Fathers

Famous quotes containing the word fathers:

    This last pain for the damned the Fathers found:
    “They knew the bliss with which they were not crowned.”
    William Empson (1906–1984)

    The guys who fear becoming fathers don’t understand that fathering is not something perfect men do, but something that perfects the man. The end product of child raising is not the child but the parent.
    Frank Pittman (20th century)

    The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge.
    Bible: Hebrew Ezekiel, 18:2.

    Proverbial reproach by God, concerning the land of Israel. The same image is used in Jeremiah 31:29.