Father Quote by André Aciman Download Open image ““My father had never spoken of goodness this way before. It disarmed me.”” — André Aciman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Father Parenting
“Your father would never hurt me. Fighting revs him up. I know how to handle him and what he needs.” — Lorelei James Copy Share Image
“He had a daddy, but he’d never get to know his father, and the knowledge of that pained me every day.” — Isabella Starling Copy Share Image
“My father was a very great man. I will never forget the last thing he ever said to me. Nor will I ever repeat… — John S. Hall Copy Share Image
“I was just four when a hired teenage field hand attempted to molest me. Miraculously, I got away, and I told my dad. My… — Carolyn Byers Ruch Copy Share Image
“For the first time in some years, I didn't care what Father said to me, even though I knew that by the end of… — M.L. LeGette Copy Share Image
“My father tells his stories. I’ve heard them before. I know his pauses. His inflections. But I let him tell them over again. Someday,… — Kenny Porpora Copy Share Image
“I saved your father from destitution, and he rewarded me with all the terrible hatred that a debt of gratitude breeds… he taught his… — August Strindberg Copy Share Image
“I’ve just become aware that for thirty-six years, I was angry with your father for not meeting my needs, and now I realize that… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
“And then, again, I was undergoing with my father what the very young inevitability undergo with their elders: I was beginning to judge him.… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“His father had told him time and again never to underestimate the power of something that could kill you.” — C.J. Hill Copy Share Image
“What [my father] didn’t say, but what was understood, was that he needed me to lie for him from then on, and lie like… — Scott C. Johnson Copy Share Image
Don't all writers have a hidden nerve, call it a secret chamber, something irreducibly theirs, which stirs their prose and makes it tick and… — Andre Aciman Copy Share Image
“I wanted him to remember the morning on Monet's berm when I'd kissed him not the first but the second time and given him… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
Rituals are how we step into our private field of dreams, a small Elysium all our own. Rituals are made not just for us,… — Andre Aciman Copy Share Image
“I desperately wanted to give him something. By contrast, taking seemed so bland, so facile, so mechanical.” — André Aciman Copy Share Image
Proust is interested in minutiae because life, as he sees it, is seldom ever about things but about our impression of things, not about… — Andre Aciman Copy Share Image
“Well, since you're not going to do anything with me—can you at least read me a story? I'd settle for that. I wanted him to read me a story. Something by Chekhov or Gogol or Katherine Mansfield. Take your clothes off, Oliver, and come into my bed, let me feel your skin, your hair against my flesh, your foot on… — André Aciman Copy Share
“This is heaven.” And I wouldn’t hear him say another word for at least an hour. There was nothing I loved more in life… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“He loved the sticky taste. What had I done? I told him and pointed to the bruised evidence sitting on my desk. “Let me… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“When had they separated us, you and me, Oliver? And why did I know it, and why didn't you?” — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“As we were swimming back, he asked as though it were an afterthought, “Are you going to hold last night against me?” — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“To be with you. To be with you, Oliver. With or without my bathing suit. To be with you on my bed. In your… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
Whatever meaning 'Annie's Song' had for me on a personal level, there was also a larger context. It could just as easily have been… — John Denver Copy Share Image
Of all the people who have affected my life and influenced the choices I've made, none has been more important than my father. I… — Teddy Atlas Copy Share Image
(knitting while on a motorcycle) "For several years she knitted in secret (my father would not approve; she was to concentrate on motorcycling and LEAN into the curves, etc), and used a small circular needle (socks and mittens) in order to keep the knitting in her pocket until they were under way; then she leaned back slightly so Gaffer couldn't… — Elizabeth Zimmermann Copy Share
My embarrassing confession is that my father is a 'Camelot: The Musical' obsessive. So as a child, when we were going to visit relatives… — Chris Chibnall Copy Share Image
My parents were not musical, and they were not effervescent people; everything was very quiet. The music that I played was loud; it used… — Don McLean Copy Share Image
I guess, it's a father's dream for his daughter to be known around the world. — Liza Soberano Copy Share Image
The old men of the village of Mahotière say that the Mistress of the Water is a mulatto woman. At midnight she comes out of the spring and sings while combing her dripping long hair, which makes a sound sweeter than a violin. It is a song of perdition for whomever hears it. There is no sign of the Cross,… — Jacques Roumain Copy Share
“I don’t know. We all have to bear things, Ari. All of us. Your father has to bear the war and what it did… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“This was, I sometimes thought, the last gift my father gave me. And the best: His death stood out as the supreme-o excuse for… — Jerry Stahl Copy Share Image
I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse in a Presbyterian family, who had… — Rupert Murdoch Copy Share Image
![“What [my father] didn’t say, but what was understood, was that he needed me to lie for him from then on, and lie like a professional. I had license to dissimulate, fabricate, invent, cover-up, and deceive if necessary. There was a greater good.” quote by Scott C. Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/745/scott-c-johnson-68627_father_what-my-father-didn-t-say-but-what-was-u_281295.jpg)
