The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children.
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All of us have to recognize that we owe our children more than we have been giving them.
I owe my mother who I am, and my father my drive.
Each and every one of us who is still lucky enough to have our parents has a duty to them. We do owe them.
I owe a lot to my parents, especially by mother and my father.
I owe undying gratitude to my patient parents.
I owe my father everything.
Today, as we look back on the history of our nation and take note of how far we have come as a people, we are reminded that we owe a great debt to those who fought valiantly for the freedoms that we easily take for granted.
This country owes them all a debt of gratitude. The down payment on that debt is making sure that we live up to Lincoln's charge: to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan.
We owe it to our children to give them a dignified and hopeful future.
We can pay our debts to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.