Famous quotes containing the words father and/or hang:
“But while he was still far off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion; he ran and put his arms around him and kissed him.”
—Bible: New Testament, Luke 15:20.
“Our thoughts could not revert to any greater or wiser or better man with whom to contrast him, for he, then and there, was above them all. The man this country was about to hang appeared the greatest and best in it.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)