539 quotes found
“My father was so very afraid. I felt it in the sting of his black leather belt, which he applied with more anxiety than anger, my father who beat me as if someone might steal me away, because that ...”
“My father was often angry when I was most like him.”
“I had a very difficult relationship with my father, which ended up okay, but there were many difficult years.”
“I grew up looking at my father as to how to behave. In watching him I grasped so many things. His own temperament was of a calm person. He was very composed and I never saw anger in him. To me, tha...”
“Another night, I dreamed I saw my father sweeping out the barn floor clean, and would not suffer the wheat to be brought in the barn. He appeared to me to be in anger.”
“I know I should feel anger at my father for certain things. But since he died when I was 11, I never got to that point.”
“I remembered some people who lived across the street from our home as we were being taken away. When I was a teenager, I had many after-dinner conversations with my father about our internment. He ...”
“An oligarchy of race, where the Saxon rules the African, might be endured; but this oligarchy of sex which makes father, brothers, husband, sons, the oligarchs over the mother and sisters, the wife...”
“My kids are just waiting for me at home. I'm their father. They're wondering, 'When's Daddy coming home?'”
“I just owe almost everything to my father and it's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won...”
“Last winter when I was coming home from church one Thursday evening, I saw somebody run around the house again. I told my father of that.”
“My father was always depressed. When he was home and sober, he was mostly in his room.”
“I remember when I was very young, I had a fever - a long rheumatic fever in bed for four months. And in the days, I stayed alone with the maid. I only had my father's books with me. They were fanta...”
“Stories can encourage us and embolden us to face ourselves and to feel. Stories can make us feel less alone. If we're reading a story that moves us, we can feel that emotion that I feel towards my ...”
“I think Captain Cousteau might be the father of the environmental movement.”
“When I read a book I liked, I would get a pen and one of my father's legal pads and rewrite it from memory as if I had thought of it myself. It was a clear sign that I wanted to be involved in writ...”
“My father always wanted to be the corpse at every funeral, the bride at every wedding and the baby at every christening.”
“Even though Chinese society was really closed, there were two windows for me to explore the world. One was from my mother and grandmother, the unseen and invisible world. Another window was brought...”
“My father always said, 'Malala will be free as a bird.'”
“Whenever I fail as a father or husband... a toy and a diamond always works.”
