“As our fathers said, you can tell a ripe corn by its look.”

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“I need you to listen to me, 'cause it might be the last time I ever get to talk to you. I haven't been a good enough father. You're fourteen. You have no idea how terrifying that is. So I've tried to control what you do and who you see, because I wanted to keep you safe, and I wanted you to go off to school and get a good job and maybe someday... fall in love, and ask me to walk you down the aisle. I'm still your dad, and it's my job to look out for you. But I haven't been a good listener. I know you can hear me. And I'm not asking you to say anything. I just want you to know that I understand that I... I can't control everything. But I need the last words you hear me say...to be that I love you.”
“My father was a great man. He loved unconditionally. He gave of himself endlessly. Through out his life my father struggled with depression and thoughts of suicide. I was not aware at the time though that he was struggling, as the last time I saw him I was eight years old.”
“The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.”
“My dad is living proof that behind every man that makes it is an older man, and that would be his father.”
“A friend will be a friend in times of all kinds.”
“John McCain was not defined by prison, by the Navy, by the Senate, by the Republican Party, or by any single one of the deeds in his absolutely extraordinary life. John McCain was defined by love.”

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