Children 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

“Jobs expressed regret that he hadn’t been a better father. He wished he better understood his daughters.”

— Yukari Iwatani Kane

“I don't know what happened to your parents or why they did what they did. But in all the world, I could have wished…

— John Stephens

“People asked if I was his daughter. They ask all the time. Hoping, accusing. We never say yes, and we never say no.”

— Kirsteen Reed

“Sometimes he thought that he had talked so much in the years before to his children and they had understood so little that now…

— Carson McCullers

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

— Isabella Starling

“He wanted his daughter's happiness more than anything but he saw that she was not destined primarily for happiness. She was too complicated for…

— Jane Mendelsohn

“Yes, I am his mother—I can say that now—for only after I released myself from my own expectations of motherhood did I realize that…

— Hope Jahren

“He knew that if he raised his daughter without love, and that if he told her often enough that she wasn't capable of it,…

— Melissa Bashardoust

“Yes, she was now a young woman but she would for ever be his little girl.”

— Angela Marsons

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

— Richard Ford

“I walked out of his room sure I'd said the right thing maybe not as a father but as a Dad. I'd said the…

— Steven Herrick