Rock

  Daughter, Jobs, Men

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• My dad came over to the house... went into his pocket and pulled out a handful of money, and began to pass it out to the children... This was the same man who, when I was his child, I would ask him for 50 cents, this man would tell me his life's story.

  Bill Cosby

  Children, Dad, Men

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• You can't answer a kid's question. A kid never accepts any answer. A kid never says, 'Oh, thanks. I get it.'... They just keep coming with more questions - why, why, why? - until you don't even know who the fk you are anymore at the end of the conversation. It's an insane deconstruction.

  Louis C. K.

  Kids, Insane, Answers

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• You know when you see a mother someplace just melting down on her kid? She's like, 'Shut up, I hate you, you're ugly!'... Any parents there are thinking, 'What did that shitty kid do to that poor woman? That poor woman. I wish I could help.'

  Louis C. K.

  Mother, Hate, Kids

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• Grandfathers do have a special place in the lives of their children's children. They can delight and play with them and even indulge them in ways that they did not indulge their own children. Grandfather knows that after the fun and games are over with his adorable grandchildren he can return to the quiet of his own home and peacefully reflect on this phenomenon of fatherhood.

  Alvin Francis Poussaint

  Fun, Children, Home

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• It is impossible to overstate the need for prayer in the fabric of family life.

  James Dobson

  Prayer, Needs, Fabric

  Dr. James Dobson (2012). “Love for a Lifetime: Building a Marriage That Will Go the Distance”, p.53, Multnomah

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• Train your child in the way in which you know you should have gone yourself.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Children, Should Have, Gone

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• I wasn't anything special as a father. But I loved them and they knew it.

  Sammy Davis, Jr.

  Fathers Day, Father Son, Special

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• Just as a father feels it is all ending and his children are off to start their own families, a new role begins. In midlife, Dad may experience his second "fatherhood" as a grandparent.

  Alvin Francis Poussaint

  Dad, Children, Father

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• Be there...care...and put your children first in your life. When you are given the awesome responsibility of being a father, that is the most important responsibility you can have. God wants us to have a loving relationship with our kids and help them grow...just like God's relationship with us.

  John Harbaugh

  Children, Father, Kids

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• My dad encouraged me to quit my job and pursue the life that I am about to have. He got excited with me. He was the first one to tell me that I could do it. I am 30 years old, and I still find great power in my own dad telling me it's possible. I still find great power in my own dad telling me I can do it.

  Daniel Pearce

  Jobs, Dad, Years

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• A wedding is for daughters and fathers. The mothers all dress up, trying to look like young women. But a wedding is for a father and daughter. They stop being married to each other on that day.

  Sarah Ruhl

  Daughter, Mother, Wedding

  Sarah Ruhl (2010). “The Clean House and Other Plays”, p.435, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Rich men's sons are seldom rich men's fathers.

  Herbert Kaufman

  Boyfriend, Father, Son

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• What I've learned from fatherhood is that having a son cannot, did not, change my love for The Bachelor! I thought that having a son would make me grow up when it came to my TV viewing habits, but I love The Bachelor even more after having a child.

  Jason Biggs

  Growing Up, Dad, Children

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• Everything I write comes from my childhood in one way or another. I am forever drawing on the sense of mystery and wonder and possibility that pervaded that time of my life.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Writing, Drawing, Childhood

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• Older fatherhood isn't all bad: testosterone rates drop about 1% per year as men age, making them less reactive and more patient, and a professionally established middle-aged man is likely to have more time and money to devote to his kids than a twenty-something who's just getting started.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Kids, Men, Years

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• Everything else you grow out of, but you never recover from childhood.

  Beryl Bainbridge

  Childhood, Grows

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My childhood may have been more demented than most, because I learned to read very early and was allowed to read whatever I wanted.

  Poppy Z. Brite

  Childhood, May, Demented

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