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Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal

Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope. – John Ciardi

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Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old. – John Ciardi

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You dont have to suffer to be a poet adolescence is enough suffering for anyone. – John Ciardi

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Poetry
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What has any poet to trust more than the feel of the thing? Theory concerns him only until he picks up his pen, and it begins to concern him again as soon as he lays it down. – John Ciardi

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Trust
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Nobody ever asks a father how he manages to combine marriage and a career. – Sam Ewing

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My mother is Italian and my dads Irish. In my family, were expressive. Nobody holds back. – Kate Walsh

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I love my hockey, but if you can do that and go home and just be a dad and husband, then you have the best of both worlds. – Curtis Joseph

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We have come to a turning point in the road. If we turn to the right mayhap our children and our childrens children will go that way but if we turn to the left, generations yet unborn will curse our names for having been unfaithful to God and to His Word. – Charles Spurgeon

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