Father Quote by A.J. Carella

“Do not try to be your father boy, it is a hopeless pursuit, particularly when you, like I, have a father of such colossal…

— A. H. Septimius

“Striving to meet my father's expectations is like climbing out of quicksand: the harder I try to get to the top, the more I'm…

— Lac Su

“I have been distracted from my duty as a father to some extent, but there is no greater exercise to a man’s talents than…

— Conn Iggulden

“father had obviously been feeling particularly unsympathetic toward his wayward”

— Leigh Michaels

“Have a father who lived up to his own promise and then found thing after thing to meet and surpass the expectations of his…

— David Foster Wallace

“Being strong or pretending to be, even when he is not, for the family looks up to him, is a father all about.”

— Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma

“Through some happy accident of heredity he had escaped his father's tediousness, while retaining a little of his mother's jolly high spirits and humor.…

— William Styron

“He was the measure of the failure of his father's body, and also perhaps a portending of the failure of his own.~”

— Marilynne Robinson

“Some of us were brought into this troubled world primarily or only to increase our fathers’ chances of not being left by our mothers,…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“All ambitious men want either to please their fathers or to punch them in the goddamned face.”

— Antonio Garcia Martinez

“They did not set out to disappoint their father, not on purpose, but neither did they wish to shoulder the lumpy, enervating burden of…

— Margaret Atwood

“My father was a stand–up man who, unfortunately, did not have anything to stand up for. An eternal conflict burned in his heart, a…

— Henry Martin