Fathers
Quotes - When you're a dad, there's no one above you
“All
over now. He is either in joy or nothingness.
(So
why grieve?
The
worst of it, for him, is over.)
Because
I loved him so and am in the habit of loving him and that love must take the
form of fussing and worry and doing.”
―
George Saunders, Lincoln in the Bardo
“I
believed then--and part of me will always believe--that my father's words ought
to be my own.”
―
Tara Westover, Educated
“Fathers
and daughters have a special bond.
She
is always daddy's little girl.”
―
Richard L. Ratliff
“A
great father is one whose children look up to him rather than away from him.”
―
Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short
Stories for Every Day of the Year
“Father
always said that money doesn’t grow on trees. Well, time doesn’t grow on trees
either.”
―
Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short
Stories for Every Day of the Year
“Wise
man. Kids from the moment they’re born, they fill your heart with love…and
terror. Especially little girls. You want to protect them from everything. And
they you can’t, you feel like you’ve failed as a father. You’ve saved yourself
a lot of pain by not having children.”
―
C.J. Tudor, The Chalk Man
“When
you're a dad, there's no one above you. If I don't do something that has to be
done, who is going to do it?”
―
Jonathan Safran Foer, Here I Am
“Dads
are just men who have babies but I know he loved me because I felt it go out of
me when he crashed. It was like air or blood or bones or something that made me
me and it wasnt there any more and I had only half of it now and I didn't know
if that was enough.”
―
Matt Haig, The Dead Fathers Club
“Not
a few millions of parents strongly hope that their own children will step in by
instantly becoming their own parents’ foster parents, if and when the parents
reach their second childhood.”
―
Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Use and Misuse of Children
“Sigmund
Freud, the father of psychiatry and an atheist, theorized that one’s attitude
toward one’s father largely shaped one’s attitude toward God.”
―
Dennis Prager, The Ten Commandments: Still the Best Moral Code
“Rose
couldn't say to Snow, to insist to her, that sometimes you lose someone in a
way that means he will never read to you, or say good night or swing his around
you again.”
―
Emily Winfield Martin, Snow & Rose
“When
i get into the best college in America, he is cutting radishes for dinner. I
have just found out ten minutes ago. I am elated. He puts down the knife to
shake my hand and then goes back to cutting radishes.”
―
Weike Wang, Chemistry
“The
task of being right is a task the father perfects over time.”
―
Ben Marcus, Notable American Women
“I
wonder where father's gone. He repeatedly goes out but never comes in.”
―
Elizabeth Bowen, Eva Trout
“But
my father could be dark too. He was attracted to violence, to the basic beauty
of fighting, the way it turned his body and those he fought into meticulously
constructed machines.”
―
Jesmyn Ward, Men We Reaped: A Memoir
“In
the end, everyone can do without fathers”
―
Salman Rushdie
“My
dad's idea of bonding was throwing me in the tar pits to teach me a lesson,
though I'm not sure what the lesson was, except to stay the hell away from Da.”
―
Kevin Hearne, Hounded
“We
aim to be
men
who’ll make
our
mothers proud,
but
we end up
making
them cry,
and
are only
slightly
better
than
our fathers,
at
best”
―
Phil Volatile, Crushed Black Velvet
“Play
with your dolls for not more than half an hour, no more than fifteen minutes,
no more than a second, a millisecond. If you learned math as fast as you ran
outside to play, then you might be a genius. But you do not and you are not.
You're a hole where knowledge goes to sleep.”
―
Weike Wang
“Papi,
I don't know what to do anymore." Lourdes begins to cry. "No matter
what I do, Pilar hates me."
"Pilar
doesn't hate you, hija. She just hasn't learned to love you yet.”
―
Cristina GarcÃa, Dreaming in Cuban
“Oh,
my dear, love isn't always the coup de foudre--the lightning strike. Sometimes
it happens quietly, so quitely you may not even notice.”
―
Julia Justiss, Convenient Proposal to the Lady
“Only
the image of my father is unclear, as if something obscure but vital has been
blotted out, and only the raging surface is left. Who is he, this man whom I
have known and not known all my life?”
―
Marina Lewycka, A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian