"Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers."

-- Lewis Mumford

#Family Quotes #Father Quotes #Grandparent Quotes

“That's what happens when bodies start slapping.”
“Somehow difficulties are easier to endure when you know your dream is waiting for you at the end.”
“The way to deal with the devil of obesity and diabetes is literally one day at a time.”
“And my daughter said, 'Why are you yelling at us?' and I said, 'I'm trying to discipline you!' And then she looked up at me with her tear-stained eyes and said, 'This is how you teach children, by making them cry.' And it was such a clenching reminder - she won not only the argument, but she won life with that statement. I just burst out laughing, and I think they were so surprised that I burst out laughing, that they did too.”
“You can't get any braver than going on national television to be weighed.”
“I just wanted to do something important.”
“No matter that astronauts and cosmonauts had perished in precisely designed and carefully tested machines. Solid engineering could always provide a safety margin, because the engineers believed, there was complete safety in numbers.”
“Was it not through pride that the devil became the devil? Christ wanted to serve. The devil wanted to rule. Christ wanted to bring men to where He was. The devil wanted to be above men.”

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