Basketball allowed me to revere my father without him…

I really do miss playing basketball. I don't play a lot of pick-up games. But I do like using basketball as a form of…

— Jackie Joyner-Kersee

Whether it's a blatant homage or unconscious mimicry, the Rolling Stones have permanently, indelibly influenced how rock stars look and behave.

— Diablo Cody

If not for sports, I do not think my father would have ever talked to me.

— Pat Conroy

Every athlete learns by theft and mimicry.

— Pat Conroy

“I must be old, Pyotr thought to himself, if my son is being kind to me.”

— Katherine Arden

“He was bad with me too, but it was a little more random. If the phone rang and woke him up, he'd hit me,…

— Emily Henry

“See Me In One by Stewart Stafford Crave not aged flight, Your titian crown ringed, With cherubim cheeks, In child's play, winged. I shed…

— Stewart Stafford

“And though I had misgiving--obvious ones, too--one overwhelming thing drove me on: on the borderlands, my father would need me as much as I'd…

— Peter Geye

“I spent half my childhood trying to be like my dad. True for most boys, I think. It turns with adolescence. The last thing…

— Tucker Elliot

“I can show him how to be the right kind of stupid.”

— Nick Harkaway

“Boys do not long for fathers who will usher them through the gauntlet of psychological disconnect. They long for fathers who have themselves survived…

— Anonymous

“Thoughts, pictures of him would come to me just a second after waking, shocking me from the forgetfulness of sleep, striking blows that were…

— Anonymous

“But in so many ways I'm still that kid, not sure exactly how to be emotionally intimate with a girl without feeling weak, not…

— Donald Miller

“He wishes he could remember everything. Anything. He doesn’t sense a bone in his body that can feel compassion or worthiness. Self-pity hides away…

— Christy A. Campbell

“My father greeted me with his usual air of mild regret.”

— Evelyn Waugh