If not for sports, I do not think my father would have ever talked to me. — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
“I must be old, Pyotr thought to himself, if my son is being kind to me.” — Katherine Arden Copy Share Image
Basketball allowed me to revere my father without him knowing what I was up to. I took up basketball as a form… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
“Why did you do it? Give up everything to raise another man's son?' His father did look up at that. 'I didn't… — Courtney Milan Copy Share Image
“But Benny was already walking through the doors and into the bright sunny day, pulling the bottle from his shirt and thrusting… — Molly Antopol Copy Share Image
“I've internalized my father- his impatience, his perfectionism, his rage. I no longer need my father to torture me. From this day… — Andre Agassi Copy Share Image
“There are many things for which I owe gratitude to my dad. Most of all, I am grateful to the only man… — Ron Mayes Copy Share Image
“And though I had misgiving--obvious ones, too--one overwhelming thing drove me on: on the borderlands, my father would need me as much… — Peter Geye Copy Share Image
“Not long after our final lesson, on one of our Sundays at the lake, my father and I were walking along the… — Anne Michaels Copy Share Image
“If one could speak two languages well and was raised on tea and baguettes for breakfast,in places where the most mundane daily… — T.K. Naliaka Copy Share Image
“Boys do not long for fathers who will usher them through the gauntlet of psychological disconnect. They long for fathers who have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When she asked what my father taught me, I told her I couldn't put it into words. But then I lay awake… — Peter Geye Copy Share Image
“Thoughts, pictures of him would come to me just a second after waking, shocking me from the forgetfulness of sleep, striking blows… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“But in so many ways I'm still that kid, not sure exactly how to be emotionally intimate with a girl without feeling… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
“He wishes he could remember everything. Anything. He doesn’t sense a bone in his body that can feel compassion or worthiness. Self-pity… — Christy A. Campbell Copy Share Image
“Cesar knew better. He did. And love. Love just makes a man weak. A woman, a child—doesn’t matter what face the love… — Daniel Abbott Copy Share Image
“He was bad with me too, but it was a little more random. If the phone rang and woke him up, he'd… — Emily Henry Copy Share Image
“I spent half my childhood trying to be like my dad. True for most boys, I think. It turns with adolescence. The… — Tucker Elliot Copy Share Image
“See Me In One by Stewart Stafford Crave not aged flight, Your titian crown ringed, With cherubim cheeks, In child's play, winged.… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
“Just that sons and fathers Are like mirrors and daughters are soft” — Richard L. Ratliff Copy Share Image
“We aren't always kind to one another, but want to be, and I believe that is the same thing.” — J. Andrew Schrecker Copy Share Image
“Hmm. Relationships between fathers and sons can be notoriously difficult, especially for two men who are as different as you and your… — Lynn Austin Copy Share Image
“My own view of Father was not nearly so high-flown or complicated. For me he was flesh and blood and until the… — Peter Taylor Copy Share Image
“I am a proud father in the fulfillment I feel when I provide guidance to my son. We have tremendous sharing together,… — Rob Kozak Copy Share Image
“The nobleman fell to his knees. 'Sir, come down to my son ere he die.' His old face. His love for his… — Niall Williams Copy Share Image
“And William says, "I lost one son utterly."... ..."So I've held my tongue. But the truth is you didn't go to war.… — Robert Olen Butler Copy Share Image
“I bring this up because in writing some thoughts about a father, or not having a father, I feel as though I'm… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
“I read the first chapter of A Brief History of Time when Dad was still alive, and I got incredibly heavy boots… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
