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Father Quotes (page 50)

As my father talked, tears dripped down the side of his face like candle wax. The sight shocked me; until that moment, I had assumed men were as incapable of crying as they were of having babies. Wally Lamb
Graham Greene quote: "There are times when a lover longs to be also a father and a..."
There are times when a lover longs to be also a father and a brother: he is jealous of the years he hasn't shared. Graham Greene
Suzanne Collins quote: "Since my father died and I stopped trusting my mother, no one..."
Since my father died and I stopped trusting my mother, no one else's arms have made me feel this safe. Suzanne Collins
Ay! but mother's words are scarce, and weigh heavy. Father's liker me, and we talk a deal o' rubble; but mother's words are liker to hewn stone. She puts a deal o' meaning in 'em. Elizabeth Gaskell
Vernor Vinge quote: "Programming went back to the beginning of time. It was a..."
Programming went back to the beginning of time. It was a little like the midden out back of his father's castle. Vernor Vinge
The words a father speaks to his children in the privacy of the home are not overheard at the time, but, as in whispering galleries, they will be clearly heard at the end and by posterity. Jean Paul
One thing I could never stand was to see a filthy dirty old drunky howling away at the filthy songs of his fathers and going blurp blurp in between as it might be a filthy old orchestra in his stinking rotten guts; I could never stand to see anyone like that. whatever his age might be, but more especially when he was real old like this one was. Anthony Burgess
If any man at this day sincerely believes that a proper division of local from federal authority, or any part of the Constitution, forbids the Federal Government to control as to slavery in the federal territories, he is right to say so, and to enforce his position by all truthful evidence and fair argument which he can. But he has no right to mislead others, who have less access to history, and less leisure to study it, into the false belief that "our fathers who framed the Government under... Abraham Lincoln
Kurt Vonnegut quote: "Someday son all this will be yours. Father and son atop a..."
Someday son all this will be yours. Father and son atop a garbage dump. Kurt Vonnegut
They didn't think it had anything to do with the war. They were sure Billy was going to pieces because his father had thrown him into the deep end of the Y.M.C.A. swimming pool when he was a little boy, and had then taken him to the rim of the Grand Canyon. Kurt Vonnegut
Katherine Mansfield quote: "Oh,' said the little girl, 'my head's on your heart; I can..."
Oh,' said the little girl, 'my head's on your heart; I can hear it going. What a big heart you've got, father dear. Katherine Mansfield
What would his father do then? Go on, Johnny supposed. People had a way of doing that, just going on, pushing through with no particular drama, no big drumrolls. Stephen King
When you put your trust in your dad, he will feel the responsibility of that trust and try harder than ever to understand and to help. As your father, he is entitled to inspiration on your behalf. His advice to you will be the heartfelt expressions of someone who knows and loves you. Your dad wants more than anything for you to be happy and successful, so why would you not want to trust someone like that? Boys, trust your dad. M. Russell Ballard
My father once told me that respect for truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. 'Something cannot emerge from nothing,' he said. This is profound thinking if you understand how unstable 'the truth' can be. Frank Herbert
Poor Catherine's dignity was not aggressive; it never sat in state; but if you pushed far enough you could find it. Her father had pushed very far. Henry James

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