Fathers Quotes

[George] Washington intended this to be a Federal city, and it is a Federal city, and it tingles down to the feet of every man, whether he comes from Washington State, or Los Angeles, or Texas, when he comes and walks these city streets and begins to feel that this is my city; I own a part of this Capital, and I envy for the time being those who are able to spend their time here. I quite admit that there are defects in the system of government by which Congress is bound to look after the government of the District of Columbia. It could not be otherwise under such a system, but I submit to the judgment of history that the result vindicates the foresight of the fathers. - William Howard Taft

[Costa knows how revolutions work.] I fully understood when I started this thing... that if it was successful, there'd be many fathers, and if it failed, I would be the one who failed. - Ted Costa

[But] when our forefathers made their rules for two-acre [home sites], they never in their wildest dreams thought there would be a 13,000-square-foot house on that two acres. - Mike Kearney

. . . Grandfathers all the way down to grandchildren are watching this tournament together. Some of those grandfathers played in it, and it's a great tradition. - Kenny Smith

(The warner) said: What! even if I bring to you a better guide than that on which you found your fathers? They said: Surely we are unbelievers in that with which you are sent. - Quran

(And when they heard that he spake in the Hebrew tongue to them, they kept the more silence: and he saith,) / I am verily a man which am a Jew, born in Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, yet brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, and taught according to the perfect manner of the law of the fathers, and was zealous toward God, as ye all are this day. - Bible