Fathers

Most boys take after their fathers.

The sins of the fathers are visited upon the children.

Fathers in cities spend eight hours in the office and another two hours traveling to and from their work on trains full of people every morning and evening.

It was then that my fathers reproof had come home to me.

There are mothers and fathers who will lie awake after the children fall asleep and wonder how they'll make the mortgage or pay their doctors' bills or save enough for their child's college education.

There are mothers and fathers who will lie awake after the children fall asleep and wonder how they'll make the mortgage, or pay their doctor's bills, or save enough for their child's college education.

And when the first Muslim-American was recently elected to Congress, he took the oath to defend our Constitution using the same Holy Koran that one of our Founding Fathers – Thomas Jefferson – kept in his personal library.

Let the fathers be fathers and the sons sons.

It is astonishing to witness that the Iranians, onto whom the Arabs imposed Islam through military defeat, have become its most zealous followers to the point of oppressing those of Zoroastrianism, though it is the religion of their own fathers. A kind of Stockholm syndrome on the national scale.

Fathers and teachers, I ponder, "What is hell?" I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.