539 quotes found
“A fathers tears and fears are unseen, his love is unexpressed, but his care and protection remains as a pillar of strength throughout our lives.”
“A father is the template of a man Nature gives a girl”
“When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.”
“That porch is a happy-looking place, and my father - burdened, stoop-shouldered, cadaverously thin - doesn't seem to belong on it.”
“The dream thatwe are our fathers. I walked to the Brod,41without knowing why, and looked intomy reflection in the water. I couldnt lookaway. What was the image that pulled mein after it? What was i...”
“But my father, a thief in many ways, had robbed me of my concentration.”
“The way Magnus breath had sounded, rattling in his chest, before hed said his fathers name.”
“[My father] loved me tenderly and shyly from a distance, and later on took a naive pride in seeing my name in print.”
“But I got through the review, for all their Latin and French; I did, and if you doubt me, you just look at the end of the great ledger, turn it upside down, and you'll find I've copied out all the ...”
“The heroin flowing through me, I thought about the last time I saw my father alive. He was drunk and overweight in a restaurant in Beverly Hills, and curling into myself on the bed I thought: What ...”
“A boy is a magical creature - you can lock him out of your workshop, but you can't lock him out of your heart.”
“There were a few other moves of his father's he could do without as well - the sucker punches, the ruffling of the hair, the way of pronouncing the word son, in a slightly deeper voice. This hearty...”
“Yaicha and Darren told me that I wasthe mailman's child,and I got so angry,stalking away,hot steam in my ribs.Yaicha and Darrentold me that I was the mailman's childand now I am thinkinghow wonderf...”
“There must be some kind of internal time distortion effect in here, because when I look at myself in the little mirror above my sink, what I see is my father's face, my face turning into his. I am ...”
“Family myths are cherished by the people who--however unwittingly--have brought them into being. In my own situation, what my father was really saying to me during that last unfortunate phone call ...”
“(talking about his father) 230 pounds of nickels in Sears slacks.”
“Well, in that case, no. Im not your father. But if you go with another definition, meaning a man who wants to be in your life and help raise you, then yes. I am.”
“Your lifestyle shows who your father is”
“Her father had learned only one thing in prison. Not humility, nor patience, nor understanding...Marshall Kofer had learned to listen, at least to his daughter".”
“Every child grows up thinking their father is a hero or villain until they are old enough to realize that he is just a man”
