Fathers
Quotes - We can't always do what we want in life
“Fatherhood
is important to me. I've taught my daughter to cherish nature, to nurture her
spirituality, to love herself, to love others, to exploration science, and to
seek wisdom and understanding. I make it a point to cultivate those things in
her, in the way that only a father can.”
―
Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth
“Sons
Always
revel
In
their fathers admiration. Sons
Always
bask
In
their mother's love.”
―
Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, The Wealth Reference Guide: An American Classic
“After
You Left
the
weight of your absence
became
a black hole revolving
around
my memory of you--itself
a
black hole. Wavelets wrinkled
the
sheer sheet of space and time.
Father,
the loss of you is a planet
orbiting
what might have been.
I
cannot say if the emptiness is
a
grand celestial body or a vacuum
so
complete nothing can escape. I know
these
forces have mass and motion
that
bends, calls in, ripples fabric--
distorts
the pace of light
for
a billion years.”
―
Michael Kleber-Diggs, Worldly Things
“There's
no amount of mothering that can replace the leadership and the spiritual impact
of a father.”
―
Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth
“Men,"
he said as he left. "I hate them. I've always hated them. You wonder why I
always hang around with women and never with men, it's because men do things
like this." He waved his hand vaguely at me and my stomach and jogged off
into the night.”
―
Nora Ephron, Heartburn
“The
truth is that if my father weren't my father, he would be one of the men he
hates; he is incorrigibly faithless and thoroughly narcissistic, to such an
extent that I tend to forget he's also capable of being a real peach.”
―
Nora Ephron, Heartburn
“Only
mothers can conceive a child. Only mothers can physically give birth to a
child. Only mothers can breast feed. Everyone recognizes the uniqueness of
motherhood. Everyone knows that mothers are irreplaceable. But as a student of
nature, I know that everything is in balance. So it is also true that fathers
are superior to mothers in some ways and there are unique ways that fathers can
love children and lead children that mothers simply are not capable of. And
ultimately, everything balances out - mothers and fathers are equally important
to children.”
―
Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth
“Anyone
who knows anything knows we owe everything to our women.”
―
Drue Grit
“The
biggest lie ever told by a man to his woman is that his child with another
woman is not his. The biggest lie ever told by a woman to her man is that her
child with another man is his.”
―
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“We
can't always do what we want in life," answered her father, "so we do
the best we can.”
―
Beverly Cleary, Ramona Forever
“Men
play at life. They use important words like principles and duty, honour and
beliefs. But women have to sort things out. Wrap up the sandwiches. Mend broken
knees and broken hearts. Clean surfaces.”
―
Dave Appleby, Motherdarling
“The
elderly gentleman sitting across the table from me didn't run away from home,
as Sam calls it, because he has dementia. He left because he's looking for a
reason to live. Just like me.”
―
Bob Seay, Dad
“Then
Daddy is saying it's over, the blood-bool is over and Scott can take care of
his brother. His father tells him he's brave, one brave little sumbitch, his
father says he loves him and in that moment of victory Scott doesn't even mind
the blood on the floor, he loves his father too, he loves his crazy blood-bool
Daddy for letting it be over this time even though he knows, even at three he
knows that next time will come.”
―
Stephen King, Lisey's Story
“Then,
taking his hat and shoving it onto his head, he would rush out into the mass of
busy people and all at once look nothing at all like Father anymore: in fact,
if it were not for the particular way his hat had been squished ever since one
of her wooden animals sat on it, Shelley would hardly have been able to tell
his brown-coated figure from anyone else’s.”
―
Sara Barkat, The Shivering Ground & Other Stories
“We
have been more than one year
without
him, and just now
we
are starting to see things again.”
―
Gustavo Hernandez, Flower Grand First
“In
the chair, watching the fire and thinking of Pop and how sad it was that he was
not immortal, and how happy I was that he had been able to be with us so much,
that we’d been lucky enough to have three or four things together that were
like the Old Days along with just the happiness of being together and talking
and joking, I fell asleep.”
―
Ernest Hemingway, True at First Light
“So,
with my thoughts following my father's footsteps through the countryside, I
fell asleep; and he never knew that he had had me so close to him.”
―
Italo Calvino, Into the War
“I
came to see I was not just alone; I was free. Free of him. Free to be.
So
many women's lives are hindered, hampered, and ruined by husbands who will not
leave long after they have ceased to be husbands or fathers. Dead wearing a
hat, these men actively and energetically visit untold woe on those they once
had once. I was not thus afflicted I saw.”
―
Sindiwe Magona, To My Children's Children
“I
came to see I was not just alone; I was free. Free of him. Free to be.
So
many women's lives are hindered, hampered, and ruined by husbands who will not
leave long after they have ceased to be husbands or fathers. Dead wearing a
hat, these men actively and energetically visit untold woe on those they once
had loved. I was not thus afflicted I saw.”
―
Sindiwe Magona, To My Children's Children
“Ramona
understood what Beezus meant, because she felt sad too, and her stomach felt
tight when her father came home tired and discouraged after a day in the
checkout line. People were in a hurry, many were cross because the line was
long, and some customers acted as if he were to blame because prices were so
high.”
―
Beverly Cleary, Ramona and Her Mother
“When
the fathers have traditionally established the direction and the focus of the
family, it is the mothers that nurture the heart of the family.”
―
Wanda Alger
“My
father said a lot of terrific daddy things to me that made me cry even harder,
partly because the dialogue was completely lifted from an obscure Dan Daley
movie he'd played a pediatrician in, and partly because he nevertheless
delivered the lines so very well.”
―
Nora Ephron, Heartburn
“I
fell in love with my father's signature. His love for his own name was
something to see. He saw himself full of pomp, of crowns, of pride. My father's
pride was cosmic in scale.”
―
Manuel Vilas, Ordesa
“A
father is the man who teaches trembling hands to reach up in search of
everything impossible, for he has left his child with the unbridled sense that
to do anything less is the greatest impossibility of all.”
―
Craig D. Lounsbrough
