Father Quote by Ann Patchett

“And what could my father possibly want with another child, when he hardly bothered to talk to the one he already had?”

— Polly Shulman

“It's just lucky for Father he never had any sons. He might have been forced to respect them.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

“I asked him what it was like to have a dad. He said he didn't think it mattered who you had as long as…

— Cath Crowley

“He would never again need anything from his mother and father but their love.”

— Frederick Drimmer

“That anyone could father a child, but a real man chooses to be a dad.”

— J. Sterling

“It appeared possible that these other men were good fathers only because they knew too little of the world to grow frenzied against it.”

— Rebecca West

“One would have said he was his son's servant rather than his father.”

— Pearl S. Buck

“I like him and I wonder what I would be like if I had a different father.”

— m.j. hyland

“He was like my father. They each wanted me to be their audience, to hear the things they needed to express.”

— Richard Ford

“I didn’t want anyone else to know, least of all my father, who couldn’t possibly understand.”

— Alex Newman

“He had a daddy, but he’d never get to know his father, and the knowledge of that pained me every day.”

— Isabella Starling

“For once, I knew how it felt to have a father.”

— Trish Kaye Lleone